CoolHandMike

What weird storms these are. Nearly stationary and just DUMPING water. Yesterday at work there was a huge supercell to my north, today there was one to my south. Didn't have to drive through any on the way home today (thankfully). My mom wanted to know what the weather is gonna do tonight (in case she had to put the horses in due to thunderstorms) and I just basically sent her a shrug emoji. Told her to play it safe and keep them in lest one of these monsters decides to park over her house!

Yeesh. Drove home from Pennsville, NJ to Reading. It poured (with bonus thunder and lightning) the entire length of the turnpike, then clear on 176, then rain again on 422. Luckily no major incidents, just exhausting after a full day of working outside in this miserable heat. Rinse and repeat for tomorrow and Thursday...

My wife has the week off and she's been planning on putting in some more plants around the house. It was cloudy earlier so away she went. I heard her digging outside my office for a little while, and then I saw the sun come out--two seconds later she noped out and came inside. But she's determined, now that she's started, so we set up the 10' pup-up canopy for her to dig under. More power to her! (I'd help her, but I'm on light & limited duty today. Thank goodness. )

I can't remember how much we got but it was a lot! This was two moves ago from our apartment in West Chester.

Definitely moist outside. Keeping an eye on the radar for any pop-ups--the cloud tops you can see in our neck of the woods have that "boiling up" potential look to them.

Hit 95.7°F here, down to 86.5°F now with 50% RH. I do not like this new normal. Trying to psyche myself up for working outside in 90° weather in full Tyvek this week and am just. not. feeling. it. (I work in environmental remediation. Love the work but hate this kind of weather.) Hopefully we get some boomers this week to break up the monotony of endless bright, hot sun.

Holy cow! Stay safe!

SAME. I love the occasional warm, summer day, and spring storms are fun to experience but to me it's all a prelude to cooler temps. I wish I could live much farther north than I do now, but I kindof feel obligated to stay somewhat close to my parents as they are getting on in years. Maybe I'll be able to retire in cooler climes, but until then, I'll always just be enjoying or waiting for fall.

IT'S HOT. I have to mow my front but it's not going to cool down hardly at all before the sun sets. Boo...

That's, like, my worst nightmare! What are you going to do?

WW2 airshow at the Reading Airport this weekend. I live right under one of the approach/takeoff paths. Like, RIGHT under it. Just snapped this from my back porch:

I really enjoyed my storm. Got about .2" and cooled down much the same as you. Enjoying it while it lasts!

There's one just moving over me. Looked a lot like a hail signature in the middle but so far it's all huge, fat drops of water. Just finished mowing the back yard and saw that it was blowing up, and as soon as the mower engine stopped THEN I could hear the rolling thunder. Guess the front will have to wait!

Speaking of hamburgers, I'm due to start grilling soon. My parents and my brother and his wife are coming over at 4; hopefully this will have mostly moved on by then. We haven't seen each other in over a year, my brother just finished grad school, and nobody's seen our new house (except in pictures online), so expecting quite the little shindig this afternoon, rain or not. I've got a canopy I can set up over the grill on the deck if need be but I'd rather not. Sitting at .18" for the day, just under 50°F. Check out this graph from my weather station for the past week. Wild!

I recorded a low of 45.8°F IMBY and am sitting at 47°F right now with exactly 1.75" in the rain gauge from today and yesterday. Still raining!

I now have received as much rain in the past hour as we did all of Thursday-- .4" My lawn needed it, for sure. (Just like everyone else's!)

While I really prefer the cold, I think I'm ok with a little bit of heat this summer given how mild Spring was (until last week) and the decent amount of snow last Feb. I guess I just like my seasons to be more defined than they seem to have been in recent years. Proper snow, then a slow warm-up, then some summer heat... As long as it doesn't last into October.

So we got a new fire ring on Wednesday but it came after I'd already gone out to do some chores and I didn't feel like going back out just to get some firewood (especially since traffic was all messed up due to a water main break). Didn't get to use it last night (for obvious reasons) but I think tonight may be the night. And then earlier today, it hit me: I've got a 40-gallon curbside trash bin full to the brim with woodshop offcuts that I'd been saving for the last 5 years. I'd been meaning to offload them to a friend, and then the whole pandemic thing happened and then we moved and so I still have a crap ton of wood scraps. I weeded out all the nasty stuff (laminate, pressure-treated, etc.) so it's just good, dry pine with a smattering of hardwood scraps here and there. Sure wish I'd remembered that a couple of days ago. Oh well

Measure .4" in the backyard weather station. Not too shabby. I think I read somewhere we went 17 days without measurable rainfall, but don't quote me on that.

Just a light sprinkle here with distant flashes and thunder. Perfect falling asleep weather.

Nice little bow echo on radar heading east. We'll see if it makes it.

Measured .37" in my back yard station. Not bad.

Oh yeah, I'm getting round two. Sky looks positively evil to my west.

If that cell over Lebanon holds together, I might be able to get some more. Figures, I just went out and watered everything since the mulch under the plants was dry. Glad to see others cashing in on some much needed moisture though.