That is more rural parts of NJ. Plenty of open land for drainage. Most homes built on 2+ acre lots. And not much flat land that so easily floods. Been up and down those roads (ie Routed 206?) for many decades in all kinds of weather. It must have been an unusually heavy rain.

One factor is apparent. After eight years of Gov Christie, plenty of maintenance and new construction was eliminated or suspended in the name of cost controls. Those so desperately needed tunnels into NYC's Penn Station were only one obvious example.

Shitty weather hereabouts.
http://wnep.com/2018/06/13/homes-wre...adford-county/

I heard about that. You don't get too many tornados up your way.

Rainy, low to mid sixties.

Layering up including my Cowichan hat.

I'll take a little o' that low - mid 60s.

Mid 90s...HUMID...I thought it rained earlier, but, it was sweat squirting outta the little old lady standing next to me.:sweat:

In late March - early April we were emerging from a very wet winter.
Our back garden slopes and we are on a deep layer of chalk so, at least in theory, it should be well drained, but for months the lawn squelched underfoot and was in danger of becoming a quagmire.
Three to four months on we are experiencing a prolonged period of hot weather and barely any rainfall.
Grass has turned brown, I haven't mowed the lawns in weeks and it's like concrete underfoot.

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As a consequence of the dry spell outlines of archaeological sites have become visible.

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Several aerial shots of parch marks in the link.

Right, I'm off to do a rain dance. I'm a beautiful mover. ;)

You say that like it's a bad thing. ;)

So the Met is trying to convince everyone that the evidence of alien activity is just archaeological sites. Very clever.

New Mexico is drought central at the moment. We're in the middle of the great North American Monsoon, but it's been nothing but thunder and lightening and some black clouds that promise rain, then break their word and blow away leaving nothing behind except a few brush fires started by lightening strikes.

My roomie is an archeologist and he claims we're all gonna die out here just like the Anasazi did. He's a regular black cloud himself, but archeologists do love their dead civilizations. :greenface

So he's a Native American archeologist, then?

Black Cloud?

Does he have a brother in the toilet tissue industry?

:p:

A friend was telling me a Lancaster, PA, TV station weather forecast yesterday morning was for 2.19 inches of rain. :eyebrow:
Isn't it nice to know in advance how much rain is coming to one hundredth of an inchhttp://cellar.org/2017/percon.jpg

At least they remain one of the sainted unmetricated!

That said, the decimal point does give cause for concern.;)

Hell, we'd kill for some rain out here in SW WA. Instead, we're sweltering in the 90s and 100s for at least the next week. Fo' sizzle!

As of a few minutes ago (1515 BST)...

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I realise that it's not Death Valley, but it's pretty damned uncomfortable.
Although Dad doesn't like hot weather, he's holding up pretty well.
I'm finding the humidity very debilitating and we can expect these temperatures for the rest of the week. :eek:

What, you do temperature in Fahrenheit?
Well duh, if that was C it would be about 188 F. :smack:
I'm surprised though.

Generally, we adopted Celsius years ago but Fahrenheit is selectable on the BBC Weather app.

I am a slave to my inner rebel. :)