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You keto wondering if someone will hit 110-111

*IF* the duration actually end up on par with swhat some of the models have hinted at, it would be the most extensive and lengthy heat wave for the sub since 2012. But I very much doubt it will, especially with the NAO trending negative (backdoor cold fronts). There's a rasonable chance things will break by the weekend...

Guess it can be done! Bring on 105F.

It hit 100 at DCA on 6/12. DCA ended its 5th longest streak of no 100 F on 6/22/24 (2867 days).

All true, but I only have about 0.15" to show for it all. Drove back from Silver Spring in steady rain almost all the way, then weakening in AACo. Oh well...about 0.60 for both days. Over 3" for June now.

I’ll stick with my upper 90s

Thanks for the information Mike

Went to State College for brunch to meet. Friend who was in town from Cleveland. It rained from about Midway all the way into SC. She said it had rained every day she was there. Must be nice.

It's been a dark rainy day here. I got pretty wet this morning while working. It's been a lazy, rainy afternoon.

Down the shore this week. Water is still chilly. 64 today; sea breeze for the win.

Did we really hit 100 a couple weeks ago per the comment above? I thought we hadn’t hit it since like 2012. Guess I am talking out of my butt a bit but feel like we never get there - at least formally at the airports

July 2011's heatwave rivaled July 1995, and the following winter (2011-12) turned out to be a blowtorch with almost no snow (outside of the October freak storm).

I can guess what you are implying here. Pointing out caveats or what could go wrong for events/forecasts is a reasonable position to take. It prevents one from getting carried away and biased from the "could be's" and "what if's" as one example. The "could be" and "what if" issues are *rife* these days on social media. People hide behind the fact that just b/c something has a non-zero chance of occurring, they should mention it and hedge like it *will* happen. This is almost entirely for click/engagement bait to monetize their sites and drive the algorithms. Or to be a "hero" to claim "I called it first!", despite going big every time, and use the broken clock is right twice a day fallacy. The vast majority of the time, the worst case or high-end record event will *not* happen, and one should start always from the baseline, not the other way around.

Problems loading forecast.weather.gov all day. Edit, oh looks like it's national and being troubleshooted

Got up to 103 here last June and 100 last July, shocked me, I was starting to think deep Long Island couldn’t pull off 100. 105 (in Queens) in July 2011 is still my personal all time highest, it’d be nice to break that eventually. NYC is a disgrace and should be moved to northeastern Central Park where there’s better siting.

The media figured out the term ‘heat dome’ and now they’re using it ad nauseum like they do with polar vortex in the winter.

Looks like a typical stretch of summer heat to me. Seems when it comes to weather we’ve lowered the bar on what constitutes extreme.

Where exactly? Which day(s)? Generic statements like this do not cut it these days. The details count and the models can parse these out much better these days. From a MSM media standpoint, it likely is going this way, "NYC is going to be very hot, so that mean *all* the East Coast is going to be a super torch." Never underestimate the power of thinking a location is the center of the universe!

Wonder if it will rival July 1995? And yeah, imma gonna say it… You know how that following winter turned out!

Good news

widespread 100s are likely

seems like a no brainer, the world is on fire

its been record warmth throughout the country and its just the start

It's all dangerous in the end. The prefixes and adjectives used these days are out of control. My biggest pet peeve is "catastrophic." It's always that now. You never see, "severe," "heavy," or "disastrous," referring to impact or damage. Impact and damage are scalable, but we choose to throttle to the max all the time. That's counterproductive in the end. More is not always better.