IrishRob17

Severe Thunderstorm Watch Number 450 NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 310 PM EDT Tue Aug 25 2020 The NWS Storm Prediction Center has issued a * Severe Thunderstorm Watch for portions of Connecticut Massachusetts Eastern Maine Southern New Hampshire Northeast New Jersey Southeast New York Rhode Island Southern Vermont Coastal Waters * Effective this Tuesday afternoon and evening from 310 PM until 1000 PM EDT. * Primary threats include... Scattered damaging wind gusts to 70 mph possible Isolated large hail events to 1.5 inches in diameter possible SUMMARY...Clusters of severe thunderstorms will move southeast across the watch area through early evening with a risk for damaging wind gusts and isolated instances of large hail. The severe thunderstorm watch area is approximately along and 60 statute miles east and west of a line from 25 miles east northeast of Augusta ME to 10 miles southwest of Bridgeport CT. For a complete depiction of the watch see the associated watch outline update (WOUS64 KWNS WOU0).

Absolutely. Its been a warm summer for sure but IMBY, nothing notable as far as record highs or heat waves, just a lot of well above average. In 2013 for example I had 14 70 degree lows, I average 4.9 lows of 70 and its only been 2 thus far with only 6 90 degree days.

That's crazy, I have 2.

Tough day on the links, Champ?

Triple D is a good show...always makes me hungry though...

If you’re expecting a response from BX you’ll be disappointed...he’s busy watching a Hallmark Christmas movie as he gets his green and red jammies on

Well I sure as hell didn’t take it! @BxEngine says you refuse to come north of the Tappan Zee...fake news?

Shots fired!! LOL

How many others wonder what’s going on when they see a topic is “hot” here only to realize Liberty Bell is online?

In your pink onesie?

Do you even know how to read a thermometer?

I just checked NOWData for KMGJ and don't see any heat waves in that data either so maybe I'm over thinking my station and location, I dunno.

Yeah, I checked, no heat waves yet this year. I'm thinking there are two factors contributing to that. 1) The river and wetlands around me, the added humidity keeps the temps down a touch. 2) I installed a Davis VP2 with 24-Hour Fan Aspirated Radiation Shield last September. The Vantage Vue is a nice PWS but I had thoughts it ran high on certain sunny days with no wind and maybe this helps to confirm that? Here are the Summers I've been here and how many heat waves each summer, note I had a Davis Weather Montior II through the summer of 2011, then the Davis Vantage Vue from Summer 2012-Summer 2019, now the VP2:

Delightful morning, made it to 50 IMBY, KMGJ, just up the road, got down to 47.

Agreed. My dew will always run high because of the Wallkill and wetlands around me.

And the Euro backed down at both yesterday’s 12z and last nights 0z on the heat from the blazing 0z run yesterday. Still hot, sure, but may not even get a heat wave out of it around here. I have to go through my stats, not sure if I’ve had any official heat waves this summer despite it being a warm one.

Im sitting right at 50, KMGJ is at 48.

It was an interesting first week of Oct here in 2019... 10/2/19: High of 87 10/5/19: First Frost of the Season

This explains further the proposed NWS changes: https://nws.weather.gov/products/PDD/PDD_Proposed_FinalHazSimpProposal_2020.pdf

That has nothing to do with COVID, you ain't foolin' me!

Vivid lighting and booming thunder around 2am woke me up despite the AC and a fan running which typically drowns out all other noise, lasted 20-30 minutes, picked up .65”

I agree, COVID has screwed up the passage of time for me as well, I'm usually fired up for fall starting around now but this year I don't know what day, week, month, or season it is, and that has nothing to do with beer consumption. I find that interesting as following the weather is one of the few hobbies I have that COVID has not affected in one way or another but its still hard to believe we are in mid August already. As far as the back of summer being broken, that is clearly subjective. In my mind, breaking the back doesn't mean no more hot days or warm evenings as it appears to mean to others, it means we get some breaks in that, like this morning with a fresh air feeling 57 for the low IMBY. I have no doubt my AC's will be fired up again this season, probably this weekend, but at least the streak of running AC is broken for me as we look forward to some really nice, windows open, nights this week.

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That’s why I go to Hatteras Island OBX every couple of years, I don’t like the beach enough to have people all around me. When and where we go if there is another party set up within 50 feet of you it’s a busy day, that’s how I like to beach.