Despite the Warnings As Well As Numerous Storms In The Area, No Rainfall In South Plainfield On Thursday

On Thursday, there was a threat of showers and storms in the afternoon and evening in the Garden State.  Chance was as high as 40 percent.  There were a couple waves of storms that moved through parts of New Jersey.  However, neither of them impacted South Plainfield. Tigertown managed to dodge the raindrops and lightning bolts generated from these storms. The first one started in the late afternoon at around 5:00 PM with storms popping up in Mercer County.

By 5:45 PM, the thunderstorms were south of New Brunswick, and entering Princeton.  I tracked the lightning strikes and winds for about an hour an a half, and the lightning activity not only picked up during that time, but it also got closer.   Thunder also became evident in the last half hour to 45 minutes of my tracking.  Cumulus clouds built up to the north in Union County as a severe thunderstorm moved through Elizabeth, Newark, Staten Island, and threatened New York City.

Despite the these threats to the north and south in the late afternoon, there was no measurable rainfall in South Plainfield.  As the evening progressed, Severe Thunderstorm Warnings were issued for Sussex, Warren, and Morris counties in Northern New Jersey, but while there were rumbles of thunder and lightning off in the distance, nothing moved over Northwestern Middlesex County.  Some of the storms contained damaging hail and high winds.

More of the same continued into the late evening, but again, nothing affected South Plainfield.  The storms stayed to the north and south.  There was no measurable precipitation from these two instances of storms on Thursday, but there was rain in Northwestern Middlesex County  earlier in the day to mark the fourth time this week, and the 12th time this month that there has been measurable rainfall.