I will be the first to admit that we got more rain than expected from #Matthew.  The moisture moving up the coast was caught up in a cold front and dumped anywhere from .25″ of rain (or less) western CT up to and over 1.50″ of rain eastern areas.

This was not a drought buster (getting several inches of rain in a couple of days would have done us good).  But, we’ll take it.

“Sans tropical systems over the next 7019 days we’re doing back to dry weather”

The problem is, sans tropical systems over the next 7-10 days we’re going back to the very dry weather.  Tree experts have commented on social media that we desperately need the rain in order to protect root systems so we can have a healthy 2017 of budding.  At this point, rainfall looks meager.

Several areas of high pressure will take shape over the next 7-10 days.

A large area of high pressure sets up this week and another area moves in later this week to reinforce the dry air.

While locally the rain we received on Sunday can only help, I don’t expect these maps to change much when they are updated this week.  The dry weather that will last the next 7-10 will compound the problem.

The best thing we can hope for is a tropical system (albeit weaker than Matthew would be nice) would come ashore and get picked up and streamed to the northeast.  This ALMOST happened with Matthew but a cold front cut the moisture off before it could really get going.