What's your weather?

[ab_grp]

I thought about posting yesterday afternoon to say that it was finally a fairly nice and stable day.  It was a little warm but sunny and pretty clear.  I didn't want to jinx it and bring on a storm that was not in the forecast.  But, we got the storm anyway for several hours last night.  So, since it clearly doesn't matter if I jinx it or not, today is another clear and sunny day.  It doesn't currently feel too warm despite being in the 100s all week and steadily inching up.

[ab_grp]

Here I am again, mainly to vent.  I have basically learned that no weather apps are worth a dang here.  The system must be too unstable.  Or maybe no meteorologists care about our city/county, so the focus is always on "nearby" areas that have different weather patterns.  Yesterday may have been the most egregious example, but this happens too often.  There is no prediction.  Each day, it can say that there is a low chance of rain each hour, no thunderstorms.  There will be a thunderstorm.  Don't bother to plan around that expectation.  Who knows when it will happen? Last night, things were reported as reasonably clear, with a small chance of rain, and with no lightning anywhere nearby.  Then suddenly there was a ton of wind, torrential rain, major lightning everywhere (including several strikes so close to our house that the lightning app showed individual trees) for at least an hour.  I think with my spare time I am going to work on some sort of forecast.  Whatever I come up with has to be better than this.  The east coast weather forecasts were not always great, but at least they were in the ballpark.   I realize the topography and other elements might contribute.  But this is just crazy and frustrating.

[evil_physics_witchcraft]

It has been hotter than Satan's armpit down here. Muggy. Humid. Sultry.

[apl68]

The dog days of August are currently in full force here.

[mamselle]

Are you Sirius?

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(Sorry).

M.

[mamselle]

Sorry for the double, but I meant to post this yesterday.

I hope any folks in the NC region affected by the earthquake are safe and OK.

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M.

[paultuttle]

Sorry for the double, but I meant to post this yesterday.

I hope any folks in the NC region affected by the earthquake are safe and OK.

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Check in if you like, to let us know?

M.

Okay here, and parents slept through it.

[mamselle]

Good to hear.

I was a bit surprised, I thought the hills in that area were fairly old and settled and had stopped wiggling around so much.

I guess tectonic plates run deep...

M.

[Vkw10]

102 F and 89% humidity. Chance of rain 0%.

[apl68]

Good to hear.

I was a bit surprised, I thought the hills in that area were fairly old and settled and had stopped wiggling around so much.

I guess tectonic plates run deep...

M.

The Carolinas are a seismically active region.  Charleston had a quite serious earthquake in the late 1800s.  Good to hear that this one hasn't been as bad.

It's trying hard to rain here.  So far it hasn't quite managed it.

[hmaria1609]

Rain tonight into tomorrow.  Lower temperatures too!
Earlier this week, there was flooding in parts of the metro DC area from heavy rain.

[mamselle]

Thankfully it's a) cooled down to 70 all day today and tomorrow, and b) it miiight rain a tiny bit tomorrow but I don't have to go out, so it's fine.

M.

[Parasaurolophus]

Heat lightning out over the ocean tonight.

[apl68]

Thankfully it's a) cooled down to 70 all day today and tomorrow, and b) it miiight rain a tiny bit tomorrow but I don't have to go out, so it's fine.

M.

We got down to just below 70 overnight, which is unseasonably mild here.  It made the morning walk feel delightful!  Low 90s projected for today's high.

[wellfleet]

Smoky--there are three active wildfires in my county right now, and I'm sitting here wondering if there's too much ash falling to work on the deck this morning.