Several of our valley locations this morning saw lows down into the 50's with the ridges remaining in lower 60's. The lowest I could find was 56.3 at the Warwick DEOS. Today will be our 6th below normal temperature day over the last 8 days. We turn that around tomorrow with highs well into the 80's with 90's in the valley spots. Widespread 90's on Wednesday before we back off several degrees by Thursday. So not many spots across Chesco will get to "enjoy" the so called "heat wave" this week. By next weekend we return to near normal temperatures with increasing chances of some showers.

big storm on this date in 1897...flooding on Coney Island...

Image 1 of New-York tribune (New York [N.Y.]), July 14, 1897 | Library of Congress

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Was busy this weekend so wasn't able to send updates but the storm on Saturday was one of the worst I've seen in a long time. Was stranded on 295-S. had to pull over.

Cheers,

So cool (at least to me). Over on a local Facebook Page they posted the below article from 1930 about the original trained NWS Cooperative Observer for Coatesville PA - WT Gordon. Mr. Gordon (1888-1930) at that time he was looking to retire from observing the weather... but keep his legacy of accurate weather and climate reporting for Coatesville PA alive. Some of you may not know this but back in 1998 I actually purchased all of the handwritten NWS COOP pages from the NWS for Coatesville 1SW for every month from 1894 through 1948 (I know I am a weather nerd!) At the time this data was not available on the internet so during my many plane trips for work and in my spare time I transcribed by hand each and every day for all of those years into an excel spreadsheet the handwritten daily observations for those 54 years. When that was completed I accessed the data from 1948 through 1998 that was available on line to complete the data set for the NWS COOP stations of Coatesville 1SW (1893-1982) and Coatesville 2W (1983-2007). 

12Z EPS has three inches of rain for Central Park next week.

1 hour ago, tmagan said:

12Z EPS has three inches of rain for Central Park next week.

If it’s over a 5-7 day period that is a good thing.

If it is in 15 minutes that would be quite a problem.

3 hours ago, Andrew said:

If it’s over a 5-7 day period that is a good thing.

If it is in 15 minutes that would be quite a problem.

Just happen after Saturday. Nearly 100 people coming to my twins' graduation party

16 minutes ago, FrankPizz said:

Just happen after Saturday. Nearly 100 people coming to my twins' graduation party

I have a softball game Saturday morning, so hopefully we can get that in before it rains and then again the way it’s going the rain chances become virtually nothing by the time we get to Saturday.

Even though it might rain Saturday as long as there isn’t any clouds ground lightning that shouldn’t be too bad and I don’t know if you are going to be under a tarp or an awning or anything like that, but that was a good too, but then again, you might have a lot of people. Whatever it is enjoy the party no matter what.

Happy All Star Game Day to those who celebrate! After seeing 6 of the last 8 days with below normal temperatures will return well above normal starting today and lasting through Friday. Most valley spots should reach the 90's today while ridge locations fall a bit short. Tomorrow will be the hottest day with widespread 90's and increasing humidity. We should also see some increasing smoke from a fire in Ontario. Temperatures begin to cool and rain chances increase as we reach the weekend.

20 hours ago, Andrew said:

I have a softball game Saturday morning, so hopefully we can get that in before it rains and then again the way it’s going the rain chances become virtually nothing by the time we get to Saturday.

Even though it might rain Saturday as long as there isn’t any clouds ground lightning that shouldn’t be too bad and I don’t know if you are going to be under a tarp or an awning or anything like that, but that was a good too, but then again, you might have a lot of people. Whatever it is enjoy the party no matter what.

Thanks. We will have a large tent that about 40 people can fit under. Rain would really suck though, but all models dont look great at this point. Definitely going to prepare for shit weather now.