CoolHandMike
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Sneaked in another inch between yesterday and today. We fertilized the lawn right before it rained a couple of days ago and it is greeeeeeeen. Joke's on me, I'll have to start mowing it every other day at this rate.
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Got exactly 1" in the gauge. It's only 68 outside so we had the windows open for a bit before the humidity got to us. I hate running the AC on a day like today but if you try to do anything at all physical it's just sweat city. (I'm finishing a complete bathroom remodel.) Shouldn't need to run it for too long though I think.
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2 hours ago, BBasile said:
What a misty, overcast, miserable weather day. I love it! Such a relief from that sweatbox people call Florida. High of 72F today, currently at 70.5. 0.05" of rain on the day.
Welcome back! Yeah it drizzle-rained all day at my work site in southern NJ. Then I drove through it off and on back up to Reading just now, it was lovely.
Slightly OT, but I took a look around our neighborhood, and it's about 50/50 people who have mowed recently to those who have not. Usually you'll only see the occasional unkempt front yard, so that's pretty telling for just how hot and dry it's been. I'll bet there'll be an army of lawnmowers going tomorrow.
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What an absolutely lovely, rainy, pre-fall day. Needs to be a touch cooler before the flannel sheets go on though.
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8 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:
The Schuylkill was slow to respond (must have been running relatively low)
Aye, it's been super low up here in Reading for months. Came up almost a foot, but we didn't see as much rain out here as points further east I reckon. I don't see how the forecasted value will come to be given that most of the precip has swung through many hours ago.
I wonder how much our prolonged dryness has affected runoff.
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Looking at 2.32" total for the even thus far. Not bad. We needed this--yesterday I string-trimmed and then attempted to mow the front yard but it was hard to see where I'd already been since the grass is pretty much dormant. Actually looks much greener today though.
Temps stayed around 69-70 all night, only now starting to increase to 72.
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Have .48" now. Looks like a dry slot has set up over Reading (as per usual lol).
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57 minutes ago, BBasile said:
Enjoy the rain everyone. I'll be back tomorrow night after it ends (of course), while I actually bake down here. lol
Yuck! Looks like it's only 82 in Turnersville, and the good news is that it was 84 here in Reading, now down to 69 after the rain started. Speaking of which, we've picked up .39" thus far but have been in a bit of a lull for the past hour. Getting some fall-like vibes here what with all the leaves that have already fallen due to the heat/dryness around here. Loving it.
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After a brief downpour with huge, fat drops (40 of them, I counted), it's now finally steadily raining. 73.4°F outside feels nice as well.
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2 hours ago, Birds~69 said:
87F/DP 68F
*Philly 91F/ 47th day 90F+
Last year my last >90°F day was 8/30/21. Today we hit 92.1. Hopefully the long term forecast is correct (ha!) and we stay below 90 for the rest of the year.
Seeing lots of "heat lightning" from the storms to my NW. Today's forecast was an absolute bust. I don't have much confidence in tomorrow, either. How much you wanna bet they walk our chances for rain way back again?
Lies and prevarications:
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8 hours ago, Birds~69 said:
You'll be well liked around here that's for sure.
Stepped outside after the PSU game. Super nice, somewhat Fall-like, critters, borderline flannel weather...
If tonight is anything like last night, I might contemplate having a fire in the back yard fire pit. Last night was lovely.
Speaking of lovely weather:
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1 hour ago, ChescoWx said:
Hi Mike, the locations I mentioned with relative long consecutive data points are Glenmoore, KMQS and Coatesville/East Nantmeal. It looks like inland toward Pittsburgh also experienced near normal summer readings (see below) The key is to get away from the UHI issues at KPHL and other airports along the NE coastal plain. I know the NWS is looking into the PHL sensor problems. Does your 42 days of 90+ make you question how you could have 42 days....while KPHL at sea level has 46 days yet KPTW has only 10 days and KMQS only 9 days? What is your elevation again? Is your sensor sited in the sun? does it have a solar shield and or a fan aspirated system if it is in the sun? If not it should be located on the north - shady side of your house and away from direct sunlight. There is a site in Reading at 1000ft that has recorded not a single 90 degree reading all year. I am guessing you must be below 200 feet to even approach the KPHL heat island numbers?
