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  1. Hurricane Agnes
    Made it up to 78 as a high yesterday and had a low of 60 this morning. The humidity has stayed reasonable in any case. It's currently mostly sunny and 75 with dp 62. The PAC has had quite a few cyclones the past couple seasons, which has been surprising to me. But NCEP is calling for a 3-pete La Nina (with an assumption of moving to ENSO neutral next spring... but then they said the same thing last year too....lol). https://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/analysis_monitoring/enso_advisory/ensodisc.shtml 91% through November and 80% through to January (and ~54% through to March) - https://www.climate.gov/news-features/blogs/september-2022-la-niña-update-it’s-q-time
  2. Hurricane Agnes
    Bottomed out at 62 this morning and with the mostly sunny skies, the temp has recovered to 69 with dp 63.
  3. Hurricane Agnes
    My high yesterday ended up being just after midnight at 76 and my low this morning was 68. And it has stayed around that temp, +/- a couple degrees, much of the day with overcast and mist. I did get some kind of brief shower between 2 - 3 am that deposited 0.01", but the on and off sprinkles today may have been enough to occasionally wet the walk, but were not measurable otherwise - i.e., of the 40 drop variety. High today was 71 and it's currently 69 and overcast with dp 66.
  4. Hurricane Agnes
    I'm about 5 miles east of Plymouth Meeting. We had puddles here but the top soil took it all in. So now at least the ground might be saturated should anything significant come afterwards, and bring a more serious concern of flooding. The Wissahickon Creek (at the mouth) is still getting plenty of contributory run-off from the little feeder creeks in my neighborhood and out in Montco (gauge image from 4 pm). The Schuylkill was slow to respond (must have been running relatively low) and has responded to the Wissahickon dump + whatever is pouring in from upstream in Montco. It's still a couple feet below flood stage at the gauge near the Water Works but flood stage is ~10.5 ft (gauge image as of 3 pm). Haven't heard what it was back in Montco (like Norristown) where there tends to be more flooding of it. There's a low or something sitting right over us and you see that circulation with another band to the west. I can feel it. Temp here has crept back up a bit to 71 with dp 70.
  5. Hurricane Agnes
    There are still a few little bandettes to the NW that might pass over me but if nothing comes from those, I finished up with a whopping 4.16" in an 11 hour period, most of it coming between 6 am - 8 am. The cold front has apparently been passing through and the temp is now down to 69 with overcast skys, and dp 68.
  6. Hurricane Agnes
    Still have a moderate rain (currently ~3/4"/hr) and have breached the 4" mark and am at 4.05" at post time. Temp 71/dp 70.
  7. Hurricane Agnes
    That was reported by a trained spotter as "4.4" heavy snow". I looked that town up on a map and it's up in the mountains but it may have been coded wrong and it was supposed to be "4.4" heavy rain" (unless the spotter is maybe way up near the summit of a mountain somewhere ). Current temps for that area are being shown as "71".
  8. Hurricane Agnes
    Mt. Holly has FAR SE PA and adjacent NJ counties to the east, circled for the heavier rain. I'm now under moderate rain with 3.87" in the bucket and making a run for 4" (a month's worth in just over 8 hours).
  9. Hurricane Agnes
    Now down getting variable light-moderate rain with 3.68" in the bucket so far for the event. Temp is 71 with dp 70.
  10. Hurricane Agnes
    Wow. Am at 3.52" now at post time. Wissahickon is at flood stage. Temp/dp at 70.
  11. Hurricane Agnes
    The area now under multiple hazards - FFW, FW, FA. Am now at 3.05" for the event so far at post time and my Wydmoor Montco sis texted to say the streets were flooded in her township. And WTAF???? 4" of snow in "Ringown, PA" (Schuylkill County). It's SW of Wilkes-Barre.
  12. Hurricane Agnes
    Have been under heavier returns now and getting > 1.75"/hr rates. Have 1.52" in the bucket at post time with temp 70/dp 70.
