Brutally hot today with another scorcher on tap for tomorrow.  Predicting a chance a T-storms then back to cooler weather on Thursday (80's).  We definitely could use a big blow from a hurricane or tropical depression. Understory trees have turned yellow and the grass is crunchy dry other than some areas of my leach field. 

Tuna I conclude more and more that averages are commonly just a combination of opposite extremes which is what this time period has shown. Bone chilling winter with lots of snow early... Bone chilling late winter with little snow... Bone dry april- may, soaking wet June til early july...with late July having isolated pounder storms here and there... Dry august (typical)... Hopefully rain does come in more excess so river can at least maintain minimal flow requirement of 335.… something tells me it will. And sooner than later 40 someye degree nights will be here, and if extreme keeps it's theme up we'll either be warm and dry come November or cold wet and icey... Or maybe somewhere in the middle...the meteorologists can assure us of whats to come after its happened...lol!!!

On a side note, my backyard pond acquired bass this past season in which we just found out yesterday as my son caught 5 of them. And uglyfish they were like you had explained: warm to the touch. All I can think is eggs got washed or fingerlings navigated through June - early Julys record breaking rainfalls. Its amazing how weather and nature works :)

pafisher
...........I'm doing it now and will really get into it if it don't rain sooooooon!

Jack please use caution as I've seen your rain dancing skills in action before in which a no rain dance was eventually necessary!!! Slow and steady...lol

The pupae work well! I noticed some flitting about in the hemlocks on the SR, and had a few in the box as generics. Tried it out and it's now a staple. Mine are of the copper beadhead/ wood duck tail, legs, antennae/orange antron-rust brown possum dubbing mix, but imagine G.L.'s would work as well. Have a great trip, and I hope you get the cloudy. cooler, great fishing weather. Give us a report and take some pics, please?
 

Take a look at the Doppler boys!!! Minutes away from a bomb of a storm touching ground on the east end!!!

Its stalled over tug hill and pounding right now... Pink center surrounded by red. This is a flash soaker. I don't think water is going to go below 350 for a while. We should be good :) there's some wide spread storms behind it to the west as well.

dimebrite2
Picture perfect storm... Was moving at 40 mph until it got past i-81... Upper reservoir and surrounding areas are getting pummeled as we speak

I'm still dancing but now it's for my local as we really need it!.......

But..but........ temp.s are forcast to return to normal. Hopefully the water temp.s will too.

84 degrees surface temp. on Shenango today. Fish should be dang near ready to eat by the time ya get em in the boat.

Got a brief spurt last night around 6:00pm. Today is overcast and a bit cooler but without the A/C working in my machine its HOT !! Area radar is just showing scattered showers here and there. Will check my rain bucket tomorrow when I get to the boat and see what's happened there since last sat

Well my dance was a success as we are getting a good steady downpour at the moment,looks like it could rain for a couple hours and we really need it!

By the looks of north branch flow gauge yesterdays storm did not impact the northern end of reservoir. May have very well hit the basin of the main upper branch though.

I've been getting a steady shot of rain since 4:30 PM.  I hope it continues through the night.

Lol, same here . To little to late though . What it's purpose for me ( not putting wildlife in the equation ) from here on is meaningless now . Grass is toast and don't wish it to grow anymore anyway, garden is toast , pretty much non existent fishing locally and rain now only means a muddy fall around my yard . Sorry , I'm bummed about the dry summer , bring on winter .. Lol

Yea it's a tale of 2 cities (not that I ever read the book) between the zones of NY.. North and west are always 2-3 weeks and miles away from below the blue line and east weather..
I remember Hugo, it was massive here , severe flooding and we had a trip planned for Oswego county.. Well we went, we fished higher water but awesome fishing.. Never would have happened in this county that weekend..
Then there was this massive Ice storm up there one March.. We had my bosses cabin in Henderson and his drift boat in Pulaski..  No issues here at home but it completely shut power down for a week while we were there along the eastern lake.. We fished :)
Strange stuff happens in the strangest of places if you look at it right :)
Glad things are doing well Clint

Over an inch of nice slow steady drizzle - perhaps another lawn will arrive this year after all-haven't mowed the brown stuff in a month.