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Maybe that was the reason for some of the scorching summers we had in the 40s and 50s (that and all the nuke testing.) I know this idea has been floated around to explain the extremely hot summers of 1944, 1948, 1949, 1953, 1955.

1.66 of rain in Marysville today. We need a few weeks with minimal rain to dry everything out.

I'm glad we are finally getting a real hot summer here. I can do without all this rain though, I can't stand how bugs overpopulate in the rain.

with the extreme heat we had already in June (matching and even exceeding 2010), I'm optimistic about a -NAO next winter.

I don't know man, we've had massive flooding and a lightning strike just burned down a house near here tonight. I like my summers dry, wet summers mean more bugs and then I have to spray pesticides everywhere to kill them off.

I'm glad we exceeded 100 even with the wetter weather.

no that corn and soybean crap makes it much worse, increasing the humidity and turning the region into a sauna.

Trend south and jump over central/northern MD you mean? Boooooo...lol

23-24 was a super el nino? I thought our last one was in 15-16?

Finally back and late to party but I was scared for first time in many years as events unfolded on Route 32 around 3pm I don’t even want to recount it so let me read the discussions

wow lightning struck a house about two towns away from me and it caught fire and burned down a three story house!!!

Not even that here. I95 force field in full affect. Usually we can get some rain, but not even that today

It’s certainly a warm look

I suppose philosophically you could argue, in the 1930s the central part of the U.S. was a dust bowl, it has been rescued from that condition and probably won't entirely return to it, so highs set in the 1930s all around the country should be modified for "climate continuity." But the fact is, those were real temperatures experienced by real people. Just as Central Park with all its trees is now the new reality there. It is what it is. We can compare values with that knowledge and form conclusions about what they mean about the "real climate." As to the new normal of interior western heat waves, that is not being caused by terrain modification (the terrain is the same as always) but by a weaker upper flow at those latitudes as the jet stream migrates north on average further into n.w. Canada. This is why we're seeing more frequent super heat waves in the west. It did happen in the past too but not as frequently. As one person told me, a national forest in Nevada is where you can see a tree from the shade of another tree. Lightning finds it pretty easy to pick those trees off one at a time, I've actually seen it happen. 98F here today, but the dew point in the 50s makes it relatively tolerable.

Not even enough to wet the ground here

I'm fine with missing the heavy precip. Dry it out and settle the stinging insects down a bit. Gardens can always be watered with a hose. Ensembles look quite warm for mid month without a lot of precipitation. Some of the warmest weather in the US could be in the North East heading into mid-July. Obviously could change.

Torch at Winni. 78 still

Hey...power finally back on and air conditioning running at full blast. What a crazy 24 hours! Looks like many of us experienced wild weather yesterday. Fortunately, this afternoon's precip was not a repeat of yesterday. I recorded 0.27" from a band of heavy showers that quickly moved through around 3:30pm. To answer your question...the reason my deficit is higher is because my annual precipitation is 48". This comes from NCDC and the data is from a coop station that I used to live just 0.25 miles from for 8 years from 2011-2019. The station is co-located at our water treatment plant for portions of Carlisle. So, this is a 30-year average for this location. I know it seems anomalously high, but I'm pretty sure their data is reliable. So, half of 48 is 24, minus 2.5 = 21.5. I can tell you that before this event my deficit was close to 5" at the half-way point of the year.

Looks like a dust settler at home. His webbed hands caressing the dust and crust off me.

Congrats CT on the rain. That should get your local DP's cranking. I'm glad I got just enough to keep the flowers happy.

When “Quiet Place Day Real” comes, I’ll be @Bob Chill and wife’s house.

I’ll take any rain overnight, but can you arrange for lower dews tomorrow afternoon and evening? Thanks in advance.

Golf league was spared tonight but we did get a rainbow.

Looks like we're finally kicking the rain on the weekend habit, nice dry stretch just in time for the 4th and the long weekend.

There are obsessed with Central Park's 160 years of data not realizing that data is now tainted. It would be nice if we had a president who actually cared about weather and climate and overruled the NWS and had federal officers either move the equipment or chop down the trees themselves I don't care much about Central Park. Never been there, never want to go there.