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A repeat of last summer!

Posted by: klaatuborada, 10:57 PM GMT on July 09, 2010

The answer is yes, it's a repeat of last year. Remember that huge line of rain and thunderstorms to the west of old Cape Cod? Well if you look at the radar, it's dissipating prior to arrival. I was so looking forward to some rain! We had a short shower yesterday, but it just made everything worse. To the West, going North, dying before it arrives. Perhaps the action out to sea will get us, let's hope!

From yesterday I said....

It looks like Cape Cod's micro-climate is at it again. Time and again the forecast has been for rain, and it dissipates prior to coming here, just like last summer only worse, as now we have the heat as well. Notice how even the light rain just vanishes prior to hitting the Cape, which is the elbow thing sticking out under Boston. It can be raining or snowing over the bridge in Plymouth, and we can be sunny, and vice versa.

Here's hoping that band of storms to the West dumps on us, but I've seen this trend time and time again, as the rain will go to our North and West, and die out before arrival, a repeating weather pattern for the summer months here on Cape Cod. We have fires in our conservation areas in Mashpee, and lawns are just brown everywhere. Greenhead flies have hatched a month early as it's been so dry. Although our kettle ponds had high water levels in May, the evaporation occurring now is bringing them right down.

If this trend continues for the summer the implications to the area are dire indeed. I'll be watching this and reporting as I did last year. I'm hoping for Murphy's law to kick in, and that we get soaked just because I posted this.

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1. funchords 1:09 PM GMT on July 13, 2010
Good post, thanks. I just moved to the area and have been frustrated by looking at radar at a strong cell or a system echo approaching just to have it dissipate an hour or two away. Glad to see that it's not just me!

2. GeorgiaStormz 8:38 PM GMT on May 30, 2012
yo blog old. :) you should start another, not like me :) Member Since: February 11, 2012 Posts: 0 Comments: 7492

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