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  1. Voyager
    When I lived in Arizona, 115+ was somewhat common in Phoenix, but the hottest temperature I've ever experienced was 128 in Bullhead City. That was just crazy hot, and pretty much too hot for even this summer loving warmanista. The heat radiating up from the asphalt parking lots almost literally burned my legs.
  2. Voyager
    It's why I have the guy on ignore. Him posting his climate stats and obs here, would be the equivalent of me doing it in the Mid Atlantic forum. Now I do post from time to time in the Philly thread, but I'm five miles from Carbon and 8 miles from Lehigh, so sometimes I cross over. Plus...I was born and raised in Bethlehem, so I feel a kindred spirit with those guys down there.
  3. Voyager
    Exactly. That's why I went. Of course it wasn't as bad at 11am in Tamaqua as it was in the afternoon farther south toward Reading and beyond.
  4. Voyager
    I was lucky the train came through Tamaqua around 11am, before peak heating, but it was still plenty hot. There were a handful of heat emergencies here, though, too.
  5. Voyager
    Yup. The 4012 is up there on static display. For a bit, they parked the operating Big Boy next to the static one.
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  7. Voyager
    It's looking like 98 is going to be my high for today.
  8. Voyager
    As Canderson said, I have the Tempest station. I like it a lot, but with the hepatic rain gauge, you're not going to get accurate winter precipitation readings, as the snowflakes aren't heavy enough to trip the sensors. You'll need a separate gauge to melt and record snow.
  9. Voyager
    Still an hour from train time, and Tamaqua is full of people trackside already...
  10. Voyager
    If I can get some good stuff, I will!
  11. Voyager
    Oh, I most certainly will! I took a vacation day because the Union Pacific Big Boy is coming through Tamaqua today. I live so close to the tracks that it's practically going through my backyard. I could sit on my back patio and watch it go by, but it's doing a 15 minute photo stop at the train station, so I'll be walking down there to see it, and hopefully get some good pics and video.
  12. Voyager
    Facebook certainly has a warped sense of humor. Look at this ad that showed up in my feed just now...
  13. Voyager
    Looks like 96.3 is going to be the high for today here.
  14. Voyager
    I might have to go into the witness protection program after posting this...
  15. Voyager
    My total for June was 4.35".
  16. Voyager
    Even here, Thursday and Friday are 99 and 98 respectively. On top of that, I can't ever remember Schuylkill County being included in an Extreme Heat Warning, let alone for multiple days. Back in 2011, we hit 103, unofficially, on my weather station. It'll be interesting to see what I register with this one.
  17. Voyager
    Why couldn't today have been yesterday's weather? I needed a morale booster so bad, and instead, I got the opposite.
  18. Voyager
    What an f'n miserable day. I haven't felt good, physically or mentally, for the past 6 months, and needed a nice day out. Instead mother nature, or God, or whomever, doubled down and just made things worse. I just can't seem to win anymore...
  19. Voyager
    Today is the wife's employer's annual Knoebels summer picnic. Of course the worst weather a week before and week after would be today. And by that I mean the rain. The overcast and moderate temperatures would make for a nice, comfortable day otherwise.
  20. Voyager
    We did well here, too. 0.83" overnight. The "storm" after midnight must have had a pretty good wind component to it, because I registered an 18.6mph gust at 12:35am, which, for my station and it's protected location, is quite impressive. Even on the windiest of days, I rarely record a gust over 15mph.
  21. Voyager
    Well, I am a water hauler, so maybe as snow begets snow, water begets water...lol
  22. Voyager
    0.92" between yesterday and today. I actually got more today (.49") than yesterday (.43").
  23. Voyager
    No doubt. Previous deficits, coupled with the lack of current rainfall, should pop them at some point. I know this is out of our forum, but once you get over the Blue Mountain into northern Lehigh County, there are some serious brown lawns, and the Jordan Creek in the New Tripoli area is about as low as I've ever seen it. Somehow, up here, we've done a little better, and have been a bit wetter.
  24. Voyager
    Yikes....that's bad.
  25. Voyager
    I got .36" so far, but that was nothing but a few light to moderate showers. No storm whatsoever.
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