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Up to 85 here.

Very weak/practically nonexistent ocean influence today. The barrier beaches are still in the mid 70s to 80s. The last few summers have been humid enough that the sea breeze only makes the heat worse by driving the humidity up and only dropping temps a few degrees. Hopefully it’s a drier heat this year.

Not terribly unusual. N winds here can be downslope which causes heating on its own. For the coast the warmest days are WNW wind days in the summer.

You can probably split the difference in most places. Winds look to be onshore so 60s on the coast and 70s inland. Too much troughing offshore to have the heat here for too long. Next week that might change and we finally have a sustained westerly flow.

Got my 2nd Moderna shot yesterday. My arm is pretty sore (like the 1st shot), felt some fatigue and slept through most of this gorgeous afternoon. Generally a lousy feeling like when I have a cold. But it’s good to have the pandemic over with for me and able to go back to life beforehand.

Similar arm soreness as the first dose, plus some fatigue and generally “under the weather” feeling like when I have a cold. I slept for about 5 hours this afternoon so I’m a little less tired now. I’m not a fan of vaccines either but it’s worth it to put this pandemic behind me and do what I can to help society.

As long as we have the deep trough NE of us over the Maritimes, I'd be suspicious of any real heat making it to NYC, or if it does it would be short lived since the backdoor will always be close by. That trough's been absurdly constant over that area this spring.

Second Moderna shot for me today. The first had some soreness at the injection site, that was it. Guess we’ll see what happens with this one. Cuomo and the other Tri-state area govs are “reviewing” policies after the CDC announcement yesterday. But in general it’s great to see the trajectory we’re on and normalcy coming back quickly.

77 here-gorgeous finally.

Cold morning in the more rural areas. 34 at Westhampton this AM.

Oh what a shocker there. Can’t ever bet against the Maritimes trough the past few springs.

Don posted correlations from our current pattern to previous hot summers. This might be one that turns on a dime and soon we have consistent 90s. Hopefully not the case. But yeah-usually at this time of year I’m not consistently wearing a sweater and hoodie still.

Trust me, we'll be happy in 2 months while they're frying. Summer in the south absolutely sucks.

Major problems for the Southwest if those precip trends continue, and they’re in another severe drought this year. I read that an official water shortage may be coming soon for parts of NV and AZ because of low water levels on the Colorado River and lakes.

The Austin/San Antonio areas are absolutely exploding. I lived there 5 years ago and without improved infrastructure and accommodations for the accelerated growth, they're in for some hurt. The congestion in Austin is already bad enough, and little mass transit for nearly a million people other than two light rail lines and bus. For vehicles it's MoPac Expressway and I-35 for main thoroughfares, and both are constantly backed up. Weatherwise, April/early May are the best severe weather times there, and it can be good. I had several tornado warnings and many severe warnings. EF1 went maybe 2 miles from me once, other times 75 mph straight line winds and golf ball hail. The best tornado area is Waco on north in TX. May and October can be very wet. May 2015 was crazy in Austin for how much rain there was, 20" that month I believe. October 2015 had the heaviest rain I've ever seen (even the pre-Irene 2011 rain event here) from the Hurricane Patricia remnants off the Pacific. Winter is changeable but generally add 10-15 degrees from this area for what you get there. Despite the insane snow/ice this winter, when I was there we had one morning with some sleet and ice that was a minor glaze, that was it. Summer is atrociously hot and humid, most days in late July/Aug are near or over 100 before heat index. You're close enough to the Gulf for the humidity and inland enough for the higher actual highs. Also it's generally dry in the summer, the afternoon T-storms often fire closer to the gulf. The nice months are the winter months when you can get a warm airmass, and Oct-Nov/March. Landwise, plenty for sure in TX but it quickly goes from suburban/exurban not far from Austin downtown (like 10 miles) to nothing (and I mean nothing not even a town) west of there on Rt 71 or 290. Awesome people watching, very friendly/laid back vibe, great events such as SBSW/Austin City Limits and plenty of good jobs but not so much in my industry now. Living costs however are skyrocketing (part of the problem with exploding population).

Baseball size hail severe warning for San Antonio. They were just hit last week by similar storms. TX getting slammed this severe season.

Wow, San Antonio getting slammed yet again. Baseball size hail warned storm near the city.

We can use the rain. I’ll gladly take it. Rain now means less brown turf in June/July and when we’re largely hoping for wayward T-storms to get most of our rain.

Southerly wind where I am. Guess that little shift from NE was enough to do it.

81 at my closest Wunderground station. Summery like PSV said. Huge difference between shore and 15 miles inland. Long Beach only 60-61, Captree 57, 50s on Fire Island. Spots on the immediate sound are also 10+ degrees cooler than I am.

Sorry I meant to say upper 70s there.

You definitely see the difference. Near Philly already in the upper 60s, 10 degrees cooler up here where we haven’t gotten the westerly wind. I guess we’ll see where the back door ends up today.

When there’s been wind so far today it’s been NE. We need westerly to get anywhere near 80.

Temp down to 48 now. Here we go.

Heavy rain now but no hail I can see.