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now that we hit august you can see the light at the end of the tunnel it wont be long now when you can wear your hoodie on a everyday basis..

75° / 50°

It’s almost a given you can probably add 3 or 4 degrees to the current forecasted highs for this week. That’s sort of been a trend this summer.

77/57 at 4pm on August 2 in the MA. Hard to beat.

Euro AI goes bonkers with big heat over central/E NA and a few TC's staring you down. not sure how useful it is but if it's any kind of signal, we take

We sure did and the media was all over it. Low of 54, currently 75.

59 degrees last night, first 50s here since June 16th

WB 12Z Can. At Day 7...

The weather may cause the fires to be more severe by having more dry conditions that adds fuel to the fire. Except for lightning, the fires are set by people or things like power lines. The vast majority of the fires would probably never exist if it wasn't for human intervention of some kind.

The Euro has sucked up some GGEM juice!

Others would know a lot more than me but the last few years have set records in Canada for wildfires. Probably a combination of higher temps, less rain and less snow in the winter.

WB 12Z GFS and EURO precip. through Day 7. EURO can't make up its mind....

May not hit 70!

Yeah this week has been brutal.

Regardless of extended clown temperatures on apps and accuwx etc, it looks potentially quite warm by mid to late next weekend.

Yeah, we would get smaller Canadian wildfires back in those days. We even had smoke in the late 80s from wildfires in the Appalachians. But the Canadian wildfires have been at record levels since 2023. June 6-8, 2023 was a first for our area having such thick smoke. A recent study found that the smoke dropped our temperatures by 5°F. https://www.rmets.org/metmatters/worst-air-quality-world-wildfire-smog-smothers-new-york The Wednesday morning air quality was bad. The day began in the “red” with AQIs in the 151-200 range. An AQI in that range has only occurred a handful of times in the last few decades in the city. Still, New Yorkers tried to continue with their daily routine activities. By late Wednesday morning, the grey blob as seen from the ABI visible band on GOES satellite, showed the highest concentration of smoke flowing across Lake Ontario, Upstate New York and into the City region. Shortly after, the skies went dark over the city by 2pm, and air quality continued to worsen through the evening. The AQI was above 480 on Wednesday evening in NYC, technically off the chart. NYC’s air quality was quickly compared to large cities in India and China known for their chronic pollution. At that point, New York City had the worst air quality in the world. The pollution was bad enough to cancel outdoor after-school activities for the 1.1 million students in the largest public school system in the country, and prompt a shift to remote learning for the following days. https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/asl.1306?af=R#:~:text=During the fire season of,(NYC) and its surroundings. https://www.nature.com/articles/s43247-025-02214-3

I don't think you didn't notice, I don't think it was happening.

The PHL Airport recorded 21 days over 90 degrees in July. The average high temperature was 90.5 degrees. Our own little heat island spot at Phoenixville clocked in at a toasty 89.2 average high with 15 such days. The growing disparity between Urban Heat Island stations and more rural stations is best highlighted when looking at the average high temperature comparison looking at the airport since 1970 when the heat island problems began in earnest. Comparing there vs. The Phoenixville Cooperative data vs. All other Chester County average high temperatures since 1970. While Phoenixville (purple line) has shown warming during our current warm climate cycle they are now clearly being surpassed by the PHL Airport (red line). The rest of Chester County (blue line) has warmed much slower than both PHL and Phoenixville.

Hey Cape don't be afraid of the facts and raw unadjusted data....nothing flawed...and nothing to fear - stay calm!! Charlie does not sweat it...he simply tries to explain away the actual raw data with altered/adjusted facts to disprove the actual raw data. It is a healthy debate!

Looks like a top five vacation week as well.

What a beauty out here today, Top 10 day.

AQI down to 141 in Minneapolis. Feel like I can take the kids to the playground again.