CoolHandMike

My PWS says it's 95 out, and I was all, "that can't be right, can it?" Well here's the local weather station:

We went outside to put some bird netting over our berry bushes and were pretty much instantly drenched. SO GLAD I moved all of that mulch yesterday!!!

.89" for the night. I think we're past it now, not bad.

Ooh, getting that familiar distant rolling thunder right now. This is gonna be spicy. I'm here for it!

.55" here. Looks like some heavy thunder boomers might make it to us in an hour or so.

It's nice to have a non-apocalyptic, regular summertime thunderstorm for a change. Moderate to heavy rain, occasional, far-off thunder booms and very little wind, even with the gust front. My garden will love this.

I don't like the look of that cell SW of Carlisle:

Just moved ~5 yards of mulch to the back garden. I am beat. And also drenched, but hey, at least the sun wasn't out! Had to do it today or it would have probably sat there until October the way this year is going...

Blech:

5 hours ago, Kevin Reilly said:

This morning, we wake up to more dry weather complete with very low humidity and low dew points.

The new normal around here over the past 20-30 years has been to take a period of abnormally dry and very very quickly replace it with very very wet.

Today's 6z GFS hints at this possibility as we head into the first 10 days of July.

It is fitting around Southeastern Pennsylvania to end a dry drought like with flooding rains.  I am going to put this possibility out there on today, Friday, June 28th. 

 

July 7th:

GFS Model – MSLP & Precip (Rain/Frozen) for CONUS | Tropical Tidbits

July 10th: 

GFS Model – MSLP & Precip (Rain/Frozen) for CONUS | Tropical Tidbits

 

I think someone said yesterday, next we look for the drought busting tropical system it may not be far off base actually with a stalled boundary.

 

We shall see!

Just don't want a repeat of this is all (precip):

4 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Lawn is pretty much a mess...but hey the nice winds, low DPs and Phils wins make this much easier.

Need some mind blowing winds, cow flying, roof topping, electrical capacity blowing junk capacities up Wed, that's about it.....all and all, I'll be all fine..simple. 

Winds still blowing though... 

 

Dude it was so windy here yesterday that my flag somehow came loose from the holder on my front door frame and FLEW OVER my house, pole and all, landing in the back yard.

Currently 90 at my house, which is weirdly comfortable after last week. I mean, it IS pretty dry out, so there's that. The whole "yeah, but it's a dry heat" thing in full effect.

Grass is hella crispy though. It'll be fiiiine

LOL@ the forecast today. The wind was supposed to taper off by noon, then it was 3pm, then it was 5pm... It's still hella windy. So much so that my flag on the FRONT of my house just BLEW OVER MY HOUSE and landed in the back yard. Pole and everything.

Nice day otherwise. I was kinda hoping to grill some burgers tonight but my grill will absolutely not stay lit in this wind. Oh well.

Jeez Louise, that was one heck of a week.

Nothing. No rain. A couple of drops. 7 consecutive days far above 90°. In June. It's 80°F now at 2am.

I sure hope this is an anomaly, something we can all look back at and go "heh, that was weird, right?"

Wonder what it's like up there in East Nantmeal. No, wait, no I don't.

24 minutes ago, Albedoman said:

The temps for highs today have not been posted on facebook? I looked at ABE and Reading. Allentown highs  are Missing as the temps were stuck at 96.8 degrees for hours . Reading at 3-4 hours over 100 dgrees or better.  I think the thermometers burned up  LOL 

My high today was almost 104, but apparently I got that backyard heat island thing going. There were plenty of other 100+ readings around me throughout the day though, and it sure felt like it.

Finally some relief. Had a brief shower (non-measurable in the gauge) and now it's down to 82. Thank goodness.

Tiny little blip of rain to my NW. Looks like it's juuuust going to miss us, but hopefully we'll have a little bit of cloud cover for a bit.

We peaked at 102 but the temp has been yo-yoing around 100 for the past couple of hours now. My backyard temp correlates pretty well with RDG, so even if I may doubt it (how the heck is it still so stinking hot out at almost 7pm IN JUNE, I'm still more inclined to trust the one with the higher reading.

Though I may be upgrading soon. So we shall see. It'll be interesting to see if we broke the official record of 99 set back in 1923.

18 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Easily take 35F, and a cold rain wiih a  WaWa shorty than this crap. Complete hell out there...

95F/DP 71F,,,,sinners!

At least it's not super humid. But I'm with you. You can always put more layers on. My back yard just spiked to 101.3°F.

A few 99's popping up on the wundermap, my back yard included.

7 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

Don't worry, drought guy will let us know of any potential watches/warnings. He monitors 24/7, triple screen utilization from several different highly regarded top notch resources....

Hey I have triple screens and I feel personally called out. That said, we're still under an inch here for June. Starting to get kinda crispy...

Nope nope nope, do not like.

I am not ok with this.

Has anyone else's WU PWS  page gone offline this afternoon? Mine and a friend in Phoenixville's station stopped reporting to WU earlier. Weathercloud indicates I'm still online.

FWIW, our first 90°F day last year was April 14th, where it stayed more or less above 90 from noon until 3pm. Today's heat peaked at 93.3 and it has stayed more or less above 90 from 1pm until now (5:30pm at the time I typed this). I was going to do some yard work but f-that.

K...

Do not want. What is this, July???