Ju-ply 2026 Obs and Disco - Kicking it off with heat, humidity, and ... severe?

[dendrite]

9 minutes ago, H2Otown_WX said:

@dendrite ASOS has been down at BDL since last Thursday morning. Screen just says "NO CARRIER" and we were directed by FAA to just let obs go out on AUTO.

Wait…so the ASOS is sending data, but you can’t see it? 

[HoarfrostHubb]

92F high here.   Other PWS nearby were a bit higher or lower.   
 

Pool is warming up nicely. 78F now.  

[Damage In Tolland]

Dew up to 79!

[Damage In Tolland]

They’re real and they’re spectacular 

[tamarack]

13 minutes ago, powderfreak said:

Yeah I bet the neighborhood is bustling at -25F.

I love the cold and spend most time outside on the mountain in it, but it’s a fools errand to say more folks are outside in extreme cold than extreme heat.

Plenty of folks out up here.

Probably reached past -25 only once last (cold) winter - the frigid (2/-13) Sunday as the fluff bomb was approaching.  Most recent -40 would be Feb 3-4, 2023.  It's not an every-day phenomenon.  (Unless you're on the Rockpile)

Mid 80s here with somewhat filtered sun and TD about 70 - summer.  Forecast for tomorrow would predict a new hottest day here (currently 93) but our dense forest pumps cooling air into the atmosphere.  The co-op 3 miles to my SE has a much better chance to be 95+.

[dendrite]

1 hour ago, dendrite said:

In CON now…97° on the car so probably 95° reality. 

So I drove around a lot of CON the past couple hours…mostly 96/97 on the car and it’s historically consistently 2° too warm so 94/95 matches the ASOS obs well. But there’s always a warm spot on the north end that goes up a few degrees around the 93/393 split up to about the river…basically the NHTI area. Sure enough, went through there and the car thermo went from 97 to 100 to 96 (95 to 98 to 94). There’s definitely a little heat boost in that river terrain carved out by the old Lake Merrimack.

[Modfan2]

I was fortunate to spend most of the day on Block Island, temps there in the low 70s. I am making my way back home in Eastern Connecticut and temps have only risen to 86. Look at radar looks like there’s a nice sea breeze running up to 395 temp at home dropped from 95 to 90

[Layman]

4 minutes ago, dendrite said:

So I drove around a lot of CON the past couple hours…mostly 96/97 on the car and it’s historically consistently 2° too warm so 94/95 matches the ASOS obs well. But there’s always a warm spot on the north end that goes up a few degrees around the 93/393 split up to about the river…basically the NHTI area. Sure enough, went through there and the car thermo went from 97 to 100 to 96 (95 to 98 to 94). There’s definitely a little heat boost in that river terrain carved out by the old Lake Merrimack.

I'll test that out on the car thermometer tomorrow as the wife and I head up to @alex's neck of the woods for a couple days while the kids roast on the coast. 

[CT Valley Snowman]

Man, just stopped for soft serve to cool off a bit and the struggle was real. Freakin thing was getting killed in the heat, probably the fastest cone I ever ate.  

[Typhoon Tip]

I have never seen this grid show this many back to back periods > 30C at BOS (left) LGA (right) 

24000485024 01493 112610 81  34  2617   24000503712 -2793 142307 81  34  2620
30000464213 -1694 102715 82  34  2617   30000483314 -1193 122510 83  35  2720
36000635017 -2394 112815 80  30  2517   36000584113 00493 133013 81  32  2619
42000736850 02293 122910 77  28  2316   42000644516 00395 153008 79  30  2416
48000423036 01099 102811 79  33  2416   48000413519 00996 132910 81  34  2617

That's a 2AM 30 C at LGA (right) ... 28 at Logan's negotiable, too.   But Jesus...  that's 90 overnight in Lower Manhattan ... and almost that at Gov. Center. 

This is the hottest multi interval aggregate I've ever seen on this NAM grid...  I shall miss this product when it finally leaves us later this summer - is that still happening? 

[Great Snow 1717]

1 hour ago, Brewbeer said:

Lease agreements require new home owners to accept the original terms of the lease.  I wouldn't agree to that, either.  

one of the big reasons why you want to own the panels and not lease them

 

....owning the panels seems good but down the road you are going to be a contractor's dream come true

I know someone who owns the panels on his home. A couple of years ago he put the home up for sale...one slight problem lol....the roof was 28 years old. Every offer he received had a contingency of wanting the panels removed because the prospective buyers did not want to deal with the hassle/cost of having them removed to have a new roof put on the home.. he still owns the home..

[Layman]

10 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

....owning the panels seems good but down the road you are going to be a contractor's dream come true

I know someone who owns the panels on his home. A couple of years ago he put the home up for sale...one slight problem lol....the roof was 28 years old. Every offer he received had a contingency of wanting the panels removed because the prospective buyers did not want to deal with the hassle/cost of having them removed to have a new roof put on the home.. he still owns the home..

Lots of interesting and nuanced things to consider for sure.  I appreciate the perspective on this.  

[SJonesWX]

37 minutes ago, dendrite said:

So I drove around a lot of CON the past couple hours…mostly 96/97 on the car and it’s historically consistently 2° too warm so 94/95 matches the ASOS obs well. But there’s always a warm spot on the north end that goes up a few degrees around the 93/393 split up to about the river…basically the NHTI area. Sure enough, went through there and the car thermo went from 97 to 100 to 96 (95 to 98 to 94). There’s definitely a little heat boost in that river terrain carved out by the old Lake Merrimack.

similar driving around MHT this afternoon. a couple areas hit 99 on the car thermo, but low to mid 90’s in others

[moneypitmike]

4 hours ago, kdxken said:

 

I’ll take the 42.

