Hurricane Agnes

I'm in it now. Getting the winds and "night fell" look. Temp is down a couple degrees to 84. No rain yet, but it's coming.

Holy crap! Watching a shelf cloud approaching. Convection being picked up by lightning detector. Temp is currently 87 with dp 78. ETA - both my sisters are texting shelf cloud pics (from Delco and Montco ).

That might actually be an outflow boundary. It actually just started forming within the past 15 minutes moving out ahead of the main line. The main line is stll back a bit.

Am guessing you are under this conflagration. It has sortof hazed and clouded over here so the temp is down to 88 but dp is still high at 77. 93 pretty much ended up being my high given that with the clouds, it's done going up.

Could be they are thinking it will be running more to the south (where it is really juicy). You see that in Sterling's Watch area - I don't think SPC splits counties with parallelograms so they just left Burlington out, maybe thinking any convection from the north of there would send outflow down through there (NY doesn't have any T-storm Watches up at this time). It still obviously allows for short-fused Warnings as the storms develop (and/or redevelop) over areas not in a Watch area. I noticed yesterday that there was back-building and pop-ups in the middle of the incoming line cluster from the west, so I would definitely expect short-fused alerts.

SPC just put up a couple Watches for the area.

IOW - Currently partly sunny and sitting at 92 with a disgusting dp of 79. Had it briefly hit 93 around 2:30 pm (so far) though. Just stepped out to experience the unbreathable sauna and ran back in. ETA - and here is is from SPC -

Finished up with a total of 1.68" of rain for Tuesday (0.07" round 1, 0.23" round 2, and 1.38" round 3). The high was 91. Currently mostly cloudy, 71 and misty, with dp 71, producing the steamy windows. I think that rainfall I had here will preclude getting to the mid-90s here today, and/or tomorrow, although if there is no more rain here until the weekend, then Friday might get there and perhaps even reach the upper 90s. But I suppose that will depend on how strong the heat core is (i.e., if there had been an antecedent dry period, then we might have had a chance for triple digits this week, which we haven't had here in awhile).

Dayum.... I ended up with 1.34" out of that round 3 batch to give me 1.65" for the day (so far). I should be good for the rest of the week! Currently some light rain and 72 with dp 71.

Now up to over 2.75"/hr. Currently at 0.81". Temp is 74 with dp 73. That should hopefully get me through the rest of the week when the blowtorch hits.

Gully washer! Can hear it banging on the roof and windows. Short-fused Warning over the area. 1.3"/hour. Up to 0.53" for the day so far.

Nice! That line out in Lancaster is on Chester County's doorstep. You may be fringed being to the north of the heaviest stuff.

Sun is popping out through the clouds but picked up 0.23" from that for a total of 0.30" for the day so far. Got me another day to keep the hose in its reel - and especially since the blast furnace is supposed to get turned on starting tomorrow. Temp now recovering a bit to 77 with dp 73. There's some more out in Lancaster county but not sure if that survives.

Now getting 1.25"/hr shower and am up to 0.29" for the day. Temp is down to 76 with dp 73.

ANNNNDDDD... Rain! Just now tipping the bucket - something literally just formed. So far has added 0.05" to this morning's total and am at 0.12". Am getting a bit fringed but there's lots of convection all around. Thunder right at post time!

And another Warning lofted (getting closer to me) although I don't know if that will survive to get here. Currently 90 with dp 76 with lots of puffy cumulus.

Mt. Holly just issued a Warning as I was typing this...

I was watching Governor Wolf's presser out in Harrisburg and as soon as he started, the rains came and he and others out there were asking if anyone had any umbrellas. There was a return sitting right over that area. The overcast/stratus kept the temps down until the afternoon when the sun finally came out and up the temp went. I so far hit 91 as a high today (just after 1:30 pm) but the dp has been the story of the day. Currently partly sunny and 90 with dp 78.

The rain gods gave me 0.07" very early this morning, hopefully staving off the hose for another day. Seemed to have a repeat type of convective line move through the same way that one did last night, although this one seems pretty juicy in Jersey in Burlington county. I think I may be at my low as a current - 72, with a dp of 71, meaning steamy windows alert, and there's stratus blanketing the area. Excessive heat products are up (Warnings for Philly metro + north and east into Jersey, and Advisories for the next set of counties out).

Man... getting fringed and in a hole. Hoping to get a couple tenths of an inch out of something tonight. I was watching the ocean breeze come inland and then it smacked up against the outflow boundary from the convection. It was cool to see it on the radar though. Still overcast and temp still at 81 with dp 72.

I am literally in between a couple tiny blobs. My detector is picking up the radius of 4 miles on either side... Temp is down to 81 but dp is a juicy 73.

Looks like stuff has started firing in a wild-looking line. I am sortof under the thinned out portion of it but there are some threatening dark clouds and lightning is popping up on my detector. Currently overcast and 82 with dp 72.

I had told my BIL that the Dawn redwoods were deciduous and not to get alarmed when it dropped its needles. He was fine with that since the guy at the nursery we frequent had recommended it to him and he trusted the guy. He had also bought a couple Witch Hazels around the same time that are now almost 10ft tall. Didn't realize they could grow that tall although I understand there are some varieties that have an upright form. They ended up becoming a nice screen for their shed. The one thing I haven't really seen this year, thank goodness, are the swarms of lanternflies. Earlier I saw maybe one or two crawling on the side of the front of the house but that is about it. This time last year they were obnoxiously everywhere. Ended up with a late-in-the-day high of 82 yesterday, with a low of 67 this morning. Had to run out to the supermarket early this morning and although it was in the upper 70s at the time, I could feel a bit of the humidity already creeping in. It's currently partly cloudy and 87 with dp 69.

One of my BILs proudly planted a "small" (I think it was about 2ft tall at the time) Dawn Redwood I guess about 15 years ago and then had to move it about 5 years later because it was outgrowing the spot near the house (he moved it under a silver maple near the creek at the base of their property) and it has to be at least 20 ft or more tall growing under a tree canopy now. He manages to find trees that he swore were labeled as "miniature" used for bonsai and one included what turned out to be a fast grower that my sis finally had identified by an arborist as a Japanese Zelkova. Literally in 10 years it went from about 12" to what has to be at least 25 feet. It has provided great shade for their deck that faces south and was always brutal in summer - especially in the late afternoon. That tree shades it perfectly along the hottest side now since it was planted to the west of the deck. I fell short of 90 yesterday but did make it up to 88. Had a low of 68 this morning and was grateful that I was able to cash in on a little rain this morning. I didn't expect anything despite the forecast of possible rain this far north. Ended up with 0.38" so I'll take it. Saves me from pulling out the hose today. It's currently mostly cloudy with some breaks of sun and 72 with dp 65.

Ended up with a high of 90 on the nose yesterday, as my 25th of the season so far (now the first of an upcoming string of them, although will have to see how things pan out this weekend and any cloud cover effects). Low this morning was 66 and currently 68 with dp 65, and starting to cloud over a bit with a deck of some high clouds.