CoolHandMike

1 hour ago, KamuSnow said:

Did you get your AC working?

Yes, thanks for asking. The A/C company told us to turn it off at the breaker for ten minutes if this happened again, as a stop-gap until they could come out again. Thankfully it worked this time, but they'll be out here first thing in the morning (again).

Rolling thunder turned into a huge CRACKA-LACKA right over my house. .75" recorded in the bucket. Still lots of rolling thunder as well.

Rolling thunder and steady rain here. Ended up with 1.11" for yesterday, already closing in on another half inch in just the past 12 minutes.

11 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Lots of lightning w/this...

Indeed! Really enjoying this. Can't have asked for a better August thus far.

9 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Pretty decent looking line and really can't see it diminishing w/such high DPs (70F here)...

Yup, getting a real light show up here, and some distant rumbles. Quite the nice late night storm approaching.

Southwest edge of that storm near West Chester looks pretty mean. 

.67" with 1.5"/hr rates. Nice little downpour.

I think this needs to be expanded further south and east:

Is it me, or does that cell NW of Lebabon have the makings of a couplet?

Looks like we could get a cell or two over us pretty soon.

91°F/70DP. AND my @#$!@# A/C is out again. I'm about to lose my shit over this. I'd set up today to be a bread baking and tomato sauce making day. Can't do that without A/C. Mother trucker. MY rye dough is already doing its first rise on the counter. I can barely type right now I'm so seething. Sorry.

2 hours ago, blackhound said:

It roared past us coming south to north. The flowers in the garden were all bent at the same angle. Short lived but potent. Yeah, looks like it was straight line winds this time. Although a few years ago, Cheyney Road was hit hard by what I think was finally determined to be an EF1. 

One of the Rt 202 intersections in Glen Mills had the stop lights completely ripped off from their mounts on the south-bound lanes. The north-bound lanes had switched to flashing yellows on my drive home, confusing many a motorist. No you idiot, don't stop, proceed with caution through the intersection you absolute dimwits. I swear the level of aptitude required to pass a driving test these days is too damned low.

Mom reports from Oxford:

"So a massive tree is down where 896 intersects with 841 there is no power from Jennersville to at least Hockessin wires are down on 89"

We only got about another 2/3" up here and some pretty gusty winds. We're at nearly 1" for the entire day. 

20 minutes ago, LVblizzard said:

Sun is out in Allentown. Not staying here today, though - going to head to southern PA/MD to chase there.

Clouded over and getting dark here in Reading. It's juicy out there.

Fixed my WU issue--somehow they lost my account and I had to create a new one.

6 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

Started raining here about an hour ago, got about 0.08" so far. With the better returns getting closer, the breeze is picking up nicely. Feels nice and active out, lol. 72F here at the moment.

Definitely enjoying the cooler start to August this year. We've got .17" in the bucket thus far tonight.

Though it seems the recent "maintenance" on WU has broken some things:

This really pisses me off. I really need to come up with an offline solution for data-logging. 

Yeah, huge bust up here. Grilled my chicken though, so that was nice. Can't beat this weather for early August as well, though it's very not normal and I'm just waiting for it to flip back to "moist inferno".

Sky looks pretty dark and ominous to my NW. 79.1°F/67.2 DP. Radar doesn't look that great though. I really want to grill tonight, we shall see.

29 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

I can see why! So is that local local or 50 miles local? Beautiful either way. Had you been out there before? What's the elevation where that picture was taken? Good luck, and enjoy!

Man, Wyoming is wild. I did a field study there 10 years ago and fell in love with all of it. So much naked geology, and so few people. One of my most favorite states, for sure. I'm particularly fond of the badlands in the north, with rainbow bands of sedimentation sliced here and there with exposed fault lines, where Cretaceous-aged fossils are continually weathering out of the lithography. I could spend an age exploring up there.

5 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

Weenie alert!

First(thoughts)winter prediction I've seen just popped up/seen. Ryan Hall, Y'all....who knows.

80F/DP 53F

 

I'm here for the hype, but his percentage prediction map was just, well, like duh. Newsflash! Chicago or Boston ends up with the highest chance of a winter storm! I like (and highly respect) Ryan Hall but this was not exactly earth-shattering weather reporting. Still... sign me up?

Sweatshirt weather tonight, definitely enjoying it while it lasts. This seems suspiciously like false fall imho, though quite early to boot. 65°F out right now. I'll take it.

Looks to me on GOES that the smoke monster might be ready for Round 3. I sure hope  I'm wrong.

15 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

With the 0.43 earlier, July total here is 5.70". Not bad, kept things pretty green heading into August. Not sure if I've been this enthusiastic about a cold front during the summer before, not because of severe weather potential,  but for the apparent longevity of the upcoming cool spell. Don't recall a forecast like this for the 1st week of August, with highs from 80 to 83 for the next week. Yes!

The gusty winds that arrived tonight following the front that swept through felt more like the typical change of pattern we usually get late August / early September. While it is most likely anomalous and no where near to being our somewhat seasonal pattern change, it does feel nice.  Speaking of anomalies, 13.51" for me this July. Still have water in the bottom of the dry sump well. I remain trepidatious concerning future rain events. Turns out, a house on a hill can still flood, which was a sobering wake-up call for sure.

Just a sprinkle here a little while ago, but now it's crazy windy. 86°F down from a high of 92.

We got .01" and it has mercifully cooled down to 71°F now. Still crazy humid (windows are all fogged up) but after baking all afternoon in 90°+ heat, it's quite the reprieve. My parents down near Oxford picked up 1.15".

Parents already have .65" in SW Chester Co. Mom says the lights are flickering.

Nasty looking couplet east of Bel Air (ignore the purple relative velocity glitch):

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

And to quote Birds -  Stuff.

Don't know if that will survive the trip but we'll see.

I made it up to 94 as a high today and here it is 6:30 pm and still 91, with dp 77.

My parents down in SW Chester County are about to get socked. We had a pretty decent outflow boundary gust push through here just now, and we might get some drizzle out of it. But the atmosphere is so juicy that I can't help but think it will hold together for a while at least. Lots of lightning, too.