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80F at midnight, bottomed out at 73F. 

Only 89F yesterday, so my heatwave begins today.  
 

81F/DP 70F

Called it when I began this thread…back loaded summer   This upcoming week reminds of when we get pity flakes in March after a ratter of a winter.

Seems kids get more “heat days” off now than snow days.
 

Today's 12z Euro has Idalia making a second landfall in Boston next week 

43 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

What's a KU?

Sarcasm because we haven't had one in 6+ years??

Paul Kocin and Louis Uccelline, they wrote the book on big EC snowstorms. Required reading in Weenie 101...

Northeast Snowstorms Volume 1 and Volume 2 Set. (Volume 32): Kocin, Paul J., Uccellini, Louis W.: 9781878220646: Amazon.com: Books

9 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

IMO we are entering Fall soon, I don't care what the lawn looks like and the leaves will cover the piss poor lawn appearance and we're not in a drought. Furthermore I'm sick of mowing the lawn...

71F/DP 69F

Agreed. September can be a dry month outside of tropical mischief. But we have an oncoming Nino. Depending on how/where it sets up and countless other factors, it could still be a mild, snowless winter. But I'm not concerned about a dry winter. I think once we get into October, the faucet gets turned on and it's wet until next spring.

(Of course  I can't forecast my way out of a wet, paper bag so everything I said above could be dead wrong. ) 

About .15" from this morning's atmospheric river. 71F/DP 69F

4 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

Junk and stuff woke me...

 

That green jawn put about .40" in the bucket this morning. Expecting a steamy-windows advisory from Agnes.

73F/DP 72F

Could use a little rain, parts of the lawn looks like it wants to brown up.

79F/DP 58F

No 90F here today, 87F/DP 73F.

A month to go until the equinox, where’s Birds with the countdown calendar??

9 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Only hit 90 here once the whole summer.  Had 3 day in April.   

This. I understand there is no scientific correlation, but it "seems" whenever we hit a string of 90's in April, the following summers are tolerable (1976, 2009).

I wouldn't call this a "cool" summer (speaking strictly imby), I would call it seasonably warm. Uncomfortable too with the high dews. Plus I've only been under one heat advisory so far (unlike our "hot" summers where we can go a week or more under excessive heat warnings).

I had forgotten parts of LA county were also under a blizzard warning earlier this year. They’re having an interesting year weather wise.

Gorgeous here, great day to be out in the yard. 74F/DP 57F

47 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Need to plan a snack run have a feeling there will be some epic online streaming of flooding starting Sunday from California to Vegas 

I think I heard San Diego's daily rainfall record is something like .60"? So yeah, even 2"-3" will be their version of Floyd 

Windows open with a nice breeze coming through the house, 81F/DP 62F.

No floating or flying cows last night but somehow still managed to lose power. WTF??!!   This is the 4th time since Saturday night.

73F/DP 72F

12 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Power back at the original earlier estimate of 12:20 am. YAY!  I did have my station console on a UPS.  Currently 71 with dp 66.

 

Glad your power is back. Not sure if the issue was with my house so much as PECO was turning off my power to fix whatever the issue was. By 12:30 yesterday I gave up waiting and hopped into cold shower, thank God it's August! 

Sun now sets before 8pm!   Bring on fall!

86F/DP 68F

On my third power loss in the last 12 hours. Good news is there’s a bunch of guys standing around some PECO trucks and orange cones down the street.

Power was out briefly last night, came back and is now out again 

71F/DP 70F

Shite’s happening. Gusty winds, lost power 

3 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Damn, this just blossomed to my N and you can hear the thunder...I'm sure JTA can. Gonna miss me though...

Getting a sun shower from it, but mainly passing to my north.

Dropped my temp down to 82F but the DP is still a craptastic 75F.

23 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

May miss w/stuff to the N and S as it heads E...

88F/DP 74F

Yeah, I think we’re gonna get the seven-ten split here. But clouds have moved in and kept me from seeing a 90F today, so there’s that.

Some junk ‘n stuff to the west of Birds and me. Wonder if I can sneak in a 90F today.

88F/DP 75F 

Large tree limb down on the front lawn this morning. If that's the worst around here, I lucked out!

71F/DP 68F

1 hour ago, mattinpa said:

Not too bad in Royersford - heavy rain, wind not terrible and some lightning. Appears I just avoided the worst.

Pretty much matches what happened here. One really strong gust when the line first hit.

About .40” this morning with another .50” this evening. Still getting an occasional lightning flash and thunder.

69F/DP 68F

32 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Cicada killer spotted. The Spruce Goose of Wasps.

 

Those things used to terrify me as a kid. Came to learn they are essentially harmless — the males don’t have stingers and the females would rather use them on cicadas than humans. Who knew?

83F/DP 65F

On 8/2/2023 at 5:47 AM, Hurricane Agnes said:

The fly in that ointment is that the Atlantic ocean SSTs are probably near record highs so unless you get a phase with a PV that pushes down this far, it'll be nor'easters and/or late/home-grown TCs (forming away from/north of the stj shearing - note that current disturbances have been getting sheared apart so far, with one that had even hit a 70% chance at becoming a PTC at some point a few days ago, that got knocked back down to 10% as of this morning).

So far have bottomed out at 60 this morning and the dp has finally plummeted down into the low 50s. Currently 61 with dp 53.

Hasn't that been our issue of late? Even when we get blocking, it links up with the SE ridge. Hopefully the Nino couples with the atmosphere this year and beats down the pig ridge.

Bit more sticky out there this morning, 73F/DP 63F.

Heard my first katydid last night. It was also the first night in weeks I had the AC off and windows open, so maybe they've been out there for awhile and I hadn't noticed.

62F/DP 60F