CoolHandMike

Hope you guys don't mind me lurking here all day from the Philly area forum, but I'm glad you guys made it through (mostly) unscathed. Around 2pm today I took a break from watching the smoke progression in southeastern PA to check the radar and went "holy smokes" because it looked very similar to the 2012 derecho in its initial stages. I mean, that thing was booking it. I then spent the afternoon geeking out over the 2012 event (during which I was actually camping in southern Delaware and had no clue at the time what was going on) while simultaneously absorbing the commentary in this thread. Today was a very interesting weather day to be sure, and it's always nice to have knowledgeable folks contributing to the conversation. The smoke's still pretty bad here, but hopefully it'll let up this weekend. I was kinda hoping for some relief tonight with that rapidly charging MCS but I guess it's one of those "be careful what you wish for" type deals. Cheers and goodnight~

Now THAT was a wild read, thanks Agnes!

This bit from the writeup got me: That was me. I was camping down in slower Delaware that night. It was really wild at the time, but I didn't know anything about it really until I got home the next day.

FWIW, the mets in the midwest forum are saying it'll most likely turn south. Still a very interesting thing to watch develop!

Nevermind. A custom search for "derecho" in June 2012 yielded no results.

3K NAM says it'll be pushed south. I wonder if we can find model runs (on here, perhaps) prior to the 2012 event...

Instantly reminded me of the 2012 derecho: I think it's worth keeping an eye on this one. I didn't realize that one crossed into Indiana ~2pm and hit the east coast only 10 hours later.

I've been so preoccupied with the smoke that I haven't checked the radar in quite a while. That sure is one heck of an MSC/bow echo sweeping east out of the midwest!

True. I just happen to know that Merck site is undergoing environmental remediation for all the toxic crap they produced there. https://www.epa.gov/hwcorrectiveactioncleanups/hazardous-waste-cleanup-merck-sharp-and-dohme-corporation-west-point Even more OT, the A/C guy found out some settings that were wrong from the initial installation in May, as well as a loose wire behind the thermostat, which he was super happy to show to me. I remain skeptical, but at least it's working again. For now. Back OT: our AQI appears to be getting worse:

We gotchu, JTA66: Just hope you don't live downwind from that Merck site. Either that sensor is permanently funky, or there's always some seriously nasty shiz in the air: Both of these sensors are in this snapshot of the AQI fire map:

Not here we're not. We're still in a deficit out here. Smoke is pretty bad this morning. Ugh, here we go again.

Good night for my brand-spanking new heat pump A/C to quit working. AQI is hovering around 100, so opening the windows is risky, but without A/C my house is at 78°F and will take considerable amount of time to cool down as the front of the house (mostly brick) just bakes in the afternoon sun. Called and left a message for them to come out first thing in the morning, but now I'm debating having an emergency service call. Currently 73 outside right now, and I know it's supposed to get down to ~60-ish, so I think we'll be fine; it could be much hotter/humid outside. Still. Not happy--this'll be the second service call in two months for the same issue. Mind you--I'M fine to wait for the morning, but I have people under my roof who are immunocompromised and suffer from asthma/allergies out the wazoo. It has not been a, shall we say, comfortable time for all of us these past few years. As soon as it cools down enough, I'll close all the windows and just run the system on "fan only" so at least we will gain the benefit of filtration.

It peaked here around 11-12 this morning at just over 100 but seems to be on the decline now.

.34" from today's rain, for a two-day total of 1.09". Not too bad. Still need more though to make up for May's deficit.

That's super cool to be able to toss up a drone for those pics. I wish I could do that, but I'm too close to an airport.

Got a whole .18" out of that. There's stuff still forming though, so I'm holding out hope. It looks like the radar's filled in pretty well over our region overall.

Whoa. It's actually raining right over my house for a change! Waiting to see if this line will merge or part around us as per usual.

Hearing some rolling thunder now at the tail end of this. .69" in the gauge for the day. Both rain barrels (50gal each) should be full by now.

OMG, we have actual precip here! The storms actually closed in and we're up another .2" for the day!

You know what though? This is a pretty neat even to track as that low stalls out over the Great Lakes. At least some weather in the region is better than no weather in the region. So while I may be personally offended that it all seems to keep missing me, at least it's entertaining.

And again, I find myself in the middle of a split system. Unbelievable. (I'm just west of the "S" in South Temple.) It's all parting around us. There has to be something about our local geography that causes this to happen so very, very often, I just can't figure out what.

No no, you were right. We got close to half an inch precip a couple of weeks ago, and that completely filled the barrel. I probably could have worded that better though. I live in an L-shaped split-level, so lots of roof area drains into my east corner, in the back of the house. The new one should get a lot of the runoff from the western side of the house, out in front.

Well, see, I went and did a dumb. I installed ANOTHER barrel last weekend. So I have no one to blame but myself. First barrel did fill up with only 1/2" of rain though, and I expect the second will as well. Actually, it probably already has some in it from this morning, I completely forgot to check!

Looks like the red stuff is going to miss us. Again. Dangit. Maybe tomorrow? Seems pretty insane to need to run my garden irrigation with all of these storms swirling about, but there you have it.

It's cooled off nicely, down to 77 and the DP is also down somewhat to 66. Still nothing since this morning though.