LibertyBell

matched you with a 90 here at 3 pm

Yes it's warmer but not necessarily hotter (as in more extremely hot.)

Looks like it wont be as sunny as earlier thought, at least tomorrow and Saturday, Don? Onshore flow?

it hit 90 here today at 3 pm

The longer nights do make it cool down more than it did in June and July though. I don't keep my a/c on all night like I did in those months. That said, it came back on at 11 am today, it's really humid even without any sun.

Yep, my a/c was turned back on at 11 AM and there isn't even any sun today. On Monday I didn't turn it on until 4 PM.

not really lol

wow lots of historic heat in extremely hot summers on this date 1933: Bakersfield, CA reached 117° to set their all-time record for August. Hanford reached 115° for the second day in a row, tying their all-time August high temperature record. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) 1936 - Temperatures across much of eastern Kansas soared above 110 degrees. Kansas City MO hit an all-time record high of 113 degrees. It was one of sixteen consecutive days of 100 degree heat for Kansas City. During that summer there were a record 53 days of 100 degree heat, and during the three summer months Kansas City received just 1.12 inches of rain. (The Kansas City Weather Almanac) 1980: National Airport had a 98° high temperature today the last of 21 consecutive days of 90°F or more. (Ref. Washington Weather Records - KDCA) The temperature reached the century mark for the 53rd time in Dallas, TX, establishing the all-time record for 100 degree plus days in a year. (Ref. AccWeather Weather History) 1988 - Eighteen cities in the northeastern U.S. reported record high temperatures for the date, and the water temperature at Lake Erie reached a record 80 degrees. Portland ME reported a record fourteen straight days of 80 degree weather. Milwaukee WI reported a record 34 days of 90 degree heat for the year. Afternoon and evening thunderstorms resulted in about fifty reports of severe weather in the northeastern U.S. One person was killed at Stockbridge MI when a tornado knocked a tree onto their camper. (The National Weather Summary) (Storm Data) 2002: A 594 decameter area of high pressure off the Carolina coast produced hot south to southwesterly winds ahead of a cold front bringing record heat to parts of the east. The temperature in Boston, MA reached 101°, equaling their August record (8/2/1975). Other daily records included: Syracuse, NY: 101°, Concord, NH: 99°, Hartford, CT: 99°, Allentown, PA: 99°, Philadelphia, PA: 99°, Milton, MA: 98°, Providence, RI: 98°, Rochester, NY: 97°, Harrisburg, PA: 97°, Burlington, VT: 96°, Binghamton, NY: 95° and Erie, PA: 94°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) In San Angelo, TX, just after midnight, a descending heat-burst jumped the temperature from 75° to 94° in 30 minutes. The event ended about 90 minutes later when the temperature fell back to 73°. (Ref. Wilson Wx. History) (Ref. WxDoctor) The tropics were very active in 1953 and we still managed to have a historic heatwave and triple digit temperatures right at the peak of hurricane season in September!!! 1953 - Hurricane Barbara hits North Carolina as a Category 2 hurricane. Damage from the storm was relatively minor, totaling around $1.3 million (1953 USD). Most of it occurred in North Carolina and Virginia from crop damage. The hurricane left several injuries, some traffic accidents, as well as seven fatalities in the eastern United States; at least two were due to electrocution from downed power lines. Offshore Atlantic Canada, a small boat sunk, killing its crew of two.

There was plenty of rain here even if not 1 inch Don, we rarely ever get 1 inch of rain from thunderstorms around here, they just do not last long enough. That said the 0.5-0.8 inch of rain was plenty.

it's not like they get this right every time.

The skies were purple here just before sunset, that very rarely happens here. I thought I saw the beginnings of a rainbow too, but the rain came in and it got too dark for one to form, it was very pale regardless. It looked like a pink bow in a purple sky lol

there was some heavy rain for awhile with lightning and thunder and an odd purple colored sky close to sunset. Nothing severe (which we don't need) but some heavy rain without flooding was nice to see

You'd think being right on the Sound would make them much cooler. I didn't see any of these places getting as hot as JFK in late June.

The thunder won't even make it here lol

How does Bridgeport which is much cooler than Long Island get a 90 degree day today, they are located right on the Long Island Sound and on a peninsula surrounded by water on three sides. JFK is usually much hotter than Bridgeport, Don.

You actually don't even have to go outside if it's a really good shower. I've been able to spot lots of meteors right from my windows, I just keep all my lights shut off.

I really hate the moon it seems to interfere every year with this shower. Maybe one day we'll figure out a way to shut off its light (an artificial eclipse maybe?)

The problem is the same with people who drive through flash flooding, if someone has to go out there to rescue them their lives are put at risk too. So at a minimum if someone disobeys signs, they can be fined and even charged as criminals.

What about if it's children or minors? Should their parents be charged if they leave them unattended and they go in the water and drown? People can go to the beach they just aren't allowed in the water, they should be prosecuted if they disobey the warnings. If someone has to go rescue them you put their lives in jeopardy too (the same thing with driving through flash floods by the way.)

Yes, I think it's a sign that we're flipping back to the 2010-2013 type summers. Where is that upper ridge right now? Is it to our southwest?

Probably just some light rain when it gets here

5 weeks was absolutely amazing for snowfall amounts and snowcover. Unfortunately for summer, it's hard to find an equivalent, I guess the closest would be Summer 1980, in which the heat was concentrated in July and August. Even that had a long period of heat (8 weeks) vs the 5-6 weeks of heat we got this summer. I loved that late June period, but July was a bit of a disappointment here, not matching July 2010.

also, what happened to that heat ridge from the west that gave us our big heat in late June? we don't usually get our hottest weather from a Bermuda High, our hottest weather comes from when the big ridge out west expands eastward

This summer represents a turning point because we finally got a really strong hot ridge in June that gave us all 100+ degree temperatures. I think we are cycling back to that-- this summer was the first shot across the bow. How strong would the ridge have to be to give everyone over 100 degree temperatures from Canada all the way down to the Carolinas?

is there a way to classify heatwaves the way we classify snowstorms Don? For example, for KU events we have: coverage of 4 inch snowfall coverage of 10 inch snowfall coverage of 20 inch snowfall for heatwaves we can classify them 1-5 in the same way coverage of 90 degree temperatures coverage of 95 degree temperatures coverage of 100 degree temperatures on this scale the late June heatwave would be a 4 or even a 5 !