CoolHandMike

We just shot up 3° in the past half hour... Yuck

Up again, meh. Power went out for about 20 minutes as far as I can tell. Seems completely random as we were in between storms. Glad it came back on as I haven't game-planned setting up the genny at our new house yet. Gonna do that tomorrow after work (or earlier, if the power goes out again!). I think we got overly used to having more stable power here than in Thorndale, where it seemed you could look at a transformer crossly and it would blow, taking out power to the whole town for hours. Since we moved to Reading 9 months ago, we've had nary a flicker; except it went out for a few minutes this past Monday, and now tonight. So hmm... Perhaps it's not as stable here as I once thought. Bummer. I stood out on the back deck for a few minutes, taking in the complete silence and watching the lightning bugs do their thing. It's quite soupy out. Zero rain since midnight, it seems.

Most of the rain has passed me but still getting quite the light and sound show. Picked up another .5" this evening, ending up at .75" for the day. Time to go to sleep with thunder in the distance.

Ok just got the severe t-storm warning. It's just creeping along though. I think I'm beginning to hear the wind pick up at least. EDIT: I take it back; the warning is for northern Berks. Hmm...

Nervously eyeing that system to my west. It could severely fringe me or steamroll right over. Either way I'm expecting a terrific light show.

Picked up almost 1/4" this morning. Maybe some more action this afternoon?

Just got back from a car show with my dad. It was super pleasant with mostly clouds and low 80's. Why can't the Kutztown Folk Festival ever have weather like this?? LOL

Northern DE getting absolutely hammered with lightning. It's kinda scary looking on screen:

The one over SW Chester Co. just fizzled, and it looks like I'm going to get bypassed by that bigger storm. Rats.

The one on the Mason Dixon line certainly picked up in intensity over the past half hour. These are really slow-moving storms; I expect my parents down in Oxford are hearing non-stop rumbling right about now.

That cell over Harrisburg looks like it might could drop some hail...

It hasn't been below 70°F since Monday morning. Looks like it might start heating back up again though, so def enjoying this while it lasts. Got some free skywater finally.

Mostly missing me too at the moment, if you can believe it. I'm hoping it fills in over Reading at least.

If it could just stop being 90° for today...

Ooph. Been there and done that--it seemed my power would go out in Thorndale at the merest whiff of a breeze. It got to be so bad that I bought a genny and some seriously thick extension cords to run our fridge, freezer and a portable A/C (fridge needed to be run for insulin, and my mother-in-law would melt if we didn't have A/C). How many apartment dwellers do you know that need to keep a spare backup generator on hand! Anyway, after the disastrous outages of the summer of 2016, we only ended up using it one time; the power was out for just long enough for me to set everything up and run the extension cords. Oh well, better to have and not need then to need and not have, and all that. Anyway, hope it comes back on soon for you, or at least before tomorrow's heat. This is what, the 3rd or 4th heat wave this year? I've lost count and it's only the first week of July, sheesh.

The storms over NYC have an awesome radar presentation. Kinda glad that missed us, if I'm honest. Check out the outflow boundary!

Severe t-storm watch just went up: EDIT: Hurricane Agnes beat me to it.

I've been waiting for the big, puffy cumulous clouds to form as it's been extremely clear all morning. I am just now seeing them creeping over the horizon to the NW.

Yep. So glad I'm not working outside this week.

I think I'm on track to break 90 again today...

Interesting! I heard one this morning as well. Just the one time, and then I haven't heard it since. Maybe it's just one guy, making the rounds lol.

Beautiful partly cloudy, 80°F and breezy, though just a little on the humid side. Dug in half-a-dozen plants and mowed the front (the back is still shaded, and therefore still soaking wet). Now I'm drenched and finished with yardwork for today.

Much better, thank you! Everything else looks pretty nice as well.

They also mostly fixed the "whitespace" issue. Ended up with .96" of rain today! I think we're about done though. Nice, lazy day full of thunderstorms. Can we please have more like this!

TRUTH.