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6 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

80.4 here now - we are going to crush the record. 

I almost wish it was a day later. Just semantics, but it would be that much more impressive if the calendar said November.

Between the temps like this plus the scant 0.09" of rain we got this month, I feel I like I'm back in Arizona.

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KAOO appears to have already eclipsed its daily record of 78ºF set back in 1950 (topped 79ºF a bit ago). UNV’s daily record also set in 1950 is 81ºF and it’s “only” been about as high as 77ºF so far today so that one may still be safe. Here at the house it’s been as high as 79ºF and currently at 78ºF. Quite breezy today as well. 

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5 minutes ago, MAG5035 said:

KAOO appears to have already eclipsed its daily record of 78ºF set back in 1950 (topped 79ºF a bit ago). UNV’s daily record also set in 1950 is 81ºF and it’s “only” been about as high as 77ºF so far today so that one may still be safe. Here at the house it’s been as high as 79ºF and currently at 78ºF. Quite breezy today as well. 

AOO broke their record yesterday as well getting a 79 which topped the old record of 78. 

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6 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Hmmmmm all I see are DPs in the mid 50s.  That's not too bad.  Generally, I need them to get into the low 60s before it starts feeling summer-like.  But admittedly, I haven't been outside a whole lot today.

They/MDT are still sitting on 80 per the HI.  LOL  Need one degree for the tie, 2 for the break. 

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34 minutes ago, ChescoWx said:

Up to 80 degrees in East Nantmeal. This is the latest 80 degree reading in the 21 years I have taken observations here.

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Amazing. All we needed is the trees to drop their leaves and Nantmeal would suddenly be warmer than the Philadelphia heat island. It struggles to hit 80F in July in that jungle.

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26 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Hmmmmm all I see are DPs in the mid 50s.  That's not too bad.  Generally, I need them to get into the low 60s before it starts feeling summer-like.  But admittedly, I haven't been outside a whole lot today.

My dew went from 54 at 1pm to 61 currently. 

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40 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Hmmmmm all I see are DPs in the mid 50s.  That's not too bad.  Generally, I need them to get into the low 60s before it starts feeling summer-like.  But admittedly, I haven't been outside a whole lot today.

My DP is 63. It's not like mid summer peak humidity but for October 31 it's ugh. 

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38 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

My dew went from 54 at 1pm to 61 currently. 

 

23 minutes ago, canderson said:

My DP is 63. It's not like mid summer peak humidity but for October 31 it's ugh. 

For sure sticky for damn-near November.  Not to cast doubt on either of you, and Training I know you take pride in that station of yours so don't get mad at me haha!  But all of the official stations in the state are below 60 for DP (https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=CTP&issuedby=CTP&product=RWR&format=CI&version=1) and all of the ones around us are 55-57ish.  Plus the Mesonet looks like this......

I think I've gone on about this before, but I just don't trust many home stations when it comes to DP.  I've found over the years that they spike pretty badly with regards to DPs, even more so than with temp.  I don't trust my own and generally use the local stations.  Not trying to start a fight on this beautiful Halloween day, just engaging in weather nerd buffoonery.  Cheers!

 

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6 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

It's at least hit 82F. That's the actual METAR temp, not a rounded, raw output from the ASOS.

No, and I get the confusion, but those are not necessarily the exact temps.  I believe the raw data is in Celsius and they round off the number and then convert to Fahrenheit, which can lead to discrepancies.  I reached out to the NWS one time about this and they confirmed.  In fact, you can see a number of examples on the link below where the 6-hour or 24-hour highs/lows don't align with the 5-minute readings.  

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=Kmdt

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12 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

 

For sure sticky for damn-near November.  Not to cast doubt on either of you, and Training I know you take pride in that station of yours so don't get mad at me haha!  But all of the official stations in the state are below 60 for DP (https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=CTP&issuedby=CTP&product=RWR&format=CI&version=1) and all of the ones around us are 55-57ish.  Plus the Mesonet looks like this......

I think I've gone on about this before, but I just don't trust many home stations when it comes to DP.  I've found over the years that they spike pretty badly with regards to DPs, even more so than with temp.  I don't trust my own and generally use the local stations.  Not trying to start a fight on this beautiful Halloween day, just engaging in weather nerd buffoonery.  Cheers!

 

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The "official" station at Donegal Springs Airpark has/had a dew point over 60 as well. (though admittedly, still not a true station for record keeping)

At the moment, they're rocking a Dew of 61 and that's down from 62 earlier. 

https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KPAMARIE28?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1aUZn05v6EL1SCu83D6YWAz4KB0xPA7zBHapk7ZxcoZfWMxfMgsX9YEUY_aem_AatgGdtB3HDmy_lQiEQW3p1bDKQzlUbvSccn8VpHsQ_8zcjQ2DxBPNU21ROdUrVrozfMvldDScho9lY6LgyGK0dL

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1 minute ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

No, and I get the confusion, but those are not necessarily the exact temps.  I believe the raw data is in Celsius and they round off the number and then convert to Fahrenheit, which can lead to discrepancies.  I reached out to the NWS one time about this and they confirmed.  In fact, you can see a number of examples on the link below where the 6-hour or 24-hour highs/lows don't align with the 5-minute readings.  

https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=Kmdt

The 82F is from the 2:56 p.m. METAR report, which isn't rounded.

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15 minutes ago, TheClimateChanger said:

It's at least hit 82F. That's the actual METAR temp, not a rounded, raw output from the ASOS.

That is not correct.   It is frequently rounded.   Actually if you are saying the :56 report every day is not rounded, I am not sure about that but the other 5 min's are.   I do see it says 82 at MDT for their hourly report right now.   If so that would be the record. 

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