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E PA/NJ/DE Summer 2018 OBS Thread


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Ended up with 0.15" of rain from the thundershower last night.  Currently 78 and mostly cloudy.  Seeing some scattered showers off to the west and am not sure how the temps will respond today with the front pressing down from the north and the current overcast.  It will depend on whether the sun can break out in full before the front arrives.

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Actually had the same high today as yesterday - 87 - which was surprising given today was progged as the "cooler" day.  The mixing of dry air from yesterday (with the noticeable breeze) was missing today, so it actually felt warmer today as well (probably because there was more sun too).  The drier air has been evaporating some of the showers to the west though.  It's currently clouding over now and 85.

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2 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Actually had the same high today as yesterday - 87 - which was surprising given today was progged as the "cooler" day.  The mixing of dry air from yesterday (with the noticeable breeze) was missing today, so it actually felt warmer today as well (probably because there was more sun too).  The drier air has been evaporating some of the showers to the west though.  It's currently clouding over now and 85.

Today was definitely warmer which kinda pissed me off. To top it off the nice yellows and reds appear headed to our south...

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1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

Today was definitely warmer which kinda pissed me off. To top it off the nice yellows and reds appear headed to our south...

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It wasn't until sometime after 6 pm when I started feeling a bit of a breeze and some air mixing.  Will have to see if any of that makes it here although the heaviest may stay south.  We might get the heavier stuff over the weekend though.

Currently 78 and overcast.  Happy first day of summer tomorrow morning at 6 am ET I believe!

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16 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

^^^ Did the old fizzle fade here, maybe a little something later on? This is a re-useable post so far this season.

Eta - don't get me wrong, overall we've done well rainfall wise here, to this point.

That area to the west is showing a little more promise...of course it could go "poof" right at my doorstep but I think we'll get something. The "reds" are growing a bit on the NW corner... 

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25 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

That area to the west is showing a little more promise...of course it could go "poof" right at my doorstep but I think we'll get something. The "reds" are growing a bit on the NW corner... 

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Just looked at the radar and lo and behold there are some oranges popping up about 5 miles west of here. Hmmm!

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Need some rain here everything has fizzled since the great septic flood like a month ago. 

In other news i am puzzled by the lack of thunderstorm activity this year. One would think with the predominant weather pattern having been swinging back and forth frequently from cool to hot and a chilly vortex parked in southeast Canada most of the time we would have had significant activity, I had one decent thunderstorm night and two weak waves of storms that fizzled in May and June. Quite strange.

 

 

 

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17 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Need some rain here everything has fizzled since the great septic flood like a month ago. 

In other news i am puzzled by the lack of thunderstorm activity this year. One would think with the predominant weather pattern having been swinging back and forth frequently from cool to hot and a chilly vortex parked in southeast Canada most of the time we would have had significant activity, I had one decent thunderstorm night and two weak waves of storms that fizzled in May and June. Quite strange.

Not as dry here, although in the last week things dried out pretty good, between the heat and sun angle and all. Picked up about 0.3" from this pop up shower just now. Currently 71F, DP 68.

We've had a couple of good thundershowers here, but a lot of the rain has fallen with horizontal boundaries nearby and generally cooler temperatures. Not too much of the classic fronts from the west/NW running into hot and humid air with other supporting factors...so far anyway. Lot's of summer to go yet (actually all of it calendar wise, lol).

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I feel like Even Stephen ... Monday evening, those storms were supposed to fizzle before reaching us. But I got a pretty decent t-storm out of them. Last night the forecast called for rain, possibly locally heavy. I got nada.

We'll see what the weekend brings, but really don't know what to think (expect) at this point.

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1 hour ago, JTA66 said:

I feel like Even Stephen ... Monday evening, those storms were supposed to fizzle before reaching us. But I got a pretty decent t-storm out of them. Last night the forecast called for rain, possibly locally heavy. I got nada.

We'll see what the weekend brings, but really don't know what to think (expect) at this point.

Similar thoughts regarding the weekend, but seeing 80% pops for Saturday 2 days out  indicates high confidence on Mt.. Holly's part at least.

Uh, make that 60% now, thought it was 80% earlier.  Medium confidence then.

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31 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

Similar thoughts regarding the weekend, but seeing 80% pops for Saturday 2 days out  indicates high confidence on Mt.. Holly's part at least.

Uh, make that 60% now, thought it was 80% earlier.  Medium confidence then.

Last night's rain chance was 90%, Mt. Holly needs to stay away from the casinos

 

 

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It's been weird today with the battle of the air masses, with humid air fighting chilly dry air and mixing it all up.  Have had on and off very light rain but not enough at one time to tip the bucket (so far). It's been more than mist or drizzle but less than a light stratiform shower... It's almost like those on and off tropical spritzes but without the tropical temperatures.  Currently spritzing and 67, after a high of 71.

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