Hurricane Agnes

Finally got a brief sprinkle enough to wet the walk and tip the bucket with 0.01". Lock it in!

Am still waiting for something more than drops. The one cell that survived the early trip has been running along where the Schuylkill enters the city to the SW of me. There are are some darker greens on radar but it's like the air is so dry that it's pretty much virga at the moment. My lightning detector is picking up some convection although I'm not hearing any thunder. Temp is down to 70 with dp 53.

They just threw you guys under a STS.

Went out to put my patio umbrella down so I can cash in on the 40 drops I have gotten so far. Before it really started clouding over, it did touch 83 this afternoon but is now down to 78 with dp 50, and some drops.

LOL Just got all the STS warning notifications. Will see if that stays together by the time it gets to me (IF it gets to me).

Was wondering what was up with the notifications and checked my radar and should have known! Those cells look like they will probably miss me to the southwest (unless something else bubbles up). The sun did manage to come out later this morning although there has still been a haze and air quality alert was just announced for tomorrow too. Currently a dry 81 with hazy skies and dp 53.

Got up to 78 for a high yesterday and bottomed out at 58 this morning. Definitely have a yellowish, crayola "dandelion" colored hazy wash over a background of slate. Currently hazy overcast and 61 with dp 45 and knowing we have a Red Flag Warning up for the area.

The ground is dry so that it enhances any radiational cooling, like you see in naturally dry areas or the desert! I remember being on a training trip to Colorado over 30 years ago in August and how it would get up to the 90s during the day but drop down to the 40s at night. That was somewhat expected being a mountain climate but the thermodynamics was on display. I bottomed out at 51 and am currently clear and 53, with a very high thin deck of clouds, and dp 50.

Was hoping you were in the path of that - at least for the rain potential!!!! Looks like most of it is moving south but to the far west of me so I don't think I'll get anything. So far it appears the cold front has been oozing in here with overcast skies as I did reach a high of 76 earlier today but am now down to 65 with dp slowly starting to drop, and now at 57.

Bottomed out at 66 this morning with bright sunshine, but that has now faded behind a deck of clouds. The 0.01" reported yesterday (which was barely enough to wet a few sidewalk blocks) was it. Currently overcast, breezy, and 72 with a dp of 62, and you can definitely feel the humidity.

Am right on the northern edge of a new Warning.

Got enough to tip the bucket for 0.01" and drop the temp to 78. Dp is now up to 65.

Getting some thunder and by golly, some RAIN!!!

Severe Thunderstorm Warning up for Bucks/NE Philly.

I turned mine on about 1 pm yesterday and decided to leave it on overnight so I can keep the bricks cool for when the the sun started blazing today. I have actually crept back up to 90 once the clouds moved on, with dp still 60. Looks like Paul might get some from a couple pop-ups headed that way.

Glad to see some of you up north cashing in on the pop-ups. They appear to be moving from NE -> SW. I also noticed that a seabreeze front has been steadily moving from E-> W and is almost at the Delaware River. I did hit 95 for a high today but it clouded over and is still generally cloudy with some sun shining through it, and a temp earlier down to 88, but now ticked up a notch to 89, with dp 59. I also saw that the first TS of the season has arrived - Arlene, which is down in the Gulf but drifting south.

Some stuff is popping (got some dark clouds) showing up to the west. My lightning detector picked some confection almost 20 minutes ago And I actually hit 95 just after 3:30 pm and then it started clouding up. Currently 93 with dp 60. And yeah, the humidity is 33% here but it is still blast-furnacey here.

And just hit my first 90 of the season just after noon today. It's currently mostly sunny and 90 with dp bopping between 60 & 61 (not a good combo).

I agree! I watched during the 17-year lifespan of one of my nieces, as 2 brand new schools (Erdenheim Elementary and a brand new replacement Enfield Elementary) were built from the ground up in her township (Springfield, Montco) and that township has a population of 20,000 (from 4 towns). Meanwhile here in Philly... It doesn't bode well for "year round school" being proposed (and possibly piloted soon) unless they only do it in facilities that can handle it. In any case, I have bottomed out at 62 this morning and am on the way up, so will see how warm it gets before the frontal passage. Currently partly sunny and 64 with dp getting into the uh oh range at 59.

Looks to be a "pulsing" of warm/cool/warm/cool like a heartbeat, over the next 10 days.

That's because of all the piece-o-junk century old (or more) buildings that have no A/C. And yeah, back in the day, kids suffered in those old buildings with one of those giant pedestal fans with the windows open, lights out, and bees flying into the classroom, but I expect the teachers, staff, and parents complained - especially if some got heat stress or even heat stroke from it. Some schools are "newer" (in quotes) and have central air and other schools finally got some window units but the bulk still don't have them because the old electric circuits can't handle the amps for an AC in each classroom. So the 90 schools aren't "all" of them but are the ones that have no air. They apparently have a policy for closures for those schools if the temps are forecast for 90s and above (where inside the brick and masonry building, the temps can soar to 100+)..

Wow. Didn't expect that we would break the record for a dry May. And Reading's May 2023 is now 2nd driest month on record, period. Drought monitor also filling in - I ended up with a low of 55 this morning and hit 87 for a high. Thankfully the humidity has been reasonable. Currently partly sunny and 84 with dp 53.

Another pleasant day today with relatively low humidity, a cooler low this morning (compared to the last couple days) of 49 and a warmer high of 79. Expect that to change the next couple days. When I was out watering, I didn't see/smell any smoke here, although I admittedly wasn't sitting outside all day either. It's currently partly sunny and 75 with dp 54.

I saw Mt. Holly had tweeted this earlier -

Yup and that meant extended bouts of 90s because the sun didn't have to "waste energy" evaporating ground moisture and just fires up the ground and air. I heard Matt Brudy (Mt. Holly NWS) on KYW this afternoon and he mentioned PHL has only registered 0.24" of rain for the month. There is still a little ground water reserves from the end of April deluges but that will eventually drain away and of course the ground surface is now bone dry as all the precip gets suppressed to the south. I bottomed out at 54 this morning and hit 75 for a high. Air Quality Alert was lofted but I didn't realize that this Canadian wildfire smoke is going to be coming from the east coast (Nova Scotia) vs further out west that has been getting hit hard and sending it this way (Alberta). https://www.npr.org/2023/05/30/1178918224/canada-nova-scotia-wildfires-evacuations