  13. Hurricane Agnes
    New FFW lofted over me now - Currently have 0.49" and temp 72/dp 71.
  14. Hurricane Agnes
    FFW lofted adjacent about 9 miles to the west of MBY - Am finally getting heavier rain now and currently have 0.37" in the bucket. Temp is 72 with dp 72.
  15. Hurricane Agnes
    So after all that potential appearing with the band last evening, the result? Nada. Not 40 drops, not even a single drop. I did have steamy windows. Finally started getting some measurable between 1 - 4 am for a total of 0.05" so far. Currently 73 and misty, with dp 72.
  16. Hurricane Agnes
    Sitting under virga and 80, with dp 67.
  17. Hurricane Agnes
    Bottomed out at 71 this morning and made it up to 88 as a high (which might have hit 90 if it hadn't been overcast on and off much of the day). It's currently cloudy and 83 with dp 67. The rain band looks wide and solid out west but we'll see how much survives of the front edge of it this evening and overnight before the main event (supposedly) gets underway tomorrow.
  18. Hurricane Agnes
    After a low of 68 Sunday morning, I did make it to 90 as a high, which was a bit of a surprise. That made #1 for September and #35 since May. Met summer ended up with 31 days of 90+ (Jun/Jul/Aug). Contrast with last year where 90+ was 30 days but clustered differently (33 incl. May). Currently mostly cloudy and 71 with dp 68.
  19. Hurricane Agnes
    Bottomed out at 64 this morning and temp has quickly risen despite mostly cloudy skies this afternoon, and is currently sitting at 84. The noticeable difference today is that the dp is 10 degrees higher than yesterday and is currently 66.
  20. Hurricane Agnes
    I had moved to the new thread for obs and hadn't come back here until now because I knew if I did, I would end up "accidentally" continuing my obs in an old thread! BUT... what you could do with your station, which is what I have done with mine over the years, is actually buy a NIST-traceable thermometer (Amazon sells some) and then calibrate your station's temp sensor to correspond to that. These should come with a NIST certificate that shows when it was tested/certified and you can double-check it with ice water and boiling water to make sure it's not way off (it shouldn't be but always good to check anyway and absent a NIST thermometer, that is usually how people do a gross calibration). The less expensive models are usually good for about +/- 1° C or 1.8° F and the more expensive industrial/lab-grade ones will get you into the tenths of a degree resolution (with more certainty than the cheaper models). If anything, it would give you a little piece of mind. Plus NWS and COOPs report to the nearest "whole number" for temp, so rounding will happen regardless (even with the actual sensor data reporting the tenths). I have mine up on a mast mounted on a fence post of a NE-facing portion of my little 6ft privacy fence, with the bottom of its temp sensor raised to 7.5 ft off the ground (i stuck it adjacent to and just above my old one that is on its own mast with sensor 6.5ft off the ground and that is in the process of "decommissioning itself" ). Both PWSes were bubble-leveled and positioned to point to magnetic north.
  21. Hurricane Agnes
    Had a low of 61 this morning and made it up to 80 as a high, with mostly sunny skies much of the day until later in the afternoon, when the cumulus poured in. It's currently partly sunny and 79 with dp a reasonable 55.
  22. Hurricane Agnes
    Ended up with a high of 86 today and it's currently clear and 74 with a dp of 55.
  23. Hurricane Agnes
    TD 5 did form this morning, far far out in Atlantic (now TS Danielle this afternoon) -
  24. Hurricane Agnes
    Bottomed out at 64 earlier this morning and it's currently sunny and 70 with dp 59 on this first day of met fall.
  25. Hurricane Agnes
    Met summer stats - JUN - 4.46" rain / 90+ days = 3 JUL - 1.65" rain / 90+ days = 14 AUG - 3.57" rain / 90+ days = 14 Hottest day was a 98 on 7/24/22. Had 3, 90+ days in May as an ancillary piece of data. Looks like we may get through August with a rare event of not having some named TS in the Atlantic during the month of August.
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