Hurricane Agnes

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!.

Looks like the back edge of the rain shield is just moving past me and I picked up 0.26" from today's rain for a 0.73" event total. My non-diurnal high was just before 10 am before the temp crashed to a low of 63 before 1:30 pm, and then edged back up a bit. Currently overcast and a misty 65 with dp 64.

Getting some light rain now (nothing measurable yet) and temp is down to 71 with dp at 67, so a far cry from this time yesterday!

Ended up getting 0.47" out of yesterday's round and another line of rain will occur later today. As an obs - yup, it's a steamy window morning! Current temp is 70 with dp 69, and mostly cloudy.

So far am up to 0.29" out of this and currently down to 70 with light rain.

Getting a little cell over me and have heavy rain - over 3/4" an hour at post time. Temp down to 74 with dp 72. Up to 0.16".

Looks like they are right on your doorstep! Kamu may get slammed with a pile soon too.

SPC finally expanded the Severe Thunderstorm Watch further east.

I finally tapped 90 starting just after 4 pm and it's currently 90 with a disgusting dp of 77. My station is showing a "Feels like" as 103.3. lol

LOL and the temp here is now up to 79 with dp 74 and I was just outside. Since the sun is completely obliterated by the cloud cover, it actually wasn't too bad outside where I am... yet. If the sun ever breaks out and the temps start soaring, then the steambath and sauna windows, will be on!

Oh yeah. Just checked and my dp is now up to 73. Temp is 76. The brief time that the sun broke through earlier took the temp up to 78 but it clouded over again and dropped it back down. You can see that cold front cutting across the Great Lakes on that sat image. The temps are in the 40s/50s behind it as it pushes east.