John1122

That was a heck of a morning storm. Tons of boomers and heavy rain. No power here.

Hail underway. Pea and dime sized. That's 3 hailers this week.

Rocking and rolling here. Stiff wind and extremely heavy rain again. Flooding is all but assured. It was nearly as dark as night as this one moved in.

Ended up getting some dime sized hail, strong wind and just exceptionally heavy rain from that one.

Man, quite a storm, downpour here. Wasn't really expecting it yesterday but it seems like it rains almost every chance it gets this summer. According to sky conditions after this passes, possibly going to have yet another day with a high in the 70s.

80.6 for the high today. I hope the other shoe doesn't drop and we have a fall/winter heat wave. We kinda had the heatwave Jan-March this year.

Carver's spoke of creating an early winter spec thread recently, and after another day in the 70s in August, I figured why not get the ball rolling. This for general long term talk about the potential winter patterns, etc. Right now, the EPO has went negative, it's at -12, and is in the East descending phase. In 2021-22 it fell into the negative in May and stayed deeply negative until the following May. So it should descend throughout winter. Below, average pressure anomalies over NH when the QBO is negative. Higher in the PNA/NAO region, lower over the south and eastern U.S. (These maps may initially appear confusing, since they greens are positive numbers. It just means that the they are higher by those margins over those areas or lower by those margins over those areas when there isn't a -QBO in place. Just keep in mind green = lower pressure and cooler temps during -QBO years) There tends to be higher pressure over the North Pole during a -QBO, which results in a weaker jet stream/polar vortex on average. During an El Nino/-QBO combination our forum region is slightly BN for temps DJF and pressures are quite a bit lower across the Southeast (our storm track). The map doesn't look unlike this for temps, but BN for Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina and up the east coast is more prominent than the CPC map here. Especially over Texas.

Had one of the loudest, longest claps of thunder I've ever experienced this morning. Must have hit close and somehow it went on shaking the house for at least 8 to 10 seconds.

Condolences buddy. It's tough when we start losing our parents. I feel you on the MCL. I sprained mine hiking down a steep ridge a few years ago. It was bad enough.

59 this morning and 79 for the high. It's the year without a summer practically here.

Some trees down and the hail was nickel+ sized. I did just hear on the scanner that trees were across Shady Cove road but some ol' boys had already cut them out, so they canceled the county crew. (One out of every 4 vehicles has a chainsaw)

This one means business. Hail and a gust to 68 so far.

This warned storm is about to hit me. Already a whole lot of thunder and it's almost as dark as night out.

Even under sunny skies I only made it to 79 degrees yesterday. Warmer today, peaked at 83.1. Looks like some more storms possible tonight and tomorrow. I truly hope this pattern can repeat in winter at some point with BN temps and precip events.

Only about an inch here. But another day with the high in the low 70s. Summer's worst, on average, is behind us.

The rain event looks less impactful for tomorrow than originally forecast. Went from 70 percent chance down to 20 for my area. Still been a nice soaker since this morning and my tomatoes are huge with some 1lb fruits on the vine. Still not ripe but turning that corner. I should have a lot of them through August and September.

Temp/Precip wise, this summer is similar to 2013 imby. We only had 3 days at 90 all summer long, all in July. It was fairly wet. All fall and winter months were normal to below 2013 into 2014. January was -9 here. February was -2.5, and March -3. 2013-14 was La Nada though.

Wasn't expecting rain tonight but just had a shower. My tomatoes are huge. Now they just need to get ripe. I've been using heirloom varieties and they are slow to come and slow to ripen. They have been out about 85 days now. One of my plants is about 12 feet tall and is nearly as thick as a half dollar. It's the biggest I've ever managed to get one. The last three years severe storms have blown them over and broken them around this time of year, cage and all. This year I built a green limb frame work around the cages a couple weeks ago. Hopefully it holds up.

No 90s for June or July. I've had more highs in the 70s this month than I have had highs of 87+.

About 5000 meters without power here. Ended up with some heavy rain and lots of thunder but the bad winds were south of me and east of me.

It never has rained, but the temp is down to 85.1. This may be a no 90 summer imby.

Got up to 88.2 but now there's frequent thunder from a storm just to my south. It's unlikely to rain here from it but it's cooled the temperature down to 87 on the dot already.

Made it to 87.8. The temperature is down to 87.4 now. We are close to sunset for mby. I'll be fully behind the big ridges behind my house in the next 45 minutes. Areas in town 500-700ish feet lower than me look to be 93 to 95 today. Slight elevation, but much more so, lots of woods and the complete lack of nearby pavement, that really helps me stay cooler. It's a few miles and an entire mountain between me and any pavement more than about 15 feet wide, and it barely qualifies as pavement these days. It's mostly gravel. I have a hard time getting to the mid 90s unless we have low low humidity and today we do not have low humidity.

If this weather station just south of Wartburg is correct, Holston may have melted.

This is the hottest day of the week so far at 3:25 with some room for warming still to go if we don't get clouds. My high for the year is 88.