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Well, luck was needed, and it delivered. Between yesterday's storms and this afternoon's storms, that were very impressive, a total of 2.52 inches. Scanning nearby areas that are only a few miles away, Middletown, the actual town .86 , Townsend .32, Odessa .85 Was a game of just miles.

Here it is. Since the dataset goes back to 1948, I pegged the summer temperatures to the 1951-1980 mean (as in the NASA GISS record).

Looks like another next weekend

Got a brief shower earlier. 6 minutes total and picked up .25". That's the first time I've seen puddles, wet under trees and bushes, and water flowing in the street gutters since July 16th. There's a lot of leaf dropping around here.

5 day heat wave out my way. should be over tomorrow for all.

Tamarack and me are old enough to remember when that song came out and became an anthem.

Surprisingly hot today particularly in Downtown Worcester. All the way to home temps showed 90-94.

Not really a threat. The OPs are hundreds of miles offshore. The future low moving from QC to NF is also fairly deep, and block over Greenland locks it in. I mean it's worth watching there, but not a threat.

Weird you mention that. Just seconds ago I got a video clip from my friend. She was in the background of a 5:00 p.m. TV report.

I thought it would be useful to provide greater context to how things are evolving. Some of the most extreme heatwaves occurred during summers that are relatively cool by recent standards i.e., 1966 and 1977. Even as some of the extreme heat has not occurred, the tradeoff has been summer warmth that is greater and more persistent. Of course, there have been some hot summers that fit both criteria e.g., 2010.

Tomorrow should be partly sunny. Clouds could become more numerous during the afternoon into the evening. We'll see how Saturday evolves.

Another nothing burger. Barely enough to wet the ground yesterday, and another disintegrating line moving this way. Still at 0.63" for the month, which fell 2 weeks ago tomorrow. Do I care? Not really. Plants are ok, grass is mostly dead as usual, and I'm going to plant clover in a couple weeks.

Imagine if he listened to the Mets. All that time back.

I got lucky today with that line that popped up. 0.33” at home while I was driving around. Much better than the 0.01” I got yesterday.

It's true but at the same time rclab, most of us had not seen triple digit temperatures between 2013 and 2025. This is the first time I've seen triple digit temperatures since 2013. And the same is true of Philly, NYC, JFK and PHL were all at record long 100+ degree temperature droughts. Our shortest gap between triple digit temperatures actually happened between the 1940s and 1960s, since then the return period between triple digit temperatures has been widening, with the gap between 2013 and 2025 the longest to date.

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5 deaths in FL from it so far this year.

The June heat was stronger here, but a shorter duration.

Don this matches my experience of 1983 and 2010 being the two hottest summers of my lifetime. I see Central Park was extremely hot in 1966 too (as was JFK). Can you extend this further back to the beginning of the climate history of JFK which is 1948 (I wish it was 1944 lol). I know 1949 and some of those 1950s summers were all extremely hot.

Where is @ineedsnow?

Recon making its descent. Should start getting meaningful data soon.

Got 0.20 which isn't much for normal areas but it's the first measurable rain in weeks in the desert. Some of our streets look like it's October with all the leaves piling up. I've had only 1.6 inches since July 2

Yes, the hotter places are hot as usual, not so hot for the rest of us. I finally made it to 90 today for the first time this week. It's not warm at night either, I turn off my a/c in the middle of the night. I know New Jersey has a radically different climate from the rest of us (in the winter and the summer) but for us the 1990s and 2010s (at least the first half) were much hotter. This decade the extreme heat is confined to areas away from the coast (except for that late June heatwave.) For us climate change is much more about higher humidity than it is higher summertime temperatures.