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Had a low temp of 49 here.

Your initial comment was correct. I work up a big sweat when I run in 35 degrees. If you're actually running instead of walking and it's an extended period of time, you're going to sweat profusely no matter what the temperature is. Anyway today was spectacular weather. It felt extremely comfortable with a high temp of 77 here.

Yeah 93 was the highest I got during that heat wave. It was impressive to be 90+ for 6 days in a row, but it was far from extreme heat. Also pretty impressive that we had only 1 hot week for the entire month of August and lots of low humidity days. July was brutal, but August has been a fairly comfortable month.

The dewpoint is all the way down to 49 here now, as we begin the long low humidity stretch. 86 degrees.

Yeah you know the heat will come back. It's too early for it to stay comfortable for the rest of the season. Euro and GFS both show 90 degree weather coming back around the 4th of September. I think we're done with the extreme 95 to 100 degree heat, but we'll see low 90s again. Before then though this is going to be a spectacular stretch of weather for the next 8 or 9 days.

No rain in sight other than the slight chance of a shower late tonight. It's nice that we're going to have a long stretch of beautiful weather, but the lack of rain is a concern. Parts of the area have moved into a moderate drought and it's only going to get worse over the next couple weeks. I hope we're not heading towards the same situation we had last fall with a severe drought.

Yeah the big deal next week will be the very low humidity rather than the temps. Starting on Tuesday, a very long stretch with dewpoints in the 40s to near 50. That with high temps near 80 will be absolutely perfect summer weather.

0.52" here. Not bad. A much-needed watering for the vegetable garden.

Really looking forward to the beautiful airmass the middle of next week. Will probably make it up to upper 70s for highs, but it will be just about the lowest humidity of the summer and that will lead to very cool nights.

I have Romaine lettuce out there for the fall that I started from seed about a month ago. This cool rainy weather today is great for it. I can see it having a major growth spurt today. It has been so dry over the last month, so it really needed a day like today.

0.18" here so far. It has been light but it's steadily adding up. At least it's enough to give things a watering. We'll have to see if we can get a heavier downpour from the activity in PA later. HRRR isn't picking up on it but it's possible.

0.09" here so. A pretty good drizzle is coming down right now. I hope we can get a half inch here from this event. A lot of the models have the heavier action missing to the south and the north.

Same here. Pretty good evidence tonight that if there is going to be very heavy rain, it will likely be to the south. Most of the 0z models give our area a quarter to half inch. I'd be very happy to get a half inch. I see the HRRR backed off on the insane amounts, but it still does show some isolated 5 to 6 inch amounts so the south.

NAM 3km looks a lot different than HRRR. It doesn't have the heavy rain to the south but gives parts of north Jersey 1"+ amounts. Tomorrow is going to be very difficult to predict.

I'm sure that's the crazy HRRR making an error. Some areas will get heavy rain but I don't think anyone is getting a foot of rain out of this lol.

I see 12z Euro now gives us a significant amount of rain Wednesday. Keeping my fingers crossed because we really need it. Almost nothing here over the last month.

Missing to the north and south here. Heavy downpour going into northern Union County right now. Looks like I'll be watering again.

With temps going into the low-mid 90s today, jt would have been an 8 day heat wave here had we not broken it yesterday. Still 6 days in a row of 90+ was pretty impressive.

With the pattern moving forward looking very dry, I really hope we see something today. It appears that the activity is gonna be widely scattered though. So little rain the last month. I hope the same thing that happened last year isn't going to happen again with our area going into a drought at the end of the summer.

I just hit 90, so it's a 6 day heat wave here!

It hit 91 here today, so we made it a 5 day heat wave. It most likely ends tomorrow but it's going to be close. I think we'll probably stop at 88 here tomorrow, but we have a slight chance to extend the heat wave to 6 days.

Yeah I talked to a neighbor when I got home from Seaside Heights tonight and he said there were lots of close lightning strikes. One of the best lightning events of the last few years. Fast moving storm though so it only dropped 0.32" here. At least it was enough to give things a watering. I can finally take a break from watering the vegetable garden tomorrow.

I went outside last night at 1am and watched for an hour. As expected, it was nothing like last year's show due to the bright moon. The moon was in the part of the sky in which I saw the most meteors last year. It really ruined the show .... I only saw a few faint looking ones. I'm looking forward to the Geminid meteor shower in december. The moon won't be an issue so that should be by far the best meteor shower of the year. Hopefully we'll have clear skies for it. I don't care about being out there in colder weather as long as it's a nice show.

Almost no rain the last few weeks. We went from flooding to an extremely dry ground here. I'm having to water the vegetable garden almost every day. As Stormlover said, today's activity will be hit or miss. I'm really hoping we get a heavy downpour today, but I'm heading down to Seaside Heights so I won't be here to see it if it happens.

Had a high temp of 93 here today. 91 yesterday and 90 on Sunday. We'll make it a 4 day heat wave tomorrow. We'll see if we can make it a 5 day heat wave on Thursday ... it's gonna be close.