Month: August 2011
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Rain Returns To Jersey On Thursday
Rainy August Continues As Inclement Weather Returns On Thursday After a break on Wednesday, rainfall returned to the Central Jersey region. There was only 0.12 inches of rain on Thursday morning, but it marked the fourth time in the past five days that we’ve had measurable rainfall in South Plainfield. For the month of…
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Finally A Break From The August Deluge
Good morning. Sorry for not posting anything yesterday, but it was a very tough day at work, and I wasn’t in the mood to touch a computer or iPad afterwards. Just watched some television. With the recent rains, August has been a very wet month for the Garden State. Here in South Plainfield, New Jersey…
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Activity Picks Up Again In Eastern Pacific
After almost ten days of inactivity, the Eastern Pacific has fired up again with two named storms in the past 48 hours. Prior to that, the Atlantic had surpassed the EPAC in terms of the number of named storms formed so far in 2011. However, the Eastern Pacific has tied the Atlantic with seven named…
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Gert Fades In Cooler Waters Of North Atlantic
We’ve now had seven named storms, and are still looking for the first hurricane of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season. After showing signs of promise with four tropical disturbances last week including two strong tropical lows in the Central and Eastern Atlantic respectively, only two named storms emerges with neither becoming a hurricane. Tropical Storm…
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Torrential Rains Return On Monday Afternoon In New Jersey
Just when you thought it was all over, the tropical rains that set records on Sunday here in the Garden State as well as portions of New York returned on Monday afternoon. The skies had been mostly cloudy all day until the mid-afternoon when the sun came out for a bit. Apparently the sun was…
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Tropics Continue To Percolate As Gert Forms
On Friday, Hurricaneville had indicated that conditions were beginning to become more active in the Tropical Atlantic. Four disturbances had developed throughout the Western Atlantic, and two of them showed signs of perhaps becoming a tropical cyclone over the next few days. Later on that day, the Tropical Atlantic had its sixth tropical depression of…
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TD #6 Becomes Franklin And Then Fizzles
Sixth Depression Of 2011 Atlantic Season Becomes Storm Before Dissipating Late Friday afternoon, the sixth depression of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season formed after being a disturbance hanging off a trough of low pressure just off the Southeastern Coast of the United States. Within 12 hours, it strengthened a bit more into Tropical Storm Franklin,…
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Mid-Summer Deluge On Sunday In Jersey
Good morning everyone. Hope you have your rain gear and galoshes on because it is pouring outside here in Central Jersey. Just took a look at the rain gauge from the backyard weather station, and we have exactly 2.5 inches of rain in South Plainfield since about 11:30 PM on Saturday night. Thank goodness I…
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Sixth Tropical Depression Forms In Atlantic
Still Watching Two More Disturbances In Central And Eastern Atlantic As mentioned on Friday in the blog, the Tropical Atlantic is starting to percolate in earnest with four disturbances in the Western Atlantic. One of those disturbances emerged as the sixth tropical depression of the 2011 Atlantic Hurricane Season late Friday afternoon. On Friday night,…
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GWC Weather Footage–August 8, 2011–Rainbows, Thunderstorms, And Sunsets
Here is some weather footage that I captured earlier this week. This footage was taken in Raritan Center in Edison, New Jersey. Caught a rare rainbow on the heels of a thunderstorm that roared through further north in Jersey. The storm brought 70 mile per hour winds in Linden, New Jersey.