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  1. 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.
  2. Yup. The 4012 is up there on static display. For a bit, they parked the operating Big Boy next to the static one.
  3. It's looking like 98 is going to be my high for today.
  4. 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.
  5. Still an hour from train time, and Tamaqua is full of people trackside already...
  6. 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.
  7. Facebook certainly has a warped sense of humor. Look at this ad that showed up in my feed just now...
  8. I might have to go into the witness protection program after posting this...
  9. 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.
  10. Why couldn't today have been yesterday's weather? I needed a morale booster so bad, and instead, I got the opposite.
  11. 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...
  12. 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.
  13. 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.
  14. Well, I am a water hauler, so maybe as snow begets snow, water begets water...lol
  15. 0.92" between yesterday and today. I actually got more today (.49") than yesterday (.43").
  16. 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.
  17. I got .36" so far, but that was nothing but a few light to moderate showers. No storm whatsoever.
  18. I'm on the outside looking in. No watch for the Skook...
  19. So what mimics IBD's. I'm in that stage right now. I was first told I had CD, then I was told there wasn't evidence of "chronic inflammation", so no official diagnosis, but my gastro believes that I do have Crohn's. I don't know. What I do know is that this started in February, and that I feel like crap far more often than I don't.
  20. Thanks. I'm new to this as I was just diagnosed a week and a half ago. I guess when I have my follow up appointment, medication suggestions and diet will be discussed.
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