Your summer weather report

[glatt]

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

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

[monster]

SRSLY? the one you just had fixed?

[Trilby]

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

[lumberjim]

shame you already entered your cloud in the treasure hunt

[sad_winslow]

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.

[Lamplighter]

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.

[jinx]

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.

[Trilby]

Originally Posted by jinx

I drove all over Chester County today, trying to get to/from the gym

this is why I love jinx.


I also love her coz she gave me sox.

Cashmere sox.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by Lamplighter

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

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.

[xoxoxoBruce]

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

[Lamplighter]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

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.

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.

[casimendocina]

Me too!

[BigV]

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

[jinx]

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

In all, about 350,000 customers lost power as a result of that line of thunderstorms that flashed through the region at lightning speed on Thursday, ripping apart trees from Glenmoore, Chester County, to Hammonton, N.J., and generating winds rarely experienced around here. Gusts reached 75 m.p.h. in Philadelphia, 60, in Camden County, and perhaps 90 in Chester County.

Some of the winds might have hit 90 m.p.h. in Chester County, where Glenmoore was particularly hard hit, said Gigi. "That's just as strong as the winds get around here."
The 215,000 service interruptions in the PECO territory made this one of the biggest outage events ever - No. 11 on the all-time list. About 130,000 Public Service Gas & Electric customers lost power.

Why were the winds so ferocious?
The amazing rapidity of the storms' movement - 55 m.p.h. - certainly was a factor, as was the heat, since storms are fueled by warm air from the surface rising over cooler air. But just as the heat reached a peak in the afternoon and the official thermometer at Philadelphia International Airport hit 97, the highest reading since June 10, 2008, drier air moved in at mid-levels of the atmosphere, said Tony Gigi, a storm specialist at the National Weather Service office in Mount Holly.
As the downdraft rain fell into the drier air, some of it evaporated. When water evaporates, it gives off a cooling effect; that's basically how sweating cools the body. In this case, the massive amount of evaporation gave an extra kick to the downdraft winds, which billowed the tarp at Citizens Bank Park, where the Phillies were hosting Cleveland.
The Philadelphia temperature plummeted 26 degrees within an hour right before the rains arrived, and the airport measured a 75 m.p.h. gust.

[SamIam]

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.