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After teasing us with an unusually mild April and early May, the weather gods have turned angry, their mood shift depositing nearly ten inches of rain in the last five days alone. The deluge has wreaked havoc on divisional playoff schedules and forecasters have offerred little optimism of an extended dry spell. While some divisions, 10/11 minors for one, got an early jump on their playoffs and thus have a bit of breathing room before the rec closes up shop, other division commissioners with one eye on the forecast and another on the calander are doing their very best Giligans Island style anti-rain dance. With only 2 5070 fields in the system and one being the poorly draining Holiday Park, the 12/13 division is banking on a fortuitious directional change among the storm systems in order to avoid back to backs or even #gasp# a playoff doubleheader.
It's all a long way of saying, if any of you have connections with the weather gods upstairs, now is the time to call in favors.
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Some Rainy Weather Facts
- The lightening detection system utilized by the rec tracks and detects lightening within a 10-mile radius. When lightening strikes have been detected within the warning area a long siren is sounded. If authorities then determine conditions to be safe, three 5-second blasts will be sounded indicating it is safe to return to the field of play.
- This has already been a wetter June than 19 of the last 20.
- The national weather service adopted the naming of huricanes and tropical storms in 1953, prior to which the storms where identified by their longitudinal and lattitudinal designations.
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The National Weather Service is calling for a 50 percent of showers and thunderstorms on Tuesday before things dry out on Wednesday.
There is a chance of more rain Wednesday night and Thursday. Friday should be sunny with a high temperature of 78 in the Newark area.
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Low-lying and in closer proximity to the Pease Road Pond, the Holiday Park field is poorest draining field in the system.
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