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Looks like it’s been another mostly cloudy stretch there…I don’t miss that. Definitely replenishing my vitamin D tank in the Mojave, but it’s been legitimately breezy and gusty at times almost every day. I don’t remember it being like this on my prior trips.

Going to take something rouge to make it a memorable season. Always gotta watch out for something slow moving (TS or weak hurricane) that could cause serious flooding or that one rouge system that busts through and becomes a more memorable landfalling system. Barring that it looks like it could be a quiet season. Certainly nothing on the horizon through mid July. Seasonal ACE of 50 is pretty low. Not something we've been used to lately. Remember Andrew! El-Nino season and it fought its way back as a weak TD all the way back to a CAT 5. TPC almost wrote it off but hung onto it. @GaWx always enjoy your posts.

You mean my profile photo? lol yeah its Clint(Blondie) frying in the desert at the hands of Tuco

It’s still an oppressive 97.3 at my place with mostly sunny skies. I don’t know what the high was but my guess would be ~99 (about the hottest of the year so far) and HI’s way up there.

how hot next week

Saw the temp rise to 95, down to 86 thanks to the anvil of a storm north of us. Back to 92 in the sun, then the storms finally moved in. Thankfully got the front yard mowed before it hit. Heavy rain and at .65" so far.

A 2.9M earthquake was measured/reported in Lake Michigan, just offshore from Chicago, just after 2:30PM.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day2otlk_1730.png day 2 marginal risk out for tomorrow just for 5% wind 2% tor is for west Ky south Indiana and east Missouri also hail same place .

Yep, pretty repulsive stuff out here yesterday and today. The gnats and mosquitoes that definitely upticked a little bit over the last few days.

All roads open in lisburn, as of today and power seems to be on to most of Fairview township at this point.

Good stuff! Thanks for researching. I was a senior in HS in 82/83. December was mild as I recall after a cool November. We had a small event of about 3” in early January from a Miller A. Another 3” event later in the month. Then we had the record breaker in March. So it was snowy winter in the upstate. The 1877/1878 is interesting. It is known as the Year Without Winter in the US. But your temp records seem to indicate a lot of BN in SE. This would align climatically with a Nino in the SE. I’m excited to see what is in store this winter!

So my son wasn't crazy. I was waiting to hear about that.

Despite being outside hours most days this year, i got my first mosquito bites today. Guess its been wet enough for them to come out.

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Tomorrow looks active for the SE portion of this region for sure.

a certain poster mysteriously disappeared when millions of people got a massive blizzard in late february.

Euro seasonals(July version) sure have that flavor.

CSU 7/7/26 update: This forecast is predicting the weakest season since 2013. I wouldn’t at all mind a break here in the very hard hit SE overall since 2016. “We further reduce our 2026 Atlantic basin hurricane season forecast and now anticipate a well below-normal season. Moderate El Niño conditions are likely to intensify over the next few months, with a high potential for a strong El Niño for the peak of hurricane season. Sea surface temperatures across the Caribbean and tropical Atlantic are near their long-term averages. We anticipate the powerful El Niño being the dominant factor for the upcoming hurricane season, driving high levels of tropical Atlantic vertical wind shear. We are forecasting a well below-average probability for major hurricane landfalls along the continental United States coastline and in the Caribbean. As with all hurricane seasons, coastal residents are reminded that it only takes one hurricane making landfall to make it an active season. Thorough preparations should be made every season, regardless of predicted activity.” https://tropical.colostate.edu/Forecast/2026-07.pdf

I was out on the golf course ... we ended up paired up with an 8th grade teacher and his son in-law. Long about hole 8 or so the teacher began commiserating over the dumbing down of society. He was urging, no exaggeration, that working in a medium economic foot print school system that he does ... these kids can't do math. Like, really... 13X14 = a trip to chapGPT or they're lost. And the school system(s) are overwhelmed. They can't flunk whole grades-worth of bulk bodies. I mean ... my god. It came about because I was railing on about how since the Industrial Revolution, we've created a societal machinery where people have to think less and less - they're mistakes are cleaned up by the system.. so generational stupification ..etc He was musing on about how climate change this, nuclear wars that... the next covid or alien invasion ...? it's all going to pale in comparison when that generation starts inheriting the Earth "you have no idea" where the apocalypse agent is really hiding. it's morbidly amusing

Could be a dirty filter, or having the temp control(thermostat) set to run the fan all the time(On) instead of setting it to Auto.

I had to zoom in pretty far to make out the new icon image. At first I thought it was crab.

It’s real https://www.fox8live.com/2026/06/27/heat-humidity-this-weekend-storms-return-mid-week/

With some of the hardcore warminstas in there, yeah anything positive posted (cold/snow) about the upcoming winter will probably earn you a weenie.

85 degrees DP 69 I’M sweating…wheel barrowing topsoil 700 cubic feet.

I think it's justified. Lapse rates and instability are modest, but shear is workable, and convection should be organized and timed well for our area. CAMs all look pretty good. Friday has some potential too.