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10.12.11 Longest Dry Streak of 2011!

I've gone ahead and said we did it!  There are still a couple of hours left in October 12, 2011 but I believe we will be staying dry.

Our Davis Vantage Pro 2 weather station is showing 0.00" of daily rain today.  That makes 8 days in a row of no measurable precipitation!  Isn't it sad to say that's the longest streak this year?! It is.  It actually ties the longest streak in 2011:

Besides this week and the week in early May, the longest dry weather streak in 2011 was just 6 days during late July and early August.  It's funny to me that I'm writing a blog about one week of dry weather in northern New England, given the fact that places in Texas haven't seen a raindrop this year at all!

All of this information is from the National Weather Service and the weather station at the Burlington International Airport.

Here's why I've gone ahead and labeled this as a dry day with rain on our doorstep and wet weather nearby.

This was the radar picture around 6 o'clock tonight.  This area of light rain was moving to the northeast at about 20 mph.  I checked in with the ground reports and only a handful of reports were reporting light rain below this area.  So what was probably happening was the rain was evaporating before it hit the ground.

Now let's take a look at the radar picture just three hours later as this wet area moved northeast:

That area of rain was then over Sullivan county in New Hampshire, just to the top and right of 'Springfield' on the map.  You can see how much of that rainfall area diminished.  There's a lot of dry air across the area from a high pressure system keeping us dry.  It's going to take some more of these pulses of moisture in order to saturate the atmosphere and eventually give us rain.  That's why I'm holding with October 12th remaining dry, the 8th such day in a row of weather that we desperately need!