Your summer weather report
 

Still hot. Thunderstorm rolling in.

We get afternoon thunderstorms everyday in the spring. And I mean everyday. You can always tell who is newly assigned to the area as they will leave their car windows cracked or soft tops down because it is so freaking hot. And they have a nice wet surprise at the end of the day.

Hot and humid...humid and hot...:thepain:

Obviously not summer here, but am just getting my head around the following concept...we've got a couple of new staff members from England. I happened to walk out the front door at the same time as one of them the other day and I made a comment about how the sky was grey and it was cold and yukky (what a miserable day it was, blah, blah). What I'm grappling with is that our cold, grey day here is equivalent to quite a pleasant summer's day in London (so I'm told).
...give me a moment while I indulge my incredulessness....thanks...next post now.

Perspective casi, perspective.

Thats all I got for your "next post"

hot. and . . . HOT!

we were on notice for a derecho today apparently, but it didn't come together.

So interesting new word learned:)

Scary new weather phenomena that could kill us any moment:eek:

( It's like a tornado, but in a straight line instead of swirling)

Yah that went north of me. Thanks for the new word. Too bad you posted the link

>cloud picture in treasure hunt 10 ;)

Ah yes, one of the stupidest words in Spanish. Straight directional: derecho. Right directional: derecha.

Seriously, they couldn't come up with a completely different word there so people could give adequate directions, and let the word that sounds very nearly like right mean ocean or somesuch instead?

And just to really confuse things, derecho also means law and derechos means rights.

In my life, perspective has to be timetabled in.:D

Summer weather forecast for my area:

Sucky with a chance of suck.

you should rite about that

We're getting monster's storm now.

FUCKING TREE JUST FELL ON MY FUCKING CAR

WHAT?????????!!!!!!!!

You and Lj are very lucky people - except with the cars. Your combined luck with vehicles sends shivers down my spine.

Still - trashing your cars seems a small price to pay for all the other good stuff in your life. :)

I'm freaking out man

that's understandable - but no one was IN the car, right?

they're ok. I couldn't get them for a few minutes there. bad storm, no cell service, power out.

you get dependent on this instant contact thing we've achieved with today's tech.

Wow that shit just rolled through here! Holy Crap - the streets a river.

jinx just got cell service back....

said the storm is fast and violent. dropped to 73 degrees there. took a bunch of trees down, and power is out.

Car is fine. maybe scratches, but no dents... it was a tree LIMB. thank fsm.

the angry storm gods are over Cherry Hill....

that's over the WalMart in Elverson, actually. jinx took that shot.

SRSLY? the one you just had fixed?

Just for a refresher, this is my favorite radar link.

It's like an ugly red boil. A pox on the Cellar.

ah, it's from West Virginia...no good comes from there.

Can I get a rAmen?! I swear my car is a bigger shit magnet than my husband.

We raced home ahead of this thing, foolishly thinking we might get the groceries in the house before it really hit... made it to about 5 houses down and a big limb came down and bounced off the front of the car (right front corner - again!). One tiny dent, 2 small scratches. Meh.
Trees down everywhere, and cut hay hanging off the power lines like party favors, it's pretty crazy. Just got power back.

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shame you already entered your cloud in the treasure hunt

It's a bit freakishly warm here on the west coast where I'm at. The weather is a very nice, dry mid-70's for the 5 day week, and then as soon as the weekend hits the temperature start rocketing up to the mid-high 80's to low 90's. That's hot hot hot when you don't have air conditioning at home and your place is insulated like a garbage bag. When temps get above around 75, heat just begins to build up inside, so that by the time it's 80 outside, it's creepign towards 90 inside. Ugh.

I don't quite know what to do with this quote yet, but I love it :lol:

Me too!

Did you catch the full moon last night ?
We've had only a couple of cloudless nights all year and it was a treat.

Yesterday was the first really warm day this season here in PDX, and once our resident morning clouds move on we should have another very nice summer day.

Oh yes, the dog is getting over it's kennel cough, so all's right in our world.

