TheDreamTraveler

That's something I forgot to even take into account. Those waters on the coast have saved NYC and New England from many a powerful hurricane. The only hurricanes that were able to cause massive damage were the ones that were barreling north so impossibly fast that the lag period of the storm weakening from being over the cooler waters would occur too late due to forward speed. And now we're getting to a point where you won't even need them to be barreling at high speeds for them to retain a lot of their overall strength

71 DP here so it feels like 100 already despite being 92 degrees already. If it stays that high some of us might be seeing heat indexes between 105-107

That thing was right over top of my house and woke me up lastnight. Some of the most intense thunder I've heard. These thunderstorms just don't want to stop. Not that I'm complaining since I was complaining how we got nothing in May but lol

A cell just popped up out of nowhere over top of me. I checked radar 20 minutes ago thinking it was going to be a while until anything showed up here but nevermind

You don't need the line to see that it's been getting less snowy over the past 70 years. We've been getting more monster snowstorms since the 2000's but overall winters are less snowy.

That was some of the worst and longest sustained powerful winds I've seen in a very long time. Is it weird that I can't really remember winds sustained this powerful since hurricane Irene? lol

Oh look it's raining again...

Horrible out right now. 2 AM and it's 81 degrees and feels like 85. I could not imagine sleeping in this without ac lol

Yep these areas were not built for so many people, especially during a mega drought which could continue on for decades more. Now if we were getting pre-2000 rains it wouldn't be as big a deal but as long as the mega drought continues it will only get worse. We'll have to see how this oncoming winter is because if we continue getting extremely wet winters often it could be a sign that the mega drought is finally over. Some of them do end around this time frame after 25 years so it's possible.

I guess they screwed up and thought the air quality would be bad but it wasn't? Because AQ is pretty good today. Unless they mean tomorrow but it says until 12 am Friday

I remember being in the bullseye of 8 inches of rain the day or two before this event happened but it turns out most of that heavy rain occurred east of me and I ended up getting around 4 inches

My towns been super lucky with all the rain. The brown dead grass is gone and super lush green grass is back in full force because it's rained so much here the past few weeks. I didn't even realize most of the areas still in a bad drought because I just assumed the rains were more widespread. I've gotten 5 inches of rain just in the last 7 days alone

More rain lol had a special weather statement earlier for this storm talking about 50mph winds but I think it's weakened a bit since then

Right now it's brightly sunny with heavy rain...don't see that often

Yeah just been a heavy rain over here but no thunder or lightning. Still can't believe how much it's been raining here though the past 2 weeks. We just had so much rain lastnight

That cells getting ready to go right over me. So far no warnings here or anything yet

Absolutely pouring here right now

Rained here a little bit around 4 am without there anything being on radar

I spent a week in Phoenix a while back and honestly thought it wasn't as bad as a 70 dew point 90+ degree day over here lol

Looking like that small cell might hit you and me

So you know those unprecedented tropical storms in the eastern Atlantic? Apparently the remnants of Cindy may get close or even have its moisture entrained into the northeast and add more to the rain. Would be pretty hilarious if after having such a dry year and almost no rain for weeks at a time that we also get the remnants of a tropical storm amplifying all the rain we're supposed to get lol

So with all the weird weather going on I wanted to remind everyone about that NASA study back in August about the effects Hunga Tonga's eruption would have. It added an extra 10% of the entirety of the earths water vapor into the stratosphere. And like with most volcanic eruptions there's always a lag period of 1-2 years before you start noticing effects. The NASA study stated that there would be warming of global temperatures for 10 years as the water vapor disappears and it would also alter the global climate pattern in various ways that we don't yet know. It's easy to say that El Nino is the current driving force with all the weird weather going on but I don't think it's kicked into full gear yet and can't explain everything. There's been some huge changes globally starting since last winter. It's just weird that nobody has been bringing this up at all. Remember when Pinatubo erupted in 1991 and 1993-1994 had some extreme weather like Storm of the Century and the coldest temps ever recorded in PA? Obviously that was volcanic ash and not water vapor like Tonga's so different effects occurred due to that. The thing that's interesting about Tunga is we've never had a volcano eject water vapor like that in our records so it's uncharted territory for the types of effects it can have globally. Sorry for the rambling but it's interesting to take into consideration. I'm super big into tropical weather and I'm trying to wrap my head around the almost unprecedented african wave train occurring 2 months ahead of schedule. There's a low amount of Saharan dust and the African Monsoon is way more potent with the warmest Atlantic SST's ever seen. Oh and another thing too with a potential record Super El Nino coming along with all that water vapor from Hunga Tonga also increasing global temps we're going to get a 1-2 punch HARD with how hot everything is going to get.

I've been super interested in how powerful this El Nino gets since we might get a Super El Nino that rivals 2015-2016. Should be interesting "And to get an idea of just how massive the developing El Niño could be, the previous record high super El Niño peaked at 2.6°C in November/December of 2015. The 1997 El Niño peaked at 2.4°C. And this one is now modelled by the BoM to break 3.0°C." Jesus christ lol

That has to be close to a record for daytime min highs in late June right?

Went from no rain for weeks to rain everyday lmao