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Still waiting for my first 40's here...

What an extended summer here on the shoreline. Was out on the boat last night and there has been a pod of around 50-100 bottle nose dolphins hanging out in Branford harbor.

Yesterday was a top 5 day of the year in E CT; currently down to 43F

I was at my camp just 20 some miles from home but my daughter was home and said it was pouring with huge drops for an hour, then a break then more of it! Totally needed….it barely hit me where I was in confluence….

I don't mind maximum temperatures Don because using maximum temperatures removes urban heat island from the equation. Also it's useful to compare hot weather by maximum temperature only because higher amounts of humidity will also increase minimum temperatures, which is why H20 is considered a greenhouse gas even more potent than C02. An example: tropical rain forests are extremely warm because of their very high mean temperatures, but the extremity of hot can't hold a candle to the kind of extreme heat you get in parts of the Middle East or Death Valley for that matter. I find our biggest heatwaves occurred in the 1940s and 1950s, the 1930s did not have the kind of extreme and long heatwaves that years like 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955, etc. had. The total number of 90 degree days was eventually exceeded, but not until 1983 and then 2010 did this take place. Our climate for our local area anyway seems to warm in stair steps. The summers are getting hotter, but not a straight line. There is an extremely hot summer and then many summers below that threshold before the next big increase occurs. Meanwhile the length of heatwaves of a summer like 1953 has still not been approached. Or the number of 100 degree days for that matter (tied between 1953 and 1966 at 4.)

Most surprisingly this has turned into a legit stormy overnight down here.... Over 2 hours now of continual thunder and vivid lightning... Occasional rain about 0.4 now..

Put this on pile

75 today. Beautiful

50.7° At WxW1 and a balmy 38.8° here at WxW2. The color is moving quickly in the Adirondacks. It’ll be interesting to learn the SLK climo lol. Maybe @powderfreak and I will become upslope buddies?

Perhaps... after taking a closer look I see they do not emulate my version of IntelliStar. The most "advanced" version of IntelliStar. https://www.twcarchive.com/wiki/IntelliStar_2_XD https://kaosfactory.github.io/desktopX1.html I also have this... https://kaosfactory.github.io/wxblox/geo.html But this is really good work... https://xl.weatherstar.dev/ Still kinda jealous.

Models are not exactly sold on any meaningful rain for most of New England in the next 10 days.

It looks to me that Gabrielle is currently being affected by an ULL to its west, and dry air to its north.NHC still predicts it will become a hurricane tomorrow. blob:https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/a290b4b1-9c78-4bd0-8b59-9ebf3196f9b8

Waiting to see if this essentially non moving storm about a half mile to my south can drift north.... 25 minutes now of T&L with the smell of rain in the air , but no rain yet..

Yikes. Wasn’t @Chrisrotary12asking about this place in the golf thread a while back?

32 at mi casa. Gonna be a cold one

I just want rain. The way things are going up here though, we would dry slot and end up with a couple hundredths.

We had several nearly stationary t-storms this evening over several areas of TRI.

Looks like a cutoff low rolling through next weekend, and maybe one more after that. Hopefully, that ends the heat.

My eye spies a very slightly-ish positive PDO. Get those warm SSTs along the NE PAC coastline, and we are in business.

I mowed mine today. The back stayed pretty green and hasn’t stopped growing. I mowed it low hoping we freeze tonight and put it out of its misery.

Growing up, this was not uncommon.

Frost delay up here. The pro shop also warned there would be one tomorrow too.

Looks like a rainy pattern possibly setting up mid week and beyond coming up. Cooling off to by then...

Looks light we are in The last gasp of summer

Nice... can definitely see a nice light show back your way... In fact could see lightning high in the sky from just west of Charlottesville near Ivy driving home a hour ago...