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Same. 93 and swampy.

Zero rain and a low of 72 here. Yuck.

Nope. High of 88.

No sir. I had a lot of close misses yesterday.

Go ahead and tie one on would ya. You taking the train down?

Stunning. We are like 5 miles apart as the crow flies and I ended with .01”. Completely surrounded for a good portion of last evening but just couldn’t cash in. Got to love summertime convection and the winners and losers it creates. A low of 71 here — the air is thick.

Meanwhile just a .01” spritzer over here. And oh yeah, another day of me not hitting 90, topped out at 89.

Whiskey and light beer, that's my game and I don't care who knows it!

.01" of rain for me yesterday. The name of the game right now is humidity and sporadic storms, otherwise known as August.

Whoa, only 94 here.

I'm not sure but I know I've been around 80 before. That's usually about the upper limit for these parts. I'm currently sitting at 91/74 here in the lowlands of West Hempfield Township. Yuck. Edit: I did find a note I made from August 13, 2016 saying I hit a temp of 98 with a dewpoint of 80 on my home station, for a heat index of 119 haha.

Low of 69 here. To me, the big story the next five days or so is the unrelenting humidity. Just brutal. But as is often the case with such an airmass in place, we should see near-daily chances for storm activity, albeit mostly of the sporadic nature.

Another day of not hitting 90s for me — high of 89 here.

High of 88 here. Some sultry days ahead. Ugh.

.22" in the gauge this morning from that little storm complex that rolled through overnight. Things greening up here again.

Some more fun facts: The highest temp we reached in July both this year and last year was 96. We have only hit 100 degrees on one single day in July in the last ten years, that being July 19, 2020. We have only hit it once in the last 20 years in August, only three times ever and not since 1966 in June, only one time in history in September (1953), and never in May. I think generally, all of us are a bit guilty at times of underplaying just how rare it is to hit 100 around these parts. Please note this is all in the context of official Harrisburg-Middletown area records.

Hope everyone had a great weekend. I got a nice drenching last night, to the tune of .97". My total for July is 4.09". I'm running almost spot-on average for the year. Looks like MDT ended July with 3.33" of rain and 1.6 degrees above normal, tying 1921 as tenth warmest ever. Also, someone had brought this up earlier, but we ended up tying for the fourth highest average low July temp at 70.1.

Low of 65 and .09” of rain. Feels great out. Glorious weekend on tap. Enjoy.

Your wish is my command. Looks like 11 out of 24 (two years missing) at or below normal. But when average high is 97, yeah that's hot haha. 1981-08-06 96 74 0.00 M M 1982-08-06 101 71 0.00 M M 1983-08-06 98 75 T M M 1984-08-06 99 75 0.00 M M 1985-08-06 101 77 0.00 M M 1986-08-06 94 73 T M M 1987-08-06 97 75 0.00 M M 1988-08-06 99 76 0.00 M M 1989-08-06 100 75 0.00 M M 1990-08-06 93 72 0.00 M M 1991-08-06 99 74 0.00 M M 1992-08-06 95 74 0.00 M M 1993-08-06 101 74 0.00 0.0 0 1994-08-06 97 67 0.00 0.0 0 1995-08-06 96 79 0.00 0.0 0 1996-08-06 M M M M M 1997-08-06 M M M M M 1998-08-06 89 72 0.27 0.0 0 1999-08-06 99 71 0.00 0.0 0 2000-08-06 100 75 0.00 0.0 0 2001-08-06 102 69 0.00 0.0 0 2002-08-06 96 70 0.00 0.0 0 2003-08-06 100 68 0.00 0.0 0 2004-08-06 94 74 0.00 0.0 0 2005-08-06 96 69 0.00 0.0 0 2006-08-06 100 71 0.03 0.0 0

The record low max, by a whopping 5 degrees no less, is 65 in 1993. Record max, by an even greater 6 degrees, is 104 in 1918.

2000-08-06 76 60 0.27 0.0 0 2001-08-06 93 72 T 0.0 0 2002-08-06 80 63 0.00 0.0 0 2003-08-06 81 66 0.85 0.0 0 2004-08-06 70 56 0.00 0.0 0 2005-08-06 83 68 0.00 0.0 0 2006-08-06 89 65 0.00 0.0 0 2007-08-06 88 71 0.04 0.0 0 2008-08-06 91 72 T 0.0 0 2009-08-06 80 67 T 0.0 0 2010-08-06 86 71 0.00 0.0 0 2011-08-06 80 73 1.56 0.0 0 2012-08-06 86 68 0.00 0.0 0 2013-08-06 71 62 0.28 0.0 0 2014-08-06 81 66 T 0.0 0 2015-08-06 82 62 T 0.0 0 2016-08-06 90 72 0.02 0.0 0 2017-08-06 76 61 0.00 0.0 0 2018-08-06 91 71 0.00 0.0 0 2019-08-06 92 71 0.04 0.0 0 2020-08-06 84 68 0.07 0.0 0 2021-08-06 91 Your birthday since 2000 for MDT. Looks like more than half at or below normal. Sorry Canderson I had to

91 here as well, to go along with .29" of total qpf. Edit: and one fallen tree ha

That line had some violent winds over here. I lost one of those stupid weak-wooded Bradford Pear Trees. God I hate those things. Have to get some chainsaws down here tomorrow.

I got a little over a tenth of an inch from that. Looks like we may get another line move through here shortly.

Pleasantly surprised to see .27" in the gauge this morning. Judging from some WU reports around me, it was the result of a couple of very brief (<5 mins) but heavy bursts around the 11/12 o'clock hours. Surprised I didn't hear any of it but I was out hard last night ha. Looks like we have a couple of nasty sticky days ahead with additional isolated storm chances, before things turn gorgeous for the weekend. Onward.