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2 hours ago, MANDA said:

Some breaks in the clouds.  Rain over.  As of 8:00 a.m. had received 1.01".

Looks like maybe .30" in the gauge since then, will measure later.

Glad the heavy totals stayed east.  Doing fine on rain here.  Don't need anything excessive.

1.7" here.  Looks like a decent week ahead.

1 minute ago, qg_omega said:

Warmest fall on record looks likely 

Not even fall yet, and 2021 was pretty warm so we'll see.

3 hours ago, SACRUS said:

 

Here is newark 

 

90 degree Days:

 

Year	Rank	Days >= 90 °F
2010	1	54
2022	2	49
1993	2	49
1988	4	43
2021	5	41
2002	5	41
1991	5	41
2016	8	40
1983	8	40
1959	8	40
2025	11	39
1994	11	39
1944	11	39
2005	14	37
1987	14	37
2018	16	36
1949	16	36
2015	18	35
1961	19	34
2024	20	33
2012	20	33
1999	20	33
1995	20	33
1966	20	33

 

 

95 Degree Days


 

Year	Rank	Days >= 95 °F
1993	1	25
2010	2	21
1944	3	20
1988	3	20
2022	3	20
2021	6	18
1955	7	17
2002	7	17
2011	7	17
2012	7	17
1949	11	16
1953	12	14
2005	12	14
2025	12	14
1987	15	13
1991	15	13
1999	15	13
2016	15	13

So as of right now EWR isn't even in the top 20 for 90 degree days.

Also pretty insane that 1993 had nearly as many 95 degree days as we do 90 degree days this year.  Now that's hot.

47 minutes ago, winterwarlock said:

Are these long range forecasts of long stretch of dry sunny weather after Friday believable?

I hope so.  Looks fair and dry starting Friday.

6 hours ago, MJO812 said:

Happy Meteorological Autumn.

The start of the great Ber months .

Thanks for reminding me we have another 3 full weeks of summer 

2 hours ago, winterwarlock said:

Cant get more than one sunny day around here anymore

It SEEMS (and I hope) that starting Friday we enter a nice late summer pattern featuring upper 70's and low 80's with fair weather.

10 minutes ago, FPizz said:

People complain about everything. Case in point, every thread here.  There was like 6 days this summer that was very hot and humid.  People act like we had 50 of those days.  Most the smoke was also from idiots lightning a fire and it getting out of control. So yes, the new normal is a bunch of idiots. 

Only 4 days this month with a high of 90 or above, and just 2 days with a low of 70 or above.  For July, those numbers are 6 days 90 or above and 6 days 70 or above.  The rest of this month should close out without adding to either of those figures.

I know other places were obviously warmer but those are pretty low numbers and far from some of the summers in the last 10-15 years.

3 hours ago, TriPol said:

No one can look back at this summer and say it was cool. In fact, this is one of the hottest summers on record.

Can you show me which stations in our sub-forum that is true for?  This has not been an extremely hot summer, those surges of heat we had were short lived.  This was a typical summer for the metro that featured warm and humid days and a stormy pattern starting after the 4th.

It's interesting because if we had the inverse of this summer pattern happen in the winter (some extremely cold days mixed in with mostly average/warmer ones), you wouldn't have people going around saying that it's an icebox record cold winter.

18 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Solid soaking for everyone.  

Most guidance did well showing where the max area of rainfall would end up from NYC on east.

Was expecting 1-2" here and ended up with 2.14".   Lesser amounts just NW of here up into Sussex County with generally 1 to 1.5" up that way.

Either way everyone has had enough rain lately!  Meteorological Summer which has 10 days left to go has been wet.  In some places VERY WET.

Just about 2 inches here.  Weekend is looking a lot drier so that's a plus.

1.2" here so far.  Had brutal downpours on 287 coming home.  Lots of runoff and you could see the storm drains were taxed.  

5 hours ago, winterwarlock said:

Today and last Saturday aside August has sucked..way too much clouds humidity and constant shoeer threats

Yeah even today had more clouds than I thought it would.  Just been a meh weather month, and this weekend doesn't look to change that.

Our area is fine with rain and the reservoirs are good. Abnormally dry doesn't mean a drought.  

