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Wild stuff. Las Vegas Fire & Rescue found the body of a possible drowning victim entangled in debris in northwest Las Vegas early Saturday morning, officials said in a statement. The department responded to a report of an unconscious person near the intersection of Lorenzi Street and Westcliff Drive. The victim likely was swept away by moving water. Clark County has been under a flash flood warning since Friday.

Yeah today was solid. The past three days especially but today was warmer at 77F for a high. Sort of looking forward to a last hurrah of deep summer heat and humidity. A reason to run the A/C once again.

73/57 Dews creeping up.

SE MA radiating nicely through 10pm tonight.

Local PWS did 75F and 45F today, MVL with 74F off 46F. I feel our radiating is getting cut off pretty quickly on these clear nights from fog formation. The ground is so wet and saturated, warm too... and we get these late summer troughs with cool air, everything 1,000ft and below is just 1/4 or M1/4 visibility cloud.

Widespread two-foot+ water during Met Summer across the region... up here: June... 5.26" July... 14.41" August... 8.38" Total... 28.05"

Yeah, and compressional warming as usual with NW flow down into the low lands in SNE. Short-lived but -10F on the max temp (66F) despite full sunshine was still noticeable here. Saw ORH hit 73F on the same normal of 76F as up here. So only -3F. Not very noteworthy down there. Pretty cool that MWN was coding snow this AM (not GS or IP)... yeah, late August -SHSN certainly isn't out of the realm of possibilities but it's also a respectable airmass. Didn't seem to dig as much into the southern regional zones.

There’s always that one tree that wants to get the party started before the others. Today had a definite fall vibe for temperature, wind, and lowering sun angle. Afternoon temperatures were near 40F at 6k feet on MWN, 50F at 4K feet on Mansfield, and mid-60s in the mountain valleys. To be honest I’m not ready to jump fully into autumn; next week’s heat and summer temps will be welcomed.

First true hoodie evening. 52F at 8:10pm… 53F last hourly update. Going to be in the 40s by 9pm.

Definitely was a dung summer for big heat.

First 30s on Mansfield since June 8th. Ten minutes of 38F lol. Struggling in mid-60s up north with full sunshine, fairly autumn-like air mass.

57/46 at 10am and bright sunshine. Feels crisp.

Locally up north here, there was some strong orographic lift responses from NW flow. The mountain (Mansfield) saw some solid lifting enhancements that the valley didn’t. 1.00-1.50” Hill vs 0.50-1.00” Valley.

Yup, many of us had them with a win total in the 80s… a .500 team or a game or so above. The jury might still be out on the front office and coaching staff as they are always more concerned with the future than today… which is incredible frustrating at times when they play 162 games a season. And the games are 3 hours long. Sometimes urgency in the near-term is a good thing when fans lack patience for the long-game.

They’ve done a great job crafting a young talented team. Should be great for years too. Extending young guys prior to free agency and drafting very well has paid off. Opposite of the Yankees who have been built on older aging veteran free agents.

Temp down to 62F and getting breezy out of the NW. Up to almost .80” water today.

Love Ginxy but an interesting hill to die on right now, ha.

About a half inch today up a bit NW but pouring again. Have had a variety of downpours from time to time this afternoon at the mountain.

Pouring this morning… really missed the rain when gone.

Yeah, that only happens if the August pattern completely and absolutely dissolves into full ridge overwhelming from the central portion of the country. Likely there remains a tendency for FROPAs (especially NE’ern areas) moving over-the-top towards the Maritimes. But we look to get periods of true summer warmth during the first part of September. Guess it’s not totally unusual.

I think September is a lock for above normal, and any month with that long wave pattern (as advertised during the first third of the month) is going to be a contender for a higher-scale departure. Charts usually lay the ground work for the future outcomes, pretty colors and all. Red or blue. In this case, red. Much different than August. If we are going to accept models did well in August, we need to accept that they will do well in September. Can’t attack the data because of an agenda or pre-conceived mindset… which is very important to remember these days.

Yeah I’ve got some, mostly night shots, ha. Far too hot to carry the camera around in a backpack during the daytime, had to keep it to iPhone shots then. Ill post some in the banter thread one of these days.

Back in VT today after landing in BOS yesterday… Today’s 81/64 felt downright cool. It is crazy how the body acclimates… two weeks in Europe and not a single day in any city visited saw a high temp under 90F. Most were mid/upper 90s. It started to feel like normal. Today, windows and doors open feeling like it’s 72/48 but it was 81/64. Pretty wild how two weeks of 95F with nights of 70-75F can reset your baseline.

Gotta stay on brand. Never give in.

Think you’ll beat your brutal August max temp of 81F? In all honestly may not see an August completely devoid of any heat like that again.