TheDreamTraveler

Yeah I'm very worried about the tropical season this year due to the super El Nino developing and the Atlantic La Nina popping up. Doesn't mean we can't inch out a tropical system or two making their way through PA but those chances are massively decreased this year. Now if we weren't in such dire drought conditions it wouldn't be much of an issue but that's usually a saving grace at any other time. The 2026 atlantic hurricane season could be as quiet as the 2015 season was which was extremely inactive. In 2015 we had 4 hurricanes and 11 tropical storms which was also another super El Nino year. Though I don't think we were worrying about rain that year according to the drought monitor data from that summer so it wasn't such a big issue. Here's hoping we get lucky with a storm or two despite the low activity.

These couple of storms just popped up over the past hour from nothing.

Had a decent tiny thunderstorm around 3 am that popped up. Wasn't really expecting any rain

Oof that sucks. Hoping they get it back online today. Thankfully it's not brutally hot today

I didn't know that either until a few years ago. Apparently parts of Scotland like the Scottland Highlands were also part of the same chain as the Appalachians at one point which is really cool.

Winds really bad. Power tried going out. Street lights were completely out for a few minutes

Yeah we just got issued a severe thunderstorm warning lol

Getting really crazy thunder here too. Barely hear it clap like that

Yeah looking like some naders are possible

AQI was up to 350 here around 2 AM. That's probably the worst I've ever seen it here.

Surprised there's no heat advisory today when the heat index has gotten to 103/104 which is what was listed for the advisory a day or so before

Might have 6 days in July that hit 100+ if the temps on Wednesday and Thursday are to be believed

Kind of wild that I might have my fifth 100+ degree day of the summer on Wednesday. Bonkers.

We had another storm that was moving straight for us that looked juicy around midnight and then right as it got to us it dried up and died lol

What the fuck is happening was playing a game and phones going off constantly with alerts. Holy shit. It looks bad outside. Hope the rest of you are safe

I just heard one blow on my street too

Just lost power 4 times in a row. It's insanely rare for me to ever lose power even for a few seconds.

Well it hit over 100 here for the 4th day in a row. A new record.

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.