Long Duration Heat Wave 2018 (climate, humidity, dewpoint, USA)

[nei]

RIP Jefferson snowfield

https://twitter.com/wxknapper/status...32258713186305

[Cambium]

2:15pmCST Heat Index values. Feels like 110°+ in parts of Illinois & Iowa. Lot's of 95-105 on the map

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by yankeefan93

What backdoor front?

This one. Will help bring "surface" temps back to normal even slightly below normal for the coast in this torching pattern.. Weak and wont last long.

[yankeefan93]

Originally Posted by Cambium

This one. Will help bring "surface" temps back to normal even slightly below normal for the coast in this torching pattern.. Weak and wont last long.

And the GFS doesn't agree....

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by yankeefan93

I guess the Euro and the NAM are at odds...




And the GFS to an extent.

Yeah, your looking at 5000' not the surface. And GFS is garbage. Play the loop of wind direction and you'll see it

[chicagogeorge]

No relief even at the lakefront today...

https://twitter.com/MikeHamernik/sta...44870029053954

[yankeefan93]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Yeah, your looking at 5000' not the surface. And GFS is garbage. Play the loop of wind direction and you'll see it

How is the GFS garbage if it saw this heat wave coming from a week ago? Sure it ain't great but it ain't garbage.

[user491]

87F with a dew point of 61F here at 4:11 p.m. Winds are blowing about 5 mph from the ESE. I thought it would be more humid than this today, but I’m not complaining. It actually doesn’t feel too bad in the shade, especially when the wind blows.

[yankeefan93]

Anyway Newark hit 96°F today. Newark should hit or exceed 100°F tomorrow according to the NWS and TWC.

[speagles84]

Welcome to western Pennsylvania where my 1400' elevation prevents me from hitting 90F . High only reached 87F as of 5 pm, underperformed from the forecast of 92F

Still very hot though, hear index is 96F