CoolHandMike

And as I typed that, I could see the wall of rain approaching from my front door camera. Now it's all gone, yet there are yellow returns supposedly currently above us with reds approaching. Surely this can be virga, it's like 76% humidity! Like what is even going on with this weather anymore My house is being micro-dry-slotted. Edit: Spoke too soon. Down-poured as soon as the reds got to us, finally. Looks like .4" all said and done. Sun's out again, we're at 1.1" for the day. Not bad. Just really weird how it played out.

Looks like we're finally in the firing line for one of these storms. There's still time for it to fizzle out but it actually looks like the convection is picking up again after a brief lull. Made it to 91.9 today.

Almost the same, got .66" in the gauge. Windows are steamy this morning.

Radar indicates rain just to my north, but there's nothing on the lightning indicator and the ground is bone dry. Normally you'd see evidence of convection with those red returns, right? Eh, hopefully somebody's getting a downpour for a few minutes at least. It's just not us this time.

Really dark clouds overhead. Looks like it wants to rain but I'm sure any returns are just virga at the moment. 84.7 here, DP: 68.

Drove by the Skook near Reading omw home from errands just now and noticed it's at least a good foot lower than normal. We need some rain. Made it up to 90.8°F around 12:30pm before the clouds rolled in. At least the humidity's down somewhat, though I suspect that'll be on the increase here soon.

Yup been subbed there for quite some time. I should clarify that we have stayed overnight a couple of times, usually at Ft. Whaley (now called Sun Outdoors Ocean City, I guess they got bought. WTG you corporate branding goons.) It's usually a pretty fun experience, sort of a sleeveless flannel and jorts kinda place if you know what I mean, but we haven't been in quite a while so I have no idea what it's like now. There's a big picnic shelter at Mulberry Landing we like to set up camp in. Helps a ton when it's super hot out down there, but hopefully late September won't be so bad.

I have a big crabbing trip planned for September. We usually go down to southern DE and crab off of a seawall in one of the bays but we haven't been since before the pandemic. It also used to be a day trip since we were relatively close when we lived in Chester County. This year though we decided to rent a camping cabin for a few nights so we could have more time to crab during the day. I can't wait, it's going to be epic. Cool and cloudy this morning. Loving it.

7th day above 90. Hoping tomorrow is actually going to be cloudy. I'll take a "cool" forecast of 84 for a change, yes please.

Checked the forecast before work this morning and it said t-storms all afternoon. We had maybe two drops of rain, and now it's looking like the sun's wanting to come out. I can see that everything is developing south and east, but what I want to know is why did this forecast bust so hard for Berks?

Topped out at 97.3 imby. Seems pretty in line with RDG actually, which is about a mile away and at roughly the same elevation. We do have some local topography that I think does influence our microclimate--for example, coming home from work this past week and according to my car thermo, driving along the Skook near my house is ~5°F cooler than at my house, which is maybe 150' higher ASL and on somewhat of a low hill.

Looks like I topped out at 98'6°F for today. Really hoping that convective line in western PA can make it through but not holding my breath. Hottest day here since June 30, 2021 where we recorded 98.9.

Mowed and trimmed the front yard. Didn't super need it but the weeds were starting to take over all the cracks in the driveway.

Went outside to escort my dog for her evening constitutional in the back yard and got assaulted by the heat and humidity. It reminds me of Florida, like when you step off the airplane and the atmosphere smacks you in the face.

It's almost 7 pm and still over 90. I don't care how dry it may be, that just ain't right.

One can hope... One can hope...

Slow-moving pop-up just south of me, and some other storms forming along I-80 and in the SW part of the state.

Still nasty gross up here. Our high was only 95.3, but it's been consistently above 90 since 10:45am.

96.4 for a high imby today. Car temp topped out at 98 several times driving from south NJ to Reading. Told my wife I'm not putting out the garbage until it's dark out lol

PWS says we hit 93°F today. That's about 1.5°F higher than several nearby personal weather stations reported for the day. I think I might invest in a separate thermometer located somewhere else on my property in order to validate the one on my PWS. FWIW, Lebanon and Allentown official weather stations recorded a high of 90. Regardless.... hot. tooooo hot.

Got 1.98" total for the weekend/this morning, so no complaints there, we certainly needed it. All these storms this afternoon/evening have completely missed us though. I think I'll actually have to mow this week at some point, though that's not an endeavor I'm particularly looking forward to. Had a safety meeting at work this morning at 9:30am out at the site I work at. We all just stood there, dripping sweat. The rest of this week's gonna be brutal, but at least I've "graduated" from having to routinely don the Tyvek in this weather.... maybe. You'll be sure to see me kvetching about it here if that comes to be. How many days to fall there again, @Birds~69?

Have to go to bed, we'll see if there's anything in the gauge in the morning.

1.75". Was not expecting that at all.

Pfft. .96"now!!! I see why the flooding advisories are up.

.59" now. We really needed this.