August weather thread

[junglegalfla]

Lots of storms the last couple weeks in NE St. Pete. It's thundering again as I type this. Noticed lots of mushrooms in my jungle last night so we must be getting a lot of moisture! No complaints  

[gsytch]

Lucky you!~ Yesterday was my first measurable rain (.92") in two weeks, and only 2 decent rains since July 4th. I've seen on radar that St Pete was getting hit lately, but y'all seem to with water on both sides. Greg in New Port Richey

[Scott Mcintosh]

RECEIVED 1.06"YESTERDAY  8/01/07, SO FAR THIS MORNING, AS OF 9:45 AM 1.58"

[spockvr6]

Rain rain rain!

1.70" yesterday, and 2.84" so far today at 10AM.

From the looks of the radar, theres lots more on the way as well.

[SubTropicRay]

7 inches of rain since Tuesday.  My time has finally come.

[BobbyinNY]

7 inches of rain since Tuesday.  My time has finally come

Yeahy, Ray..... that blue cloud finally move away from your house..   If I didn't see it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have believed it.

[SunnyFl]

The rain is amazing - what a wonderful sight.

Of course, it did mean I had to deal with a leaky roof and disintegrating ceiling tiles at work today.... and when I got home, found we had a small leak here too.   But a small price to pay for this glorious rain  

[Exotic Life]

August start very good!

Today 03-09

Day: 24C/75.2F

Night: 12C/53.6F

Sunny and dry.

Saturday 04-09

Day: 27C/80.6F

Night: 15C/59F

Sunny and dry.

Sunday 05-09

Day: 30C/86F

Night: 16C/60.8F

Sunny and dry.

Monday 06-09

Day: 27C/80.6F

Night: 16C/60.8F

Sunny and dry.

[gsytch]

Yes, lots of rain in Tampa Bay. Even my house got nearly 4" since Tuesday. It was a good rain as it fell in spurts here and there instead of just downpours...really soaked in. We deserve it. Unfortunately, they are predicting several dry, sunny hot days in the 90's but we'll take what we can. Look slike Ray was the big winner...Greg in newly WET NPR

[SubTropicRay]

The final tally was 8.75".  Now as expected, the forecast has nothing higher than 20-30% for a solid week.  Florida, land of feast and land of famine.

[spockvr6]

I logged 7.37" over the last week.

And yet.....I dug a couple of shallow holes this AM to plant a few more Crotons and found that the soil a few inches down was absolutely bone dry sand!

[SubTropicRay]

Larry, that is what a drought (and we are still firmly entrenched in one) will do for ya.

[spockvr6]

(Ray, Tampa @ Aug. 03 2007,13:43)

QUOTE

Larry, that is what a drought (and we are still firmly entrenched in one) will do for ya.

Ray-

Except for the fact that last month I applied an extra 34" of "rain" via my sprinklers, Id understand!

This area where I dug the holes does not get a solid blast from the sprinklers, and as such, I can see why it was still dry.

[Rusty on Pine Is.]

Florida, land of feast and land of famine.

Well, a crumb here and a crumb there, but still far from any  feast here..... the table still looks pretty meager.  

1.75 this week, first wet in 2 weeks, and it will probably be just as long till the next one...yep there is bubble over the island, and little sign of it bursting any time soon.

Rusty

[SunnyFl]

(spockvr6 @ Aug. 03 2007,13:42)

QUOTE

I logged 7.37" over the last week.

And yet.....I dug a couple of shallow holes this AM to plant a few more Crotons and found that the soil a few inches down was absolutely bone dry sand!

Don't you hate that?  I've noticed it too, and my husband said it's almost as if the sand is water repellent.

But if you dig the area out and fill it in with a rich mix of humus, black kow and so on, it doesn't take long for the good stuff to leech out.

And it's true we're still in deficit for the year, and there are parts of the state in worse shape than we are.

[happ]

Floridians are slaying Californios w/ all the moisture    Winter's effects are still evident on palms in my garden [though mostly recent transplants] & total irrigation for over a year  

[SubTropicRay]

Larry,

Sprinkler water keeps things alive but rain makes thing grow.

