ChescoWx

Of course May was 0.5 below normal....but agreed a rare event during our current warming phase of climate change....

10 of the last 14 days with today's forecast will have been below normal....

Thanks Cool Hand!!

No luck with any 40's in the peaks of the Welsh Mountain anticline but close yesterday and low 50's this AM. Today will mark 10 of the last 14 days with below normal temps....

no doubt there are much lower spots across Berks County than here in Western Chesco.....but with the NWS obs (see below) starting with today on the far left with not a sniff of a 90 at any location in the philly burbs....makes you wonder if your thermometer is sited in the sun (big problem if there is no heat aspiration shield) - if your station does not have a fan aspirated shield than a nice shady spot on the north side of your property will help out

It looks like something is not quite right with the temp obs out of the Reading area....there was not even 1 reading at any locations outside of the heat island coastal plain at even 86 degrees with any modest elevation. Is your thermometer sited correctly? Is your thermometer located in direct sunlight without a solid fan aspirated radiation shield?? that could explain your high readings??

Today was only our 3rd above normal day in the last 10 days in NW Chester County PA with our Hi/Lo splits at 83.2/62.7....while down the shore in beautiful Sea Isle City NJ a beautiful sea breeze high of only 78.8

Beauty of a day both down the shore in Sea Isle City where the sea breeze battled the synoptic wind with the temp varying 10 degrees over the afternoon hours depending on the wind direction but temps at the beach did peak at 78.6 during one of the late PM land breeze time frames....while back in NW Chesco in East Nantmeal we saw our 5th of the last 6 days with below normal temps with our splits of 74.3/57.9

0.52" as of 130pm here in East Nantmeal - today will be the 2nd lowest max for the date with our 66.0 at midnight - the record is the 65.8 back in 2004

Beautiful night here in NW Chester County PA with dews now in the 40's - no shocker but out here in NW Chesco our "heatwave" never came close to fruition....best we could do was the "dirty" 90 on Sunday at 89.8....no doubt more chances of heat waves here in the NW burbs....but can we break through to the other side??? stay tuned - the drama continues!

2.26" of rain in the CoCo / 1.67" on VP2 and only 1.24" on the Tempest.....hmmm High temp today 83.9 - only 1 dirty 90 here during this heat streak in NW Chesco where heat waves come to die!

Up to 1.19" on the VP more in the CoCo bucket multiple water rescues being reported on route 30 between Coatesville and Downingtown....as mentioned prone to flooding with Route 30 being the low spot surrounded by the North and South Valley Hills ramping up pretty quickly from 200 ft asl at 30 up to near 550 ft pretty quickly

High today 89.0 on VP2 / 88.5 Tempest / 87.4 Ambient - I was able to determine my fan aspirator is not working on my Davis VP2 this may explain why it has been running consistently warmer than my other stations and KMQS of late....

1st 90 of the year - however a dirty one with rounding at 89.7 - also 1st 90+ day at KPTW and KMQS airports - our last 90 degree reading was last July 21st

Temp already up to 88.1 - good shot at 1st 90+ day since last July 21st - fingers and toes crossed we don't get many shots at 90's along the frozen tundra of NW Chesco....down the shore in Sea Isle a beauty of a day with a nice sea breeze and low 70's

PHL with their 4th 90+ yesterday while here in NW Chesco still no 90+ temps yet this year across KMQS, KTPW or East Nantmeal...maybe today??. Across my 3 sensors here in East Nantmeal we had 86.4 on the VP2 / 87.1 on the Ambient and 88.7 on the Tempest

So below are the warmest summers (June-August) in Chester County recorded history. Of interest 9 of the 10 warmest summers occurred prior to 1944

could it be dare I say an "alternate truth" ?

Well first off thanks to my fellow Chesco neighbors Maureen and Tim for the email message both asking me to perform an analysis of Summers in Chester County away from the City - can't believe I never looked at that - thanks guys! So with the summer months (June-July-August) now here I indeed went back through the data set to analyze the Average Summer Temps by Decade since the 1890's here in Western Chester County PA. Some will no doubt be surprised that the top 5 warm decade summers all occurred prior to 1940

Never made it out of the 60's down the NJ Shore with a high of only 67.1 off the chilly ocean waters still in the upper 50's at Sea Isle City but inland starting to get a bit sticky with another below normal high of only 73.8 back in NW Chesco

Shhh shut down any debate (or be subject to cancellation) from anyone who has a different scientific view of the clear "settled science" that 97% of scientists believe....be very very quiet or be dismissed!!

For those that like their data raw and without adjustment decades later....some humor....