Voyager

This is how summer broke down here in Phoenix. I'm sure there's more stats, but these are the basics. It is official. Summer 2023 (June, July and August) was the HOTTEST ON RECORD in Phoenix with a mean temperature of 97.0°F, this surpasses the previous record of 96.6°F set in 2020. By month - June average temp: 89.5°F July average temp: 102.7°F (Hottest month all-time) August average temp: 98.8°F (2nd hottest on record) With just 0.12" of rain, it is also the driest summer on record officially.

I'm not sure who covers it. My mom's or the condo association. The home exterior and grounds are normally maintained through the association fees...ie landscaping, routine maintenance including new roofs every 15 years, and painting every 10. Not sure, and neither is my mom, about storm damage.

So we get our first monsoon storm of the summer and it peels the roof right off our back patio...

Wow...that's desert-like. It's almost unbelievable that any location in the mid-Atlantic/northeast could be so low.

That's crazy... 35.27" in Tamaqua.

Sumbitch...I'm might have go up into the northern mountains and hide in the snowpiles somewhere... You guys would never expect me to be where its cold out...

I dunno though. Long term, my move seemed to be a big climate changer. We had one of our cooler and wetter winters followed by a summer inferno with nary a trace of rain from the monsoon. All the while, your winter was mild and snowless, and summer was "coolish". I could do it, and maybe it would "correct the universe", but if it doesn't, the bounty on my head would be even higher than last year...

Are you really sure you want me to do that??? lol

Another record in the books for the great summer of 2023. Tied the hottest day ever in August at 117 degrees. Tomorrow could break it.

According to my gauge, 0.71" for Tamaqua.

Someone out there understands my plight...lol

If PA looked like that year 'round, I'd never leave, but...

According to my gauge, Tamaqua got 1.10" sometime overnight.

You really can't make this shit up....

East coast, west coast, desert or wet climate, the result is the same. Wherever I am, I'll be on the wrong side of the gradient...

That would be awesome for all of us!

You'll probably get your summer in DJF, just like we'll probably be cold and wet again after the blowtorch/nonsoon of summer 2023.

Remnants of Tropical Storm Hilary this weekend. Still time to shift this east...

That's amazing. Tamaqua sits at 31.95" so far this year. Nearly double yours. Clearly a case of the haves and have nots.

Smoke from a huge recycling plant fire in Glendale last night rose so high that it developed a pyrocumulus cloud. View is from my backyard, eight miles away. Second pic was as close as I could get in a "chase" attempt.

Just don't use a job johnnie after eating Taco Bell. The results can be catastrophic...

Just listening to the radio this morning and they said it's been 138 days since it last rained at Sky Harbor Airport. So far this year's monsoon has been a nonsoon, at least in Phoenix.

Thought we were going to get a good storm out of this. Great build up, location, and trajectory, but nope. It dried up faster than a solo raindrop on a hot Phoenix sidewalk.

The monsoon is finally kicking in here in the Phoenix metro area which made for an interesting looking sky this morning at sunrise...

I'm so used to getting up between 1am and 3am on work days that I can't sleep past 5 on weekends. My body is dialed in to early wake up times.