Bubbler86

People expect 50K a year to do assembly work these days,

It is not like Mt Joy has an airport and parachute school like you guys do,

About 1/10th of an inch of rain in the bucket so far today.

87 here today. MDT made 90 or 91.

That was the "trying" comment. I figured you would duck them :-)

It heard Canderson says he would be high and dry this week and it is trying to find him.

What does it say about the upcoming summer when on day one we are better defining what constitutes a heat wave?

If Newman does it, the note paper would have thunder bolts and tornadoes at the top border. "From the Desk of Newman"

It would be anomalous but not dangerous in most cases except to our psyche. Would be lots of kicking of footballs going on.

Interesting, I did not know the specifics. But that is one possible way to limit it vs. trying to say hitting 70 five days in a row in Feb is a heat wave. I believe the whole premise of the phrase use is to warn people in specific situations about danger. People who work outside, sports players, people (especially very young and elderly) in non air conditioned locales. So, agree that hitting 70 five days in a row in January is not a heat wave. Maybe you can also say 90 is the min but it also has to be 7 AN so 90 in August does not work.

Hopefully you will pass this all on to MU for future consideration? :-)

I thought of that so was thinking maybe it has to be a day that the NWS records Cooling Degree days. MDT got to 79 in Feb '18 but apparently has a limit on when they record CDD as it still says 0.

That is one of the main points of the discussion: 1) Adjust from 90 to a set amount above normal (7 degrees? 5 Degrees?) -OR- 2) Adjust from actual temp to heat indices but still use the normal as the baseline. So heat index of +7 AN for 5 or more days. It got to 89 here yesterday but the DP's were in the low 60's so in the shade it was just a slightly warm day.

MU 2022 end of May and June first Heat Wave

I think they should be considered heat waves since they are 5 or more but if they were all upper 90's and 100's it is a lot more noteworthy than low 90's. I did not check the records just again pointing out the problem is using the set number.

And a 5 day streak of plus 90 in August is not exactly something that USATODAY covers front page.

Are you asking all of us or just the warminista's?

Plus the heat index has to be figured in. 90/60 is a cake walk compared to 87/80.

It'strainingtime...training met's what a real heatwave is? Are you going to call MU and tell him that the heatwave has not verified per Amwx?

This is definitely a deja vu of last years discussion for the reasons you mentioned. If 90 is the threshold then we have Heat Waves galore. I think it has to be more than 3 days and based on a certain amount over average, not a set temp.

And think of the snow...asking Cashtown if he has caught up to you yet. And the gas savings in mowing (even when all the grass dies).

Folks that prefer more snow and maybe a less hot regime have even more reason to look into Adams and Franklin county now. Cashtown and I have struggled to get to 90 during the last 3 days. I have not made it yet and he just made 90 yesterday. FWIW, I am still of the opinion that a heat wave needs to be more than 3 days since that is the WMO definition so we even have less heatwaves here when it does get hot :-). Last year this group used the 5 day definition.

84 and variably cloudy for nooners here.

I wonder when the US will take up using thermometers that registers in F? I just came from the gas station and they wanted $18 a litre! The gas price is out of control.