CoolHandMike

Hit just above 90 here (shocking, I know!) but now back down to 89 as the clouds are rolling back in. 

Switched from mostly clouds to full sun here. Starting to hot up--there's going to be plenty of daytime heating prior to this evening's forecasted frontal passage. It's nasty out there, happy to be WFH today.

1 minute ago, Birds~69 said:

And my parents paid money for it...go figure.

Indoctrination, much? Lots to unpack here for sure. Glad you escaped.

Really looking forward to getting shafted by today's late afternoon's fake news thunderstorms. Gonna be epic. 

1 hour ago, RedSky said:

TOS Star Trek episode where the planet is a boiling hell cauldron except for one tiny postage stamp size region of tranquil paradise

Maybe this one? https://per-ineptia-ad-astra.tumblr.com/post/635362079283511296/star-trek-episode-124-this-side-of-paradise

Back OT, gonna be a hot one tonight. Almost 8pm and still in the 80's.

4 hours ago, RedSky said:

Going to be a top 10 hottest summer for the regions official climo sites, some making it into top 5. Accomplished with a rare dip in the jet the first half of summer with endless Canadian cool air masses "the pattern that wouldn't end". Stick a fork in it were doomed.

 

Not in certain northern ChesCo parts, I'd warrant. It's practically periglacial up there. 

Random shower gave me 5 drops on the windshield on my way back from the hardware store just now. At least the cloud cover is keeping temps somewhat in check.

Check out my rain gauge (at the bottom) for August:

Abysmal. Models stay hot and dry until Tuesday/Wednesday.

We hit 94.1°, now down to 93. Plenty of >90's all around as well.

34 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Yeah if that holds, you are gonna get some of it (or at least get fringed).

I did make it up to 84 today for a high but the big news was the breeze that took the dps out of the 70s and back into the more tolerable 60s (albeit upper 60s).  Currently mostly sunny and 83 with dp 67.

Nope, complete whiff. As in, there was an actual mini-gust front followed by maybe 5 drops. It was nice and breezy for a while though.

Wait, what? This can't be real. I feel like Charlie Brown being set up for failure.

35 minutes ago, ChescoWx said:

Thanks for this PA data from Chris Martz Wx. The below PA state wide NOAA climate analysis data which is NOT confined to Southeast PA only data really matches up well with the county focused data I analyze. Clearly shows as Chris says "The average number of days per station ≥90° have not increased in Pennsylvania since 1895. Days ≥95° have decreased by a remarkable 43% (1991-2020 minus the 1926-1955 peak)  This also matches well with the same remarkable drop in 90+ days at suburban locales compared to the PHL Airport in that 1991 to 2020 period.

Interesting study. I'd like to see the data on ≥80° and also dewpoints ≥70°, as well as a list and location of the 14 stations. Is this data freely available? Also what is the significance of those specific periods? I don't want to say the data looks cherry-picked, but it seems to me that the math would be more representative if you compared, say, 1895-1957 and then 1957 to present. Or maybe throw some trend lines in there. Regardless, that's pretty neat, thanks for posting.

Ok just had a red blob move over me, .44" in the gauge now. Brings my August total to 1.45". Last year by this point we had ~4.5".

Spoke too soon. Drought over.

My car had 40 drops on it this morning but still nothing in the gauge. Still high and dry since 8/9. 

Zero rain up here so far. So much for rain and t-storms all night.

Made it to 91.5°F today, but as everyone is well aware, humidity is down so it's not so bad. Perfectly acceptable mid-August weather in SE PA as far as I'm concerened. Now how's about we get some precip one of these days?

2 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

I've had 0.95" for the month here so far, and that was a total from 3 days for the month, with one of those days only netting 0.01".

I did make it up to 82 and it's currently partly sunny and 79 with dp 59, so overall another nice late summer day that's not a blast furnace or sauna.

Similar results here: 1.01" which all fell on 3 separate days. We hit 87 here today but it was delightfully breezy most of the day with DP's only in the mid 50's. I'm dreading a repeat of last year where we had a run of 90+ later in August (the last IMBY recording of >90 being 8/30/21), but we shall see. It'd be nice to have a "normal" late summer pattern change again after how many years now of it just being hot all the way into October. (It was 84 on my last birthday on 10/15/21. Especially don't want a repeat of that.)

Interesting retrograding "storms" on radar. The view from my front house cam is pretty impressive: (ignore the reflection of the curtains in the middle, camera is inside behind glass)

Looking NW-ish, storms usually move left-to-right. This is moving the opposite.

Made it to 89.7°F albeit with much reduced DP (high of 61.5) and a nice breeze this evening.

Damn fine sleeping weather. Which I am finally going to go experience. Night all~

2 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

Got a whole inch of rain here last night, bringing the August total to 1.89" so far. Looking forward to some real nice weather the next few days. Currently 76F, dp 66....getting there.

Yeah it got noticeably nicer working outside towards around 4pm this afternoon at my job site. Still hot, but much dryer with a breeze. Looking forward to enjoying this stretch. Last year though we had a hot/humid stretch at the end of August, so hopefully we don't repeat that.

Currently 78 with a DP of 59.7. A nice reprieve.

89.4°F for the high here today. Spent 8 days above 90. Last year we had 4 more days above 90 IMBY from 8/24 through 8/27. Here's hoping we don't get a repeat.

I think I'm hearing our first cicada of the season. 

5 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

That's if it doesn't fizzle by the time it gets here, which has happened with 9/10 popcorn lines.

Outflow boundary visible on radar at least. Made it to .77". 

Just now, Hurricane Agnes said:

Mine hit 113 as a max at some point today.

It's currently 96 with dp 76.

Yikes! Some relief is on the way I think. I just got .75" in like 15 minutes here, and it's cooled down to 78 or so.