Weekend Recap

Wow! We certainly had some exciting weather this past weekend, and we picked up some much needed rain. I'll unpack it all in this post.

To begin, we'll take a look at rainfall, which was much needed after we had been in a prolonged dry spell.

48 hour rainfall accumulation (NWS)

Take a good look at the above map (by clicking on it) to get a sense for how much rain fell over the weekend. One place that stands out to me is just southwest of Boston, where heavy rain was falling all afternoon. Additionally, the spot where you see 3.63 in. labeled is just near my home in Middlebury, CT, where we saw some nice downpoors yesterday afternoon. While almost everywhere in New England saw some form of precipitation, it is interesting to note how isolated the storms over the weekend were. You can clearly see where strong areas of convection set up on the above map.

Yesterday's storms were the more intense ones of the weekend, with heavy rumbles of thunder and lightning associated with them. My house briefly lost power, and I saw many reports of flooding. I was following the storms on radar using the app RadarScope (which I highly recommend downloading for use on severe weather days), and I saw some spots near Boston that got 1.5" hail. 

Interestingly, the storms yesterday were fairly slow moving, which caused the flooding that occurred in spots, as it was possible to receive up to 2.5 inches of rain in less than an hour. See the link below for a cool tweet showing satellite imagery of the storms yesterday.

https://twitter.com/CIRA_CSU/status/1277411399220621313

In this GIF, you can clearly see how slow the storms were.

Despite the rainfall over the weekend, we're still well below average percipitation-wise this month at Bradley International Airport (BDL) in Windsor Locks, CT. According to the NWS climate data, BDL has seen only 0.82 inches of rain this month, which is 3.3 inches below normal.

BDL June 2020 climate data (NWS)

With only two days left in the month and some chances to accumulate precipitation each day, it'll be interesting to see how much closer to average we can get!