Hurricane Agnes

When I saw it on a surface map this morning and didn't really see anything that would kick it out to see, I was wondering if it would become yet another "home grown" system. But here we are!

Had a non-measurable sprinkle and with that and the overcast, the temp dropped to 81 but the dup shot up to 72. Am guessing that surface low south of here is throwing the area the ESE breezes and other stuff that blew through from the NE from off the ocean.

It's 85 here with a breeze and dps shifting between 69 and 70, so as the day has worn on, not getting the steamy windows like yesterday. There was quite a bit of low stratus earlier this morning but that all lifted by 8 am. The sky is filled with cumulus with some stratus mixing in to my south every once in awhile.

And just like that, the sun is trying to come out. Still getting an easterly airflow.

I literally just peeped out the front and it's still been drizzling here with something that appears to be backing up into this area from the SE. It's like one boundary has a flow pushing down into the city from the NW to the SE and the other with some precip is moving up from SE to NW. Am up to 0.26" so far for the day. Current temp is 77 with 75 dp.

So far up to 0.19" rain and a steamy 76 with dp 75. In other news, Josephine has been born. It could end up rolling around the WAR but will be keeping an eye on it.

And some showery rain has arrived here. Temp is 78 with dp 75.

You''re alive! Wasn't sure if you made it out of Jersey after those tornadoes blew through near Ocean City.

Yeah have been watching this line that just bubbled up in the past hour and is just sitting there expanding. The sun had finally popped out here about 30 minutes ago and temp is 78 with dp 73. Another unstable day on tap.

Well the sun just popped out and there's lots of blue sky and cirrus. Temp is 76 but dps still in low 70s. Looks like the storms have been generally suppressed to the south (Baltimore has been getting rocked for what has to have been at least an hour or more).

So far only have 0.05" here with a temp of 77 and dp of 74. But a spotter in Deptford reported 4.33"!

Every time I would get up to go in the kitchen, the weather radio would suddenly go crazy. LOL Temp is down to 76.

Getting some showers and bucket tips (now at 0.04"). Temp down to 80.

Starting to get some scattered rain spats on the walk (nothing measurable yet). Temp has dropped to 83 but dp still at 74. All kinds of convection to my south and west real close.

The pop-up storms have begun just before noon around the city and have kicked into high gear in Jersey! Warning just got lofted there. The overcast dropped my temp down from 91 to 85 but still with dps in the mid-70s (75 at the moment). My lightning detector has been active the past half hour or so. ETA - stuff has been firing almost on top of Mt. Holly WFO. LOL

OMG I popped my face (only) out on my back patio and with a temp of 85 and dp of 78, it is just a sauna.

Ended up hitting 91 as a high here today and it was pretty oppressive much of the day to boot. Currently 88, mostly sunny, with a dp of 73.

After a low of 74 this morning, have started bouncing back up and am currently at 76 and overcast, but with a 75 dp.

Ended up making it to 93 today and it was rough with the dews in the low 70s much of the day. Currently 87 and mostly sunny.

I have mine on 72 - 73 and that works. But I supplement in my bedroom at night to get it down into the upper 60s or less. That lets me sleep like a log. It is currently a steamy 75 with the dp at 74 (the steamed-up windows don't lie), and there is some low stratus around.

Didn't quite hit 90 today (only made it to 89 because as that storm passed way south of here, the sky clouded up and dropped the temps), but had a little fog this morning with a low of 71. Currently 80 with the dp at 73, so it's starting to steam up again. As a sidenote, my little lightning sensor had 2 hits right around the time that little storm complex blew through southern Chesco, Delco, and into Delaware and New Jersey. In fact, that little thing managed to hang together until it finally sortof dissipated right outside of AC.

Finally got chance to go through Mt. Holly's Post Tropical Cyclone report and there were 7 confirmed tornadoes in the CWA from here - https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXPSHPHI&wfo=phi -or- (alternate) https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&issuedby=PHI&product=PSH&format=CI&version=1&glossary=1&highlight=off

Wow. Meteorolgically-speaking, this year has definitely been one with extremes. And we haven't even gotten to the peak of hurricane season yet.

Just as a what-the-hell look at all the lightning from yesterday's storm and the data that was available about it yesterday, I did some screenshots last night from lightningmaps.org (checking off the option to also include Blitzortung.org's data) - (1) screen cap of the 1 hr period shown on lightningmap.org (between ~7:30 pm EDT - ~8:30 pm EDT) (2) screen cap of the 24 hr period shown on lightningmap.org (including the same time frame as #1 and if you look closely, there are gray boxes with white numbers indicating the estimated number of strikes in those areas, which was an option that could be selected for view) (3) screen cap of the Ambient sensor shown for a 24 hour period (~6:00 am EDT 8/7/20 - ~6:00 am EDT 8/8/20) highlighting the peak time of strikes, with the upper curve representing the cumulative number of strikes and the lower one showing the strike rate (4) screen cap of the same as #3 but showing the data for the past week (the station was setup and operational on 8/1/20 and the sensor on 8/6/20) I think for normal thunderstorms you get some tiny spike lines here and there, with maybe a few sharp peaks if the storms go on a bit longer (although looking at that data over a week or month's interval, any peak will get compressed into a spike). But yesterday seems to have been nuts. As a disclaimer, I've only had this thing for a couple days and am still tweaking the location and sensitivity and whatnot. It supposedly has a range of detection up to about 25 miles, and it's not actually measuring the exact location of the strike but supposedly the distance from the sensor to the boundary of where the strikes are occurring and the sensor is supposedly directional (so unless way up high away from obstructions, it might miss some occurring in certain directions). However depending on the atmospheric conditions, it has been apparently found to pick up strikes from further away (at least per some people who have been testing the Ecowitt version earlier this year). One downside of it is that it only has an operational temp range of 32F - 122F, meaning it is not really a cold-weather device, and around here, we get can get convection in the winter, including thundersnow on occasion. So I do have it inside near a window at the moment (and there are dip switch settings for it to designate whether it is "inside" or "outside", which will alter the sensitivity thresholds, although you can set it for "outside" even if it is "inside" or vice versa, if threshold sensitivities need to be optimized). Some of those who have been using them outside generally have reported placing them in a dry location, although a few actually put them in some kind of vented enclosure that fits similarly-sized temp/humidity sensors, if not placed in an attic or under a roof eave/gable or porch, etc. In any case, will be seeing how things go with this geek add-on sensor and considering we really didn't have many thunderstorms last year, at least so far this year, I seem to have lucked out with some this week to test it/tweak it.

For some obs, I did eventually hit 80 as a high yesterday, with a total rainfall of 0.38" (the heaviest of yesterday's event occurred pretty far south of here). Although I'm not seeing any fog here (at least yet), it's currently 69 and humidity of 97% and mostly cloudy just before sunrise.