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According to my gauge, Tamaqua got 1.10" sometime overnight.

You really can't make this shit up....

East coast, west coast, desert or wet climate, the result is the same. Wherever I am, I'll be on the wrong side of the gradient...

That would be awesome for all of us!

You'll probably get your summer in DJF, just like we'll probably be cold and wet again after the blowtorch/nonsoon of summer 2023.

Remnants of Tropical Storm Hilary this weekend. Still time to shift this east...

That's amazing. Tamaqua sits at 31.95" so far this year. Nearly double yours. Clearly a case of the haves and have nots.

Smoke from a huge recycling plant fire in Glendale last night rose so high that it developed a pyrocumulus cloud. View is from my backyard, eight miles away. Second pic was as close as I could get in a "chase" attempt.

Just don't use a job johnnie after eating Taco Bell. The results can be catastrophic...

Just listening to the radio this morning and they said it's been 138 days since it last rained at Sky Harbor Airport. So far this year's monsoon has been a nonsoon, at least in Phoenix.

Thought we were going to get a good storm out of this. Great build up, location, and trajectory, but nope. It dried up faster than a solo raindrop on a hot Phoenix sidewalk.

The monsoon is finally kicking in here in the Phoenix metro area which made for an interesting looking sky this morning at sunrise...

I'm so used to getting up between 1am and 3am on work days that I can't sleep past 5 on weekends. My body is dialed in to early wake up times.

100 now, but it dropped below at some point after midnight.

Lol...that's exactly how I do it.

Guess the temperature in Phoenix. The guest score or the player and fouls...

Wonder what would happen if I started it from out here...

Omg...too funny!!!

Wait...Canderson is going to be in Phoenix?

Looks like our monsoon will finally get started out here this weekend, particularly Sunday. Now is when the weather gets interesting in the desert, but it's harder to figure out if you're going to get slammed or not, as the monsoons most often pulse and form along outflow boundaries. Although when we get a good valley-wide meso, it's an awesome show of some of the most intense lightning, wind, and rainfall you'll ever see. One of the best I saw was when I lived in Avondale, along I-10 in the west valley. One dropped down from the north, and one came up from the southwest, and merged right over the area, and created one of the best natural "fireworks shows" I'd ever seen.

Just to put the historical southwest heatwave into perspective... DISCUSSION... The list of broken records to continue to grow for the climate sites across the region during this extremely hot and dry period. Consecutive days of high temperatures at or above 110 degrees and low temperatures at or above 90 degrees rolls on across central Phoenix, with little chance (~10%) of any day over the next week of the high temperature being below 110 degrees. Not only are the temperatures above 110 degrees for the highs, but the daily high temperature records in Phoenix continue to be broken (seven of the last eight days either tied or broke the previous record) and is likely (70-80%) of equaling or exceeding the record temperature of 118 degrees for today. Additionally, this exceptional dry period has grown to 120 days, which is good for 6th on the all-time longest dry streaks for Phoenix.

Did that line kind of split in Schuylkill County, or did my eyes deceive me?

So close, but couldn't quite get there. Maybe tomorrow...

From the NWS. Are they expecting that line to hold through the night?

High noon at the Sun City Corral, 113.4