This is my setup:
It sits on a pole on top of my shed. It is not a NIST-certified ASOS, but again, and I feel like I'm becoming a broken record, my readings are consistently inline with other regional obs. I'm at ~370 ASL on a relatively low topographic slope between all the little foothills here in Reading. It's a fully developed bedroom community, so perhaps there's a little bit of UHI going on, but, well, I live here, and so what it says the temp is at any given moment, that's what I feel when I go outside. About the only thing it doesn't really pick up on too great are winds since the houses here are packed in pretty tight.
Of course a station at 1000' is going to record less >90°F days than me. I bet they're probably consistently 2-3° less than what I see. What's important is what they see year-over-year; you didn't mention if they were trending warmer, cooler, or the same as in years past. That would be meaningful data.
Glenmoore, KMQS and Coatesville/East Nantmeal seem like an awfully small subset of available data points to perform any meaningful statistical analysis for the whole of ChesCo, much less for the region of SE PA and NJ represented here in our forum. I also don't see how Pittsburg is geographically relevant. Good for them, though.
Debate is welcome, but I'm tired of having to constantly defend my observations because they don't jive with yours, in a completely different geographic setting. Of course they're different. Stop acting so surprised all the time.
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1 hour ago, ChescoWx said:
Sorry birds they are the only weather facts we have here in Western Chesco and they are all incredibly aligned for 3 distinct locations -2 with data back between 66 and 129 years - not saying where you live was not somehow hot this summer. Where I am and other observers near me recorded - it was simply a normal summer and certainly far from anywhere near a hot summer based on NWS historical observations. Just the facts as always here!! But please share your local data that shows how hot it was - thanks again!! Paul
When we were house-searching a couple of years ago, I would have loved to have been able to move to someplace more local to where I grew up like East Nantmeal. However we were quickly priced out of Chester County amidst the huge housing bubble. So while I'm happy for you that your summer was "normal", East Nantmeal is simply not representative of the region as a whole, you must be aware of this. However however, it IS still interesting, given your geographic and elevation disparity with most of the rest of us. It would seem to me that a mere ~400' of added elevation can produce a statistically significant result... for now. I'm still waiting for a list of those weather stations you mentioned in your previous post.
FWIW, I've recorded 42 days above 90° IMBY thus far. My readings have shown enough correlation over the last two years with other local obs that I trust them.
In other news, I'm looking forward to publishing my updated IMBY charts tomorrow. Do you guys mind seeing them here, or would it be better to start (and maintain) a separate thread?
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Looks like I'm going to finish August with 2.06" of rain, compared to last year's 7.56" (barring a freak pop-up tomorrow, highly unlikely though). The plus side (if you can call it that) is that I've only had to mow about once every 10-12 days this summer. If I'd done that last summer I'd have needed a brush hog. Here's hoping September will be a little wetter.
That said, I recorded nearly 10" recorded for September 2021, though most of that was the 5"+ we got on 9/1/21 (iir that's when the Skook flooded downstream from us). Aside from that, rain was pretty sparse in these parts until the end of October. Do not want a repeat of that.
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Made it to .61". A very welcome, though brief respite.
That line looks pretty neat popping off on satellite:
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Main band gave us just over a half inch. Might get some scraps in a little while, hopefully.
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Raining! Already up to .31". Very little in the way of thunder near me though.
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Just now, RedSky said:
Deathline or 40 drops what is it lol
Still waiting for the main event
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3 minutes ago, RedSky said:
Storm basement!
LOL. DP shot way up:
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10 minutes ago, RedSky said:
Yeah wicked gust line models didnt have
Gust front just now hitting here.
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That's the angriest sky I've seen in a long while. Looking west.
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Dewpoint is actually going down in front of the storms. Weird.
Wind is picking up quite a bit however.
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Clouds broke and we're at 93 right now. Sky looks pretty menacing to the west, we shall see if it amounts to anything.
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25 minutes ago, Rtd208 said:
Current temp 92/DP 72/RH 53%
Almost exactly the same here ~120 miles west of you.
E PA/NJ/DE Fall 2022 OBS Thread
in Philadelphia Region
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Say what now?
I have a crabbing trip planned 9/22-9/25 where we're "camping" down near Ocean City, MD. Then on 9/26 I'm scheduled to be in Newark for two weeks. This could be interesting, to say the least.