Stupid meteorology!

How's the storm watch? All quiet on the eastern front?

we had another smaller rain event after the biggie, then it cleared up... http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2010/06/07/stormy_weekend_leaves_a_mess_of_inconvenience/

... and a month later?
no rain in sight, just this stifling heat in Bahstin.

the mercury has (hopefully) topped out at 99°F...



(i spoze i shouldn't complain... it's currently 101°F in central park -- feels like 106°F)

Yeah, here too. Hot hot hot. Inside in air conditioning or at the pool... that's about all that's bearable.

It topped out between 100 and 101 at Logan, where the official Boston temp gauge is. It's nuts that it's there because the typical temp for Boston isn't reflected properly at Logan, usually.

I think official temperatures come from airports, and official elevations come from post offices. A decade or so ago, Farmington gained about 300 feet. This was roughly the same time as when they moved the post office. We are now higher than Denver.

Makes sense until you look and see that Logan is out on the water and at least a few degrees colder than the rest of Boston.

according to today's globe, yesterday was the first time we hit triple digits in 8 years, and only the 24th time in the last 100 years...

And today breached 90....

there was an actual sea breeze downtown this morning... it felt amazing...

It didn't make it much farther than downtown. Cambridge has been 10 degrees cooler than Boston for much of the last 24 hours. I thought there was some sort of mistake, but I checked a couple of weather channels and nope.

Tomorrow's forecast high of "at least 94" is expected to be the hottest day in four years in Chicago. As of yesterday, with 13 days of 90+ this year, we've had more days in the 90s this year than the previous two years combined.

I imagine we have as well.... Stay cool.

this has been a wicked-hot summer so far, easily the hottest one in the 15 years we've lived in bahstin...

Farmington, NM. It rained again. This time, the ground got a little wet.

we just had a heavy downpour, now the sun is out and the humidity feels like about 300%, it only felt like 200% before the rain

Went to Worcester on Wednesday, during a tornado warning there (didn't know about the warning). Just saw a little lightning and some rain. Discussed the convenient placement of ditches at the side of the Mass Pike with my passengers. Another trip to lovely Worcester is planned for Monday. I hope it's less tornado-ey then.

Thanks, I never left the house.


Yesterday we r'cd a robo-call from Village Hall announcing a complete outdoor watering ban for all residents on wells. We haven't had much rain in a couple weeks and the water levels are getting low. Last night the skies opened up and we got about 4" of rain. The ground is saturated and there's standing water on both the front and back yards. I had a small amount of water in the basement. There's significant flooding on the roads in Chicago and many of the suburbs. Wandel's area appears to have been hit particularly hard.

So far it has indeed been the hottest year on record.... http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/07/100726-heat-wave-hottest-year-2010-global-warming-science-environment/

That'd be right - we're having the coldest, wettest winter I can remember!