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Weeks 3-4 look good for heat too. They also use a less wishy-washy scheme without the near normal buffer zone, so it has a true 60-70 percent chance of above normal in the northern half of Pennsylvania and 55-60 percent in the south.

Pittsburgh officially topped out at 86F today, which was 1F cooler than the scorching 87F reading observed last year on this date. In the case of last year, the early June heat was certainly a harbinger of what was to come in the temperature department! Last summer went into the books as tied for 8th warmest in the threaded record, and 2nd warmest (behind 1995) at the airport. The 24 days of 90+ readings were topped only twice since records moved to the airport site in September 1952 (38, in 1988; and 27, in 1995). Can 2025 match those lofty values? Probably not, but we shall see!

What an abrupt change! Record to near record warmth in spots today! Altoona reached 89F, easily surpassing the daily record of 86F from 1971 & 2024. New Philadelphia, Ohio topped out at 88F, just 1F shy of the record of 89F set way back in 1948!

Incredible swing, with record-breaking warmth in spots. Altoona (with records dating to 1948) topped out at a scorching 89F, easily surpassing the daily record of 86F set in 1971 & 2024. Several other sites were within 1-3F of records today.

Lets hope this stays in Canada:

We will have to keep a close eye on this. The Canadian smoke model seems to want to create a smokepocalypse at the end of its run with dense surface smoke spanning pretty much all of southern Canada and northern Michigan by Friday morning.

1997 was a nice summer. There hasn't been a summer at New York City within 1F of it since 2009 (by mean temperature). By contrast, 1996 was even cooler, 1992 was nearly 1F cooler, and 2000 was cooler. So it's not like the 90s and early 2000s were wall-to-wall hot. And this is using the Central Park record, which has recent summers generally somewhat cooler than most observational sites around NYC.

Looks like a rough morning for the Twin Cities. At least, it should move out fairly quickly.

Nah, eastern Great Lakes. Still one of the snowiest Januarys on record in most areas, and like 90% of it fell in the first two weeks or so. I think we were out of school more than we were in school during that stretch. These don't even capture the fact that the big midwest blizzard brought a lot of freezing rain and sleet at the beginning of the month (1/2 to 1/3). So, yeah, that was a very impressive wintry stretch in an otherwise ho-hum winter. Erie - 4th snowiest January Buffalo - 3rd snowiest January Cleveland - 6th snowiest January Canton/Akron - 5th snowiest January Youngstown, Ohio - Snowiest on record

The first half of January was rocking in my neck of the woods. Maybe overall it was warm, but we had storm after storm to start the year. Probably the best two week stretch other than February 2010.

For the record, that was intended as an em dash, not a negative sign.

Wow. Ashland, Wisconsin - 32 yesterday morning to the upper 80s this afternoon. Talk about a big temperature swing. National Weather Service

Only one hourly record match at Dayton (31F, at 11pm). The current dewpoint is down to 30F, but it was as low as 25F at 1 pm on June 2, 1994. One bright spot, a lot of these years with record low dewpoints featured BIG time heat at some point in the month of June or later in the summertime (e.g., 1988/1994), so maybe that will be the case for 2025?

The noon dewpoint of 28F was the lowest on record for the month of June at Fort Wayne, and the 30F dewpoint at 5 pm yesterday matched the record low. Unfortunately, there is clearly some bad data here.

Just look at the results for a "red sun" search query... this is across multiple continents now, with strange optical phenomena being observed as far as Ireland, London, and continental Europe. Seems odd, no? I don't recall anything like this occurring until recent years (2017-2019, and on). I know there were some big wildfires in Quebec in 2002, but that was a big-ticket item and not something that happened every year. red sun - Search / X

Haven't found an explanation for what caused all of the fires. Weren't you asking just a few days ago? This should be a moist and green time of the year. Seems odd for uncontrolled fires to be breaking out in early June, rather than earlier in the spring or in the late summer/early fall, no?

I posted this in the Spring Banter thread. Very cold this morning, with several record lows. And some locations not far from all-time monthly record lows. Have to wonder if the widespread pall of Canadian smoke, which somehow has seemingly spread to multiple continents, isn't causing a volcanic winter like effect?

Very impressive cold this morning, as low as 35F in southeast Ohio and 32F in suburban Pittsburgh. I am speculating on my X account as to whether these Canadian wildfires could be causing a volcanic winter type scenario. AI suggests "natural" wildfires should have a net warming effect, but that begs the question as to whether these fires are natural. Weird optical phenomena (red sun, visible sunspots) are being observed on multiple continents from all of the lofted smoke.

Very impressive cold this morning, including a record low of 28F at Bradford. I'm speculating on my X account as to whether these Canadian wildfires could be contributing to a volcanic-type winter scenario. AI suggests "natural" wildfires should have a net warming effect, but that begs the question as to whether these fires truly are natural.

Today was the 21st day on record with a low temperature at or below 40F in the official Pittsburgh area threaded record. There have only been 15 colder June nights (about once a decade).

Another chilly one this morning. Some notable lows: 32F, at Zelienople: National Weather Service 35F, at Cambridge, Ohio: National Weather Service 36F, at New Castle: National Weather Service 36F, at Butler: National Weather Service 36F, at DuBois: National Weather Service 36F, at Indiana: National Weather Service 37F, at Washington: National Weather Service 37F, at Franklin: National Weather Service 37F, at Connellsville: National Weather Service 38F, at Zanesville, Ohio: National Weather Service 39F, at New Philadelphia, Ohio: National Weather Service 39F, at Latrobe: National Weather Service 40F, at Morgantown, W. Va.: National Weather Service 40F, at Wheeling, W. Va.: National Weather Service 40F, at Pittsburgh: National Weather Service 41F, at Allegheny County Airport: National Weather Service

Looking like it could be a very smoky June on tap.

Chilly day today. Looks like the high might end up at 57F. Not a record, however. It was a frigid 45F for a high on this date in 1910.

Looks like we will eek below normal for the month tomorrow (on the last day of the month).