Hurricane Agnes

Was in the Narberth area in Delco when the sky just opened up. Heard all the EAS flash flood warnings come through on my way back home through Manyunk and on up to Chestnut Hill. Lots of standing water. Got an additional 0.56" of rain from the last round giving me a total of 1.30" for the day at post time. Currently 63 with a little leftover light rain.

Looks like round 1 is pretty much done and I ended up with 0.74" of rain. Currently overcast and 58.

The rain didn't get underway here until just before 4 am and it's been going in varying intensities from light to moderate since. Am currently up to 0.70" (close to what I got the last event after 2 days) with moderate rain and 57.

After some dribs and drabs yesterday, finally got a heavier brief round of rain(>1"/hr) around 8pm last night. The measurable pretty much cut off after 9 pm resulting in 0.64" for the day but did resume just after midnight, with a brief shower around 12:30 am and a couple more showers between 4 and 5:30 am for another 0.14" (total for the 2-days so far was 0.78"). It was pretty steamy with dews in the low 70s yesterday afternoon that steamed up the windows. Currently overcast, breezy, and 67 as the back edge moves east and the cold front moves through.

That high to the north has been stubborn but it brought a beautiful day, albeit one with a lot of cirrus. I just came back inside and couldn't figure out why it felt "chilly" at 71 but then saw the winds have been generally easterly blowing in from the chilly ocean. It did get up to 78 though with the dews ranging from the mid-40s to the low 50s. Currently 71, partly sunny and breezy with what looks like a thick cloud deck sitting there hovering to the south.

Got a couple rounds of brief scattered but heavy (1"/hr) showers overnight - one around 10:30 pm with 0.27" and the other (with same rates) around 2:30 am with another 0.27" for a 2-day total of 0.54". The way it was clouding up yesterday afternoon, I expected something much earlier but much of the activity seemed to be to the south and east of here. It did make it up to 85 yesterday before the clouds started rolling in. Currently a steamy (windows fogged up) 69, with dews in the upper 60s, and mostly cloudy with the sunrise.

Sun back out. The cell had a history of producing 1/4" hail but apparently here over the city, the atmospheric heat sink melted the small hail pieces resulting in huge rain drops (I thought it might have been hail and stood out in it but it was all liquid) - and not even enough to tip the bucket. Temp is down to 75 but I noticed the dp was dropping a bit - down from the mid-60s earlier to upper 50s.

Am probably going to get sideswiped by the worst of the cells to my NW (other than one little finger. It has gotten dark and the thunder has been rumbling in the distance... Currently 78. It just started raining big drops.

I'm at 6.55" for May. A year ago in May I had 4.80" and thought that was too high.

The dewpoints are in the upper 60s around here - pretty much near the surface temps so it could be there's just a lot of low clouds cluttering up the radar and the actual cells are very small and localized. I did get a couple more hundredths of an inch since my last post so am up to 0.17" with some light rain with temp of 68.

It looked worse on radar than what actually happened. It basically gave me about 15 minutes of a shower to yield 0.04" on top of the 0.02" I got from a previous shower, so that 0.15" total is it for the day (unless I get some more overnight). Seems the heavier segments were running north of me or south of me by several miles either way (I had seen that it was flooding again along the river drives earlier this evening from the cell that gave me 0.09").

Getting a heavier piece of a line over me right now. Temp is 70 and currently up to 0.15" for the day so far at post time.

Well the sun popped out here and I got 0.09" earlier today (so far). Am guess if these fronts start moving, I may get some more. Currently partly sunny and 71.

Yeah there are a couple cells moving through. Had a heavier shower sideswipe me (currently have up to 0.06") but haven't heard any thunder yet. The temp managed to get up to 85 here before it really clouded up and dropped back down into the upper 70s before it started raining. Currently 75 with the light rain.

I haven't seen them post the very latest from last night's storm yet but here is a preliminary LSR for a tornado in Sussex County, NJ yesterday - https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXLSRPHI&wfo=phi Updated PNS for the 5/28/19 Morgantown & Stanhope tornadoes is here - https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXPNSPHI&wfo=phi (they put these on their website under "Text Products" under the "Nonroutine Products" section - https://www.weather.gov/phi/ProductIndex

Down to some sprinkles now and and saw the sky brightening just before an attempt at a sunset. So far up to 1.55" from the storms. There were some wind gusts and a good amount of loud thunder, but this was mostly very heavy rain, with about 15 minutes of 3"/hr rates. The storms were moving pretty quickly so fortunately they didn't stall out and train over the area. It did manage to hit 89 here before the rain. Currently overcast and 68.

I saw that about 7 miles north of me where Willow Grove had a bunch of reports of 1" hail. I know I have not seen hail here in Philly in years (almost since I was a kid). I think the heat island melts the ice before it hits the ground here in the city so I usually get huge rain drops. Now up to 1.26" of rain since around 6 pm (still @ 1"/hr). ETA - my sis who lives in Wyndmoor just texted a pic of the front of her house that is flooded (her driveway slopes down to the front of the house based on how the hill slopes where the houses are on her side of the street).

Getting an EAS on phone for Flash Flood Warning (here in Philly). Now "down to" 1"/hr rates and have 1.17" at post time. Temp is 68.

Getting raked here. Not seeing any lightning but getting a decent amount of thunder. Still getting 3"/hr rates and am at 1.03" so far at post time.

Now up to 3"/hr rates and have 0.72" since the rain started.

Getting 2"/hr rain rates and am up to 0.34" so far.

Under heavy rain at the moment. Dropped temps like 10 degrees. It literally went to night-like darkness.

Just heard a loud thunder here in NW Philly. ETA - some nasty looking clouds to my NE...