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Goes to bed shirtless .. wakes up with 3 dogs on top completely stuck and suffocated

80 here by 9 not bad

Most spots touched the 80 degree mark yesterday with the exception of West Grove and East Nantmeal "only" hitting 79 degrees. All locales today will reach the low to mid 80's with plenty of sun. Shower chances will be around for the Memorial Day weekend with the best chances at some rain being Tomorrow and the best days with some sun being both Friday and Sunday. Chester County records for today: High 98 degrees at Phoenixville (1934) / Low 31 degrees in West Chester (2002) / Rain 2.59" at Coatesville 1SW (1915)

Most spots touched the 80 degree mark yesterday with the exception of West Grove and East Nantmeal "only" hitting 79 degrees. All locales today will reach the low to mid 80's with plenty of sun. Shower chances will be around for the Memorial Day weekend with the best chances at some rain being Tomorrow and the best days with some sun being both Friday and Sunday. Chester County records for today: High 98 degrees at Phoenixville (1934) / Low 31 degrees in West Chester (2002) / Rain 2.59" at Coatesville 1SW (1915)

anyone feeling a little dizzy due to the very warm temps this morning or is it only me?

Hopefully some install tonight. How many doggies will be stuck to Steve’s back tomorrow morning?

I wonder why NWS Point and Click Forecast are not working.

We are in agreement on pretty much everything so far. I also really doubt the AO/NAO cooperation for the following reasons: solar, ++AMO, volcanic stratosphere?, +QBO, moderate-strong Niña (possibly quickly transitioning to a Modoki), especially if the IOD goes negative come fall, I think the event goes strong. Unlike last year where the PDO and PMM did not synch with the Nino, this one will have no issue “coupling” (MEI/RONI)

for Sunday: Although the 30% is Mid-South, the surface low and associated boundaries could very well be Illinois to Indiana. I'd love the WF to be north of I-70. At least I-64. Outflow will likely be in the Mid-South but that's hideous chase terrain. If the atmosphere can recover from morning rain and storms, instability should get north into IL/IN which is already 15%. SPC could be waiting for confidence on Atmo recovery and then destabilization farther north. Their 'concerning pattern' language is notable.

Yeah, it’s probably related in some way to the many marine heatwaves across the planet right now. The Euro shifts back to cooler and wetter again from Memorial Day into the start of June. So no pattern change showing up just yet. May 27 to June 3 EPS forecast

I'm not sure I need to? It's not even in question. We already know

it really sounds like the reason this block is bad is because it's ocean based. Because the waters are warmer than air temps in the winter and cooler than air temps in the spring and summer, it has the effect of smoothing out our extremes and making our winters warmer and our springs and summers cooler.

This occurred to me too-- air pollution actually does mutate genes. It's right there on the CDC website, in addition to causing asthma it can also damage genes (makes sense since clean oxygen is needed for every bodily function.)

Wednesday through Friday we have that meandering boundary across our region with modest flow aloft. Mid-South to West Tenn have Slight risks Wed/Thu. Marginal covers much of our region. Timing short-waves and some low-level winds will determine whether storms are garden variety or something more. Then on Saturday a new system develops in the Plains and ejects east for Sunday funday. Mid-South is the focus with some through much of our region. SPC looks at concentration. Low pressure may be up in IL/IN along with the warm front and triple point. Depends on previous days precip. We'll see.

We got a south based blocking pattern in the summer of 2020 which was really wet so it held the 90° days down at Newark.

There is karma going on too-- I want you to look this up because it's ironic in a way, there's research showing that fossil fuels might actually be driving down male fertility (sperm are quite sensitive to chemical toxins.)

BRING IT ONN

Yeah..I get it ( I'm being partly sardonic in my phrase choices here. Ha) no but in all seriousness, there could be a time bomb threshold of toxicity that isn't known... All at once (say) there's a plague of male and female reproductive cancers, or something. Or, being that it's apparently capable of accessing the reproductive cellular exchange barrier... once in there, can it get into one's genetics? In that sense, it's not just potentially harmful to patient zero, maybe it forces a mutation that takes another generation or two to unilaterally manifest - suddenly, all our grand kids are born with half the gray-matter density. With the rate in which recent science has been upending all the previous assumptions over the last 20 to 30 years, what makes any plausibility of foresight less possible? That frequency increase should really inform us that just when we think we know, we only know we don't.

As best I understand it was due to engineering reasons, they determined the old F rating wind speeds were exaggerated for the damage they indicated (IE lesser winds produced equivalent damage). Hence they changed to the Enhanced Fujita. However I heard somewhere after the April 2011 super outbreak they began changing the criteria / damage thresholds that would allow a tornado to be classified as an EF5, and I heard essentially that the requirements are so strict as to be nearly impossible. It had lots of engineering arguments that are above me, but I thought it was interesting. They were suggesting we wouldn’t be seeing many EF5’s in the future with this new method solely for giving out an EF5 rating. Again, don’t know how ultimately valid this is but it was compellingly presented. I’ll look for the page I saw this on and link it if I can come across it. Has a lot of analysis of the mid to late 2010’s EF4’s that maybe could’ve been EF5 strength.

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Is it possible for it to become south based during the summer too?

Summery first two days and then storms and spins Monday .. as foot longs and burgers are ripped out of folks hands during bbq’s and glass tables are shattered

Yep. No argument.

The blocking pattern became more south based over the winter which featured the record warmth.