What's your weather?

[apl68]

Cooled down quite a bit yesterday due to a front passing through.  We got less rain than anticipated.  The (relative) cooling is welcome. 

[hmaria1609]

We've got an Excessive Heat Warning for the Baltimore/DC region through Thursday.
I've been outside long enough to put my things in my car and go back inside the library.

[Parasaurolophus]

It's been pretty hot, and will continue to be pretty hot.

At least it's not super humid.

[apl68]

We got very little of the remnants of Beryl.  Other parts of the state caught more of it.  We just got a moderate amount of rain, and a welcome break from the heat yesterday.  Hotter again today, but not bad for July.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

[apl68]

Heat index of up to 107 degrees expected today, and higher still tomorrow.  Looks like a weather front is supposed to bring relief later in the week.  It felt awfully hot out even early this morning.

[hmaria1609]

We've got an excessive heat warning for the entire Baltimore/DC area today and tomorrow.

[apl68]

While I was at church yesterday evening a storm front swept in, a couple of hours before the forecasts had indicated it would.  In less than an hour we went from largely clear to massive crashes of thunder and downpours that made it sound like the church building had somehow become relocated under Niagara Falls.  We lost power and had to finish the service in near-darkness. 

The unexpected suddenness and earliness of the onset really took me by surprise--I had ridden to church on my motorcycle!  The rain stopped right after the service, so I put on my rain gear as a precaution and headed home.  I saw lightning from the next approaching squall in the distance.  But barely a mile from the church the ground was dry!  In town proper there was no rain and no power disruption.  And very little rain during the night.  It's a reminder of just how freakishly localized these summer storms can be.

Today it's much cooler (Great!) and largely overcast.  It looks like it wants very badly to rain.  But so far, essentially nothing here in town.

[hmaria1609]

Lower temps today. The heat wave is gone for now.

[Puget]

Just got back from DC which was unbearably hot (stayed in AC nearly the whole time). In the train home yesterday we kept pace with a pretty intense t-storm for about an hour. Slightly less hot back here in New England but still hot enough to need AC during the day. Despite this, the Puget cats are insisting on laying one snuggled up against each leg - I guess they missed me, and I'll take this as proof that they aren't just after warmth when they want to snuggle!

[apl68]

Reports say that much of the world continues to see new heat records.  Here, we're having the most unseasonably cool, wet July week I believe we've ever seen in these parts.  Go figure.  We've had so much rain this morning that you'd almost think we had a tropical storm remnant passing through.  The rains have prevented an incipient drought, and the cooler temperatures are welcome.  It's not exactly what you'd call pleasant weather, though.

[FishProf]

Spent a couple of days in Seattle who here were mid 70s and sunny.  This was amusing to smolt and myself b/ MFP has spent the whole lead up complaining about going to someplace that  always rains. She would not listen when I told her that Seattle isn't as rainy as people make it out to be

[apl68]

It sounds like Seattle generously loaned us some of their rain this week.

[apl68]

We've gone straight from having a weirdly rainy and not-so-hot week to the most severe week of heat we've had so far this summer.  The contrast only makes it that much worse.

[Langue_doc]

Heat advisory until 8 PM tomorrow. This is probably the fourth or fifth one this summer.