Voyager

From what I was told by my daughter, Schuylkill County got it pretty good.

Tamaqua got up to 92 today. Currently 88, but holy hell @ the dewpoint. 73 for a heat index of 96... 

6 hours ago, TheDreamTraveler said:

It's pretty impressive that the hottest heat this summer around here is happening in September

Prelude to winter??? 

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.

2 hours ago, mahantango#1 said:

Must have been a bad storm. Hopefully the insurance will cover it. 

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...

39 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

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

15 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

We have had less than 17" of precip since Jan 1.  You are probably in the 30's or maybe even 40's. 

That's crazy...

12 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

I am a little over 30 for the year.

35.27" in Tamaqua.

5 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Don't worry if things go south Bubbler has already assembled a team of bounty hunters ready to go at a moments notice, They will find you and bring you to Pa. for trial, in front of judge Blizz.

 

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... 

7 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

After Sat, the next 2 weeks look like Arizona weather so....

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...

On 8/29/2023 at 3:33 AM, Bubbler86 said:

Voyager can start the fall thread on Friday. 

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

5 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

When people think of pa valley they think of this

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

2 hours ago, mahantango#1 said:

.47 from the wind driven thunderstorm at 1:30 am.

1 hour ago, pawatch said:

Currently 61 degrees.

We picked up 1.65” of rain from the storms overnight.

Montourville 2.49”

Bloomsburg  2.0”

 

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... 

5 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Not in an El Niño this season!

Hopefully you enjoy a nice mild Winter out there while we are buried in snow!

That would be awesome for all of us!

5 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

WGAL is in...

 

1) Top gust on Friday is 25

2) Chamber weekend

3)  Another fake heatwave next week in the "weakest summer" in many years.  If we get a real summer next year, people may be spoiled by this year. 

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...

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

We have had less than 16" for the year with it being extra dry in June and most of July.   Now, with everything so dry, normal is not enough.  The grass would need rain every 2-3 days to try and recover.   Under trees it is green again though. 

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.

19 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Been a long time since I went to Taco Bell...mainly because the next day was Taco hell...

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.