July 2023 Observations and Discussion

Welcome to July. Half the year in the books.

July off to a warm, but not hot, start with temps in the mid-80s today. Might see a rare 90 by mid-week! Lol. Let’s hope we have clear skies Tuesday evening for the fireworks.

Since this year in the NE smoke forecast has been applicable Ill move this into herew from the other thread in case anyone wishes to access.

https://firesmoke.ca/forecasts/current/

Here's a link for hourly updates on the haze situation, easy to access different parts of the country as well:
https://www.airnow.gov/

64 degrees, cloudy ,light winds.Looks like showers and T Storms today and tomorrow bit the 4th looks good!

How are we looking for the 4th in union county?

Around 4:15 pm T Storm with lightening, thunder and torrential rain for 15 minutes hit here.Some wind but not excessive.

Right now it’s 70. Three inches of rain last night

I watched down pour after downpour and thunder storm after thunderstorm on radar pass just to my north over the CT coast and LI Sound last night and again this am. Not a drop. Amazing.

dkodgis wrote:Right now it’s 70. Three inches of rain last night

Must be close to that here too Damian.Heavy downpours last night.Grass looks as green as late April.

Just to revisit this post:



Take a look at the 500mb height anomalies during the last two MONTHS:



That positive over Hudson Bay is PRIME. In fact, the entire pattern from North America all the way to India is incredible. Give us this in winter and I’ll take my chances. It’s the reason that we’ve been so cool so far this year. I’m growing increasingly interested in how this all unfolds.

sroc4 wrote:I watched down pour after downpour and thunder storm after thunderstorm on radar pass just to my north over the CT coast and LI Sound last night and again this am. Not a drop. Amazing.

Had a similar experience at the shore in South NJ this weekend. Many storms popping up on radar all around us, but 90 percent of them either missed us or disintegrated before they got to us (not complaining btw, got in a couple good beach days as a result). The one exception was Monday night. We had a wicked Thunderstorm from about 8:45 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. with pouring rain and strong gusty winds. The lightning "show" over the bay was fantastic, maybe even better than the fireworks the next night.

Very humid this morning. Cannot wait for the fall time

A few intense showers yesterday. Most likely more today. 78 at 10 am. A surprising amount of rain these days. Doc, my lawn can kick your lawn’s butt any day of the week.

dkodgis wrote:A few intense showers yesterday. Most likely more today. 78 at 10 am. A surprising amount of rain these days. Doc, my lawn can kick your lawn’s butt any day of the week.  

LOL, Damian, but I don't lift a finger caring for it have a lawn service and a guy who mows it.

frank 638 wrote:Very humid this morning. Cannot wait for the fall time

I can wait till fall ( we will be empty nesters so to speak with son heading off to college) but can not wait for a cooler weather.. My house is 89* yes my house. We were on boat vacation..( boys still are) I ended up with COVID made it 3.5 years. Covid is not just a damn cold..home alone and while having fever and everything else that comes with COVID ac went it's only several years old and part will not come in until Monday 🤬 so thank goodness I am in our camper with the dogs in our driveway ..I hate the heat it was 93 yesterday and 91 today ..can't wait for it to cool off..

Feel better, mom.

weatherwatchermom wrote:

frank 638 wrote:Very humid this morning. Cannot wait for the fall time

I can wait till fall ( we will be empty nesters so to speak with son heading off to college) but can not wait for a cooler weather.. My house is 89*  yes my house.  We were on boat vacation..( boys still are) I ended up with COVID made it 3.5 years. Covid is not just a damn cold..home alone and while having fever and everything else that comes with COVID ac went it's only several years old and part will not come in until Monday 🤬 so thank goodness I am in our camper with the dogs in our driveway ..I hate the heat it was 93 yesterday and 91 today ..can't wait for it to cool off..

82 ,cloudy, calm winds.T Storms lurking just to my West.

Sorry Mom about the Covid. Hate to say it Mom, but most stuff made today is garbage, that ac of yours breaking down after only a few years is an example.Hang in there, Halloween only 3 1/2 months from now!!Get better FAST!!!

weatherwatchermom wrote:

frank 638 wrote:Very humid this morning. Cannot wait for the fall time

I can wait till fall ( we will be empty nesters so to speak with son heading off to college) but can not wait for a cooler weather.. My house is 89*  yes my house.  We were on boat vacation..( boys still are) I ended up with COVID made it 3.5 years. Covid is not just a damn cold..home alone and while having fever and everything else that comes with COVID ac went it's only several years old and part will not come in until Monday 🤬 so thank goodness I am in our camper with the dogs in our driveway ..I hate the heat it was 93 yesterday and 91 today ..can't wait for it to cool off..

Feel better!!

Feel better mom

weatherwatchermom wrote:

frank 638 wrote:Very humid this morning. Cannot wait for the fall time

I can wait till fall ( we will be empty nesters so to speak with son heading off to college) but can not wait for a cooler weather.. My house is 89*  yes my house.  We were on boat vacation..( boys still are) I ended up with COVID made it 3.5 years. Covid is not just a damn cold..home alone and while having fever and everything else that comes with COVID ac went it's only several years old and part will not come in until Monday 🤬 so thank goodness I am in our camper with the dogs in our driveway ..I hate the heat it was 93 yesterday and 91 today ..can't wait for it to cool off..

oh no, feel better! Hope you get back on the boat soon!

feel better wxmom, had it twice myself and no def not just a cold it sucks. I know people who developed long covid and a older man I know has been told by his doctors he has permanent long covid, his symptoms will never go away, he is struggling greatly so its just terrible.

Onto weather. Serious flash flooding incoming, has area in a fairly uncommon moderate risk of flash flooding, last time I recall being higher than that at high level was Ida, hopefully it does not become anything like that. 3KM NAM looks to have hefty very slow moving cells over NYC metro at or just before rush hour so major problems if that happens. Looks to take nearly 24 hrs to cross NJ into CT and eventually out, thats slow moving I would say.

Juicy!

Zhukov1945 wrote:Juicy!

not much east of hudson, thats a quick dieout.

83 at 1 pm with 76% humidity. It is as dark out as you could want it to be. Opaque. It sure looks like hellzapoppin. Soon too.

As Janet says this is going to be a gullywasher. I have to think we will lose power on this one. Thunder and lightning is in the distance.

CPcantmeasurewater should be posting about this.