Record Breaking Heat

As of the last hour, KMDT has hit 102 F and has broken the previous record high of 101 F set 85 years ago in 1926.  The map below shows some awfully hot temps with sultry dewpoints even for the east coast.  That 106 F in Newark is hideous.  At least the 107 F in Inner Harbor has some scenery!  Make no bones about it, it is hot!  KMDT to the best of my knowledge has only surpassed 100 F 3 times in the period 2000-2010...so that places some perspective on this heat...wow...and....ugh!

I did just drive through a shower between Lancaster and York where the car's temperature sensor dropper to 85 F from 106 F in the matter of 3 minutes.  However, once we drove over dry highway north towards drought stricken Etters, the sensor immediately shot back to the 103 F.  The southern sky looks threatening as of this entry, but I'm not holding my breath...although some of you might wish I would hold my big thick hunt and pecking fingers.  Here is the forecast anomalies for next Friday with yet another day or 2 with temps ~10 F above normal. 

But before that, I do believe we will see at least one day (Tuesday) with max temps staying below normal.  I do not believe we will see much opportunity for widespread rainfall.  And now that we are in this dry pattern, we will need a synoptic scale system to deliver the goods as cold frontal passages often fail to do so when the pattern has been so dry.  So it is time to begin to start looking towards the tropical Atlantic for some help as well.  By the way, there have been 2 tropical systems named this week; Bret and Cindy.  Both were too far east to have any effects here along the east coast.  Here were their forecasts from earlier today.
Tropical Storm Bret:

Tropical Storm Cindy:

In closing, the heat is now officially extreme as we tied a record Thursday and broke the record on Friday.  This evening in Philadelphia, the Phillies and the Padres will be celebrating their 1984 teams by wearing the old garb.  I'm partial to the powder blue away uniforms of the 70s and 80s.  The Padres will have their yellow and brown.  To be sure, this 1984 classic will be played at Citizen's Bank Park this evening!  Enjoy!

Have a great week's end.

Smitty

AA:  Record heat today at KMDT...breaking the previous record of 101 F from 1926.