Big Heat Week into July 4th Weekend

[CAPE]

1 hour ago, Kay said:

There's a squirrel imby chilling on the ground, in the shade, sort of like a dog does in the heat. Bit of an odd sight. Must not care about being eaten by a fox atm, the ground coolness is all.  This must be getting a bit tough for some of the fur bearing wildlife. Reminds me to keep birdbaths full.

97/82

Squirrels, birds, and even a groundhog have been drinking from my pond.

[Paleocene]

Near Lost River State park in WV, sitting at 92. Not bad in the shade, DP is below 70. At the park pool this afternoon it was pleasant. Water was refreshing, light breeze, air temp probably 95 at the worst. A hot summer day, but not urban heat island death. All these trees out here keep the ground nice and cool. Plus maybe 1500 feet elevation 

[SnowenOutThere]

2 hours ago, NorthArlington101 said:

I had to eat my words pretty hard off the jump… I really thought we hadn’t hit 100 since 2012.

Anyway, was out in the sun from 7-11am. Usually not a big deal, but that totally took me out. Just woke up from like a 3 hour recovery nap. Seriously draining.

I think that swim meet I coached from 7-10am might’ve been the most miserable weather one I’ve attended. Coaches area had the sun in the face and reflected off water. The insane dew points next to the pool just suck so bad. Now traveled up to Tionesta PA for Saturday and the cabin doesn’t have any ac… gonna be a long and hot night. 

[pazzo83]

59 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Looking at MD mesonet, AWOS/ASOS, and the reliably sited CWOP sites had made it clear the Chesapeake Bay added a few degrees to the humidity. It's always amusing to see some of the national mets look at our heat index and dewpoints in Maryland and go "no way".

water temps are in the upper 80s now - it makes total sense IMO

[pazzo83]

98/72 at 8pm.  Hot.

[Kay]

1 hour ago, CAPE said:

Squirrels, birds, and even a groundhog have been drinking from my pond.

Nice! The word is out about your pond. Let us know if anyone else shows up.

High 98, ridiculous dews.

[Kay]

STW cancelled

[Terpeast]

2 hours ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Looking at MD mesonet, AWOS/ASOS, and the reliably sited CWOP sites had made it clear the Chesapeake Bay added a few degrees to the humidity. It's always amusing to see some of the national mets look at our heat index and dewpoints in Maryland and go "no way".

My pws recorded a 124 HI at the peak. My knee jerk reaction was “no way” because I don’t even live near the water, but after seeing many other obs recording extreme HI values, I started to think its legit.

Usually when we break 100, we’d have some mixing to get our dews into the 60s, but they stayed in the 70s and we broke 100 anyway (except IAD)