Voyager

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. 

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...

4 hours ago, Anduril said:

Its not normal to wake up (or be woken up) between 5-6am on the weekends?

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.

100 now, but it dropped below at some point after midnight. 

25 minutes ago, pawatch said:

I have taken a picture posted on FB and saved the picture off FB.

Then picture is good to post here.

Then delete your FB post.

Lol...that's exactly how I do it.

2 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

Sort of like the Knights?  

Guess the temperature in Phoenix. The guest score or the player and fouls...

3 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

I’m never starting a thread again!

I started the Winter thread last year & the season was a Disaster!

Wonder what would happen if I started it from out here...

39 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Maybe he's coming out and gonna bring you back to Pa. I think Bubbler has a ransom on you. And if Canderson completes the mission, he gets a roll of shingles.

Omg...too funny!!!

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

Canderson is attending a concert out there next weekend so hopefully it dodges his area. 

Wait...Canderson is going to be in Phoenix?

Looks like our monsoon will finally get started out here this weekend, particularly Sunday. Now is when the weather gets interesting in the desert, but it's harder to figure out if you're going to get slammed or not, as the monsoons most often pulse and form along outflow boundaries.

Although when we get a good valley-wide meso, it's an awesome show of some of the most intense lightning, wind, and rainfall you'll ever see. One of the best I saw was when I lived in Avondale, along I-10 in the west valley. One dropped down from the north, and one came up from the southwest, and merged right over the area, and created one of the best natural "fireworks shows" I'd ever seen.

Just to put the historical southwest heatwave into perspective...

DISCUSSION...
The list of broken records to continue to grow for the climate
sites across the region during this extremely hot and dry period.
Consecutive days of high temperatures at or above 110 degrees and
low temperatures at or above 90 degrees rolls on across central
Phoenix, with little chance (~10%) of any day over the next week
of the high temperature being below 110 degrees. Not only are the
temperatures above 110 degrees for the highs, but the daily high
temperature records in Phoenix continue to be broken (seven of 
the last eight days either tied or broke the previous record) and
is likely (70-80%) of equaling or exceeding the record 
temperature of 118 degrees for today. Additionally, this
exceptional dry period has grown to 120 days, which is good for
6th on the all-time longest dry streaks for Phoenix.
 

Did that line kind of split in Schuylkill County, or did my eyes deceive me?

So close, but couldn't quite get there. 

Maybe tomorrow...

38 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

From the NWS. Are they expecting that line to hold through the night?

High noon at the Sun City Corral, 113.4

Relentless...

More FM radio goodness this morning...lol

41 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

There was that airport on the Persian Gulf two days ago that hit 109/90 or something close to that. It's heat index was 156

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Yikes...that's too much even for a heat mizer...lol

5 hours ago, Voyager said:

Desert nooners out west...

112 degrees.

2 hours ago, Superstorm said:

Ridiculous.
 

So the official Phoenix high at Sky Harbor was 118 which officially broke the consecutive days of 110+ record.

Here in my backyard in Sun City, we were one degree cooler at 117... 

Desert nooners out west...

112 degrees.

Most are talking about the consecutive 110+ record, which we tied today at 18. A lesser known and publicized one is consecutive 90+ lows, which we broke this morning, and are progged to add at least 10 more days to.