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Best we can hope for now is a few hours of sun later this afternoon to destabilize

While I do understand that even in a hostile El Nino year, a storm can sneak through and create widespread destruction, as a SE Florida homeowner I am very happy to be reading these posts. What I find most amazing is that here we are on August 16 and the main 2026 Atlantic season thread is only 6 pager so far.

The amounts might not be much but it seems destined to me misty most of it

Sweet! We'll definitely wait until spring. The wood will need time to dry out. Once it's dry I'd sand it out and apply some high quality oil. I'll have it looking like a wood floor.

An hour of drizzle. .10" Swift water rescues teams must be busy this morning.

My location might not get much rain. Hope i'm wrong.

With a super El Niño raging in combination with the rising heat of anthropogenic climate change, 2026 has now set daily global temperature records on the ERA-5 dataset for seven consecutive days. In addition, 2026 has the latest 17°C or above global mean temperature by seven days. ERA-5 data for the last four years and daily records for the August 8-14 period are below. For reference, below are the monthly records and number of daily records by year (through August 14, 2026).

We hit 44F this morning… felt autumn-ish.

The meso guidance looks awful for today/tonight. It's going dry again after finally getting an above normal month in July. Still in a severe drought.

Seems to be a lot of disagreement on the amount of rain that falls today.

A very rain day in store.

It just doesn’t want to be dry in Frederick this summer. Quick hitting vitamin downpour in progress. Looks like a break than more stuff later.

My guess for the remainder of the geriatric summer is formulated purely out of persistence. No heat. The longer persistence goes on seemingly interminably like this, it naturally just becomes difficult for one to imagine things can actually change. Heh. The atmosphere wouldn't stop troughing the GL/NE region if it were an edict from god. But I've seen this kind of stolen summer from New England antic in seasons of lore, before. Usually what happens is summer attempts to come back in the first half of September. So figure faux fall until then, a time in which we'll still somehow managing to be +.5 above climate averages - so technically above normal. Long about Sept 3 or something, whence solar is starved and irrelevant, we'll put up 10 days of non-synergistic +6s. That way, we can look like the rest of the world's CC predicament, but without ever suffering any consequences. That ending aspect really has been protecting N-E of the Mason Dixie and SE Climate for years. Lol. True or not ... it just seems we're a climate dumpster here.

Nice

This is pathetic for the Eastern areas.

What a Steiner this turned into . Looks pretty dry thru month end. Maybe a shower Thursday ?

Steady light rain this batch 0.13 nickles and dimes as far as the eye can see

Hazardous Weather Outlook National Weather Service State College PA 331 AM EDT Sun Aug 16 2026 PAZ017>019-027-028-049>053-056>059-063>066-170730- Clearfield-Northern Centre-Southern Centre-Mifflin-Juniata-Union- Snyder-Montour-Northumberland-Columbia-Perry-Dauphin-Schuylkill- Lebanon-Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster- 331 AM EDT Sun Aug 16 2026 This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Periods of heavy rain from thunderstorms could lead to minor flooding of poor drainage areas and some small streams late this morning through this evening. Some of the storms may also create brief strong wind gusts over 50 mph. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Monday through Saturday. The probability for widespread hazardous weather is low. .SPOTTER INFORMATION STATEMENT... Spotter activation is not expected at this time.

Nice sound to this rain this morning. Decent moderate rain just moved in. I cracked the window to listen.

The AL is a dumpster fire this season

50.2 for a low. Nice night for sleeping. Although something is in the air that is turning me inside out. The last two days. I have heard reports that the golden rod is blooming. Maybe its that.

The warmer spots away from the seabreeze in our area have rivaled and exceeded the maximum heat from the 1980 to 2002 era since 2010. The warmest CONUS maximum temperature departures have split between the West Coast to Western Plains and the East. So the area in the middle hasn’t been as warm as that era. The other big difference between now and the 1980 to 2002 era is that we haven’t been getting the cooler summers between the warmest years. Notice that the cooler summers like 1982, 1985, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2003, 2004, and 2009 haven’t been occurring. So the coolest summer of the 2020s so far has been around 30 days reaching 90° at the warm spots instead of under 10 days like 1996. This is why it’s the first time the warm spots in NJ went 9 consecutive years without a break from 30+ days reaching 90° from 2018 to 2026. Notice how much warmer the only 3 relatively cooler summers have been since 2010 compared to 8 coolest summers from 1982 to 2009.