Might have made it. The 5 min says it hit 90, but the it was an 89.6, so I imagine they'd do what happened yesterday and round down. Still time though to officially get there.
The 1pm update is 85, 5 degrees ahead of yesterday. We might make it.
If we had dew points in the 60s like we normally do with 90 weather, I'd say we wouldn't make it as of now, but the dew point being around 55 might allow us some wiggle room.
Starting 5 degrees warmer today than yesterday, that's a good thing if we're going to try and hit 90. However, there must be some smoke in the air as reports are of partly cloudy skies, but I see no clouds at all. So, we'll see.
Gotta reverse psychology the weather, lol.
Looks like 88 at both airports, if I’m reading the 5min intervals correctly.
Edit: 87 at KPIT. I guess it’s a rounding thing, but why the NWS 5mins say one temp and the official says something else makes no sense.
It's absolutely incomprehensible to me, lol. New England regularly hits 90 earlier than the Mid-Atlantic.
Anyway, warmest day of the year officially, 86.
I am surprised we haven't seen any air quality alerts through this dry spell. We usually get air quality alerts at the slightest little change in the air.
Not surprising with summer temps. They usually do underperform.
I imagine the easterly wind direction is the cause. Ron Smiley mentioned the winds turn SW in the coming day, so maybe it pushes those temps higher, but expectation is upper 80s at most at this time.
We should enjoy it while it lasts, however long that may be. Hopefully through at least this weekend, because it may be a long time before we see a stretch like this again..
I've been wondering, do the wildfires in Canada and the associated smoke from them have anything to do with the dryness we've seen? Like does that smoke act as a vacuum for moisture? It seems since the smoke has been around we've been pretty dry.
Just wondering if there's a correlation.
What's even weirder is it was an inter-hour low sandwiched between a 57 and 58 degree reading. Just plummeted and recovered within the hour. Wild drop.