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August 16 1981: Chilly temperatures are felt across Minnesota. Tower reports a low of 33 degrees. For Sunday, August 16, 2026 1777 - The Battle of Bennington, delayed a day by rain, was fought. The rain delayed British reinforcements, and allowed the Vermont Militia to arrive in time, enabling the Americans to win a victory by defeating two enemy forces, one at a time. (David Ludlum) 1909 - A dry spell began in San Bernardino County of southern California that lasted until the 6th of May in 1912, a stretch of 994 days! Another dry spell, lasting 767 days, then began in October of 1912. (The Weather Channel) 1916 - Altapass, NC, was deluged with 22.22 inches of rain in 24 hours to establish a state record. (The Weather Channel) 1987 - Afternoon and evening thunderstorms developing along a cold front produced severe weather from Oklahoma to Wisconsin and Lower Michigan. Thunderstorms in central Illinois produced wind gusts to 80 mph at Springfield which toppled two large beer tents at the state fair injuring 58 persons. Thunderstorms also drenched Chicago IL with 2.90 inches of rain, making August 1987 their wettest month of record. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1988 - Thunderstorms developing along a slow moving cold front produced severe weather from North Dakota to Lower Michigan during the day. Nine tornadoes were sighted in North Dakota, and thunderstorms also produced hail three inches in diameter at Lakota ND, and wind gusts to 83 mph at Marais MI. Thirty-seven cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, including Rockford IL with a reading of 104 degrees. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1989 - Late afternoon and evening thunderstorms in the Central High Plains Region produced golf ball size hail at La Junta CO, Intercanyon CO, and Custer SD. Afternoon thunderstorms over South Texas drenched Brownsville with 2.60 inches of rain. Fair skies allowed viewing of the late evening full lunar eclipse from the Great Lakes Region to the Northern and Central Plains Region, and across much of the western third of the country. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 1992 - One of the most destructive United States hurricanes of record started modestly as a tropical wave that emerged from the west coast of Africa on August 14. The wave spawned a tropical depression on August 16, which became Tropical Storm Andrew the next day. Observances: 16 Sun Tell a Joke Day 16 Sun National Rum Day 16 Sun National Bratwurst Day 16 Sun National Airborne Day 16 Sun Bennington Battle Day 16 Sun National Roller Coaster Day 16 Sun National Backflow Prevention Day 16 Sun National Authenticity Day 16 Sun National Energy Multiplier Day 16 Sun National Independent Worker Day 16 Sun National Tell A Joke Day 16 Sun National Work From Home for Wellness Day 16 Sun St. Roch’s Day

What a stretch.

Nice paving weather too.

This is an interesting take Jeb! I know you love your snow, but many snow lovers take a hard pass on winter rain.

Lows in the 40s are for Christmas.

Typically Fall. Probably not until October.

I am postponing overseeding till the middle of Sept., maybe by then we get some Nino connection. I work and therefore can not manually water the lawn. I hope we dont repeat last Sept., and October when soil moisture hit very low levels of near 17 %

Where the F is Nino ?

Best we can hope for now is a few hours of sun later this afternoon to destabilize

While I do understand that even in a hostile El Nino year, a storm can sneak through and create widespread destruction, as a SE Florida homeowner I am very happy to be reading these posts. What I find most amazing is that here we are on August 16 and the main 2026 Atlantic season thread is only 6 pager so far.

The amounts might not be much but it seems destined to me misty most of it

Sweet! We'll definitely wait until spring. The wood will need time to dry out. Once it's dry I'd sand it out and apply some high quality oil. I'll have it looking like a wood floor.

An hour of drizzle. .10" Swift water rescues teams must be busy this morning.

My location might not get much rain. Hope i'm wrong.

With a super El Niño raging in combination with the rising heat of anthropogenic climate change, 2026 has now set daily global temperature records on the ERA-5 dataset for seven consecutive days. In addition, 2026 has the latest 17°C or above global mean temperature by seven days. ERA-5 data for the last four years and daily records for the August 8-14 period are below. For reference, below are the monthly records and number of daily records by year (through August 14, 2026).

We hit 44F this morning… felt autumn-ish.

The meso guidance looks awful for today/tonight. It's going dry again after finally getting an above normal month in July. Still in a severe drought.

Seems to be a lot of disagreement on the amount of rain that falls today.

A very rain day in store.

It just doesn’t want to be dry in Frederick this summer. Quick hitting vitamin downpour in progress. Looks like a break than more stuff later.

My guess for the remainder of the geriatric summer is formulated purely out of persistence. No heat. The longer persistence goes on seemingly interminably like this, it naturally just becomes difficult for one to imagine things can actually change. Heh. The atmosphere wouldn't stop troughing the GL/NE region if it were an edict from god. But I've seen this kind of stolen summer from New England antic in seasons of lore, before. Usually what happens is summer attempts to come back in the first half of September. So figure faux fall until then, a time in which we'll still somehow managing to be +.5 above climate averages - so technically above normal. Long about Sept 3 or something, whence solar is starved and irrelevant, we'll put up 10 days of non-synergistic +6s. That way, we can look like the rest of the world's CC predicament, but without ever suffering any consequences. That ending aspect really has been protecting N-E of the Mason Dixie and SE Climate for years. Lol. True or not ... it just seems we're a climate dumpster here.

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