Hurricane Agnes

I think I have now hit my high for the day at 93, just after 2:30 pm. Currently 90 and partly cloudy with some puffy cumulus, and dp bopping between 69 and 70.

Tapped 90 just before noon and now at 91 with dp 68. Glad we had that rain in advance of this for the plants' sake!

Now up to 88 with dp bopping between 68 - 70 and definitely has the "blast furnace" feel out there now! And I did see my first lightning bug - but early this morning (wrong time ). So they are out and about around here.

Already up to 83 here with dp 68 at post time (8:52 am) and mostly sunny.

Mt. Holly did put up a Heat Advisory for down here in Philly metro and surrounding counties. I maxed out at 92 but at least the humidity stayed in the 40% range. It's starting to creep up now though, with the dp at 66. Current temp is 86.

Wow. I know my area is under the flight path of circling planes headed for PHL and PNE, as well as some of the small airports nearby like Wings Field, but not right up next to any of them. Excellent pic of that though!!!

Looks like the heaviest line is past me now and moving quickly to the east. Just some lighter returns to the west and sun has popped out. Currently up to 0.59" from that and the temp is recovering a bit and up to 66.

I'm up to 0.3" and getting the southern fringe of a couple blobs... Temp down to 66 and rate is 1.3"/hr. ETA - jumped up over 2"/hr and am now at 0.50" with temp down to 65.

Getting a heavy thundershower. Had 0.02" of a light shower earlier today but am now up to 0.20" with just over 1"/hr rates (keeps changing higher). The temp dropped to about 75 just before the rains came in and is now down to 68.

SPC up with the Watch (plus a Warning just over top of me and up just north of me in Montco). Temp is 81 here with dp 69 and some real nasty clouds to my north!

Finished up with 1.26" of rain yesterday, so a good soaking ahead of the progged heatwave. Currently 68 and overcast.

Now up to 1.02" in the past 90 minutes. Peak rate briefly got up to almost 2"/hr. Currently light rain and 68.

Getting a gully washer here with 1.8"/hr rates. Already up to 0.38". They just lofted FFW for this area.

Had a thunder about 20 minutes ago. I was able to push myself yesterday to finally get my overwintering tender tropical plants out on the patio and get everything fed in preparation for last night's progged qpf that yielded nothing IMBY. But at least I know I'll be getting it now. Currently light rain and 73 with dp 71 and 0.03" so far in the bucket.

Late to this thread but I do remember 2002 pretty clearly because that drought sortof started in fall 2001 right after 9/11 when we (at least here down in Philly) had minimal snow and a dry spring and that lead to a literal blast furnace summer, reaching extreme drought by the end of summer. I think it finally broke with some remnant moisture from tropical systems Isidore and Kyle -

Norman, OK has awoken. Currently 80 with dp 68 and overcast, with breaks of sun.

Sun has popped out and it's partly sunny with lots of scattered cumulus. Temp recovered quickly with the sun and is up to 56 and rising.

Final rainfall for yesterday was 0.36" for an event total of 2.27". My low this morning was 47 but at least I did move up above 50 much quicker and am currently at 51 and overcast (had a brief break of sun earlier before it clouded over again). In other news, pretty much everyone forecast to do so or get close in the Mt. Holly CWA blew up their record low max temps -

It would like a fall cookout! All you need is the Kamu firepit and you can get your grill-on! I finally made it above 50 and am currently (barely) at 51, overcast, and misty, and I think this may be it for the day, but we will see. KPHL is showing 52, so unless some sudden WAA comes blowing in down there, I think the previous record low max of 59 for this date is toast. Current precip for the day IMBY is 0.35" (2.26" event total). ETA - a snip snapshot of my temps (from my little local weewx setup that I have to get back to tweaking). Amazing the 40 degree temp swings for highs (91 vs 51).

That's true. I had expected the guidance for a halfway decent Sunday to verify since what usually happens is either a Saturday or a Sunday washout and you can at least salvage one or the other. But didn't expect a Friday - Sunday wipe out.

Sadly once we had moved to a different house in '68, that house didn't have a garage but had that covered patio (with one of those near bullet-proof aluminum awnings). One of my sisters did eventually buy a house with a garage however, and that's where they move the grill during inclement weather (including in winter since they like to grill year-round and will shovel a path to the grill if there is snowpack). And of course there's an extra fridge out there for adult beverage storage too. The winters of 2013 & 2014 managed to absolutely destroy that awning after what was about 60 years of life due to the weight of the glaciers of ice that resulted from the freezes/thaws of the snow that didn't slide off or get knocked off. My temp ticked up to 49 with on and off light rain and rainfall for today now up to 0.32" (event total 2.23" so far).

For most of my life, it's almost always been cool and/or rainy around Memorial Day weekend (no matter what day the actual holiday came on and regardless of whether there was some heatwave or above average temps before or after). There were the rare few years with some of the weekend days that had weather that was decent (I think last year was one of those times), but more often than not as a kid, we would go out on our back covered patio with the grill due to rain or threat of rain. Of course July 4 was almost always the polar opposite. Pretty much guaranteed to be hazy, hot, and humid (with a few years when it was actually "nice" ). Am guessing it's the climatology of the month (based on sun angles). Am currently at 48 and up to 0.20" in the bucket this morning. Looks like that potential for a record low max for PHL for today might be do-able.

I have a couple plumerias, a stephanotis, a hibiscus, and a coffee arabica that would not appreciate those temps. I probably could have put my citrus and figs out because they are more subtropical and could do those temps, but they're not acclimatized to that at the moment. Looks like most of the sites got their RERs - Another set of vulnerable highs, is up today - Currently 46 here and getting some light rain (0.03" at post time) that started within the past hour.

So far am up to 0.86" of rain today (1.90" event total). My "high" for the day is 50 so far, but that was just after midnight, so will see if I even manage to hit it again before the day is out. I usually have my overwintering tender tropical plants back outside by now but they don't like night temps below the mid-50s and I can only imagine what they would think about "day" temps not even reaching that. Currently 49, overcast and misty.

It took awhile but I ended up with 1.04" yesterday, with a 69 high and 49 low. Am up to 0.56" so far this morning, with a steady moderate rain and 47, which is my low so far. Amazing that Mt. Holly has a Climatology section up for possible record low maxes for the area this weekend!