Wow, I've never seen storm damage like this. I drove all over Chester County today, trying to get to/from the gym thru the maze of downed trees and power lines and closed roads. Power is still out on many areas - tons of lines down with no one even working on them yet. Apparently lightning caused 3 house fires in the area. I saw one house with a tree laying on it, and read there there are quite a few more just like it.

rained again today. cloudy all day. cool, 60s. I miss summer already.

I had heard 70mph winds, but they might have hit 90. Whook.

Wow, Jinx! You guys back East have all the fun. Out here in the desert Southwest it won't dare to rain until the monsoon season in August. Meanwhile highs in the 90's and humidity non-existant.

Hardly any damage here, but I think the last lot probably got anything that was good for the getting.....

Thousands in this area won't be getting power restored until late Sunday, meanwhile, mid 90's and humid.
Coming back from Blue Ball, I tried to avoid traffic by taking back roads through Chester and Delaware Counties. Big mistake.

Jinx, I now understand why you might like a vehicle that could climb a tree. wow.

IT IS FUCKING HOT HERE== that is all.

holey moley :eek:

jinx and lj, I'm sure you've used up all of your bad luck for the next 10 years.

Nah, we were very nearly unscathed. The people with crushed cars and houses, and those still without electricity had the real bad luck.
Pieces of a building/roof in Philly took out a whole block of cars...
We only have street trees here - the places around with big tall trees will be cleaning up for a long time.

;) A very good perspective to have.

With the economy today, and after having panic attacks yesterday, I too had to think of the positive, as if thinking about people with mortgages foreclosing and people exhausting their 401 ks, have to be in way more stress than I.
I at least do not have as far to fall as some.

That is my weather report. Fair to partly cloudy. lol

this is why I love jinx.


I also love her coz she gave me sox.

Cashmere sox.

I'd do it again, too.

Yeah, i was gonna say.... if any luck got used then, it was good luck. Glad the tree limbs didn't cause you to crash, or hit the windshield or something.

:: knocks on wood ::

Roads that were open yesterday were closed today. Power is still out all over. Tons of lines still down, no one working on them.

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I was able to get thru here yesterday, and earlier today, but not on my way home tonight.
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I'm gonna get jim to video some of our commute tomorrow.

And the partial eclipse, about 4 a.m. Clapped the binocs on it, admired the sooty-dark limb of the obscured moon through them -- there was enough refracted Earth-light you could pick out the rest of the disc.

Temp near 100 and very humid, forecast for Sunday... 20,000 homes still without power in SE PA and 13,000 in south Jersey.

my mom just got power at 7:30 tonight. I almost had to clean my whole house so she could come over and take a shower.

phew!

Good for you UG. I didn't know it was coming and so I missed it.

There was one a couple of years ago that my grandson and I stayed up to see, and it was well worth while. We both enjoyed the time waiting for it.

Incredible pics.

And not in that good way.

the tornado pics remind me of my time living in Kansas. Saw some wild weather there for sure. Once I remember standing out on the back porch of my apartment talking on the radio(ham radio) and I said "Hey, i don't mean to.. alarm anybody, but.. I see this.. skyhook coming down right here, I mean it's RIGHT here!" I was scoffed at, because there were no warnings or watches. Turns out, the NWS "forgot" to issue the county the warning. What I saw was, in fact, a skyhook - right over the hospital three blocks away. Luckily, as it started twirling down to the ground, it suddenly caught a powerful gust of wind and just.. blew away.

Holy carp I'm sick of the roads being closed, seemingly at random.

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I saw a PECO crew with 5 trucks today, a quarter mile from my house. They were pulled over chatting where there was no damage, in fact there were no power lines along that road. Now it was very hot and humid, and they've probable been putting long hours, but it was mid-afternoon and it looks bad. Just sayin'. :eyebrow:

Heavy rain and thunderstorms today. By the time I left work, all the rain had gotten off the ground and back into the air.

Just got back from a lunchtime walk. It's pretty nice out there. Low to mid 70's. Partly sunny. Low humidity. It could use a gently breeze, but I'm not complaining.

welcome back - how was your trip?

OH and today is freakin gorgeous - mid 60's, sunny and sweet.