TimB

It really isn’t, but still time for things to change. Models are steadfast on never really bringing a big ridge into this area, but if we’re talking about one rogue day hitting 90 vs. a prolonged heat wave (which I know is also on your wish list), we don’t need a massive ridge when our normal high is 83. I’m more interested in seeing if our streak of above normal July temperatures adds a 7th consecutive year, or if this is the first July since 2014 that ends up below normal. We’re sitting right at 0.0 through today and the next two weeks figure to be relatively typical for late July, so it really could go either way. Also, it has rained at my house all 7 days this week. I agree that it’s time for a pattern change.

But that EC precip total for central PA...

What say you, heat enthusiast? Will we see 90 in July?

These flame wars were better when there was a coronavirus thread and they could be conducted under the guise of talking about covid.

The 107 was in 1966, so it couldn’t have been that. My best guess is 1995.

What was the high in Pillow that afternoon?

Here come the storms again. Warning out for northern half of Allegheny with more warned storms upstream in Ohio.

As records go, that all timer of 107 was one that seemed relatively safe to me up until my view of such things was clouded by what just happened out west.

Side note, today is the 33rd anniversary of the hottest day in Pittsburgh’s history (103)*. I hope we never get there again. *tied with two other dates in 1881 and 1918

That run isn’t bad for temps but it is a 2 week period in which very little rain falls after tomorrow.

Any decent bars or nearby breweries? (I know, I’m reaching here.)

Maybe NSFW but definitely SFWFH.

I’m actually a little surprised that they’ve never played in football. Ever. I guess that’s a product of one of the schools only ever going to 16 bowl games.

Oh right, @mahantango#1’s desert microclimate.

Bubbler’s desert microclimate cools so well at night, I’m envious.

Madison is a fine place, football and otherwise. It’s not home, but sometimes I wish it was.

In layman’s terms, is this saying June was nearly a full degree Fahrenheit warmer than ever recorded, even when averaged over a massive portion of the world?

I wasn’t alive yet, but my Penn State alumni parents had the VHS tape of that national championship game, which I watched numerous times as a child. Even though I’m an alum of another Big Ten school, I still root for PSU anytime they’re not playing Wisconsin. It’s just in my blood. Thank God they got rid of those stupid leaders and legends divisions where it was an annual rivalry for a few years. (Though the competitive balance, especially in football, was a little better that way.)

Would think we’re a few prominent covid tests away from the Olympics being cancelled, especially if they occur after athletes are already in Tokyo.

I can think of plenty such days in 2020...

6z continues that trend of shifting the core of the trough up that way. Still a lot of comfortable mornings.

18z GFS run was solid for those who don’t want heat. By morning we’ll be looking at GFS runs that show August.

And no Bradley Beal for the Olympics? Team USA may be in trouble.

I feel like I’d be ashamed to have and use something like that nowadays amid the ongoing water crisis in the southwest. Florida, on the other hand, I’d have no shame.

I hesitate to say this given other conversations we’ve had in this thread, but my yard in Arizona had a lawn and a sprinkler system. (In my defense, it was that way when I bought the house, but I didn’t get rid of it and make a rock yard either.)