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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.

Columbia 9:45pm 1.59” with rain falling.

A bunch of consecutive HRRR runs have another round of convection overspreading the area towards dawn. The NAM Nest has a similar idea, although it's weaker with that batch and then a bit heavier with some mid-morning showers. I've also heard various media forecasts promoting drier air for Wednesday afternoon, but a clear majority of guidance (minus the always overmixed GFS) keeps our dew points around 70 through Wednesday evening and doesn't really bring in the drier air until early Thursday. And several models show isolated convection just ahead of the front Wednesday evening.

This is off topic but I have memories of a hot June in the mid 1990s and I always feel like I’m remembering 1995 because it was a hot summer. However, I don’t think June of 1995 was actually warm. I wonder if I’m remembering 1994.

Unbelievable gradient with the rain along 84 earlier. It was pouring (about 2" rain in an hour) with big crashes of thunder at Buffalo Wild Wings in Waterbury but just a few miles north it was barely raining.

We have a Winnah!

Finally starting to rain here. Man, what a classic and beautiful summer day all around. I’d take this any day and run with it. A few good downpours and rumbles of thunder would just be the icing on the cake..let’s gooo!

Congrats everyone who got rain!

.28"

1.25 and counting. Nearby house is over 1.5