CoolHandMike

Have 6.2" 6.72" (oops typo) in my bucket

1 minute ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Which Newark?  There are 2 of them in 2 different states (and pronounced differently to boot) in or near the CWA!

And yeah, if that doesn't break up and move on, you also  may end up with trees uprooting and falling on wires - even if there was not much wind.  I noticed the motion had started west -> east earlier but then started going south -> north, but it keeps back-building over the Reading area.

NJ. All the roads are flooded here. I have to leave here at 4am, so who knows...

Just now, Hurricane Agnes said:

I was wondering where you were.  Like 2/3rds of Berks has been under that.

I'm currently at 81 with dp 75 and overcast.  Most of the stuff has stayed west of here.

Busy doing meal prep for a week of travel to lovely Newark. That radar does not bode well. Going to start prepping for any possible power outages/water main breaks.

I have water in my basement for the first time since we moved here almost 3 years ago. It's just seeping from a crack in the wall, but still. We live on a hill, and it didn't do that when that tropical storm dumped 5" on us so I thought we were in the clear. I guess that 3" we received on Friday plus today's rain is what it takes to do that. Good to know... Good to know...

Uh, guys?

Absolutely chucked it down for a little bit, we're up to .91" for the day.

Just got incredibly dark out. Storm is mostly behind the house, this is looking NW:

Picked up another .04" just now, but we're all still waiting for the main event I think.

80°F/74DP

My wife went outside to knock the Japanese beetles off the rose bushes and returned a few minutes later just drenched in sweat. She's noping out of further yardwork today lol.

Parents' farm east of Oxford got 1.9". They really needed it!

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

His pants were too tight cutting flow to the brain or a weenie spotter is my guess.

Haven't seen anything online. That's Floyd territory...

74F/DP 72F

I guess we shall wait and and see if the NWS posts any totals tomorrow.

2 hours ago, JTA66 said:

Adam Joseph said 6” in Exton. FOOK! 

I'd like to know where they measured that. Having a poke around at some of the PWS in the area showed between 0 and 1.5", though I did see a 3.5" just south of Exton.

Whelp, there's our 3" for July. Back to regularly scheduled kvetching. Good luck, everybody!

2.4" in 40 minutes... flood warnings are up lol

Already surging past .69". that's about a 2-3"/hr rate. We really needed this, but dang. Haven't had a proper gully washer in a while!

Holy crap it went up to .74 in the few seconds it took me to copy/paste this.

BIG rain here now. The cell that was stalled to my immediate SW filled in right over us.

3 minutes ago, JTA66 said:

Some low-level clouds keeping temps in check this morning. Waiting to see if full sun breaks out and sends us off to the races. Still, no heat advisories or warnings, so how "hot" is it really??

82F/DP 75F

I know I'm pretty far north and east of most of us, but it's hella hot and humid here. It is starting to cloud up a bit though, and it looks like there might be showers popping up here and there.

I just noticed that it cooled down from 91 to 71 in about an hour, now it's on the way back up at 73. We got .25".

Ok I take it back. Proper pouring right now. Woo!

Stationary pop-up storm fringing me just to my west. We do have some raindrops though, so that's nice.

Temp dropped from 91 to 80 as well. I'll take it.

Just noticed another air quality alert for tomorrow through Friday. Just normal stuff, or Smoke Monster, Part III? 

LIES AND PREVARICATIONS

Currently 93 with a DP of 66. Warm but not super unpleasant.

A/C guys did their thing and supposedly found a blockage in one of the return vents that was restricting the amount of air to the unit, so it wasn't flowing as fast as it should have been, and thusly was never triggering the second stage of our cooling cycle... at least that's as far as I understand it. I don't know why it was perfectly capable of handling multiple >90°F days in June, but ok... All I know is, I was measuring the air coming out of my home office vent at around 62 (when it was sorta working before) and now it's been a constant 57-58. The house does feel cooler but the thermostat in the living room (set to 70) still reads 72, some 6 hours after they left. I think I can be ok with that on a 93°F day, so long as it's consistent and doesn't start slowly creeping up again. Time will tell. Incidentally, it's set so low because the thermostat is located in one of the coolest rooms of the house. With that set to 70, the warmest room in the house (my wife's office) should keep at around 72-73. We have a split-level with a weird layout, so that's what we've deemed as being acceptable.

I yet remain skeptical to the point where I'm about to deploy some RasPi's with thermocouples to start data-logging. I told that last part to my wife yesterday, and she about died laughing. I was all, "what. You knew who you were marrying. Sheesh." 

36 minutes ago, Newman said:

Made it to around 92 here in Fleetwood. Some slow moving pop up storms forming over the coastal plain and Philly. Weak steering flow, humid/moist atmosphere, and convective T reached means you get these typical summer time pop ups. Not widespread in nature today

 

On another note, I will finally be moving to Wyoming in less than 3 weeks to continue my education and get my PhD. It's been a pleasure to be apart of the Philly subforum here, I don't think I'll be back east any time soon! But I'll still be posting here occasionally, can't escape your home roots

Congrats! I did some field study in WY a while back and fell in love with the place. So much naked geology.

4 hours ago, Albedoman said:

do you have a a heat pump system?  If so , it sounds like the defrost board or the reversing valve maybe screwed up. The other issue in this high humidity is that the compressor maybe screwed up too if they never charged the unit with enough coolant when they installed it.  Low coolant pressure can give you the appearance that the unit is working as the more you turn down the thermostat, the warmer it gets in the house as the air never really cools. 

Yes. So lighting a fire has yielded the result I wanted. They have a crew coming out at 10, with Bosch tech support on standby in case they need to make a "site visit" for some reason. It's going to be hot today, so we'll see if they can resolve it before then. Fingers crossed.