CoolHandMike

Picked up another .04" just now, but we're all still waiting for the main event I think.

80°F/74DP My wife went outside to knock the Japanese beetles off the rose bushes and returned a few minutes later just drenched in sweat. She's noping out of further yardwork today lol.

Parents' farm east of Oxford got 1.9". They really needed it!

I guess we shall wait and and see if the NWS posts any totals tomorrow.

I'd like to know where they measured that. Having a poke around at some of the PWS in the area showed between 0 and 1.5", though I did see a 3.5" just south of Exton.

Whelp, there's our 3" for July. Back to regularly scheduled kvetching. Good luck, everybody!

2.4" in 40 minutes... flood warnings are up lol

Already surging past .69". that's about a 2-3"/hr rate. We really needed this, but dang. Haven't had a proper gully washer in a while! Holy crap it went up to .74 in the few seconds it took me to copy/paste this.

BIG rain here now. The cell that was stalled to my immediate SW filled in right over us.

I know I'm pretty far north and east of most of us, but it's hella hot and humid here. It is starting to cloud up a bit though, and it looks like there might be showers popping up here and there.

I just noticed that it cooled down from 91 to 71 in about an hour, now it's on the way back up at 73. We got .25".

Ok I take it back. Proper pouring right now. Woo!

Stationary pop-up storm fringing me just to my west. We do have some raindrops though, so that's nice. Temp dropped from 91 to 80 as well. I'll take it.

Just noticed another air quality alert for tomorrow through Friday. Just normal stuff, or Smoke Monster, Part III?

LIES AND PREVARICATIONS

Currently 93 with a DP of 66. Warm but not super unpleasant. A/C guys did their thing and supposedly found a blockage in one of the return vents that was restricting the amount of air to the unit, so it wasn't flowing as fast as it should have been, and thusly was never triggering the second stage of our cooling cycle... at least that's as far as I understand it. I don't know why it was perfectly capable of handling multiple >90°F days in June, but ok... All I know is, I was measuring the air coming out of my home office vent at around 62 (when it was sorta working before) and now it's been a constant 57-58. The house does feel cooler but the thermostat in the living room (set to 70) still reads 72, some 6 hours after they left. I think I can be ok with that on a 93°F day, so long as it's consistent and doesn't start slowly creeping up again. Time will tell. Incidentally, it's set so low because the thermostat is located in one of the coolest rooms of the house. With that set to 70, the warmest room in the house (my wife's office) should keep at around 72-73. We have a split-level with a weird layout, so that's what we've deemed as being acceptable. I yet remain skeptical to the point where I'm about to deploy some RasPi's with thermocouples to start data-logging. I told that last part to my wife yesterday, and she about died laughing. I was all, "what. You knew who you were marrying. Sheesh."

Congrats! I did some field study in WY a while back and fell in love with the place. So much naked geology.

Yes. So lighting a fire has yielded the result I wanted. They have a crew coming out at 10, with Bosch tech support on standby in case they need to make a "site visit" for some reason. It's going to be hot today, so we'll see if they can resolve it before then. Fingers crossed.

Has pumpkin spice beer come and gone yet? I seem to recall it being introduced and subsequently running out earlier and earlier every year since it blew up in the late 2000's. My wife used to crave it so I was always on the lookout for it. She stopped drinking beer a couple of years ago so it's kind of slipped off my radar, but for a while I was amazed at just how much earlier and earlier it came and went each year. Like, wouldn't you want to sell it for consumption in the fall, between Halloween and Thanksgiving? I never understood the weird market timing behind that. 80 days. Nice. Please don't stop showing us (me) these reminders.

Yeah we have a portable that I can set up if need be, thanks for asking. I sent an email to the sales guy that sold us the system and he already replied that he's on it, which I honestly wasn't expecting on a holiday. I can't fault them for their overall responsiveness at least. I was an electronics tech for over 20 years in a former life. While I may not know much about HVAC, I do know a thing or two about troubleshooting. Something is obviously faulty and it's way beyond time to continue fiddling with settings and power-cycling. It's time to start swapping out components. Hell, I don't care at this point if they need to send out an entire team to do a full reinstall, it just needs to work. We didn't spend a ton of time and effort (and money) researching new systems to NOT have working A/C this summer. Sorry for ranting guys. Back to the weather. It's hot. Looking forward to fall already. On the plus side, I lost a bunch of weight recently and I can tell the heat isn't bothering me this year as much as in years past. So I've got that going for me, which is nice. Fireworks are still popping off. I heard sirens earlier, and you always hate to hear that on July 4th. Hope everyone's ok.

Looks like a hot and humid next couple of days on tap. And wouldn't you know it, my A/C still isn't working right, even after our latest service tech visit yesterday (the third since it was installed on May 5th). Left another message requesting service and fired off a very strongly-worded letter email letting all and sundry know just how dissatisfied and disappointed we have been with this service. Each time, a tech has come out and has supposedly "found" some little setting, or some "loose wire" or something that wasn't quite right, and each time, they've power cycled the system and like magic, it suddenly works fine. Until it suddenly doesn't. I'm done being nice. This shit is getting fixed or replaced. FFS, enough already. /rant Stay cool, everyone else.

.01" overnight. Today's threat of rain seems to have evaporated. Which is good, I guess, since I'll be manning the grill for a significant amount of time later today. Happy 4th everyone!

Nothing here thus far, but my parent's farm in SW Chester County have received almost 2" tonight. Question for the group: do you guys know if lightning detectors differentiate between cloud-to-cloud and cloud-to-ground? I'm wondering what, if any, method sites like https://www.lightningmaps.org use. TIA~

Ok so thankfully a tornado did not touch down near my parents: https://www.inquirer.com/weather/july-4th-weather-philadelphia-tornado-chester-county-20230703.html

Yeah it's warrantied for a year and we are planning on buying the 10-year follow-up maintenance plan. They just need to get it to work consistently. We cannot be the only people to have this system installed; it's becoming increasingly frustrating why they can't seem to get it right. Planning on having strong words with their support in the morning and escalating as necessary. (Not going to go full on rage mode on the dispatcher, because it's not their fault and I'm not a jerk to people just doing their job. But this needs to be escalated, and it will be, so help me jebus.) 73°F/72 DP it's just gross outside right now, but at least the smoke has finally abated. It's 77 in my office right now. A/C is blowing at 65°F through the vents and barely making an impact. Ceiling fans and stand-alone oscillating fans will get us through the night at least.