 

 

[Great Snow 1717]

2 minutes ago, Layman said:

Lots of interesting in nuanced things to consider for sure.  I appreciate the perspective on this.  

My next door neighbor had panels installed Oct 2025....took till late May of this year for them to finally work

I enjoy chasing off the door to door solar power scum reps....I love when they mutter something and I ask them to repeat what they just said but to say it louder lol....

[VivaManchVegas]

3 hours ago, monadnocks said:

We took a different path for solar.

- Small house, at the bottom of a wooded hill with the southern exposure being shaded by trees. Neighbor's trees are part of the issue so even if we cut everything, it wouldn't be 100%.

- Roof is set up with the biggest section facing north.

- We have Eversuck (or Neversource) in New Hampshire so there were no state or utility rebates. The federal tax incentive definitely helped.

- We went with Craftstrom, a company that sells what are essentially balcony solar / backyard solar panels. The inverters are set up so as to prevent back feeding into grid. Note: they try but our experience is that they are not quite ready for prime time. Whenever we have had an issue, they have worked to make it right. https://craftstrom.com/

- So no installation costs. We already had two phase in the garage for an EV.  This drove down the costs substantially.

- My partner is technically competent so when we needed new cables for a different position in the yard, he just built them.

- Our house uses a lot of power (tech stuff) so we rarely make 100% of our power from solar but it does happen.

- Looking at the current market rates for power https://www.energy.nh.gov/ENGYApps/CEPS/ResidentialCompare.aspx?choice=Eversource I expect that with higher rates than we have currently, we will move closer to breaking even. 

- We also put in mini-splits this fall and will do the math to determine whether power or oil is the best bet for winter heating. They're definitely more efficient on a/c.

This is going to be unpopular, but cutting down trees to make room for solar panels should be outlawed.  Unless they are impeding on your house and possible storm damage.  I drive through Maine and see acres of clear cuts for panels.  Its gross. On top of commercial buildings, land fills, desert or other wastelands, fine.  

Edit.. I will add open hayfields to the ban. 

[Boston Bulldog]

Wind shift incoming for KBOS. Looks like the new airmass is coming in from the southern boundary rising northward. Because of this I don’t think Logan will see a massive spike like it would if the coastal boundary broke earlier, but 92 could be challenged with the incoming SW winds

[VivaManchVegas]

We got to 96.8 here.  Currently 90.  Dew point is still 77.7.  Its thick.  

[Typhoon Tip]

1 minute ago, Boston Bulldog said:

Wind shift incoming for KBOS. Looks like the new airmass is coming in from the southern boundary rising northward. Because of this I don’t think Logan will see a massive spike like it would if the coastal boundary broke earlier, but 92 could be challenged with the incoming SW winds

you should create a parlay over whether NYC and/or BOS stay above 80, 85, or the unlikeliness of a 90  ( NAM has that implied by these 18z grid numbers!) tomorrow night. 

[w1pf]

[Typhoon Tip]

10 minutes ago, VivaManchVegas said:

We got to 96.8 here.  Currently 90.  Dew point is still 77.7.  Its thick.  

About identical here except we're 72 dp .. but it's nuts either way - particularly when knowing our climatology would have this normally be the apex day of any seasonal heat wave - which this is clearly something special when today is the low ball day.   

103 and 100 back to back is within reach ...  I realize the safe bets a couple of 99ers but synoptically... could send this toward the hottest 2-day thermal aggregate ever, looking tomorrow thru Friday.   We'll have to see.  

NAM 18z suggestion at LGA and probably BOS:     (103 + 84 + 100)/3 = 95.67   ...   I bet you'd be hard pressed to find that historically.  If so ... this is probably top 3

[VivaManchVegas]

NOAA had us modelled for 97 if my memory serves correct.  I would be shocked if we did not break 100 here for the next two days. The low of 77 tomorrow night.. wonder if that's a record as well. 

 

[Great Snow 1717]

24 minutes ago, VivaManchVegas said:

This is going to be unpopular, but cutting down trees to make room for solar panels should be outlawed.  Unless they are impeding on your house and possible storm damage.  I drive through Maine and see acres of clear cuts for panels.  Its gross. On top of commercial buildings, land fills, desert or other wastelands, fine.  

Edit.. I will add open hayfields to the ban. 

100% correct

[dendrite]

Bye Jaylen

[Modfan2]

Home after the trek back from PT Judith, 84-88F on Rt 138 from URI until I got to I-395; once on 395 in Plainfield Killingly temps jumped to 91, 89 now at home. There is a nice breeze here now making it somewhat tolerable outside.

[dendrite]

Days 1 is in

CON 95
BDL 95
MHT 94
BTV 93
BOS 92
PVD 90
ORH 90

 

EWR 99

[moneypitmike]

Scorcha.

 

 

 

[JACKASS]

Headed to Tampa area Saturday for a week.

Nice to have weather up here as a precursor to what I’m looking at down there.

LOL

[Torch Tiger]

[JACKASS]

As  a farmer, you can always pump water to a crop.

You can’t dry out a saturated field!

Wet just breeds disease also.

Learned this the hard way years ago.