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I just hit 90.4F. That is the highest temperature in 4 years. 2021 89.3 2020 90.2 2019 88.9 2018 96.3 but that was my old location above the house roof and not at 2m out in my apple orchard.

I just hit 90.4F. (It's Thur 8/4). That is the warmest temperature in 4 years. 2021 89.3 2020 90.2 2019 88.9 2018 96.3 (Anemometer over roof not at my new site at 3m in the apple orchard)

I have not paid too much attention to the next heat wave but just took a look. Wow. Wasn't it a few days ago that tomorrow looked like one super hot day? Now it seems the cold front will never make it into SNE until Tuesday or even Wednesday of next week. Not just a plain 90F+ 5 day heat wave but everyday 95-100F. The Euro for Bedford Mass (the GFS is a couple of degrees cooler and brings down the cool air faster next week) Thur 100 Fri 102 Sat 97 Sun 97 Mon 97 Tues 100 My question is...would this 6 day stretch of hot weather be some time of record if we take the highs and lows into consideration and average out the temperature over the whole period. 6 days in a row of near 100F each day has to be in contender for hottest stretch ever. Thoughts?

72/57 Partly sunny, nice breeze We take! Perfect temps for my liking. About 3" of rain this month so the grass has started to turn green again. For how long, who knows? A few years ago we had a very dry summer and SNE kept getting rain. The dividing line was always around Brian. This summer although it is dry we are doing okay vs SNE. I wish the tropics would wake up and throw a TS up this way.

For what it is worth here are the Euro and GFS high temperatures for next Friday

Done here .28"

I have been getting off and on showers and thunderstorms. About .20" Cells are producing some good downpours. I grabbed this picture a bit earlier from my friends webcam overlooking Newfound Lake

Congrat Beverly! 107F. Time to jump in the water.

Growing up in Baltimore the official temperatures were taken at a weather station on the roof of the downtown custom house. Then in the 1970's they switched to Friendship airport which is now BWI. These type of changes are a big deal as far as climatological records. I would bet if you looked at all the ASOS in the US and went back to the begining and then zoomed in on Google Maps you would see changes within the 1/4 mile area. That is why observatory's like Blue Hill or Mt Washington are so important as to long term trends. Meanwhile up here it is 68/65 and still getting training rain from earlier convection. Up to .64" Adding that to the 1" from Thursday storms this is the first good soaking since the first days of June.

.17" overnight and we just had a moderate thundershower. Still raining. .40" Question of the day for me is, will the new line of convection form in my area and move south or will I be totally too far north? Probably too far north? After my severe storm last week I have a whole new respect of what thunderstorms can do. If you see purple on the radar heading your way, watch out!

Boston hit 100.4 ten minutes ago

83.6/64 Light shower It is pretty special when I hit 90. I believe 90.2 was last years high. Some upper 80's this summer, like yesterday. I thought today might be a 90 day but morning debris and now some developing convection is killing that chance. About to clear back up but I don't mind being 16F cooler than the big east coast cities

1pm. 98F. Quick look and I don't see any official temperatures higher than 98F, down the coast. As of 115pm Boston down to 96.8F

98.6F if this is the official KBOS reading.

Is this Mesonet the best to watch for Boston? 96.8F with a SSW wind. I was just looking. Any more south component would lower their temperature, right? https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=KBOS&time=GMT

83/68 at noon. Cirrus debris moving out. It will be interesting to see if any convection will pop this afternoon or how much of the weakening storms from NYS will get in here this evening. Lately I have been in an area that they die out and then the front moves through at night and the next days convection fires south of me. This front is moving slowly so it will be interesting to see how this plays out.

I bought this fixer upper in the spring of 89. Spent weekends here till 2001 when we moved up from Boston full time. I didn't have any window unit AC's for the first 15 years. I don't remember it being so warm at night that sleeping was hard just like the May to early July period we just had. Looking back at my life of 65 years I can tell that the climate is warming...but like the frog that enjoys slowly boiling water until it is too late to jump out most people living today are younger than me and don't remember the cooler climate. The change is so slow that they just shrug it off. Personally unless the whole world got on board (which will never happen) climate change will continue.

That was an amazing night. I had my first digital camera. No long exposure needed. They were so bright. I was driving around in awe. Here is a picture I grabbed over Newfound Lake

I posted a video of our severe thunderstorm from 2 days ago. That video was not made at the height of the storm. This one is. The video starts shortly after the rain came in. Normally in the thunderstorms I have observed the strongest wind was with the gust front, just before the rain. This was different. Started out breezy with moderate rain and got progressively worse. The hail got bigger and bigger and the biggest hail was at the tail end of the storm, not on the video. Things start to get crazy around the 1 minute mark. Initially the wind came in from the west but as the storm got going it veered to due south. The bigger hail was at the end of the storm, not on the video. From my observation the most and biggest hail fell about 1/2 mile south of me. Interesting to note 1 mile north of me had very little wind. Visibility dropped to perhaps 1/8 of a mile by 1:20 about the same as I see in a heavy snowsquall. I also notice something that I have never seen talked about. The hailstones were hitting the Stratus funnel and bouncing right out. Obviously each nickel to near quarter size hailstone is equal to a lot of water. So the 1" of rain in the status might have been more. Also I wonder if strong wind gusts reduce the accuracy of a rain gauge?

When the storm was about 25 miles out Matt texted me that it was going to be a doozy. He watches my feed all the time and said he was glued to it. His vacation house is just beyond the trees in my field. He was in Mass and wished he was up here. After the storm we were texting again. I later went down to check his house. A big tree came down and just missed his house but tore up a retaining wall. He appreciates me checking his house from time to time. He and Danielle seem like really nice people.

One more post. This is the webcam footage of the storm in real time. The high wind was right at the end, then the power was lost. Hail came after we lost power. https://video.nest.com/clip/f83adb4b41f645c4a408d1c2adec1cb7.mp4 Last image the cam got

I today I had to do errands. Went from my house to Concord then back up to Meredith and then to Center Harbor. Just a few trees down here and there. In my hood the roads are covered with leaf shreds from the hail and most of the damage was around my immediate neighborhood. The severe thunderstorm provided some unique graphs on my weather station. Temperature from 82F to 63F almost immediately. Rain rate of 6.50" but hailstones just bounced out of Stratus cup so maybe more qpf fell. Wind gust to 56mph

Scott, what am I thinking?? I have so much cleanup and Im on a mobile hotspot with no services. You are right, the anemometer is at 10m. The weather station in the field got knocked over but the anemometer didn't. So the gust was over the roof level. Sorry about that.

Yes, and it is not a wide open big field, we thought our windows would break with the hail hitting sideways

My anemometer is on a mast over our sunroom about 10 meters above ground. The Davis station is in our Apple orchard on a tripod about 2meters high. Both transmit to the console.