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A notice has gone out today that states the FAA contract to a 3rd party vendor for 58 AWOS sites in MD/NC is ending today. This means no more METARs over the various NCEP and FAA data lines. This is non-trivial IMHO, esp. b/c it basically takes out much of the AWOS network in MD/NC. The AWOS are not being decommissioned, just NADIN service, which routes the METAR to WMSCR and then NCEP and the FAA lines for all to see, is going away. All these sites have been available for ~20 years. Not good for the HRRR and RRFS, among other things. List is below: K0W3 Churchville MD K1A5 Franklin NC K24A Sylva NC K2G4 Oakland MD K2W6 Leonardtown MD K7W6 Engelhard NC KACZ Wallace NC KAFP Wadesboro NC KASJ Ahoskie NC KCBE Cumberland MD KCGE Cambridge MD KCGS College Park MD KCPC Whiteville NC KCTZ Clinton NC KDMW Westminster MD KDPL Kenansville NC KEDE Edenton NC KEHO Shelby NC KESN Easton MD KETC Tarboro NC KEXX Lexington NC KEYF Elizabethtown NC KFDK Frederick MD KFFA Kill Devil Hills NC KFME Fort Meade MD KFQD Rutherfordton NC KGEV Jefferson NC KGWW Goldsboro NC KHBI Asheboro NC KHNZ Oxford NC KHRJ Erwin NC KIPJ Lincolnton NC KISO Kinston NC KIXA Roanoke Rapids NC KJNX Smithfield NC KJQF Concord NC KLHZ Louisburg NC KMCZ Williamston NC KMQI Manteo NC KMRN Morganton NC KMTN Baltimore MD KMWK Mount Airy NC KOCW Washington NC KONX Currituck NC KPGV Greenville NC KRCZ Rockingham NC KRHP Andrews NC KRUQ Salisbury NC KSCR Siler City NC KSIF Reidsville NC KSUT Southport NC KSVH Statesville NC KTDF Roxboro NC KTTA Sanford NC KUKF North Wilkesboro NC KVUJ Albemarle NC KW29 Stevensville MD KW40 Mount Olive MD

K8A1 - Guntersville AL KANY - Anthony KS KC24 - Creede CO KCOI - Merritt Island FL KLLR - Little River CA KMZM - Main Pass 69P LA 29.261 -89.030 40m

PT time?! My grass is drowning!

FFE soon?

Scott prays for rain, and now? LOL.

Your lawn thanks you...

WE RAIN! Scott will have to watch for basement flooding! 12z HRRR ydy nailed this TRW++.

Usually with BDFs, tstms are severely limited in eastern sections. Many areas lot of fog with FQT LTG last night. How often does that happen?

Aug 2000 overnight supercell comparison Scott? The one that had the TOR? Crazy LTG w/ that! GHG special.

Look at this EIR GIF loop. Within a decaying MCS anvil area, three distinct new cells simultaneously blow up? Don't see that too often in these parts. You would think the elevated instability would have been largely used up. Associated w/ a weak s/w at 700/500.

Probably the most intense CG barrage on Cape Cod in awhile, and with no CoastalWx EML present?

Laptop shock again? Or power pole fire?

K16J - Dawson GA K9K7 - Ellsworth KS KI93 - Hardinsburg KY KLKP - Lake Placid NY KMKV - Marksville LA KPBM - South Timbalier 232 LA 28.617 -90.338 35m KS31 - Lopez WA KX59 - Valkaria FL

Providing historical context is not pushing an agenda. No wx event should be treated in a vacuum, but that is what done a lot these days, hence everything is "worst ever" or "unprecedented."

The worst heat wave on record for the East occurred before this date range in 1911. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1911_Eastern_North_America_heat_wave BOS hit 104 on July 4th. So is 11 days earlier in 2025 low 100s in BOS really that extraordinary or that early, relatively speaking, esp. since avg temps everywhere are up by "alarming standards" in the last 100+ years? And add in the UHI effect at many climo sites, and things aren't quite as impressive as they appear. I would argue this levels things close to equal as to as far as extremes go for the region. Facts are meaningless w/o context.