Eskimo Joe

My sleep deprived brain can't tell if this is satire or not. There's so many indices and oscillations anymore that I can't tell if we're looking at a shutout for the upcoming winter or if we actually have a shot at hitting climo.

It's become pretty clear to me that whatever was done to the Euro over the past year or two has caused it to develop a wet, hot bias beyond HR84. That being said, it seems like 88-94 degree highs are a distinct possibility. The sun angle and length of day certainly is decreasing, but we still have enough juice to get hot this time of year. In fact, the Millersville University climate data shows some records highs in the first third of September are near 100 degrees. (https://www.atmos.millersville.edu/~wic/climo/normals/September.html)

Would make sense. We do September heat well in these parts, and with the low level drought conditions the ground can heat up quickly. The sun doesn't have to work off too much soil moisture.

If you watch the base reflectivity loop out of Wakefield, you can see the front pinching off the NW edge of the precip shield and shoving Idalia out to sea. Pretty neato.

Lul wut

Drove by the other week. The Shenandoah is low, but should be fine.

Some video starting to come out of Perry, FL

Link to Georgia mesonet for those interested: http://www.georgiaweather.net/

Rather would have the heat now than October. I think it was Oct 2018 where we went upper 90s for days and the trees just gave up and dropped their leaves en mass.

AWOS station KFPY Bucell Junction reported a gust of 85 MPH.

NDBC advised a couple of the C-MAN stations had the anemometers fail as Idalia made landfall.

Perry, FL ASOS gusted to M82 mph. Looks like it might be having power issues. Not sending consistent METARs.

They were told to leave and bucked the advice. Oh well.

To be a fly on the wall of Tallahassee WFO right now.