Voyager

Nothing until August/September at the earliest, but that was before the new restrictions. One day at time I guess.

As I would with you, my friend.

We've had our heat at times in the past, even getting up to 102 way back in 2011, but generally, most heat seems to get stopped at the Blue Mountain. Harrisburg, Lancaster, Reading, and Allentown can get easily into the mid 90's while we barely make it to 88-89 degrees. Now in the winter, sometimes we get the inversions where normally frigid Hazleton can be as much as 20 degrees warmer than we are in the early morning. I'd scrape frost off my car at 30 degrees only to arrive at work and it would be in the mid to upper 40's.

So many times I wish I didn't live in a higher elevation. While the south and southeast lowlands cook, we can barely muster upper 80's to 90. I miss my Lehigh Valley summer heat waves.

Link to coastal water temperatures. Check out Cape May NJ at 80 degrees (79.7). https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/data/coastal-water-temperature-guide/catl.html

The only things holding the river back here is the Tuscarora State Park Dam and the Still Creek Reservoir. If it weren't for those two upstream dams, I think we'd have problems for sure.

Please don't think I'm posting to "rub it in". I do like to share obs, but really, in this case, I'm pretty much astonished by the discrepancies between locations that are not really that far away geographically.

I know it's normal for summer to feature spotty rains with storms, but still, this boggles my mind. You just cracked an inch for the month and I have 8.71" for the same time period.

Yes, quite an active evening. I wasn't expecting much, but .91" in the bucket as of last check...

Depending on ratios, I would have had 10-15 inches of the white stuff. We ended up with 1.20" after a late night band pivoted through around 11:00pm.

That's jaw dropping. I just looked back at the USGS automated gauge, and we've had about 14.25" since May 1.

As of now .89". Not sure if anything else pivots through, though. The haves vs have nots is remarkable. I have 7.19" for the month of July, and I'm guessing from the discussion here that some don't have an inch yet?

Peeing in the backyard doesn't count...

It's interesting that wind is almost non-existent here in Tamaqua proper, but 200' higher on the ridge tops I can see the trees swaying. One thing about my location is the wind shelter from ridges on 3 sides near my neighborhood. Even in Sandy, while the ridges literally roared like a lion, she just meowed like a housecat down here on the town floor. Rain is still steady with .43" in the gauge so far.

Yes. Up to .30" so far. Nothing like the deluge that we had on Wednesday, but it's been a steady rainer since it started.

Made it to our first .10" now.

Light rain commenced here a few minutes ago. Not enough to put anything in the gauge yet, though. The HRRR has gotten a bit more robust with getting a decent amount of rain back into the Skook, and initial radar trends seem to back that up, but we'll just have to wait and see...

It's an Acu-Rite all in one. I got it back in 2012, so they make a nice, newer, more technically advanced set-up these days that's fairly reasonable in price. https://www.acurite.com/shop-all/weather-instruments/weather-stations.html

I can't seem to get a good grip on what this potential tropical system is going to do. The NAM seems to want to keep it east of the Delaware river now, while the GFS now is bringing decent rains into Eastern PA. The Euro from 0z looks like the NAM and the Canadians were always OTS.

Today's total (so far)

More rain. I'll have an updated "total" when I get back in the house...

We just got another 1.50" of rain today. I guess from here on out I better shut up about the Tamaqua Split...

Had one last little burst that put us up to 2.82" for the event. Both storms that got us formed nearly right over Tamaqua, and just kept building. Each one produced hail, but the second one was more intense than the first and produced the larger sized stones pictured, as well as wind that brought down a few large tree limbs. There was about a half hour lull between the storms. The USGS automated gauge shows slightly more at almost exactly 3 inches...

Indeed! Hail, wind, and 2.77" of rain in back to back storms.

Had a pre-line storm form right over Tamaqua which split the line up in Hazleton. Now we'll be in the gap in that line created by the out front renegade.