1 hour ago, TriPol said:

Hopefully, this is Summer's last hurrah. Really tired of the relentless heatwaves.

You've had relentless heatwaves by you?  I haven't had a heateave since the one around 4th of July.  

Yesterday just missed 90 here and tomorrow is iffy, so technically no heatwave again.  If you look at previous summers, even just since 2015, we've had far worse heat and humidity.  This wasn't bad at all.

I'd actually argue we had very little extended heat this summer.  When we got a warm surge it packed a punch but then didn't stick around.

48 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

Need the rain still in a drought Bluewave posted his morning

Most of the metro is abnormally dry, not in a drought.  Long Island is a little worse off, as is Southern NJ.  

We're doing fine.

Heavy thunder and lightning before midnight kept me up.

Also got another 1.5"+ overnight.  Crazy how we just keep getting storms on top of storms here.

16 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Rain chances seem to have dwindled the rest of the week 

Yeah now my forecast only shows Thursday and Friday, and those are storm chances so who knows.

I'll take it though.  I can do without heavy rain and wind damage for the rest of the summer.

55 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

have yet to water the lawn this spring/summer

Haven't added water to the pool once this year, can't remember when the last time that was.

Heavy pockets of rain pushing me closer to 3.5" now.

Pushing 3 inches here, got soaked overnight.

I hope the storm chances this week flop, at least up this way.  Had more than enough rain the past few weeks.

Definitely a good soaker here.  

Sitting at about 3 inches.  Some areas got twice that, which is pretty crazy.  Had solid downpours about an hour ago.

Haven't had to add water to the pool once this year, and in fact I've had to drain it several times, tomorrow included.

13 minutes ago, MANDA said:

 

To me at least the cold never feels as harsh in February as it does in December or January.  Especially once to mid February the increasing sun angle just helps make it not feel so bad.  By mid February just by looking out the window you can tell winter is on the run.

Mid February = Mid August

Yeah I agree, although I think part of it is just adapting to the cold by then.  Think of Novemeber when we first dip into the low 30's at night how cold that feels.  Yet by February a high in the 30's would be nothing.

1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

Definitely.   But the worst is likely behind us.   August heat never feels as bad with the lowering sun angle at least in my opinion.

August to me is like February in the sense that you're still in the thick of the cold/heat even though averages technically start lowering as we get into August.

41 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

We're top 5 warmest from june 1 through July 15 or half of met summer. The hot stretches have been record breaking and the smoke didn't help either. 

After a cooler spell in late July all signs point to a lot more record heat for early August. 

Humans are like goldfish when it comes to weather though 

Right, my point is that when the heat shows up it hits hard, but it otherwise has been bearable.

After the heat broke on July 5th, I've only had 2 days that were 90+ and 2 days with a low of 70+.

5 hours ago, NEG NAO said:

one of the few this summer so far IMO between the excessive long heat spells combined with high humidity and the recent smoke and flooding rains - this summer has not been that great if you enjoy spending time outdoors.........maybe we will get a longer stretch of comfortable nicer weather starting next Thursday..........

Honestly, I really don't think this summer has been that bad.  Yes I know I'm biased because this is my season, but when the heat hits we seem to get some relief after (today and tomorrow for example).  It's really been up and down.

We had a couple summers awhile back where the dewpoints were consistently high and just lingered throughout most of the season.  Someone could probably confirm, but I know at least one was pre-covid.  

Just about a half inch here.  I'm glad we didn't have widespread wind and tornado activity so far, and I hope it stays that way through tonight.  No one needs that after the damage we already had around the 4th.

Went to attend a birthday party just over the border in New Hope, PA.  Heading down 287 got hit with some mega rates, people started pulling over.  Also while there a few solid downpours came through, I imagine the totals down there had to be near 2 inches.  Looked like a creek in the parking lot.

6 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Pretty potent looking storms moving over the city and nj

Just had insane downpours in the Parisappny area for like 15 minutes.

Have had several periods of that soaking type rain that feels tropical in nature throughout the day.

Up to 1.5" now.  Far below some other areas, but you can already see the life coming back to the vegetation and grass.  This type of event is better for doing that than those brief torrential downpours from a cell.