NorthHillsWx

97.3 here for the high. In line with RDU. Thankful for the afternoon clouds and breeze 

6 minutes ago, yotaman said:

Hit 94 before a surprise thunderstorm developed right over us. Dropped .61" and had some wind gust into the 30's easily. Also dropped temp down to 74. Sun is back out and temp is climbing once again. Already back up to 84.

I love the afternoon thunderstorm jackpot on these insanely hot days. Those are my favorite storms, just always hope they’re late enough in the evening to avoid the inevitable humidity hell when sun pops back out!

5 minutes ago, GaWx said:

What are you at now?

I’m 9 miles east of RDU. Clouds have definitely capped the temps today. Since we peaked at 100 it’s dropped to 97 under cloud cover. Not unhappy about it 

4 hours ago, GaWx said:

RDU 11AM today: 92/74

RDU 11AM yesterday: 91/72

RDU has hit 100 for 2nd day in a row but this seems much more in line with my observations. My temp has pretty much been in lockstep with RDU all day 

1 hour ago, NorthHillsWx said:

HI up to 109. 98.4 here, still rising 

We have hit 100 for the 3rd time this year imby

EDIT: Heat index up to 114. We seem to be running higher than RDU due to slightly higher DP. Further east = more pain today 

HI up to 109. 98.4 here, still rising 

95/76 shewwwww

2 minutes ago, olafminesaw said:

Seems like dew points have been running a good bit higher than yesterday's forecast, especially from the triangle East. Temps meanwhile are if anything a little ahead of schedule. 

A 78 degree dew point at 11 am is not a good sign if you wanted mixing. They upped the advisory to a warning after my post a couple hours ago. It’s going to hit warning levels by noon. Brutal day incoming 

1 hour ago, yotaman said:

It's already 88/80 for heat index of 105 and it's not even 10 am.

91 with a heat index of 106 here. Unbearable 

I bet RDU hits 105 today. Heat index of 95 at 9 am at my house. We’re going to surpass heat advisory levels I almost guarantee it. Make it stop

3 hours ago, GaWx said:

 The next 3-4 days look brutal with regard to the HI. With the heavy rainfall that RDU received last week, it will be interesting to see whether or not RDU resumes being hotter than FAY and other nearby areas. It is a near certainty the entire area will be hot but will RDU resume sticking out now that the drought has lessened? So far today, it looks pretty uniform with RDU and nearby mainly 92-3 at noon and FAY up at 95.

As of this writing, RDU had made it to at least 100. We maxed out at 97.9 I believe, currently sitting at 97.1. So 2+ degrees more than here again

We finished with 2.2” on Friday and now have 4.01” for the month. 97.9 seems to be the high for today. 

This was a drought busting rain from Burlington-concord east. Exactly what was needed. Virginia too

It is absolutely dumping. My how the turntables turn… Approaching 2” on the day

1 hour ago, olafminesaw said:

Seems to be a big of low level subsidence that is inhibiting the development of heavier precip across the triad. We may end up underperforming unless we can get some better lift.

Definitely some winners and losers but the AFD kinda highlighted that. Either you get under one of the bands or you will be nickel and diming it. Raining steady here right now but we’ve only picked up 0.16” so far

6 hours ago, eyewall said:

It is awful but not sure if it will beat 2007. I hope not. There was this tonight though:

It’s brutal. Waking up and not seeing a heat advisory or warning today felt strange, haven’t seen many days recently without heat headlines 

After failing to reach 0.5” in June we are now over 2” for July. 0.21” last evening brought the monthly total to 2.03”

Regardless of exact daily records or just how hot Rdu is compared to other places, this has got to be a record hot summer. I cannot remember a summer with this many 100 and upper 90 degree days this early in the summer

For what it’s worth we’ve been above KRDUs reading most of the afternoon here. 97.0 right now, I think the airport was at 96

I had a high of 95.7. KRDU was 97 I believe today. We picked up 0.02” from a shower yesterday evening 

Im consistently 2 degrees below what KRDU measures in daylight but very frequently close at nighttime. I’m almost exactly 9 miles from the airport. IMO it has a warm bias it didn’t used to have. Setting the all time record high when most areas were hot but not even close is suspicious. I maxed out at 102.1 that day, well off the 106 they recorded but much more aligned with other observations 

5 hours ago, GaWx said:

RDU at 97 was hottest major station in the state Monday by 2F:

MAX/MIN TEMPERATURE AND PRECIPITATION TABLE FOR NC  
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE RALEIGH, NC  
815 PM EDT MON JUL 8 2024  

.BR RDU 0708 ES DH19/TAIRZS/TAIRZI/PPDRZZ  
:  
: HIGH PAST 18 HOURS / LOW PAST 24 HOURS /PCPN LAST 24 HOURS  
:  
: MAX MIN 24-HR  
:ID LOCATION TEMP TEMP PCPN  
:  
AVL :ASHEVILLE : 88 / 70 / 0.01  
BUY :BURLINGTON : 91 / 72 / T  
CLT :CHARLOTTE : 92 / 75 / 0.51  
ECG :ELIZABETH CITY : 90 / 74 / 0.00  
EWN :NEW BERN : 91 / 74 / 0.99  
FAY :FAYETTEVILLE : 94 / 75 / 0.00  
GSO :GREENSBORO : 91 / 73 / T  
HSE :CAPE HATTERAS : 89 / 78 / 0.00  
ILM :WILMINGTON : 91 / 76 / 0.07  
INT :WINSTON-SALEM : 92 / 75 / T  
LBT :LUMBERTON : 95 / 75 / 0.00  
MEB :LAURINBURG-MAXTON : 91 / 75 / 0.00  
MRH :BEAUFORT : 88 / 81 / 0.00  
RDU :RALEIGH-DURHAM : 97 / 75 / 0.00  
RWI :ROCKY MT-WILSON : 95 / 74 / 0.00

We didn’t make it quite to 95 here. High of 94.7

Approaching 2 million customers out. Core of highest winds definitely tracked right over Houston. This is a serious outage-producing storm 

Houston getting 80 mph gusts is impressive for an 80 mph hurricane that came ashore nearly 85 miles away 

Impressive amount of 80+ mph gusts recorded for an 80 mph storm in a semi remote part of the coast. Storm was clearly mixing winds to surface efficiently. As someone said earlier, an intensifying storm at landfall has an edge to it. I’m pretty impressed with the models on this one too. They nailed the last minute intensification. If it hadn’t ingested all that dry air after the Yucatán this would have been a major for Texas. Great tracking storm though and hopefully the damage isn’t too bad. Beryl will go down in history for its vicious impact on the grenadines and Jamaica, its ridiculous strength for June/early July, and tenacity in the Caribbean. Hopefully the US flooding is tempered, seeing some high rainfall totals beginning to show up in the Houston metro. Just a wild storm start to finish. Our ACE is now where it should be in September. I know one storm has little impact on how the season will go but man this feels ominous