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June of this year, just taking Tri as a quick sample, had a high of 94. It rained 5.38 inches at Tri in June after rains came in late month. June of 1957 saw Tri have a high of 93 for the max. And it rained over 4 inches late month to push them to 6 inches of rain for the month. July of 1957 was extremely dry at Tri. .79 inches total. We will see how July plays out there this month but they've already recorded nearly that much rain. Winter that year, there was a minor 1-3 inch snow event for most of the state mid-month with a quick shot of frigid weather in mid-December. Areas that get upslope did best with the 2+ inch totals around the Plateau/SEKy/SWVa, but there was snow on the ground from Memphis to Bristol at the time. January was actually cool and BN, but it was El Nino below normal. Meaning there were only a couple of really cold days in January, with well below freezing highs and no sub zero type cold. But the highs were muted too so Jan of '58 was around -4 to -6 across the area but it wasn't extremely cold at any point. Moisture and cold refused to link up so the biggest snow in January was 1-2 inches for the area but some snow fell on about half the days of the month without amounting to much more than a dusting to a half an inch. In February brutal cold arrived and snow did too, we started the month with a 3 inch event then added 1.5 inches to it as snow showers lasted the next two days with highs in the lower 20s and lows around 12. From Feb 8th-19th it only got above freezing two days imby. We had a 4 day stretch of below 0 lows and there was an 8 inch snow fall, highs in the lower 10s followed the big snow and the coldest low was -10. It was a forum wide snow event, Memphis and Nashville got 3-5 inches. Crossville got 8 inches. Knoxville and Chattanooga 7 inches, Tri got 9.7.

It is all about getting people to watch and/or page hits to generate advertising dollars. People are attracted to those types of headlines....if they said something like "it's going to be a typical July day in the east"...their audience would be lower.. It is always best to ignore the hype in weather and sports...

Another 1.6" last night. 5 hour power outage thrown in for fun. 5.2" month to date after an above average June. The darn trees will start falling out of the ground due to saturated soils. The ephemeral streams in our neighborhood have returned. They're running for a few hours after the precipitation stops. The watershed is back doing its thing.

the headlines with severe weather are a joke. "Tens of thousands under the gun for severe weather". CNN and NY Post loves to do this. Then you have clowns like Ryan Hall and Max Velocity who have to use that headline and that have their stupid looking face making a stupid reaction in their thumbnails.

It works well for flower gardens and trees/shrubs....the best thing to do is to clean the rain barrel prior to the first use of the season and then every 2-3 weeks during the season.

It doesn’t look like much of any measurable precip the next 10-14 days

I’m happy we ended up with some rain. It looked for a little while (to me) we were going to get screwed and not in the fun way lol

Weather is just sexier now to show on the news because we are able to catch raw and captivating video like never before. Everyone has a smart phone and can send it to a news network. I will say that when the national news shows clips of severe weather as a headline, you'd think the weather has gone wild, but to me it looks like what summer weather brings lol. But to Jane and John Doe it might not. But that's just how it is. Footage of severe weather captivates people.

This will be a good experiment coming up on how much increased soil moisture will have on next weeks heatwave vs the recent that maxed out in the 104° to 106° range. The current 850mb temperature forecast from the Euro and GEM is 25C. Made it to around 24C last week. I hope we can avoid the first time that a 104°-106° high temperature range repeated during the same summer. But who knows with this new much warmer climate. This isn’t the kind of new climate precedent that you want to set.

We are at 88/82 right now.

Hope we can get more rain this week.

Not a good idea for vegetable gardens

Since we are very likely going to be in uncharted territory by early November with the warm pool pushed all the way to 140W (along with a record-breaking super El Niño in place for that matter), we aren’t going to know how the atmosphere reacts to that massive change in the global heat budget and the realignment of the ENSO Hadley Cell….where does it put the main forcing/standing wave convection? How far east does it go? We are going to have to wait and see what happens at that point in time….

The pattern of hot as hell then gray cooler skies seems to be the definition of this summer. Being able to have my blinds opened back up from the heat is nice though.

Even in Raleigh the dewpoints are extra bad today.

....sorry but I'm not smart enough to answer your question...

Agree about the softening, also for folks playing the blame game if they are inconvenienced in any way. However, the bolded seems counterintuitive. at least from a practical standpoint. Those out in the wx would seem to be more affected than those sitting in their LRs poking their cellphones. Wonder if we’ll all go 10 straight days with no rain ? That arrives today; most recent precip was 0.16" on June 28. The temps running 5° AN during that period exacerbates the drying.

A New Orleans special

What do dumb people that you referring to on here do ?

This is as much about the high dewpoints (in or near upper 70s) as it is about the heat, itself (mid to upper 90s): EXTREME HEAT WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 11 AM THIS MORNING TO 7 PM EDT THIS EVENING* WHAT...Dangerously hot conditions with heat index values 112 to 116possible.* WHERE...Coastal southeast Georgia and southeast South Carolina.* WHEN...From 11 AM this morning to 7 PM EDT this evening.* IMPACTS...Heat related illnesses increase significantly duringextreme heat and high humidity events.Drink plenty of fluids, stay in an air-conditioned room, stay out ofthe sun, and check up on relatives and neighbors.

Smart people use rain barrels to collect water for their gardens..

1.09 of much needed rain in methuen

Yeah hopefully that breaks for them today.

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