CoolHandMike

This was always a long shot. But I will happily take the rain at least. Still plenty of time left in the season for frozen precip. White Christmas, anyone? Maybe? Eh? Still have yet to properly employ my fancy-pants new electric snowblower that I bought last November.

Reporting from Reading:

Down from a high of 57 earlier today. More stats on the cold front coming through:

Got almost up to 90 today at my house. Do not want. Summer can kindly f off.

23 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

 

It's Fall!

Oh yeah. About time.

So ready for this. Tomorrow we're making a crap ton of beef stew with the intent to preserve ~8 quarts or so for the coming months. Our house is going to smell ridiculous and I'm here for it.

What better way to spend a cool, rainy fall day. Cheers you guys~

This has been a ridiculously great stretch of weather to find one's self working outside. I've been slinging a 3" hand auger for geologic sampling for the past three days, and I'm so happy the work was delayed until this week (we were originally slated to do this a month ago!!!)

We hit 48.9°F this morning. I needed a sweatshirt for the first few hours yesterday with the wind, but today was just glorious. Going to attempt a drone flight tomorrow at work, I'm hoping the wind stays calm. Anything above 15mph sustained and gusts above 20mph grounds us, so here's hoping.

I see highs in the 60's in the forecast, finally! Saturday looks to be a properly fall-like day, and how appropriate. I think I will choose to celebrate with a home-made beef stew. Missed you, fall.

6 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Nope.  They usually don't let you migrate the data to a new station.  I still have my old one online at WU (that is about 8 years old and I brought it with me when I moved to my current location) and saw no way to move the name to the newer one (had to create a new ID).  Both are Ambients and when I got the newer one, Ambient had set up its own site so I have the newer one reporting to both (WU doesn't recognize the lightning data nor the PM sensor data).  However I also have my newer one's data being sniffed by a little gateway guy and I feed that to a Raspberry Pi to display internally, and that data is on the Pi so I do at least have that.  I think WU does let you create a data backup (they have putzed with their site on and off for a bunch of years when they were bought so I had periodically tried to download the data from the older station).

As an obs, I was a smidge warmer this morning than yesterday morning (55 vs 53) and am actually at my high for the day so far of 76.  Have lots of blue sky and a dp of 54 so an ideal, albeit cool (with the breeze) day.

Aww, that's a bummer. I really need to do what you did and find a way to extract the data locally. Thanks, Agnes!

So I'm looking to upgrade my weather station in the near future. Does anybody here know if you can keep your existing station name (and thus be able to maintain contiguous data collection)? I have almost 3 years of saved data and I'd hate to lose access to it.

Really enjoyed last night's "sweatshirt weather". Our low was 50.3°F.

Up late, can't sleep. This is very nice, haven't seen it this low since June:

The ~3.5" of rain we got over the last few days has set my basement sump pump into overdrive. I think the 11" rain event a couple of months ago altered the groundwater flow patterns, since before that, the sump well was always dry after previous significant rainfalls. Has me somewhat worried, if I'm honest. I really need to source a battery backup for that pump.

uh, ok, I take it back:

Sky just got super dark, but we're squarely in the fringezone:

7 hours ago, ChescoWx said:

Hi Mike...not the best post in Ray's history....I hope he apologizes to the forum. We should never ever devolve on a weather forum to the level of name calling and personal insults like that. I think we can all agree on that!

I agree with this. I also think we can all agree that you do have maybe just a wee little bit of bias in your data? No? You are the only one here consistently saying "Oh, look how cold it is here in East Nantmeal compared to everywhere else! Climate change and global warming are obviously false!" I mean, you haven't actually said that (have you?) but I've been here long enough to discern that that's obviously your meaning.

You're at a much higher elevation than many of the rest of us (this has been pointed out to you numerous times). Nearby weather stations at lower elevations (where most of the rest of us live) do not reflect your observations, as perfectly calibrated as they may be. As crass as this exchange may have been, how do you reconcile your empirical deviations with nearby stations that you have not cherry-picked to support your claims? (I will not throw any more graphs at you; I've already done so, and you did not provide any meaningful feedback.) Or are we all to believe that all of our observations are complete trash because our equipment isn't all NIST/NOAA certified?

We have actual meteorologists (and other scientists, myself included) on this sub, and it'd be a real shame if we lost their participance due to the obstinance of some members to recognize how science actually works. You don't find data to fit your hypothesis. You evolve your hypothesis over time because of the data, even if it means you are initially wrong. Climate change is real, sir, and no amount of shouting "East Nantmeal is getting colder!" is going to change that.

I'm done arguing with you and have decided to put you on ignore. You are an outlier here in this forum. Take that as you will, and please do enjoy your sweet, insulated life atop East Nantmeal; I've driven through it many times, and it truly does look like and sound like a lovely place to live. For now.

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AS AN OBS. Hoping this heat wave breaks tomorrow. From my shitty back yard weather station:

Cheers and goodnight everyone. Let's all put this to bed.

1.18" in total, a good soaker. We needed it. Forecast calls for t-storms from 6am to 11pm, LOL I really, highly doubt it. 68°F right now, and has climbed a little bit in the past hour... This is not normal for this time of year, is it? There is still plenty of juice in the atmosphere, DP is 67, so we're definitely primed for more rain, we shall see if it actually happens. I keep waiting for that "traditional" pattern change that used to take place around Labor day...

Well that escalated quickly:

Well dang. You love to see it:

Ok, radar's starting to fill in to my south. Finally.

Nothing here. It's all forming just to my north.

97.7°F high IMBY today. This is (literally) not cool. Mid 90's at my work site in southern NJ these past few days, I am DONE with this heat. Sweating though my clothes multiple times per day is something I'd like to really stop doing, please and thank you.

Hope you all enjoyed "False Fall".

I sure am:

Next week. "Second Summer":

UGH. At least the days are shorter now.

47 minutes ago, famartin said:

Agree, we've had snowless or nearly snowless (outside of one random big one) El Ninos to be sure, but dry El Ninos are hard to come by. Now watch, somehow this will be the dry one

We still have better odds of a KU with an El Nino, so here's to hoping.

What's a KU?

4 hours ago, JTA66 said:

No 90F here today, 87F/DP 73F.

A month to go until the equinox, where’s Birds with the countdown calendar??

I'll fill in:

That cell that just missed to my north has some impressive looking rotation in all the scud underneath it. I wish I could toss up a drone and get a better look, but RDG might have unkind words to say to me if I did, lol.

That mid-latitude cyclone currently over Iowa looks particularly impressive on satellite:

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=regional-northeast-truecolor-48-0-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

Set to 48 frames and run the slider back and forth to really check it out.

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Well starting at 9:59 pm, my whole area here in Chestnut Hill along with much of Wyndmoor, had the power go out. There is clear weather.  Power is still out. 

Wow. That happened to us a lot in Chester County. I do not miss it. Apart from the many reasons I don't particularly like living in Reading, our power has been nearly rock-solid here, with only one major outage in the past three years, verses I can't remember how many in Chester County. You could sneeze in our old place in Thorndale and a transformer would blow up somewhere close by.