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Lots of sting rays in the sound and Long Island harbors this heat. I’ve been boating here my whole life and I’ve never seen them before

Not this many days with widespread surface air quality impacts. Nothing else comes close to 2023 and 2025 in my memory.

40 years since Massachusetts west of the Cape has had a hurricane..Never thought after Gloria (which was largely a disappointment here) it would be 40+ years for the next strike. And I’m not even saying it had to be a Cat 3 at landfall. Ever a weak 2 or strong 1 would have been fine. Is a 40 year drought like that typical around here?

Made it up to 78.4 today after not reaching 70 either of the previous two days. My low this morning was 61.7. Very nice for August 4! Currently 66.8 and moderate rain. .

Started raining around 6:30 PM. I have accumulated 0.6 inch of rain so far, or 0.15 inch per hour, which is way more than the 0.03 inch per hour shown in the hourly forecast on the point and click from NWS. We have already exceeded the “quarter to half inch” of rainfall we were supposed to get overnight, and the night is still very young. Lots of moisture downstream. The HiRes NAM forecast of close to six inches over the next 60 hours looks much more likely to transpire than the GFS forecast of an inch or so. .

90 today

18z wasn’t really your friend but it did keep most of the bad wx to the east.

For up our way they matter so I don’t disagree there—but I don’t think we’re getting good tropical unless there’s a good pool of higher end deep fuel as a hurricane is rounding the SE coast and slingshotting north. Of course that starts with SST. We’ve had some good years with warmth up and down the EC and I think this is one of the best in the recent active period (2017-) with SSTa and OHC. Better than we saw in 2020 with Isaias and the other recent big heat years in the basin. Combine that with high instability off the coast and a generally favorable environment so far off the EC and anything legitimate in the SW Atlantic and subtropics should cook.

Hey guys. I'm not on the boards much except for the chatter on snow and hurricanes, so I'll be monitoring things now that the tropics are heating up, but it has definitely been a nice break from the heat the last few days. I was on vacation in Maine last week, and I get home and it's actually cooler than several days I had up there. I was hoping to get under the 50 degree mark on the thermometer the other night. Came close. This is why I moved here permanently!

I'd like to hope they can't get any worse

I hope the Giants will have a better year this upcoming season.

A period of extreme heat will affect Phoenix and Tucson this week, peaking on Wednesday and Thursday. Daily record highs will fall and the August monthly records will be challenged. The long-term August trend for Phoenix is hotter and drier.

72 and completely fair skies / stars out - and a joyful crowd at Merriweather for King Gizzard backed by the national symphony. Great vibe here tonight.

Looks like someone got their hands on some purple haze at Upton..

I moved a piece of wood near my potted grafted apple and pear trees this evening and found 2 asian jumping worms under it. I'm pretty sure they came over in some Coast of Maine soil. Bummer

Up to 1.14” so far today. Nice and slow also. .

SST's matter. Overrated fine, but becomes underrated, especially if systems are "first-of-all"

GFS handing out hurricanes to every major city on the East Coast and Gulf today like Oprah! You get a hurricane! You get a hurricane! You get a tropical storm!

Sure, why not?

I want to see if we can get JFK to 20 90 degree days this year, there's only a select few years when that's happened.

this is normal climo, when June 20 to the end of July is very hot, August tends to be less hot.

Another beautiful morning. Low of 67, high of 85. Dew point made it above 70 today.

That would be a big problem ... as it is right now the 7-day forecast for Western North Carolina is for rain every day, they sure as hell don't want to see anything from the tropics heading their way.

4 Day cool start to August EWR: 8/1: 75 / 63 (-9) 8/2: 83 / 62 (-5) 8/3: 85 / 63 (-4) 8/4: 90 / 65 (0) NYC: 8/1: 73 / 63 (-10) 8/2: 80 . 63 (-5) 8/3: 84 / 64 (-3) 8/4: 89 / 67 (+1) LGA: 8/1: 73 / 64 (-10) 8/2: 81 / 65 (-6) 8/3: 84 / 67 (-3) 8/4: 89 / 71 (+1) JFK: 8/1: 74 / 65 (-6) 8/2: 80 / 62 (-5) 8/3: 83 / 63 (-3) 8/4: 86 / 67 (+1)