CoolHandMike

Just don't want a repeat of this is all (precip):

Dude it was so windy here yesterday that my flag somehow came loose from the holder on my front door frame and FLEW OVER my house, pole and all, landing in the back yard.

Currently 90 at my house, which is weirdly comfortable after last week. I mean, it IS pretty dry out, so there's that. The whole "yeah, but it's a dry heat" thing in full effect. Grass is hella crispy though. It'll be fiiiine

LOL@ the forecast today. The wind was supposed to taper off by noon, then it was 3pm, then it was 5pm... It's still hella windy. So much so that my flag on the FRONT of my house just BLEW OVER MY HOUSE and landed in the back yard. Pole and everything. Nice day otherwise. I was kinda hoping to grill some burgers tonight but my grill will absolutely not stay lit in this wind. Oh well.

Jeez Louise, that was one heck of a week.

Nothing. No rain. A couple of drops. 7 consecutive days far above 90°. In June. It's 80°F now at 2am. I sure hope this is an anomaly, something we can all look back at and go "heh, that was weird, right?" Wonder what it's like up there in East Nantmeal. No, wait, no I don't.

My high today was almost 104, but apparently I got that backyard heat island thing going. There were plenty of other 100+ readings around me throughout the day though, and it sure felt like it.

Finally some relief. Had a brief shower (non-measurable in the gauge) and now it's down to 82. Thank goodness.

Tiny little blip of rain to my NW. Looks like it's juuuust going to miss us, but hopefully we'll have a little bit of cloud cover for a bit.

We peaked at 102 but the temp has been yo-yoing around 100 for the past couple of hours now. My backyard temp correlates pretty well with RDG, so even if I may doubt it (how the heck is it still so stinking hot out at almost 7pm IN JUNE, I'm still more inclined to trust the one with the higher reading. Though I may be upgrading soon. So we shall see. It'll be interesting to see if we broke the official record of 99 set back in 1923.

At least it's not super humid. But I'm with you. You can always put more layers on. My back yard just spiked to 101.3°F.

A few 99's popping up on the wundermap, my back yard included.

Hey I have triple screens and I feel personally called out. That said, we're still under an inch here for June. Starting to get kinda crispy...

Nope nope nope, do not like. I am not ok with this.

Has anyone else's WU PWS page gone offline this afternoon? Mine and a friend in Phoenixville's station stopped reporting to WU earlier. Weathercloud indicates I'm still online.

FWIW, our first 90°F day last year was April 14th, where it stayed more or less above 90 from noon until 3pm. Today's heat peaked at 93.3 and it has stayed more or less above 90 from 1pm until now (5:30pm at the time I typed this). I was going to do some yard work but f-that.

K...

Do not want. What is this, July???

Yup, 4.8, northern NJ

I think we might have just had a minor earthquake up here in Reading. Can anyone else confirm? It's not showing up on the USGS shake map yet, if it even was one.

Hey what site is that from? I know about the one for Chester County, but that one seems more regional.

Ok, it feels weird to have 3am thunderstorms when it's only 44°F outside. That's a whole lot of instability moving through our area at the moment.

I was going to post this on the obs thread but since I went off on such a huge tangent, I figured it would be better to post here. Some beautiful asperitus clouds today in my neck of the woods today. Sadly I did not think to capture pics. (I will forever refer to them as Undulatus Asperitus.) Regarding flooding... I've lived here for 3.5 years, and before last July's eleven inches of rain in three days, we'd get a hard rain, and the dry sump well in my house would remain bone dry throughout. There wasn't even a sump installed when we bought it! It was literally just a 2' deep pit in my basement with gravel at the bottom. Even during the 5" we received when the Skook flooded in August of '21 it remained dry. Now though, anything over an inch of precip, and my basement would flood if I hadn't installed a pump last year (and the battery backup pump). What I don't yet understand (totally expected, given my rather poor understanding of hydrogeology, despite majoring in geoscience) is how my local subterranean hydro has changed so much just from one event. I live almost on top of a low rise, in an albeit, well-developed suburb. Now that I think of it, the local "water authority" (yes, they call themselves that--the regular "municipal authority" has actually taken pains to explain how the two are separate--gotta love local politics) has been severely mismanaged, and has only recently been taken to task for overall poor maintenance of the supply system, shifting blame of stormwater handling to the municipality. Long story short, we've had at least three water main breaks here in the past several years, the last one occurring during that July flooding event. The water authority blamed the municipality for poor maintenance of the drainage system, which caused excessive erosion which knocked out the water main. But the mains are ~100 years old, and proper maintenance might have prevented the break despite the flooding/erosion. And there's also the question of millions of dollars in some kind of literal "rainy-day fund" that the water authority had just been kind of sitting on? The whole thing smacks of corruption at the local level, and finally last year, with the threat of dissolution BY the municipality, the water authority was forced to take on members of our local council on their board. There've been no water main breaks since, and I've seen more local maintenance occurring in the area, so... yay? But all of that still doesn't explain why my (nearly) hilltop basement wants to flood now with anything nearing an inch of rain when it's been bone dry for the majority of the past 3.5 years. (And for the ~30 years prior, as there was absolutely zero evidence of any kind of flooding or dampness in the unfinished basement when we bought the house in 2020.) Groundwater flow continues to mystify. As an aside, can you believe at least two families before ours owned this house with a completely unfinished basement and did absolutely nothing at all with it??? The mind boggles. That's prime woodshop territory! It also now includes a walled-off pantry, a seedling nursery area, and walled-off storage area for all of the regular house stuff. I just refuse to accept that my "hilltop" basement could simply flood at any moment, but here we are.

Got about 5" here in Muhlenberg. This stuff was an absolute pleasure to snowblow/shovel compared to the last one.