July 2025 Obs/Disco ... possible historic month for heat

[WxWatcher007]

Today was beautiful. Sitting on the patio during sunset was awesome.

[HoarfrostHubb]

14 minutes ago, DavisStraight said:

When I spent summers in Southern Jersey I'd get killed by those green flies, nasty.

Green heads near the north shore (of Mass) are very evil. 

[dendrite]

5 minutes ago, kdxken said:

Please, come to Boston for the summertime. Concord ain't your kind of town...

 

Cambridge 86, Southie 83, and Northeastern 83 today. Only a few seagulls live at Logan.

[CoastalWx]

1 minute ago, dendrite said:

Cambridge 86, Southie 83, and Northeastern 83 today. Only a few seagulls live at Logan.

83 here too. Well a MPM 82.6.

[powderfreak]

Quick quarter inch with some loud thunder.

[radarman]

I won't speak for other places but the combination of humidity and lack of air movement in these parts is the absolute worst.  Buggy.  Food molding.  Wet.

Horrendous.

[8611Blizz]

Cape beaches actually a little windy, but great compared to the stagnant air in other areas.

[Snowedin]

1 hour ago, powderfreak said:

No joke, it seems like there’s 3 buzzing you at once for 2 hours.

They thrive in this 70F dew, warm/sunny, stagnant air.

What’s crazy to me is they always seem to emerge from the exact same locations when you go by. It’s like they sit there in brush plotting and scheming how to ruin the next poor, unfortunate persons sweaty head that happens to walk by. Sometimes I really want to take a can of wd40 and a lighter and go to town on the bastards! 

[DavisStraight]

2 hours ago, HoarfrostHubb said:

Green heads near the north shore (of Mass) are very evil. 

Probably the same insect.

[dendrite]

Another ho-hum torched min.

68.3°

[kdxken]

It's not over. 

 

[Spanks45]

11 minutes ago, kdxken said:

It's not over. 

 

But someone posted a little while ago that the back of summer was going to be broken, in the middle of July....Lol, this summer may just continue through September. I did see Halloween stuff show up at our local BJs and Costco this week. Next up will be school supplies, didn't take long for them to shove summer to the side.

I am one who will turn the a/c off and open the windows at any possible chance, but it has been non stop now for weeks. Ready for at least a break in the humidity.

[tamarack]

10 hours ago, powderfreak said:

One thing I've noticed is the deer flies have been absolutely relentless up here.  We used to not really have them or at least they weren't this ferocious.  I remember when I moved up here thinking, wow this is really nice compared to say the woods/hills of northern CT in Woodstock where they would eat you alive.

Now you go hiking and the whole time you are getting buzzed by deer flies.  It feels like the CT Hill climate of 15 years ago, ha.

Deerflies can fly about as fast as Usain Bolt can run.  We have a modest fleet of them here but the woods in NW Maine had far more when I worked there - dozens to hundreds circling for the kill.  However, I once had to await a coworker while at a stream near Jackman and decided to feed deerflies to the trout.  While standing still, I had almost no deerflies around.  It's like they key on movement, like T-Rex in Jurassic Park.  Their bite suggests similar dental equipment (smaller scale) as well.

[Go Kart Mozart]

Interesting article in today's NYT on AI forecasting.  Although, I had to laugh at the author's statement that "the NWS forecasts have fallen behind those of the European Centre"....like this is a new development.

 

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/business/windborne-weather-noaa-cuts.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WU8.dSgd.U1XxjVdMfQ3a&smid=url-share