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The Boston UHI is baked into the normals already. BDL’s ASOS was fixed a couple years ago and it seemed to drop their temp a bit. The high temp used to be much higher than surrounding sites and now it’s more in line. So I’m not surprised if they have cooler departures than other sites going forward.

June and July were very wet here (July because of the big event at the end of the month), but I only got 2.88" in August.

Swrn CT...again!!! Scott mad....

US National Weather Service State College PA Favorites · · Tuesday - September 1, 2026 @ 6 AM EDT: A nearly stationary frontal boundary from the Endless Mountains Northeast of Williamsport to the Greater Philadelphia area will provide the focus for a few rounds of showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and evening. Some of the storms could become severe with strong, damaging winds, frequent lightning, hail and locally heavy rainfall. Heat indices this afternoon will reach 95 to 100 degrees across the Lower Susquehanna Valley and Southeastern PA

This is a bad year for apple scab on the crabapple trees here because of all the rain. My biggest tree is supposed to be resistant, but it has really been dumping leaves for the last month. I've spent a lot of hours tediously cleaning them out of the garden under the tree. One of these years it might not be worth the trouble anymore.

Probably River west. Not here

I think we get a Tornado watch today, any strong storm that forms will be rotating

Weenies or Tors?

HRRR has some hard right turners going through CT this afternoon. 6z was violent, we shall see if we can get some good ones today.

71 when I left the house, as the muggies return for a few days. Also picked up .05” of rain at some point. Carry on.

JFK had two such days and LaGuardia had five. There have been 21 years where Central Park had none in August. The most recent such year was 2023.

Yeah, the increasing summer heatwaves across Europe and other parts of the Northern Hemisphere are being driven more by the CGT pattern. This pattern is operating independently of ENSO. So this is how we got such a contradictory pattern in Europe and other areas compared to past developing super El Niños. Building on this, we propose that the circumglobal wave (CGW) pattern, also known as the circumglobal teleconnection pattern (35, 36), drives the extended duration of NWP MHWs. This prominent summer circulation feature spans the Northern Hemisphere mid-latitude band (36). While prior studies have linked the CGW to terrestrial extreme weather—such as heatwaves in Europe, Asia, and North America (37–41)—its role in NWP MHW dynamics remains underexplored. Given that CGW activity peaks during boreal summer, aligning with the documented maximum in NWP MHW intensity and frequency (25, 42–46), it provides a compelling mechanism for initiating and sustaining these events beyond local forcing alone. https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adz4647 Marine heatwaves in the Northwestern Pacific (NWP) have become increasingly frequent and persistent, yet the mechanisms enabling their multiseasonal duration remain poorly understood. Through observational analyses and climate model experiments, we demonstrate that NWP marine heatwaves are primarily driven by a quasistationary wavenumber 5 circumglobal wave (CGW) pattern that operates independently of El Niño–Southern Oscillation. The CGW modulates surface heat fluxes during summer, triggering a self-reinforcing feedback loop where NWP warming intensifies the CGW pattern, amplifying and prolonging heatwaves across extended warm seasons. Additionally, CGW-driven summer warming in the northern North Atlantic persists into winter through oceanic thermal inertia, exciting a great-circle wave pattern that propagates back to the NWP, sustaining heatwaves through cold seasons. This interplay between atmospheric waves and trans-basin interactions enables multiyear marine heatwave events. Analysis of observational data and climate model simulations reveals a strengthening CGW influence in recent decades, indicating more frequent and prolonged NWP marine heatwaves under ongoing global warming.

Happy Fall yall!

Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 500 AM EDT Tue Sep 1 2026 PAZ004>006-010>012-017>019-024>028-033>037-041-042-045-046-049>053- 056>059-063>066-020900- Warren-McKean-Potter-Elk-Cameron-Northern Clinton-Clearfield- Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Cambria-Blair-Huntingdon-Mifflin- Juniata-Somerset-Bedford-Fulton-Franklin-Tioga-Northern Lycoming- Sullivan-Southern Clinton-Southern Lycoming-Union-Snyder-Montour- Northumberland-Columbia-Perry-Dauphin-Schuylkill-Lebanon-Cumberland- Adams-York-Lancaster- 500 AM EDT Tue Sep 1 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Scattered strong to severe thunderstorms with strong winds and heavy rainfall are possible late today into tonight. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Wednesday through Monday. Multiple rounds of strong to severe thunderstorms with strong winds and heavy rainfall are possible Wednesday and Thursday. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotters are encouraged to report significant hazardous weather.

Nice write up. Worcester finished at 1.4 when all said and done. Big meh for the month.

About 0.9” this morning.

Showers today/ tomorrow all but dried up. No surprise. Thurs probably amount to Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk

36f at friend's camp in Eustis Sent from my SM-S921U using Tapatalk

Storymap on the Nepal floods by the Center for Land for Land Surface Hazards with detailed information from flood gauges, seismic, paleo, etc. The story book is updated as new information becomes available. A couple of quotes from the storymap below. The first quote indicates the flood water came mainly from the slide materials i.e, this material was warm/partially melted. The second quote shows how unusual this event was in area impacted. "However, more recent seismic analysis of the event as well as detailed reconstruction of flood downstream arrival timing (see above) suggests that damming and release of lake water did not likely contribute significantly to this event because the timing of the initial failure (i.e. the ice-rock avalanche) from seismic records is only seven minutes before the arrival of the flood waters in the nearby community of Gyirong, which is not enough time to have constructed a significant lake in the highland region. Instead, melting of ice and frozen sediment/rock in the initial debris flow and avalanche runout has been attributed to the initiation of the flood." In a 2020 study , Huber and others determined boulder-emplacement timing and estimated paleo-flood magnitudes based on boulder size. They show that most boulders in the Trishuli and Sunkoshi were last mobilized and came to rest about 5000 years ago in flood events that far exceed typical monsoon discharges by one to two orders of magnitude. Images and videos from this Trishuli flood suggest this was a larger event, moving larger boulders than the flood event that impacted the valley ~5000 years ago https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/f2b2425eac544929a7d18f4c90b41d66

guidance hinting at a wet pattern returning to the northwoods

So much what was said in that post could have easily been condensed down to !~25% of its original and still said the same thing!

NHC follows the 00z HAFS-B, but here is the current 09z EIR, and the fcst EIR valid 09z from the HAFS-B. This I find a problem often the days, some stick to the model fcst and persist in not altering at all a fcst when the model is already wrong in its short-term verification. That's not good. Objectivity, the HAFS-B is quite wrong here for satellite presentation. Now I know that does not mean RI is off the table, but one just can't ignore the model shortcomings here and still stay the course on an earlier fcst. And NHC mentioned nothing about the ESE shear I pointed out earlier that was apparent on satellite, or the low environmental RH that persists, or how earlier more banded convection is now becoming more irregular (blobs). These are non-trivial observations as to what is going on real-time. Actual empirical observations override any model fcst every time.

Because of this, the offical NOAA monthly data will likely be in the neighborhood of maybe like 2.2C for non-relative nino 3.4 and 1.8C for relative for August. BOM, UKMET, and ECMWF data may run warmer because of the difference in sst analysis and the integration of high resolution sst data that noaa is not doing.