Kevin Reilly Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Currently Cloudy 67f humidity 80% dewpoint 60f Low last night was 60f high yesterday 85f Total Rain Yesterday and Last night: 0.00" Had lightning to the south and some thunder overhead but zero rainfall. Mainly Cloudy today high 75f Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Some spots picked up a little rain last night and overnight. Here in East Nantmeal we picked 0.17" since last evening. Some additional showers are possible this afternoon but our best chances of rain are tomorrow night with the cold frontal passage. Temperatures today will remain below normal in the low to mid-70's. We warm to near normal both Saturday and Sunday before a sharp turn to below normal temps by Labor Day. Many of the lower spots will see low temperatures again in the 40's by Tuesday AM. High Temps for the first week of September will remain in the low to mid 70's. Chester County Records for today: High Temperature 102 degrees at Phoenixville (1953) of note both Coatesville and West Chester also both exceeded 100 degrees to close out the last 2 days of August 1953/ Low Temperature was a chilly 34 degrees at Phoenixville (1986) / Rain 5.04" at Kennett Square (1911) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LVblizzard Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 Slight risk N&W of I-95 tomorrow. Could be one of our last chances for severe storms this year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted August 30 Share Posted August 30 98% of the state today is dry as a bone Terrible meso model fail yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Guidance is down to a .25" or less for the weekend. Next two weeks are dry too not out of the realm of possibilty to see <.50" in 30 days some places Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Near normal temperatures both today and tomorrow before a sharp turn to well below normal temps for the 1st week of September. Best chances for rain will be late tonight with the cold front with a lesser chance tomorrow with the secondary reinforcing front. Chester County Records for today: High 103 degrees at Phoenixville (1953) / Low 37 degrees at Phoenixville (1986) / Rain 4.37" at West Chester (1911) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTA66 Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 Lawn starting to brown up again in spots. Picked up .15” in the wee hours of Friday morning. Gonna need more than that. 74F/DP 67F Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 As today is the last day of the final full summer month it appears like we will fail to see any of the Chester County stations touch the 100 degree mark for the for the 5th straight summer. Our last 100 degree day temperature was at Phoenixville (big surprise) on July 21, 2019. The next highest temperature that day was the 95.6 at West Bradford Twp. This is the longest stretch between a century reading since the 5 years between 1996 through 2000. The longest non-100 degree stretch was the 9 straight summers between 1902 through 1910. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTA66 Posted August 31 Author Share Posted August 31 I don’t like our rain chances, the cows are standing up. 80F/DP 68F 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Reilly Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 3 hours ago, JTA66 said: I don’t like our rain chances, the cows are standing up. 80F/DP 68F I am going to say we get zippo here tonight in Media. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted August 31 Share Posted August 31 Not a drop coming it's the dust bowl 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Reilly Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 38 minutes ago, RedSky said: Not a drop coming it's the dust bowl I am willing to bet we end the dry streak now and what we are going to have this week with a visit from a tropical system I would say most likely from the Gulf of Mexico by September 10th or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albedoman Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 Drought guy is pissed off. That meso area out near Somerset just sat there all day is finally moving south. Everything to the north just dried up- a few sprinkles here. That was our last chance of decent rain until 9/12-15 time frame like I emphasized in an earlier post. Folks, the cooler weather drought conditions will not help in reseeding the scorched lawn from all of our 90+ degree days and it will yellow by the end of the week. Stream levels are going to drop quickly now. More sinkholes coming too our area as the water table falls quickly. What to expect this week? Field corn and soybeans will dry up quickly almost overnight. Early harvesting of the corn and soybean fields is expected this year. Pumpkins will be much smaller this year and the fall leaves will turn just turn brown and yellow unless we get a sharp cold front with some moisture come through-- do not see that coming anytime soon. The air will be crisp and cooler on Monday with good sleeping weather for the rest of the week but we really need a tropical storm event up here. Hurricane Francine is aiming for the 12-15th in our general area but the current models say it will go straight up to Canada through the Ohio Valley. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedSky Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 The lawn is covered in brown and some yellow crunchy Black Walnut leaves can't say this has happened so early before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted September 1 Share Posted September 1 August finished with below normal temperatures at all 18 stations across Chester County. The average county temperature was 72.6 degrees this was the 62nd coolest August across 132 years of records. The coolest average temperature was at East Nantmeal at 71.1 degrees with the warmest reading at the KOQN West Chester Airport at 74.6 degrees. We had well above normal rainfall at most locations across the county with an average rain total of 7.25" across all stations. This was the 13th wettest average rain total for August on record with 1955 having the greatest average rainfall at 16.00" in the county. The hottest temperature recorded in the county in August was the 97 degrees in Phoenixville on August 1st and the coldest reading was the 45.8 degrees in Warwick Township on August 21. The wettest station was the West Chester MADIS station with 13.16" of rain during the month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PhiEaglesfan712 Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 On 8/31/2024 at 10:39 AM, ChescoWx said: As today is the last day of the final full summer month it appears like we will fail to see any of the Chester County stations touch the 100 degree mark for the for the 5th straight summer. Our last 100 degree day temperature was at Phoenixville (big surprise) on July 21, 2019. The next highest temperature that day was the 95.6 at West Bradford Twp. This is the longest stretch between a century reading since the 5 years between 1996 through 2000. The longest non-100 degree stretch was the 9 straight summers between 1902 through 1910. I was thinking you were going to say a weird date outside of the season like October 2, 2019. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted September 2 Share Posted September 2 Here in Chester County the Summer of 2024 was good for the 21st warmest summer across the POR - the top 25 warmest are below . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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