Voyager

1 hour ago, mahantango#1 said:

I think Voyager could hook you up with deliveries of water. Probably 6200 gallons per delivery. 

Even better. When I came back they put me on an 8,000 gallon tank.

55 minutes ago, canderson said:

I thought it was supposed to be less muggy today. 

It's cooler, but I'm not noticing the less humid part, either.

Getting soaked in Allentown at my delivery location for the second time tonight. It just doesn't want to stop raining here.

Nearest station here showing 0.89", and it's still raining. I thought it would stop shortly after the line blew through.

8 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

It has been cloudy all morning, but now the sun appears to be coming out.

We've been in solid sunshine all morning. Currently 92 degrees here. Missed out on last night's storms. Let's see what happens here today, considering the abundant sunshine. 

2pm. 

98 in Tamaqua.

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Yes.  I've been hammering this point recently.  I'm not sure why but I just know that over the years I've always noticed big differences between PWS DPs and the official stations.  Even more so than temp discrepancies. 

I don't know. It appears I'm in the ballpark. I'm sitting with DP of 73, and many stations are on or two degrees more or less than mine. Look at Allentown for example. 

11 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

Do you live near a creek, marshland, a swamp, corn fields, any agriculture? Your dew point is always so freaking high

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Yes. A baseball's throw just west of the Little Schuylkill River which runs right through town.

90 degrees at 10am. Outside of Arizona, I don't think I've ever recorded an earlier 90 reading at my location.

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

It may be that your home station is overcooking the dew point numbers by a good bit.  A common problem I have found.  Didn't you say your DP was above 80 on a few occasions?  Seems a bit overdone.  And that's to say nothing of any air temp anomalies as well.  I know I can't trust my own station during peak solar hours. 

I did question this the past couple of days, but comparing my station against a mercury thermometer in the shade on my back porch, the numbers are comparable. I just now looked at the NWS hourly roundup, and my current 71 dewpoint is equally comparable with all the reporting stations in the region.

If it's off, it's not by much.

All this hype about the heat index for the upcoming days, and just last week I recorded a 110 and a 113 heat index, or "feels like" temperature if you prefer on my home station. So far they say what? 105? If so, my recordings were much higher and much worse.

93 steamy degrees here. That morning rain made it really humid now.

So that unexpected little storm dropped 0.27" in my backyard.

Now they've gone severe warned in Berks and Lehigh Counties.

So that un-predicted little storm dropped 0.27" in my backyard.

32 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

Nothing beats a good steak

Yup. I got my standard Fort Worth Ribeye, medium rare.

3 minutes ago, Voyager said:

And now it's raining and thundering with three pop up cells around me...

And now it's pouring...

And now it's raining and thundering with three pop up cells around me...

3 minutes ago, canderson said:

CTP has me at 98 / 100 / 95 Monday to Wednesday. It’s 89 now at 11 am. 

I'm at 91 / 94 / 88 for those same three days. We'll see if they bust low for my backyard.

My station is evidently correct. Full sun and reading 83. The mercury thermometer in the shade under our patio roof is 82. I guess Tamaqua has just become one of the warmer locations in the region.

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

CTP knocking those temps down - last night my forecast high for Tuesday was 103, now just 98. Relief!

Better take a jacket with you if you go out, then...lol

31 minutes ago, canderson said:

I’ve never been to one  t̶r̶u̶e̶  uppity Texans don’t do that lol 

Fixed... 

35 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Nice of you to hold the door for your wife. 

That wasn't the wife. It was some other couple.

See guys. I got so tired of PA that I moved to Texas now...

26 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I reached 93 earlier.

24 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

One or two mid 90's there but a lot more upper 80's vs. mid 90's. 

 

 

Mine could be right. An old mercury thermometer on my back patio which is in the shade, but gets some trapped heat due to a restricted airflow, reads 96 currently while my station reads 91.

Hard to say for sure.

So my high today is 94 (93.7) so far, which seems quite a bit higher than the forecast, and higher than every other official station (Allentown, Lehighton, Philly, etc)

Makes me wonder if the fan isn't working properly, or if my sensor is off.

Just now, Jns2183 said:

Does that mean the flood watch verified?

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I have no idea, as I was home and in bed when it all occurred, but 2.5 fell near our Reading customer, and between 1 and 2 inches fell from Berks into the Lehigh Valley per the various PWS's I perused.