TheDreamTraveler

Holy shit it's 103 right now. That's right on the cusp of a top 10 hottest ever for here. Dew point is not as bad as yesterday so the heat index is around identical to what we had.

111 heat index here currently. Absurd.

God might be 99, 102, 102 and 98 here during this heat wave. The pool temp is already 80 degrees if it gets any warmer than that it's not even going to feel refreshing to be in lol

Yeah I keep seeing the temps on Saturday climbing and climbing towards 100. Would be absolutely insane if we got 4 days in a row of 100. Completely unprecedented in our current records. Any temp that gets over 103 would put us in top 10 territory for that specific day heat wise. The only single time we ever got over 104 in Harrisburg was that absurd heatwave in 1966

103 would place us in the top 10 hottest days on record if we get to that point. It's very rare for the Harrisburg area to get over 103 degrees except for 3 days that were 104 and one day 107. Very impressive stuff.

When's the last time parts of PA saw 100+ degree days 3 days in a row? I can't really think of a specific time that was that bad unless you go back decades ago

The heat waves in the 1930's are very interesting. I read about them a year or so ago more in depth. Basically our poor farming methods out in the midwest were completely destroying the soil leaving it unable to retain moisture combined with a very dry and hot decade that was only made hotter because we weren't doing the methods we started using after the dust bowl era. It's also interesting too that there were some downstream effects from there constantly being so much heat over the US from this that effected Asia which is neat. But yeah the soil was basically unable to retain moisture which allowed it to get superheated compared to how it normally is. Then after that we started practicing more efficient farming which allowed it to not get as hot. Remember too the 1930's dust bowl era is mostly a US phenomenon besides the downstream effect in Asia I mentioned.

It's been extremely slow. Even right now it takes forever to load in anything.

The days leading up to the 4th look like they're going to be very hot

The sun actually came out. Don't think I've seen it at all today until now

Okay nevermind it came back pouring again lol

Finally getting some heavier rain. Okay as I was typing this it just completely stopped LMAO it went from straight pouring to a very light drizzle within seconds. I've never seen that happen so fast before. Basically poured for a few minutes then poof. Nothing.

I swear all these storms just die when they get to harrisburg for the past 2 months

Blech. I think we've had enough wind for one lifetime here

Got a lot warmer today than was forecast. Was supposed to be 83 but got to 86