Ray

[happ]

Sprinkler water keeps things alive but rain makes thing grow.

Certainly agree, Ray.

It is humid, so soil moisture lasts longer but no rain in California  

[gsytch]

Feast or famine is the truth. Yesterday was sunny, rarely a cloud, 92.3F in my yard and oh so humid with a repeat today, tmorrow, Tues etc...seen it many times before. Wish we would get that "old-fashioned" 4pm rainy season everyone talked about when I moved here in '88 lol. Greg

[amazondk]

It is the normal summer time pattern in Manaus.  The high today was 93 F / 34 C.  That was at the airport, in the city I saw a street temperature sign at 37 C.  It was a rather rainy July though.  I do not have the amount of rainfall, but I think it was above average.  This is the temperature at this moment.  Sunset is around 6 PM so it is now night time.

Current Weather Conditions

Eduardo Gomes International, Brazil

(SBEG) 03-02S 060-03W

Conditions at

2007.08.05 2300 UTC

Wind from the ESE (120 degrees) at 3 MPH (3 KT)

Visibility greater than 7 mile(s)

Sky conditions partly cloudy

Temperature 84 F (29 C)

Dew Point 69 F (21 C)

Relative Humidity 62%

Pressure (altimeter) 29.85 in. Hg (1011 hPa)

While driving south from Boa Vista, Roraima on Thursday I took this picture at about 530 PM, about 30 minutes from sundown at about 580 kms north of Manaus.  This is a typical stormy northern hemisphere winter rainy season storm.  Sometimes the clouds can be real dramatic.  I thought we would get hit by a lot more rain than we did.  But fortunately the we sort of skirted the worst part of it.

One thing for sure the drive is a lot different on BR 174 than I 95.

[sonoranfans]

(amazondk @ Aug. 05 2007,19:20)

QUOTE

It is the normal summer time pattern in Manaus.  The high today was 93 F / 34 C.  That was at the airport, in the city I saw a street temperature sign at 37 C.  It was a rather rainy July though.  I do not have the amount of rainfall, but I think it was above average.  This is the temperature at this moment.  Sunset is around 6 PM so it is now night time.

Current Weather Conditions

Eduardo Gomes International, Brazil

(SBEG) 03-02S 060-03W

Conditions at

2007.08.05 2300 UTC

Wind from the ESE (120 degrees) at 3 MPH (3 KT)

Visibility greater than 7 mile(s)

Sky conditions partly cloudy

Temperature 84 F (29 C)

Dew Point 69 F (21 C)

Relative Humidity 62%

Pressure (altimeter) 29.85 in. Hg (1011 hPa)

While driving south from Boa Vista, Roraima on Thursday I took this picture at about 530 PM, about 30 minutes from sundown at about 580 kms north of Manaus.  This is a typical stormy northern hemisphere winter rainy season storm.  Sometimes the clouds can be real dramatic.  I thought we would get hit by a lot more rain than we did.  But fortunately the we sort of skirted the worst part of it.

One thing for sure the drive is a lot different on BR 174 than I 95.

Fantastic cloud formations, Don, just awesome.  We in AZ are supposed to really dry out, back to the hot and dry, at the end of this week here in AZ.  I am preparing to man the sprinklers to protect my palms.  The humidity(dewpoints 60F+) has really been nice and we have had 1"+ rain in the past 3 weeks, with lots of cloud cover and temps about 10F below normal.  But now, it all can reverse to the 110F and dry stuff in a hurry.  I hope not, as my palms are really growing nice, the hot and dry would stunt many of them.

[Steve]

We had a record high in Atlanta yesterday at 103F.  I recorded 103.4F in my yard.  We've had high humidity to go along with the heat.  Dewpoints have been 70-74F.  I refuse to complain about the heat though, because I hate cold so much.

[oppalm]

been close to 100F the last 3 days in Kansas City and forecasted to be 98-102F for the next 6 days.  with high humidity heat indices between 105-110.   I love hot weather so its all good

[spockvr6]

Relatively nasty here yesterday as well.  The high was only 95.5F, but the heat index topped out at 113.9F on my station!

