NorthHillsWx

Grand total of 0.01” here

Didn’t get as hot as yesterday, but still extreme. 100.5 was the high

96 at 11:30…. On pace for our hottest day of the year 1:20- up to 100.2

Just caught the outflow from the storm sitting over RDU and it feels incredible

Looks like RDU made it at least to 101

Nope it fell apart just before reaching here, nothing but some mood drops. We blew the top off the thermometer today, topped out at 101.8!!!

Currently 100 with a dew point of 72 giving me a heat index of 110… Brutal doesn’t even describe this well enough

This week's drought monitor showed some more slippage in northern NC with an expansion for D3 and the reintroduction of D4 in the Triad area. Meanwhile the drought was again chipped away at the mountains and coast. Elsewhere in the south most areas remained unchanged but south of ATL has been dry lately and saw the reintroduction of moderate drought after a long break from it. Rest of Ga and SC were mostly unchanged

2010 was I think the hottest summer on record for Raleigh. I was in school at Clemson so I did not get to experience that here, thankfully

Yep. From ChatGPT: 2026 Raleigh Heat Metrics At-A-Glance (Year-To-Date) Days over 90°F: 65 days Days over 95°F: 33 days Days over 100°F: 6 days

RDU did hit 100. We maxed out at 98.8 at my house, but will say the trusty car thermometer was reading over 100 and got up to 103 on the beltline pretty much my whole drive back from the office until I got into my neighborhood. I'm sure some localized areas were well over 100. Feels like walking through a bowl of hot soup this morning. This is one of the most brutal summers I can ever remember living here. Just no real extended relief from humidity since June and no sign of real fall-like weather though Sun-Tues will be a decent reprieve

Key to all these is RI or last minute organization right before LF. Great examples. I think S FL gets some brown ocean effect simply due to the swampiness/ever present water of that part of the state. Wilma and Katrina are other examples of storms that did not weaken over S FL.

Couldn’t you say that about every tropical system though? And the brown ocean effect here was what supposedly kept the circulation intact, enhanced the rain that this speaks to. So this is saying the storm caused the brown ocean effect but how was it able to sustain long enough for that to happen? Also, surface temps (and what the rain water temp would be) during the heaviest rainfall were in the mid to upper 70’s, below what would be sufficient for tropical processes. This to me is lazy. There are other processes here

Not sure we’re gonna crack 100 today, haven’t been able to get above 98 and clouds have moved in. Sauna out regardless

It’s been said but my goodness if this system had another day over water this might’ve been a major