Hurricane Agnes

Norman lofting the Watches -

Was looking to see what area of the sky that might show up. It might be iffy here if high clouds roll in and apparently the meteors are expected to be faint. The burst is being predicted to apparently appear not far from the Big Dipper to get a point of reference. End of an era like when Elliot Abrams retired (3 years ago - seems like it was longer). Funny but when my sisters treated me to a trip to the Cheesecake Factory up at the Willow Grove Mall for my 50th birthday (I had never been to that one but had been to others around the country), Glenn and his wife were there too! My BIL ran right over to him and was chatting it up (since both had gone to Central High - although Glenn was in an earlier class). That was a couple months before he had to have his bypass surgery. The Inky had a tribute article about him and his hundreds of bow ties last weekend - https://www.inquirer.com/news/glenn-hurricane-schwartz-nbc10-bowties-retirement-20220521.html I recall earlier forecasts this week had Friday as a washout from early on but looks like that has been pushed back to the afternoon. A Flood Watch was issued though - I sort of bottomed out at 65 this morning and even picked up 0.02" before midnight and another 0.01" of precip. this morning before 6 am when there was some low stratus around. It's currently 66 with dp 66 so a bit soupy.

SPC SWDY2 has the CWA in "Slight Risk" - Can definitely feel the humidity is up today and did get to 75 after a chilly low of 53. Currently overcast and 71 with dp 62.

Ended up with a high of 70 yesterday and surprising low of 53 this morning (about 5 degrees cooler than yesterday's low). Had a warmer high today of 75. Currently mostly sunny and 70, with dp a comfortable 50.

LOL They need to be watered more often when mother nature doesn't do it, but it's nice to sit outside on the patio and enjoy them! Am up to 68 with dp 51 and it's nice out as I weed (the weeds have been fierce this year).

Yeah when you have them planted in the ground, they can handle it. But these are potted and not "hardened off" yet. The next couple days with overcast, are actually the best time to put them all out because I can avoid sun scald of the leaves until they adjust. I have a Dekopan mandarin that can go out but the other 3 citrus are limes (key lime, Thai lime, Australian red lime) and those are more sensitive to the cooler temps, and the plumies will end up with yellowing and dropping leaves if they have sudden or prolonged chill in the 50s (that's how they go dormant in winter in FL and HI). Forgot that I also have a fig, so that can actually go out in those temps.

4 small citrus trees, a coffee plant, a tropical hibiscus, a stephanotis, and 2 plumerias including my big one that instead of dropping its old blooming inflo stalk this past winter (when I had it in a dark cool corner of the unfinished part of the basement), it started blooming from it again! That plumie is always a late bloomer - usually not until August. And it has a bunch more bloom buds on that inflorescence too. I guess that's a nice bonus but under the artificial lights, the bloom is yellow. In the sun, the flowers are normally spirals of light and hot pink with a little yellow in the center (pic below from about 4 years ago). The sun was trying to come out earlier here but it has clouded back over and temp is up a degree to 67 with dp 51. At least I do have the AC off.

66 here with dp 50 and overcast after some drizzle this morning (with a low of 60 earlier). I have some potted tropicals and subtropicals in my basement that are demanding to go out for the season and I usually get them out just before or around now, but some don't like below mid-50s temps either, which I have had most of the overnights this month except for a handful. I gotta get them up and out this week though.

Ended up with another "surprise" 0.01" of rain after midnight (I saw the radar stuff the night before coming in from the SW although it mostly diffused), and bottomed out at 58 earlier this morning. It's currently a breezy 66 and mostly sunny with dp a more comfortable 51.

Sun finally broke out. Temp recovered to 73 with dp 69.

Sky is brightening and got a grand total of 0.01". My high did end up being 90 and temp is down to 72 with dp 68.

Starting to get some light rain. Nothing measurable yet as the line has bee fizzling as it slides in. Temp is down to 76 with dp 67.

Some kind of outflow boundary from that cell in Bucksco blew through here and temp has dropped. Now down to 80 with dp 65. Getting convection on the lightning detector.

Wait... there's more!

Mt. Holly is busy!

Another warning up -

Game on!

I did hit 90 today so far but it's currently "back down to" 89 but with dp 73.

Norman up with the Watch -

I bottomed out at 72 earlier this morning and then it clouded over with some pop-ups in the vicinity. I may get fringed by one. Currently overcast and 76 with dp 71.

You're welcome. Figured it would be your "summer reading"! I'm already flopping around at the bottom of that rabbit hole myself going through that 1889 pt. 1 file.

Got some RERs up - so far 1 new record and 2 "ties" - My high for today ended up being 94 and I'm currently at 90 and mostly sunny with dp 69.

Found the 1888 data. It is in the 1889 Pt. 1 PDF (selectable via a drop-down menu) at NOAA's Signal Corps data at that link - https://library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Docs/Signa-Corps-WB-Annual Have to scroll down but for example, starting from "pg 254" of Pt. 1, you start to see the individual observer station reports (earlier tables appeared to be the data for full stations that had all the instruments). So the first "Coatesville" reference (just from a quick scan) appears on "pg. 285" (the page number printed on the document) and it appears that the first obs readings started in March of 1888 for monthly/annual mean temp. Then on "pg. 328" are the "max/min/range" temps for Coatesville Mar. - Dec. 1888. Then the piece de resistance - the precip for Mar - Dec. 1888 in Coatesville (doesn't distinguish frozen from liquid, it appears to just be total qpf). (I blame you for this! )

From what I understand, the Army "Signal Corps" was "officially" recording weather observations before the Weather Bureau was formed, so I expect he may have been submitting his observations to them. And LOL!!! I just found this site - https://library.noaa.gov/Collections/Digital-Docs/Signa-Corps-WB-Annual Guaranteed you'll go crazy there - I just randomly pulled up the 1888 "annual report" which is a PDF and there are summary observations in there by state (just scanned and saw one for Kansas), plus other odds and ends "military" stuff. And yup - I can imagine what he had seen over that time and how the place changed over the years (there were mergers of adjacent villages to form what is now "Coatesville").

Posted at the link. And I briefly hit 94 for a high so far but am currently at 93 with dp 70. I did venture out to put my patio umbrella up and it's the good old-fashioned blast furnace of last year out there.