TimB

As for the rain, the NWS has upped that to a near certainty in these parts. Not sure I’m buying the inch and a half the NAM wants to sell me, but a half inch seems like a possibility.

Euro is still there, but of course we don’t know what happens after 240 and that’s when the good stuff comes back on the GFS.

Looks like the GFS is back to letting the good guys win (sort of). There are still hot days, but that’s not bad in a progressive pattern. The magnitude of the heat it shows over the Midwest is nothing to sneeze at (103 in Madison, 105 in Des Moines and 108 in Omaha would all shatter all-time September records), but it never makes it here in record form. We’ve seen this pattern from the GFS time and time again this summer, and it’s always been overdone, both here and in the areas of the Midwest where it’s shown ridiculous heat.

Flow is a bit more zonal and ridge axis is a little more west, but there’s some agreement.

EC at 240 looks like it’s going to align very closely with the GFS at 240.

Only reasons I can think of that none of that stuff has been investigated is that either it would be nearly impossible to prove, or that the general public would accuse them of cooking the books and rewriting history. I hope it’s the former and not the latter.

The 4 warmest Septembers in Pittsburgh in the past 90 years all occurred between 2015-2019. None of them make the top 10 overall.

This is one of those rare months where PIT’s records are above MDT’s. Only day that hasn’t hit 90 is the 29th, and it’s hit 89 multiple times. Only 3 of the daily records have occurred in the past 65 years (2 in 2017 and one in 2018 during that period in 2018 that I believe PIT was reading erroneously high) and 17 of them occurred in the 19th century.

I think there’s enough model disagreement to still have that hope.

...which allows some people in Texas to enjoy 50s while we’re baking in 80s.

We’ll see. Big model differences at 240, so nothing is set in stone.

Mid-90s clear up into IA/WI.

I don’t like where the GFS is going:

Almost right on cue for recent Septembers, a CPC map without any blue to be found. At least we’re in the gray:

So the person getting married is your second cousin? Is that distant enough to sneak the game onto your phone during the ceremony?

At least for you guys, Penn State doesn’t open their season against Akron or Idaho or something, so you’ll know by tomorrow evening what kind of season it’s going to be.

Their remaining cross-division games this year are against Nebraska and Purdue, and the only team in the East that has a prayer is probably Penn State, but that game is in Columbus. Unless Oregon beats them next week (also in Columbus), they’re going 12-0.

Indeed, temperatures from hopefully 10 to unfortunately 90 will be seen during the existence of this thread.

But didn’t @Itstrainingtimestart the summer thread the day of the solstice?

Wonder what could have been if yinzers didn’t start those damn unfounded rumors about him during the lean years of the late ‘90s.

The second coming of “Slash”... I hadn’t thought about Kordell Stewart in awhile.

That time the ‘boys had a chance to score the most points in a Super Bowl...

I only watched one play of Dak last season.

At least we know what we’ll get with Rudolph. Something like 17/26, 124 yards, 0 TD, 0 INT, no passes that travel 10+ yards in the air, and if the defense can hold the opponent to 14 points or less we have a chance to win.

I hope to god I never have to watch 4 consecutive quarters of Dwayne Haskins.