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Yea I love them at my place in AZ. Very quiet and cool well even in the 110+ afternoons and nights in the 90s there. Even the outdoor condenser unit is quiet.

Definitely a summer feel out there today and plenty of sun. IZG dewpoint bouncing all over the place, currently at 62. SFM's is at 73.

True summer night out there, 72/70. Hopefully the stalled front over the weekend keeps trending further west.

Ultra rare heat advisory issued for this area tomorrow. Today has been brilliant, lots of sun and we were finally able to get above that elusive 80 degree point. Dewpoints in the mid to upper 60s if IZG is accurate.

Finally got some late day sun to push temps to mid 70s. Dewpoint around 70 making a decidedly summer feel.

Fourth day in the last week we've had some microscale thing happen to ruin the day while most elsewhere had sun and much higher temps. Friday Saturday decidedly ruined by the marine sludge, then yesterday and today, persistent mid to high level clouds while most of the region salvaged a nice day. Sunday was horrible too, more of a widespread NNE thing but it made sure to be exquisitely miserable here. I would not be at all surprised if the marine junk makes a return tomorrow, Thursday and Friday undercutting the brief weak surface ridge respite.

Another gloomy sunless day. Lower 70s.

Persistent and stubborn high clouds have ensured we're stuck in the lower 70s right now vs potential mid 80s. I thought they might go away but still haven't and the day is spent.

Despite the persistent overcast there have been rare peeks of sun and ceilings are much higher than yesterday. Temperature is also 15 degrees higher and there's been no rain yet so it's definitely an improvement, but still far from ideal for the time of year.

The warm front stalled along the pike yesterday and based on the surface analysis, the part in E MA is now pushing back SW. It really is quite remarkable how impossible it seems to get any decent stretch of true summer weather up here like E PA, NJ, SW CT, and NYC metro had yesterday. Even more remarkable as you alluded to, the local engineering of misery in this region. Go far enough W and N, and even Montreal had some sun with upper 70s and dp near 70 yesterday despite being N of the stalled warm front. I guess we're still paying the price for that heat wave a month or so ago?

Meanwhile warm front has cleared most of CT. It'll probably stall along the pike.

Keeps falling. Down to 62 now here and 62.6 at IZG.

Indicative of this failure of a summer that we can't even manage getting a warm frontal passage in July. NYC metro and SW CT are where it's at today, true summer conditions there. KEWR 021651Z 22009KT 10SM FEW028 BKN045 BKN140 BKN250 31/22 A2986 RMK AO2 SLP110 T03060217 KDXR 021653Z VRB04KT 8SM FEW015 BKN026 26/22 A2989 RMK AO2 SLP117 T02610217 vs KIZG 021714Z AUTO 00000KT 4SM -RA BR FEW006 SCT011 OVC014 18/18 A2996 RMK AO2 P0002 T01830178

Managed upper 70s, then copious debris clouds from the Ontario and Quebec storms blowing up moved in along with the ever present smoke. Close the shades until Wednesday. May forego plans and go back to AZ early if this pattern keeps up.

Sun is finally showing up about four hours earlier than yesterday. Satellite trend has been better today for getting rid of the marine sludge faster. Any heating today will be limited by losing eight hours of insolation and the high clouds now filtering in from the west along with smoke. The forecast trends are pointing towards Wednesday for the next chance at sun. Awful summer so far, though unusually persistent high dewpoints have made it easier to generate storms, and make it more of a summer feel in the evenings, but that is offset by the abundance of biting insects that thrive in excessively rainy patterns.

GYX discussion says the flow responsible for this stratus puke isn't going away anytime soon. Only had a couple hours of sun very late in the day and it quickly became overcast again by sunset. Tomorrow isn't looking any better given the trend. More rain arrives Sunday as the warm front stalls to the south.

Yea it's looking like a stolen day at this point. The satellite isn't encouraging, and low level winds are even out of the NE/ENE reminiscent of a backdoor. Still stuck in the mid 60s while everywhere else outside this purgatory is in the 80s.

It's actually regaining ground to the west. Reminds me of my years living in socal when the marine layer would stay in place all day. Today was supposed to be one of the few sunny days before the return to the gloom most of next week.

I won't be going as far N as Quebec city, just Montreal but they're dealing with it too. Lower 80s now under what I assume are "bahama blues" and puffy cu.

Brilliant sunshine and a spectacular day on Friday, mid 80s under cobalt blue skies. Last for a while it appears. Today we're getting more sun than I expected so that's a nice respite. Looking forward it looks terrible through the end of the workweek. Yesterday was very muggy in the western ME area. I haven't felt this level of humidity around here since that mini tornado outbreak 5 or 6 summers ago. I've noticed in the past 15 years or so that it seems more exceedingly difficult to get this type of true tropical airmass up here during the summer, and even when they do manage to arrive they're shorter lived. Even now with this deep southerly flow at all levels, it seems a backdoor is finding a way to intrude for a few days beginning tomorrow. I am actually headed up to Quebec later today and will be there a few days. It's looking like I'll begin running into the smoke around the Newry area and points north. I think it might be pushing into the remainder of the state later tonight judging on the satellite trends. It seems the southern QC area will be avoiding most of the murk that's forecast for ME most of the coming week, but I don't see the smoke going anywhere.

IZG holding out at 61 dp

Yea it's on tier with Arizona clear and cloudless skies. For once there was no smoke ruining it.

I remember that day well. If I recall correctly it came as a surprise since it was supposed to be HHH and ended up as H. Still impressive highs given triple digits are exceedingly rare in ME. The summer of 2011 had a bit of all the things which the vast majority of summers don't in NNE.

I also remember him specifically mentioning that event in the same way. He was a good friend of mine for many years. Taught me interesting things about forestry that I never would have found out otherwise. I tried to keep in touch with him after the stroke but didn't have much success.

Changed to rain shortly after I posted that last obs.