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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.

Yep, if there’s a zone around here where sometimes there’s larger hail it’s along Jericho or Hempstead Tpke where the seabreeze front can fire up some storms.

Moderate rain with thunder.

Can’t speak for the record but there’s been hail large enough to damage cars within the last few years or so as a result of the sea breeze front driven storms in the summer, I think they were in the Mineola/Garden City area. Thunder here right now but I might get split by the storms coming through now. Looks like some small hail maybe in south central Nassau and northern Nassau near Glen Cove.

Sun back out here as well.

Heavy rain and thunder here. I’d be surprised if we recover enough for more after this but we’ll see.

Gorgeous here, temp 71. Captree stuck at 53 about a half hour drive away.

Not quite as much here east of NYC as NNJ but still 15” in my backyard on 2/1 and an awesome event overall. Beginning of a great 2 week stretch.

If Boston measured officially from Fenway Park Central Park would probably be beat by 10” or more. 2/1 screwed them over big time from the onshore flow. The storm wasn’t matured enough at our latitude to screw us over that bad.

I’m fine with upper 60s and occasional 70, keep the heat waiting. Only thing I despise is the easterly wind marine layer crap, so far this spring hasn’t been too bad on that front. Of course watch that start happening.

I was reading that the number of cases in India is likely much higher because of the small proportion of people getting tested. It would almost certainly be the worst official outbreak in the world by far if testing was on pace with the US/Europe. And Brazil is a corrupt disaster as you pointed out with a clueless and corrupt president that openly mocks public safety measures, so what do you expect. The cramped and impoverished conditions that most in the cities there deal with makes it even worse.

Just got the first Moderna shot today. Went to a local clinic, was in and out in 15 minutes after I didn’t keel over.