CoolHandMike

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.

Surprise, surprise! Up to .29" now. Where the heck did this come from!

Boooo. Maybe a chance tomorrow though.

A welcome reprieve. Only .15" though, but that's .15" more than we have had in quite a while. You love to see it:

Yep, radar looks surprisingly active to our south and west:

I'm not going to argue with that! Somehow we made it up to 91°F today. Yesterday was 89.9, and the two previous days were both above 90. But yeah, while not super dry out, it is noticeably less humid than it has been. I just want some dang rain is all. .05" in three weeks, dang.

Yeah I'm wondering if reduced evapotranspiration this year is having a noticeable effect or not. But also, please keep in mind that this is for my incredibly small nanoclimate. Interesting though, right? I can't wait to do a full meteo summer comparison with last year. I don't have any huge gaps in the data until a missing month from Nov-Dec when the system went offline while I was traveling and couldn't repair it. Also, those couple of really cool days at the end of May 2021 may be skewing the results a little bit more than I'd like. So yeah, a much fairer comparison will be forthcoming at the end of summer. (I remember those days. Those were a good couple of days. )

Ok, just for funsies: Two charts, the first showing 5/20-7/14 high temps and precip and the second showing average daily temps for the same period this year and last. (I have a mysterious gap in my logs from early May last year and the 20th is the first date I have reliable data for.) Even though it's a relatively short data set (n=56 days) I think it's interesting. Both this year's daily highs and daily averages are trending slightly cooler than last year--however, this time period has been hotter on average than the same period last year. I might do some more charts showing humidity, but these are messy enough as it is for now. Disclaimer: data is for my back yard nanoclimate. 2021 and 2022 May 10 to July 14 Daily High Temperature and Precipitation 2021 and 2022 May 10 to July 14 Daily Average Temperature