TimB

Agreed. This ain’t 1992, but it’s not 2004 either. But this heat talk makes me wish it was one of those two (Pittsburgh didn’t get to 90 in either of those summers).

I will, however, add that the EC does provide this “gem” of a day next Thursday:

I did see that. But they enter the Olympics on a two game winning streak and the NBA finals could end tonight, so there’s that.

Both, but it’s actually not quite as bad as I thought it was, especially for you. This is the peak day: Dewpoints at that point appear to be near 70 across PA. What it does, and has been doing for quite some time, is build a massive ridge with all-time type heat in the north central states (the EC agrees on that general pattern, though nowhere near as intense). This run, it propagates that ridge eastward so that’s why it’s worse for me than it is for you. Most runs, it doesn’t. Still, those 100s are awfully close.

0z GFS looks like hell in the long term, 6z not so much.

Incredible stuff. We don’t need more wildfires, but they do make beautiful sunsets.

The link on PBZ’s social media would indicate that maybe ours is a little worse than further east.

Exactly. These offices issue several zone forecasts a day. Unless you knew specifically what day you were looking for, it would be an impossible task. I would imagine such a link would be useful for some purposes, but not this. It was more a way to chuckle about Iowa State again.

That would be a daunting, tedious task to say the least. That said, there’s a fair amount of archive data including zone forecasts at (don’t laugh): https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/list.phtml If you had a specific date(s) in mind, but I realize there’s almost zero chance of that.

Disclaimer: The above is neither an endorsement nor a condemnation of Mr. Lindell.

Pillow wins again!

He’s got nothing on Kevin Harlan.

@sauss06but if this is the only time I ever get to experience joy as a Pirates fan, so be it:

Ain’t that the truth. I hope I’m wrong, but I think there’s a better chance than not that the 2013 wild card game will remain my only moment of joy as a Pirates fan until the day I die.

I’m convinced the smoke cuts off at least a degree or two off the high temperature. It has to. I feel like I’m in Los Angeles.

God, that’s depressing. At least you’ve gotten to see your teams, even the O’s, do something noteworthy. Thinking about the Pirates, who have won one wild card game and not won a playoff series in my 37 years on this earth, makes me miserable.

Probably way too early to really think about and depends on which beach, but the GFS still looks rather dry in a lot of locations.

That’s largely the same as before. No serious troughing like the models teased last week, but no serious ridging or big prolonged heat. GFS just continues to pump out ridiculous numbers for the north central US, but the pattern always seems to break down on every run long before any of that shifts east.

Post of the day!

I’ll bet that transistor NOAA radio had all the ladies flocking to you as if they were Iowa State girl or something.

I would guess stratiform rain, but the precip amount for 7/5/72 at PIT is only 0.31”. Two weeks after Agnes, which as we’ve detailed before, produced ridiculously low nearly unbreakable low maxes at PIT, so that probably helped set up such a pattern. Actually it appears that pattern was already in place before Agnes, our all time record June low of 34 was set on 6/11.

That is true. We have 25 July days at PIT with low maxes in the 60s, 5 in the 70s (all are exactly 70 except one, which is 71), and one with a low max of 59.

I agree to a point. The bolded is probably a bridge too far in most summers for people not living in northern NY or the upper peninsula of Michigan or something.

Certainly not disagreeing with that. I will say the mid 80s are much more palatable in a year like this one where they are much more prevalent. I like the cool downs, but 85 is a lot easier to stomach when the pattern doesn’t oscillate between hot and seasonable with no cool parts.