Hurricane Agnes

Anything that Edward G. Robinson appears in only illustrates how comfortable he is just playing any kind of role. I am getting walloped. Warnings flying. Getting 1.4"/hr rate at the moment and am up to 0.42" so far. Temp is 75.

Lauren Bacall is da bomb! As much as people love Casablanca, I prefer Bogart in Key Largo (probably my favorite movie with him). Am on the precipice of some incoming cells... That line has taken its sweet time moving east but seems to have accelerated its forward motion now. Am currently at 78 with dp 75 so still a bit juicy here and not really stabilized. And as I'm typing this, up goes a Thunderstorm Warning. ETA - game on! Rain has commenced!

Hopefully not too much after what happened to you guys this past Monday! Made the national news alongside Germany & Belgium.

Was gonna post that it looks like the big dry slot over your area is slowly starting to fill in. Meanwhile I could use a little more. It's down to 75 with dp down a bit to 72 but that means a steamy window alert.

That little cell was moving fast and only deposited 0.14" but I'll take. Temp is down to 77 with dp 75.

RAIN!!! Thunderstorm. THANK GOODNESS!!!!! Up to 0.04" but a blob just expanded and is moving north over me.

That complex up in North Jersey has a well-defined outflow boundary that has been moving to the SE. Am back down to 86 with dp 77 and still waiting for some blip to at least give me 1/4" for the effort. The firehose flow that is starting to produce some stuff through the city is still generally to my east although it looks like it starting to backbuild a bit to the west.

They just threw up a Warning on this but it is to my east. Am hearing thunder from it. Temp is 87 with dp 75. It's like dry begets dry.

There's a TOR up for the Flemington area. I know an earlier warning had a spotter see a funnel. Still nothing measurable here and temp down to 86 with dp 77.

Getting some light rain, enough to start wetting the sidewalk but not measurable yet. Temp is down to 87 but dp is 77, so still juicy.

Hearing thunder and the lightning sensors all around are lighting up!

It's clouded over here but the rain has been missing me entirely. The clouds did drop my temp down to 90, but the dp is still up there at 75.

Getting some big raindrops as I get fringed by some small popups coming in from the SW of me. Temp dropped a few degrees to 92 with dp 76.

I can't believe I that I ended up looking that up and then watching Youtube reviews of it. If it can nail lanternflies then it would be worth it! You might still get sideswiped by the connecting stuff between those split cells. Am watching some little blips trying to bubble up in central Delco and southern Montco to see if I can get something. Poor plants are frying. Sun has been in and out and am currently bopping between 94 and 95 (am at 95 at post time) with 76 dp.

Now at 95 with dp 77. Mailman just deposited some mail in my mailbox... Poor guy.

You made me look and yup, my sensor is lighting up! My temp briefly hit 94 but it's back down to 93.

SPC up with the Severe Thunderstorm Watches for the CWA (pretty extensive area too) - It's literally the entire states of NJ & DE and 3/4 of the state of PA! Currently 93 with a 77 dp and some cumulus starting to bubble up.

Or something out of a Louisiana bayou. High noon (yes I did briefly go out and run back in), and it's 93 with dp still bopping between 78 and 79. Sometimes on days like this there is an active SW breeze but today so far, barely a breeze to be seen or felt.

Yeah I think it's all the brick and stone around here that absorbs the heat and radiates it, especially if there is extended heat. I am probably about 150 ft from a strip of woods, but that is to my east and it would have probably made more of a difference if they were near the west side. If we hadn't had as much rain as we have had so far this year, then we would have certainly reached triple digits this summer, which will probably not happen this year given the pattern (unless the pattern does a major change and shuts off the faucet). AND... as I type this, I'm sitting at 90, with a 79 dp (that is bopping between 78/79).

I'm gonna need to put some boxes in the recycle bin and then run back in. Up to 89 here now, with some scattered clouds, and a dp of 78.

Barely after 8:30 am and already up to 85 here with a dp of 77. I'm afraid to go outside. I ended up with a 74 low this morning.

That "Moderate" risk is designation rare for around our CWA and a bit concerning. Currently 75 here with dp 71 and will find out later if that will be the low for this morning.

Made it up to 94 as a high for the day (so far but probably will be a final). This is the 21st 90+ high day IMBY since May, with 3 (non-consecutive) days in May, 11 days in June (including 2 heatwaves of 3 or more consecutive 90+s), and 7 in July (with what is now the 2nd heatwave of the month, with 3 or more consecutive 90+s). It's currently 91 with dp 70 and

LOL I had to get out there and do some light watering because I'm afraid if I do a deep water, then some cell will sit over the area tomorrow and unleash, and the plants will end up with yellow leaves. My "low" was 76 and I've already touched 89 this morning. Dews are moderate but it's currently sunny and 89 with dp 72.

I think a lot of where you see this issue too is with "port" cities in general that still have significant industrial land areas with sprawling facilities strung along the waterfronts. Those facilities generate jobs but they are rarely "landscaped" to include some green space. I think they are trying to remedy some of that down here across the river with Camden's waterfront that still has its docks and piers, but with some added park development around them (e.g., near the old RCA building that has been converted and the Campbell Soup factories that were imploded some time ago) - Here in Philly, William Penn envisioned a "Greene Countrie Towne", including four "Squares" as parks in the original city design - The squares are all still there almost 340 years later. But even with that, the industrial age came full bore and the city managed to keep them up and expanded them as the city expanded, while the industrial waste and pollution were killing our 2 rivers. Fortunately efforts were made to clean and begin to restore the rivers, and they continue to add more green areas. The one significant thing that I recall almost 20 years ago, was a work training trip to San Francisco, and the plane circling over the city before landing. I had never in my life seen an area so built-on and lacking trees than San Francisco. On the street level, yeah you have some street trees (mostly eucalyptus and old magnolias) but outside of Golden Gate Park (their equivalent to Central Park), it was jarring. Many of us here in Philly metro are under flight paths and if you have been on a plane circling overhead, you do see lots of wooded areas, particularly over the rim counties. But there, nope. Even NYC (not even counting Central Park) has the more "residential" boroughs with trees and little parks.