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The heaviest rain that I can remember besides the floods on March 30, 2010 was during the remnants of Hurricane Ida. I remember driving home from work that night and actually having to stop multiple times because visibility was zero from the relentless pounding rain.

Yeah, at the very least I would say that Gay in 1992, Angela in 1995, Haiyan in 2013, and Meranti in 2016 have all surpassed Tip. Maybe Patricia in 2015 and Monica in 2006, as well. I remember seeing some estimates of pressures in the 860s for Monica, but nothing proven. Patricia may have also surpassed Tip since it was still intensifying after the record breaking recon pass.

Yeah, I'm saying even in general, it's a shame that if we ever get a typhoon stronger than Tip we will never know because we don't have recon. I'm sure that Tip has already been surpassed but we can't prove it.

Its a damn shame that we don't have recon anymore in the WPAC. Even if we get something that surpasses Tip, we will never know.

Definitely running behind yesterday, which is weird because today was supposed to be a little bit hotter than yesterday.

The all time record high min for PVD is 80F from 6/6/1925. I've always questioned that particular record. It was only early June there's no way that it's accurate. The second highest on record is 78F and that was set multiple times but in the middle of summer, not the first week of June.

The last time PVD had back to back 100 degree days was 1991. They didn't make it this time.

The media nowadays likes to hype every weather event to the max. Every heat wave is "extreme". This event isn't anything crazy. Although I doubt that many people would notice a big difference between 100F and 105F anyways.

I agree with mostly everything you said, except believe it or not, this current hurricane drought is not the all-time record. That record is the 42 year drought between a hurricane in 1896 and the 1938 hurricane. But we are definitely very overdue for one to say the least! Also, it seems like the 1930s were extreme for both heat and cold records. You had the 1930s Dust Bowl and then you had the coldest temps ever recorded in February 1934. I suppose that there is a degree of randomness to everything.

Are you sure that there were low dews on August 2, 1975? I'm not sure how accurate this site is, but it shows 104F with a dew point of 77F at the 2PM observation at KPVD. https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/KPVD/date/1975-8-2 I just think that its kind of ironic how even with all this global warming that is happening, we still haven't been able to beat 1975, despite many other areas of the country (and world) breaking their all time record highs.

So July 1911 is probably the closest that we could get to something like that in this area then? Or August 1975? That 98F max at PVD on April 19, 1976 still baffles me. I wonder how hot it would've been if we had that same setup in July.

Any particular reason for this? I would've thought that the westerly flow off the ocean would make it more difficult for Seattle but obviously that wasn't the case in June 2021. But before that event, Boston had a higher record than Seattle.

You have to wonder if this area of the country will ever see a synergistic heat event similar in magnitude to what the PNW saw in June 2021. Surely if Seattle can hit 108F then Boston could do the same? If anything I would expect it to be more doable for Boston.

Too bad we can't get what the Mid-Atlantic is getting today.

Yeah I consider March 2018 to be king in my lifetime. Oct 2017 and 2021 were both good but they happened at night and the damaging winds didn't last for as long as in March 2018. Unless you live on the immediate coast, wind is usually underwhelming in New England.