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That's one thing I noticed living out here. Even on boring, do nothing days, I don't have that desire to take an afternoon nap like I did back there. I guess it's the sunshine.

Who else here besides me loves a torch?

Looks like Tamaqua is under the gun again...

Thanks! The photos looked wild. I'll have to check out the videos.

2.64" was the final for Tamaqua, but did anyone see the photos from Clarks Summit? Simply amazing what it looked like up there last night.

So far 2.30" in Tamaqua with the most recent radar scan...

That storm packed at least a rain punch in Tamaqua. At peak intensity, the rate was 5.05" per hour. 1.22" and still raining.

That's because I'm in Phoenix...lol

Storm in Hamburg has eyes on Tamaqua in about a half hour or so if it doesn't do "the split".

OMG...

From what I was told by my daughter, Schuylkill County got it pretty good.

Tamaqua got up to 92 today. Currently 88, but holy hell @ the dewpoint. 73 for a heat index of 96...

Prelude to winter???

This is how summer broke down here in Phoenix. I'm sure there's more stats, but these are the basics. It is official. Summer 2023 (June, July and August) was the HOTTEST ON RECORD in Phoenix with a mean temperature of 97.0°F, this surpasses the previous record of 96.6°F set in 2020. By month - June average temp: 89.5°F July average temp: 102.7°F (Hottest month all-time) August average temp: 98.8°F (2nd hottest on record) With just 0.12" of rain, it is also the driest summer on record officially.

I'm not sure who covers it. My mom's or the condo association. The home exterior and grounds are normally maintained through the association fees...ie landscaping, routine maintenance including new roofs every 15 years, and painting every 10. Not sure, and neither is my mom, about storm damage.

So we get our first monsoon storm of the summer and it peels the roof right off our back patio...

Wow...that's desert-like. It's almost unbelievable that any location in the mid-Atlantic/northeast could be so low.

That's crazy... 35.27" in Tamaqua.

Sumbitch...I'm might have go up into the northern mountains and hide in the snowpiles somewhere... You guys would never expect me to be where its cold out...

I dunno though. Long term, my move seemed to be a big climate changer. We had one of our cooler and wetter winters followed by a summer inferno with nary a trace of rain from the monsoon. All the while, your winter was mild and snowless, and summer was "coolish". I could do it, and maybe it would "correct the universe", but if it doesn't, the bounty on my head would be even higher than last year...

Are you really sure you want me to do that??? lol

Another record in the books for the great summer of 2023. Tied the hottest day ever in August at 117 degrees. Tomorrow could break it.

According to my gauge, 0.71" for Tamaqua.

Someone out there understands my plight...lol

If PA looked like that year 'round, I'd never leave, but...