While watching announcements of flash floods in the Carbon County area to the east and the Southern Tier of NY just to the north of here, we had absolutely nothing here at the Aerie. Oh, we could see the flash of lightening to the north (the NY border is only 15 miles or so away) and we could occasionally hear the rumble of thunder, but as has happened far too often this summer, the rain just didn't fall here.
Until around 1 AM. That's when it poured for a very brief time loudly enough that it woke me up. When I checked the rain gauge this morning it said that 3/10ths of an inch of rain had fallen. This is the first measurable amount of rain we have had this month. We are forecast to get some more today but right now, the jet stream is steering the showers in a line across the northwest corner of PA into the Finger Lakes of NY. They are curving right around us here in the north-central part of the state.
Unlike the children's little ditty, I don't want it to go away. I want it here. Today. In copious amounts.
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