Cheated Out Of The Rain Again. Southern New England Stole It

A motorist taken an ill-advised drive down a flooded Worcester, Mass
street yesterday. Lots of cars got stuck in high water from New
Hampshire to Virginia. Not much needed rain further north, though.
Photo by Ashley Green/Worsceter Telegram

That was a disappointment.

I'm referring to yesterday, which had promised to be quite a wet one as a soggy cold front was set to come through.

We desperately needed the rain here in Vermont, and the downpours would have been welcome.

Well, pfft!

A broken, skinny line of showers and storms did come through, but most of us in central and northern Vermont got very little rain.

Burlington got a whopping 0.01 inches of precipitation. So the dry, dry conditions go on.

The cold front did usher in cooler, drier air. The key is dry air. It'll be nearly wall to wall sunshine today through Friday, maybe into Saturday. The humidity will be low during this period, and it will turn increasingly warm through the period. By Friday and Saturday, many of us will be in the upper 80s.

Which means the dryness out there will only get drier. At least we'll have great beach weather, as I guess there's still some water left in lakes and swimming holes.

Lots of street flooding in Worcester, Massachusetts yesterday.
Photo by Scott Croteau, MassLive.com

Central and southern New England got all the rain. A band of torrential thunderstorms set up in that region starting late Tuesday morning and continuing much of the day.

An area from far southern Vermont and central and southern New Hampshire south to Connecticut, Rhode Island and on down the coast all the way to Washington DC.

Flash flood and severe thunderstorm warnings blared all day in this zone, and there were many, many reports of street flooding, power outages and fallen trees.

Boston received 2.68 inches of rain. Hartford, Connecticut received 2.14 in hes, and Worcester had 2.67 inches. Water as deep as three feet flowed through the streets of Worcester.

A funnel cloud was spotted over Brooklyn and New York harbor, but there's no sign that it touched down. Subways flooded in New York City and Washington. Streets were submerged from New Hampshire to Virginia.

CNN reported 3,700 flight delays and more than 2,100 cancellations.

Flood videos are at the bottom of this post.

Funnel cloud over New York harbor Tuesday. It doesn't look like
it touched down. 

So yeah, it would have been wonderful if things had evened out: I would have proposed southern New England get half the rain they received taken away, and have it dumped on northern New England instead. But it was not to be.

Forecasters are still saying we're in for an extended period of unsettled, possibly wet weather here in Vermont Sunday through Tuesday. It will turn moist and humid during that period, and a dip in the jet stream just to our west would encourage weather disturbances.

I'm still afraid this will only lead to hit and miss, brief showers and storms, and not a decent soaking rain. Maybe there will be lots of showers and storms, which would be terrific. I'll believe it when I see it.

Meanwhile, I'll stay in my gardens, constantly watering, and hoping my well holds out through this.

Here's a video of street flooding in Worcester, Mass. Lots of people did not "Turn Around, Don't Drown. Nobody drowned, but a lot of peoples' cars did:




Here's FDR Drive in Manhattan. Or is it FDR River?




Here's that funnel cloud over New York harbor: