Hurricane Agnes

I have a nice soft electric blanket with multiple heat settings for a toasty comfortable snooze. Meanwhile I just hit 95 and that dp is still up there at 75.

Just briefly hit 93 at 11:55 am with a dp that was supposed to be "lower" today but instead, is bopping between 76 and 77.

Had a low of 75 earlier, with a "lower" dp of 71, but am now up to 82 with dp going right back up to 75. I had to get some water on the plants earlier this morning and hope it will hold them until the progged showers Thursday/Friday. Was glad to have had the little ground-wetting pop-ups last Saturday but that couldn't make up for these temps. It's been interesting to note that I've had just over 5 3/4" rain for the month of June (since this is the last day, although will see if anything pops up this afternoon).

Hopefully not that McDonald's scorcher type. Looks like 94 was my high today and even the puffy clouds had had enough and disappeared. Currently 90 and yes, the dp has actually dropped to 72. I think what moisture was left in the ground has evaporated, and that plus an active light breeze helped to mix some of the stagnant air (at least in relative terms, dropping the dews from the upper 70s down to the low 70s).

I briefly tapped 94 with a dp of 78. That has bubbled up the cumulus big time so the sun is going in and out. Currently at 93 with dp moving between 77 & 78.

It didn't steam but then it could be the central air didn't cycle off either so the windows never got a chance. I have hit 91 as a high so far this morning, and am currently bopping between that and 90 with a disgusting 77 dp (refuse to even open the door).

Had my low of 74 just before sunrise and am off to the races and currently at 77 with dp 74. This morning there wasn't even an opportunity for stratus to form, so it went right to unimpeded sun at sunrise.

I know there was some earlier speculation in the AFDs but Mt. Holly decided to loft the Excessive Heat Warning for the metro area in conjunction with the Advisory around the outer parts of the metro. Probably due to that dp not really mixing out. And then abracadabra, up pops another east coastal TS! Danny was suddenly born with an outsized role - to go over the coastal goal line as a TS. Currently a hazy, hot, and humid 90 with dp bopping between 74 and 75.

So far holding at 93 for a high today and currently bopping between 91 and 92 for a current, but with a dp that genreally hasn't gotten off the 75.

OMG the summer before my senior year in college (summer of '82) I was a new student's counselor doing sessions from the end of June until the beginning of August, and one of the other counselors had one of those - I think even the same color (with bench seats in front and back and it was naturally a stick). On July 4th that summer, we had off that weekend, so 9 of us jammed in one of those - 3 in the front (including the driver) and 6 in the back with 3 lap-sitters), driving from Amherst, MA to Provincetown, MA, which is right on the tip of the Cape Cod hook (it was around a 90 mile trip each way). What a blast! The car owner/counselor's parents had a beach house on the bay side of the Cape in Brewster where we stayed for a couple nights (in the attic). On the way back, one of the other counselors who had met up with us there, had his own car, so we were able offload 2 for the trip back, only having 7. It is shocking how small the Beetles look on the outside but they were actually roomy inside (I guess if you're young ). Hope your dad had a happy birthday! My dad's birthday would have been a couple days before yours (June 25th) and if he were still around, he'd be 97 this year.

Hit 93 at 2:30 pm. Currently 92 with 75 dp. Looks like some scattered pop-up stuff forming well to the north and west of the Philly metro counties but will be interesting to see if they move this way.

Hit 90 just after noon with a dp of 77 at that point. The cumulus has picked up along with a few puffs of wind to bounce it up and down but I'm currently at 90 with dp 76 at post time. Brutal out there.

When you are already in an extreme drought going into your normal "dry season" (where "dry season" in the PNW generally goes from June - September), then any heat bubbles sitting over that area become nuclear mushroom clouds. This year has been a bit drier here than the past couple years but I don't think they're dry enough for us to hit triple digits this summer unless the faucet gets completely closed off (meaning no more severe ) and all the TS remnants miss us. When you have that PAC ridge like that in winter that protects them from snow, inevitably we get the "trough in the east" mixed bag, depending on other factors. As an obs, my low was a surprisingly "low" 73 but the big difference was the lack of lingering morning stratus, except for a a few low clouds. So the sun has pretty much been full out earlier than the past couple days, helping to send the temp here to a current 85 with a nasty dp of 75, and some scattered cumulus here and there.

I wasn't sure I would get there given the stratus this morning that finally broke around 9 am, but then the in and out sun due to lots of cumulus, but I tapped 90 at 3:45 pm today. Currently 87 and mostly cloudy with dp 73.

My low early this morning was 73 and I was shrouded in stratus again like yesterday. The sun briefly came out a little later but self-destructed, so I am now back to overcast again. I expect that whenever the clouds break, it's off to the races. Currently 77 with dp 74 so very moist!

I've been getting on and off hits and misses with those little streamers. Am actually up to 0.25" after the last one. Currently mostly cloudy with breaks of sun and 82 with dp 73.

And with that, the shower is over (final tally 0.14"), clouds have been receding and the sun is back out, although there are some other possible streamers that could fly overhead. And that means off to the races. Temp up to 77 and rising with dp a nasty 75.

And in the middle of configuring a new cable gateway, I finally got chance to look outside and am seeing that "free skywater" here! This was unexpected. A literal little blip that streamed over me giving me a decent little shower. Am up to 0.13" so far from it. I'll take! I made it up to 79 before the skywater temporarily doused the heat but also added to the humidity, so I am currently down to 74 with a dp of 73. And the steamy windows have commenced.

Pure Canadian (probably -20F) powder. The 30F concrete snow down here would probably break that machine. I remember for years when a number of coworkers that I had who worked in our MW offices, would laugh at us saying all they did was just sweep away the snow and the plows would just blow it off the highways, so snow was no big deal. Then climate change started accelerating and they finally started getting slopped and glaciered by marginal temp snow, and fell silent. As an obs, there was quite a bit of surprising (although shouldn't have been) stratus this morning that is starting to lift. So far my low has been 69. It's currently 70 and overcast with nasty dp of 69. ETA - I popped outside to put one of those windshield reflectors up in my car and everything was wettish. Am not sure if it was due to wrung-out fog/mist/stratus or from actual drizzle at some point overnight. Whatever it was, it wasn't enough to be measurable for my station.

Made it up to 82 as a high today and currently partly cloudy (lots of high clouds) and 79, with a dp of 57. Looks like the sauna will be coming soon!

Ended up a couple degrees cooler this morning than yesterday, with a low of 53. It's currently partly cloudy and 65 with a dp slowly creeping up and at 57.

Looks like I reached a high of 79 for the day earlier this afternoon and am currently down to 73 with dp 50. Definitely another nice early summer day and am bracing for what is to come during the upcoming weekend and into next week.

That will depend on where you go. If you are coastal, then yeah, they have more of a maritime climate (which frustrates many who like growing tomatoes and peppers there because it generally won't sustain the type of day/night temps that those plants like). But if you go back away from the coast further east on the other side of the Cascades (and the Cascades are where the snow falls there by the hundreds of feet each year and is used for drinking water for the states further south), then that is a whole nother place. E.g., Spokane, which lists about twice the avg yearly snow fall (~44") than we have here in Philly. I managed to drop to a low of 55 here this morning (a few degrees warmer than yesterday) and it's currently 78 (just above my high yesterday) with a reasonable dp of 51, and lots of fair weather cumulus. I did notice a pretty sunrise this morning with some tinges of red/orange/yellow so I suppose that is foretelling a little about what is to come.

Made it up to 76 as a high today (amazing for this time of year) and currently 72 with dp an amazing 48, with some scattered cumulus. Supposed to be a "carbon copy" tomorrow too, although I think a few degrees warmer. But with the high overhead, I expect we might decouple pretty efficiently tonight.

Well a polar opposite (pun intended) morning from yesterday. Low was 52 earlier and dp plummeted to 49. Currently sunny and 55 with dp 50 and shaping up to be a really nice day!.