CoolHandMike

Have now watched 3 storms flare up and then die right before getting to me. Frustrating. Looks like we wit 93.7°F today. Currently 86 with a DP of 76. Gross.

6th day in a row of >90°F. Can't wait for this to be over. Radar looks like it's filling in again, time for the Reading Rain Shield to go up. I'm at .23" for the last 7 days.

Looks like a shield paralleling Rt 422 actively resisting the approaching storm.

Yeah I was just outside with my dog looking at that. Supposedly a storm is inching towards me, we'll see if it ever gets here. Not betting on it--it has that "holy crap Armageddon is approaching aaaaaand it's gone" look to it.

And that was a nope. Maybe overnight.

Maybe we'll get something out of this (to my west):

On GOES-East you can see the outflow boundary regressing SW from that storm complex over NE PA. Kinda neat. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-Mid_Atlantic-truecolor-48-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

I'm in the sun hole to the NW. Currently 79°F and climbing rapidly. Somehow we eked out .11" just after midnight last night.

This equals some rain drops on the back deck and nothing in the gauge.

RedSky Heat Island in full effect Everything's bypassed us up here, but se might get a sprinkle or two if the backside keeps developing.

Baltimore and it's 'burbs have been getting hammered for like the past half-hour. I wonder if it'll dissipate diurnally or continue along. Atmosphere's pretty juiced ahead of it still.

I'm literally watching the downpours slide off to the NE through my front house camera. At least there's a breeze and the temp got knocked down to... checks PWS... 89. Whew, what a relief that is

And diverting around my house, as per usual

Lots of 90's and above up here and down there. I just checked Allentown though and they're reading 100! Harrisburg reports 98, and south of you, Oxford reports 91 and Phoenixville says 96. Enjoy your microclimate while the rest of us bake, my hill-top friend. Here are the stations closest to me: (closest to me is highlighted.)

Lots of pop-ups sprouting on radar to the west. Maybe some of that makes it over here?

Third heat wave IMBY this summer, as opposed to 6 by this time last year.

Forgot to add: 5/20-7/31 2021: Average: 73.13 Average High: 85.39 Average Low: 62.45 5/20-7/31 2022: Average: 74.12 Average High: 86.61 Average Low: 62.84

All data recorded from my backyard nano-climate, ~400' ASL. I'm not sure what to make of the trend lines--I think they'll be more representative at the end of the season, so make of them what you will. I think the most noteworthy thing on this chart is the distribution of this year's precipitation vs 2021. So, it's raining just as much IMBY as last year, but in fewer but larger instances. I have recorded 29 days above 90°F in 2022 and 25 in 2021: Daily lows for consistency: Incidentally, the average dewpoints are only marginally higher for this period for this year (2021 = 62.27 2022 = 62.46) : Anyway, thanks for reading and allowing me to nerd out on some weather data.

I sure hope so!

Ended up with .45" overnight, so not bad. July this year saw 3.61", while July 2021 saw 5.31". I'm going to update my nano-climatology charts probably tomorrow now that I have June and July captured for two consecutive years. In other news, our zucchinis are mostly spent (we planted too many in too small a space, and then the heat just zapped their will to live), and the SLF are attacking my cucumber plants, but not really anything else. Makes me kinda nervous for next year when we're planning on growing watermelon (cucumbers are part of the melon family). We'll have to find a way to combat them I guess. This is our first year growing a garden so we're pretty OK with it being a "learning year" for us, and our yields so far have been promising--the cherry tomatoes are producing like gangbusters, and the Brandywines and San Marzanos are looking promising as well. The pole beans are just now (finally) starting to flower, and the carrots, onions, garlic and potatoes seem to be doing quite well. The lessons learned will be quite invaluable next year. Not looking forward to Thursday, looks like it'll be a scorcher.

Solid green on the local radar yet again, and still no measurable accumulation. Maybe could squeeze out a couple of hundredths when all is said and done. 'Night everybody.

I saw pumpkin spice beer on the shelves of one of my local beer stores a week ago. Like, what? Who wants pumpkin beer in July! And it's always sold out around the time you'd actually want it, around T-day. smh Please do tell, maybe on the OT thread! 71°F here now, windows open. More phantom rain incoming from the west.

We bought some "navy" sized bottles of rum, gin, vodka and tequila at the start. (Calling them "navy size" is a holdover from when my wife and I were in the service many years ago. Kind of a running joke in our little group of still-connected vets. But I digress.) They have all sat, unopened and unloved this entire time since none of us are huge consumers of liquor. My wife and I are mostly beer people, but it's kinda harder to stock up what we thought would have to have been a many-month supply of that. I've also been out of the brewing game for a while and we didn't really have the means to begin brewing again at that time. This was back when we all thought the liquor and beverage stores would be closing indefinitely. I mean, I did buy around 4 cases of lager to hopefully tide us over, but we were all flying blind back then. And then the stores never really closed, so that's why the liquor cabinet has remained fully stocked for over 2 years. Anyway, I just find it interesting to look back and try to remember what our exact thought process was like back then. Maybe it'll come in handy as barter material when the real apocalypse happens. Received .06" yesterday. Today's forecast is calling for around an inch, but I just don't see it. Maybe all of you to the south and east, but not us. Enjoying the relatively cool breeze right now though. Regarding this current weather snapshot, you can see we are fully covered in green and though the ground surface is certainly wet, there's nothing in the gauge, and nothing falling from the sky right now. I maintain that something's screwy with the radars recently.

It's drizzling outside right now, but since we stayed at nearly 100% humidity overnight nothing dried up from yesterday's rain. Lawn's greening up nicely. What a nice change of events, enjoying it while it lasts.

That would be great--I'm all for this being the new pattern for a while. Those three-ish weeks of dryness really sucked.