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85 at home today, was upper 70s and beautiful in Newport all week.

The older and J’s first year in college, 3 years ago, she had to created a social media campaign about the life cycle of the lantern fly. It was to help people know what to look for and what to do when you see them. I forget what MD agency was running it. Anyways it was the first we had heard about them. Que last year and they were all over. The numbers have seemed to have gone down a bit this year from what we saw last year. Have heard that bats and praying mantises love them. So we have decided next year we are going to get some mantis eggs and spread them around.

Yeah agree, not sure where it's going tbh

So now temps in the high 80's is big heat? All the rave is the heat index to get to triple digits..............

Yeah the tropical Atlantic even without big SAL this season is just so stable. Things point to another strongly backloaded season to me.

They had been numerous the past 2 years down here in northern Waynesboro... For whatever reason the past 2 years they would swarm and sit on the siding on the south facing wall...Too fast to kill unless you spray something.... However the numbers in my yard have been down this year so far...

Sky to the north got dark. But we only got a trace here. We could use some measurable rain.

Can we say UHI contamination? Yes we can. In your own Chesco analysis. Well documented in the previous 8 pages. Your network changes from town to predominantly rural and you don't remove the station changes. You have Chester County as warm as the Philadelphia airport (PHL) in the early 1940s. How ridiculous is that. When you compare the Philadelphia airport to Chesco stations with a consistent set of measurement conditions, the Chesco stations and the airport both show significant warming. Since 1948, Coatesville has warmed by 3.8F vs 4.8F at the Philadelphia airport. Since 2007 both the Avondale USCRN station and the airport have warmed by over 1F per decade. The charts below show that the Philadelphia airport does a much better job of matching individual Chesco station data than you do.

Some much needed rainfall spreading into parts of northeastern Ohio. A number of locations have seen very little rainfall this month, with 0.18" at Burke Lakefront Airport, 0.21" at Akron Fulton International Airport, 0.50" at New Philadelphia Clever Field. Even the cooperative observer in Chardon has reported only 0.52" for the month, typically one of the wettest spots in northeast Ohio. Cleveland Hopkins International Airport and nearby Elyria - Lorain County Airport have picked up 0.79", while Ashtabula County Airport has seen 0.81".

I was thinking the same thing. Must have been the wind.

In my very limited forays into that political sewer there was plenty of triggered intolerant nasty personal attacks from some seriously deranged jackazzez. And yeah, you know who they are.

hope so but, no lol

with this evening's frontal boundary convection almost done working through, I picked up 1.02" of rain since 7:30pm, skyrocketing my July total precip to 2.70". all in all a very unpleasant day to be outside. hit 97.7° this afternoon, the highest temp of the month. now i'll have to mow the lawn, dammit.

Can someone give you a ride? Doesn't look like they have transportation.

Maybe we start to get some better surfing waves by the mid to third week of August, not too crazy please, but maybe just enough to make if more interesting.

Quite the change from the 1980's, when he quit touring because of serious health issues (etc). He looks far heathier than say, 1985. One of my favorite drummers!

https://x.com/webberweather/status/1948522507922792876 Interestng read from Webber

Rest in Peace, Mr. Burns.

Ill take cromartie. Hes always easy to instant ban. Tcc posts climate stats which many of us here do as well, minus the nonsense. Plus we post all weather stats, not just one kind. Basically hes enough to annoy everybody but not be banned. Cromartie always gets instantly banned so he usually tires of making new accounts.

I do not have a backyard thermometer. I usually run similar to DTW. It was probably 95 or so. The hottest my phone said was 94. No way was it 98, you know as usual that many amateur thermometers run high, just as dewpoints on non calibrated awos often run high in humidity. The high at DTW marks the 316th time since records began in 1874 that Detroit officially hit 95+. A well advertised hot and humid day, not sure id go with "very impressive". Only missed the record by 10°. To be honest, the way they talked about dewpoints i expected worse. Peak HI was 103. 95 and humid is "very impressive" but 105 with low humidity doesn't require AC? Hmm

That place is death valley.

Well guys and gals... it finally happened... I was mowing the lawn this morning when I saw it. My first lantern fly sighting. All red-eyed and looking straight at me while trembling. I tried stomping it but it was on the tall soft grass so it was fine. A minute later I see one again. I don't know whether it was the same one but it flew onto a small tree trunk just out of my reach. About 30-40 minutes later I'm out mowing the front yard (the first sightings were IMBY) when a third lantern flew onto the tree trunk next to me... it zipped out from under my shoe in the nick of time like in an action movie and flew into the grass a few clicks away. ... Yes... I could've just said that I saw three lantern flies today and left it at that but I'm more of a storyteller. ANYWAYS seeing that I'm in obs... currently 81/68 at IAD.

Yeah. The stuffiness is the culprit.

I had the other reaction today… maybe I braced myself for the worse. But heading outside late afternoon/early evening with a good breeze didn’t have that humid “bite” I was expecting. Now we are back to the dead calm humid stagnant air once the sun went down.