Hurricane Agnes

Peeped outside and it is brutal. It finally hit 90 here and with a 77 dp, it's sauna.

It's been a steam bath this morning although without the sun beating down and temps still below 80, it's not too bad yet. Was just outside and am getting a bit of drizzle. Currently 78 with a dp of 75 and light drizzle. TS Isaias is looking more and more Fay-like and whatever is left is still being set to come through the CWA.

Warm front on the move!

There was even a TOR up there for a bit about 45 minutes ago and a new one just issued. Numerous reports of flooding/water rescues in Berks. Creeks out of their banks.

Made it up to 92 today and currently 84 and clouding over. Isaias has weakened to a 70 mph TS at the moment but the 8 pm update track appears to have us bullseyed at the moment.

After a "cooler" low of 71 than recently, am edging up and currently at 72 but with dp 70. About 72 hours out, right off the coast of Jersey is bullseye so far for what would be TS Isaias' CoC once it gets up here, but I wouldn't be surprised if more track changes happen. The 8 am update should be in shortly.

The overcast cleared about an hour ago just as I was finishing using the oven and the temp outside has responded in kind. Didn't make it to 80 here until around 5 pm. Currently partly sunny and 81 with 69 dewpoint (it was pretty steamy this morning even with the temps in the 70s most of the day). I also noticed the cone is moving back west again too!

The warnings woke me up last night and there was a good amount of lightning but only 0.01" of rain before midnight here. Have had on and off light spatters later this morning that have amounted to 0.06" so far. After a low of 71, am currently at 75 and overcast. Looks like the models shifted Isaias a tick to the west with the 11 am update.

My high ended up edging up one more degree to 96 just after 3 pm and then it clouded over, dropping the temp a few degrees after that. It's currently 84 and overcast. NHC upgraded the forecast for TS Isaias at the 5 pm update, to reach hurricane status as it barrels through the Bahamas. The cone path has steadily moved to the east since the tracking started (maybe dependent on the strength of that Bermuda High and shear). Levi from Tropical Tidbits has an interesting take so far -

Just heard Hurricane Schwartz on KYW saying Philly tied the record for 21 days of 90+ temps (am guessing for this month). Here it is currently 95 (my high for the day so far), but at least the dp is 65 and not 75!

Have been a tad warmer this morning than yesterday for a low (74 vs 73) but today is expected to be the last day of 90s for a bit. But more interesting is this (will see how TS Isaias evolves over the next couple days) --

Made it up to 92 here today and it was somewhat shocking but not unexpected to have the lower dews (mostly in the upper 50s - low 60s today). Currently 85 and clear.

Okay cool. I know Fay was hugging the coast and I was grabbing some snapshots of true color vis. of TS Fay from COD's GOES-East site. This one was from around 1:40 pm as a position reference for you!

Nice job! Was that before or after Fay passed by there? I know the SSTs this summer have been pretty amazing although I expect Fay churned some colder water up at some point. As an obs, I did just make it to 94 today but the humidity wasn't as severe as it could have been. Currently 89 and partly cloudy.

Hale-Bopp was the be-all end-all because it was still visible for a long time and at some point, both during the day and at night! I still haven't been able to catch Neowise thanks to the damn continual streams of cirrus clouds (in addition to other days when it was rainy/overcast here). Currently at 91 with dp 72 with some fair weather cumulus dotted all around.

My low this morning is much warmer than yesterday (76 vs 72) and we're off to the races at 87 and mostly sunny with dp 72.

I topped off at 95 today and the humidity pretty much stayed in check but is slowly creeping back. Currently 89 and mostly sunny.

It's been really nice here early this morning. Low was 72 and with dews in the mid-60s, it was so much better than yesterday around the same time. But with that, the temp has been on the rise and is currently 76 (although still with a "lower" dp of 66) and partly sunny (after a red sunrise earlier).

Made it up to 93 today but fortunately the dews did drop a bit by the afternoon, so it wasn't like last night and earlier this morning. Currently 80 with lots of comet-blocking cirrus.

I'm surprised 2002 didn't end up on that list. That was a brutal hot and dry summer, with a bad drought that finally broke in the fall. https://www.drought.gov/drought/states/pennsylvania Currently 92 and mostly sunny. Am guessing I am "officially" starting a new heatwave period!

Was outside last night around 10 pm fruitlessly comet-hunting and pretty much failing due to the continual cirrus cloud presence and not only heard my first crickets but my first katydid. So we are now officially in the depths of summer. It has been humid as slop, both last night and this morning. Current temp is 83 with a horrible 76 dewpoint and partly sunny.

Ended up just missing 90 today, with high of 89. Currently a sticky 86 (dp 71) and mostly sunny.

Sun is out here - at least the most that it has been all day, but still mostly cloudy with some breaks in the cloud deck, and temp at 75.

OMFG the thing that was hitting the NE and southern Bucksco pivoted around to here. I saw it moving this way but I HAD to go out and do some errands (and had a damn truck parked such that I couldn't get out). When it finally moved and I zoomed out, as soon as I pulled in the lot to the post office, gully washer. I did bring my umbrella because I knew it was coming and had hoped to beat it, but nope. Lots of ponding in parking lots and streams running down streets. Anyway, between 2:30 pm and post time, I got another 0.63" of rain for a daily total of 2.28" (so far). The max rate here hit 1.77"/hr. Currently light rain and 73. ETA - added the radar shot when I was in the parking lot of the little shopping complex right near me.

I was just going through some of the earlier radar shots an apparently there was a report of a water spout off the coast near Tom's River. As an obs, it finally hit 80 here and still overcast.