Augdewst 2026: Summer's Last Stand

[Damage In Tolland]

10 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Let’s collapse again 

Coming in after dark tonight they probably will 

[FXWX]

9 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Bullshit its very very true. Hair sticks up and gives you a tingling feeling, you become a negative 

Very well documented for decades... 

[WxWatcher007]

3 hours ago, CoastalWx said:

Looked like it skipped you? Rain anyways. 
 

Big cluster offshore right now. The skip was well modeled. 

Yeah only .38” but the lightning was all I needed to see.

[kdxken]

 

[CoastalWx]

Shocked to see those areas in Slight. Shocked. Let’s get EWR another G65

[Damage In Tolland]

Juuussstt to the river .

[HIPPYVALLEY]

10 hours ago, Ginx snewx said:

Bullshit its very very true. Hair sticks up and gives you a tingling feeling, you become a negative 

I’ve been on a mountain tops as a t-storm popped up and saw long hair float straight up. Immediately ran for cover, 

[Modfan2]

Sort of nice out now, 79F with a slight breeze and not nearly as humid as the past few days

[Damage In Tolland]

71.1 dew is oppressive and great 

[CoastalWx]

Dew 75 here. Was 69 earlier. 

[CoastalWx]

Models don’t seem enthused in the slight risk area today. Or any area really. N

[tamarack]

0.34" by 7 AM, a couple cents after, now some humid PC.  One distant rumble, as lightning continues to stay a great distance away.  Maybe we hear something closer this afternoon?

[dendrite]

12 minutes ago, CoastalWx said:

Was 69 earlier. 

tmi?

[dendrite]

Still haven’t hit 80°. Lots of clouds and back down to 77/70. 

[Baroclinic Zone]

86/70 or 85/72  yuck

[CoastalWx]

2 hours ago, WxWatcher007 said:

Yeah only .38” but the lightning was all I needed to see.

If it’s not a mile or less away I’m not interested. 

[Torch Tiger]

maybe pike region for storms today?

[Brewbeer]

2 hours ago, Damage In Tolland said:

oppressive and great 

oppressive is never great

[Great Snow 1717]

1 minute ago, Brewbeer said:

oppressive is never great

...some people enjoy making energy executives even more wealthy...

[CoastalWx]

We do the dew. Summer baby.

[Damage In Tolland]

87/77

This is how we dew it 

[Lava Rock]

87/77
This is how we dew it 

Hows your ac running

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[vortex95]

On 8/7/2026 at 7:39 AM, CoastalWx said:

Yeah decent light show well north. Meh.

Only @CoastalWx would use "decent" and "meh" in the same sentence!  It's like when he finally had his 6" in a single storm b4 the 20"+ events this past winter, and he used "violently" and "beautiful" in the same sentence!

[Damage In Tolland]

1 minute ago, Lava Rock said:

Hows your ac running

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Dunno I’m laying out on aluminum foil on my roof currently 

[vortex95]

On 8/7/2026 at 7:54 AM, CoastalWx said:

Don’t laugh but it probably will happen. Enjoy the cirrus, Ira the only cirrus you got. 

and DIAMOND DUST at 30,000 ft!

[vortex95]

On 8/7/2026 at 10:09 AM, weatherwiz said:

Its always cool to compare stats versus memory. 

But it does feel like we used to do much better with convection in the 90's then we have for quite some time..and by that I mean these elongated squall lines (or usually multiple) that would be draped from like Maine into the mid-Atlantic. I remember many times during the summer watching the weather channel and following the radar on the Local on the 8's and seeing these squall lines moving from NY/PA into SNE...and more times than not they would fizzle before reaching West Hartford  

But I also remember several times a summer getting really loud overnight thunderstorms and evenings where the sky would just be lit up from distant thunderstorms and it seemed like the lightning would just go on for hours. It seemed like every period of high heat/humidity not only came with thunderstorms but multiple instances and the overnight stuff. 

1990's were the king of the squall lines (and into the early 2000's). 

Also, when kids, first impressions are massive and imprint strongly.  And everything is larger than life as a kid.  I have so many memories on this level and now I am somewhat jaded (not like @CoastalWx though!) and it takes a *lot* to impress me!  However, that doesn't mean I do not still enjoy it all.

Also, these days, being so in touch w all that goes on around us for wx, we see clearly more how many times we "miss" things, but when you confine it to one local area (like WEYMOUTH!) of course you are going to fell ripped off way more often b/c you are far more aware of what happened elsewhere and hence whine "WHY CAN"T WE GET THAT!?"   

Some of my most vivid tstm memories are from Hampton Beach. Yes, given the VIS is much better on a beach, that is factor, but way too many times I recall nasty stuff there, and at all hours of the day.  Turns out there is something to that, as storm tend to intensify as they approach the NH coast, or at least don't crap out like so many times as they approach 495/128!