[junglegalfla]

Larry,

My better half is a weather nut. Can you recommend a reasonable weather station that would make a nice gift?

[metalfan]

Its feat or famine here definitely, usually famine

Last week we got almost 6". Then, heat advisories every day for heat indexes 100-110, but no rain. Finally last night at about 9pm we had a BIG thunderstorm. There was lightning and thunder, some bolts were striking in the yard. We ended up getting about an inch of rain.

Hope it does it again, we are on the way to the beach for 3 days. No one here to water the dry areas.

[spockvr6]

(junglegalfla @ Aug. 10 2007,11:42)

QUOTE

Larry,

My better half is a weather nut. Can you recommend a reasonable weather station that would make a nice gift?

Junglegal-

There are many stations outt here that all do roughly the same thing.

IMO, for an amateur station, the Davis Vantage Pro units are the best.  They appear to be the best designed and most reliable.  The catch is the price.  They are $500 and up depending on what accessories one desires.

I was too cheap to pony up the dough for one of these units, so I opted for an Oregon Scientific station.  The most common one these days is the WMR-968 model as it is wireless and easy to setup.  My father has this station and it works well generally speaking.  They run around $175-200.

Mine is a more basic (and older) model called the WM-918.  This unit is wired (not wireless) so setup is a bit mroe time consuming.  But, I wanted this style so I would have a direct wired connection between the sensors and the base station so as to avoid transmission issues.  

The key to any weather station IMO is having it connected to ones PC and having the appropriate software.  This allows continuous logging of data and historical records to be kept.  It also allows easy upload to sites like weatherunderground.com.  I upload my data every 15 minutes to weatherunderground and I am the default station for zipcode 34689.  Ive been uploading since May 2006 so all data since then is available online.

http://www.wunderground.com/cgi-bin....y=34689

I use a freeware program called Free-Wx for collecting and uploading the station data. It is fantastic!  And, there is even an online forum for questions, etc.  

http://austorm.com/phpBB2/viewforum.php?f=12

[junglegalfla]

Thanks so much Larry!

[sonoranfans]

yes florida definitely has a higher heat index than arizona in the summer, its less comfortable for me.  My pool is very nice and makes things much more comfortable at 30% RH.  Our heat index will be about 102 today.  But I would trade it all to grow those magnificent crownshafted palms I see on the floridian landscape!

[happ]

Can't complain about summer in California this year    Overcast mornings/mild afternoons.  80's in August is pretty easy to take  

Appears the subtropical high over the Southern US will shift west.  Humidity/temps will rise.

[Scott]

Happ - It's sure ALOT better than last year. Not 115 degrees. Ugh!

It's been real pleasant and I've been very grateful for and ever-present marine layer :cool:

[amazondk]

It is a rather cool Sunday, Fathers Day in Brazil.  It just started raining which keeps the temperature down.  So, far this year has not had too dry a dry season.  I do not have the percipitation totals, but it has been raining off an on.

Current Weather Conditions

Eduardo Gomes International, Brazil

(SBEG) 03-02S 060-03W

Conditions at

2007.08.12 1500 UTC

Wind from the NNE (030 degrees) at 6 MPH (5 KT)

Visibility greater than 7 mile(s)

Sky conditions partly cloudy

Temperature 87 F (31 C)

Heat index 93.9 F (34.4 C)

Dew Point 73 F (23 C)

Relative Humidity 62%

Pressure (altimeter) 29.94 in. Hg (1014 hPa)

[gsytch]

Once again the radar is lit up and....no rain here. Been like that for days now. We did get a brief downpour earlier in the week, but it was brief (like 10mins). 91.9F now at 2pm, humidity high and the sun out here...a typical day this summer. Dry dry and rare that I rarely hear thunder. Greg in  NPR

[SoLando]

Sure LOOKS like August..and feels like it too. The truck's thermometer said 99 coming home from work. Ouch.

[amazondk]

We got the tail end of a cold front from the south. It was cloudy all day and the high temperature was 84 F at 1100 AM.  The temperature then dropped and hovered around 80 F.  The coldest it got last night was 73 F which is about normal.

dk

[junglegalfla]

It's been miserably hot and dry here. We've broken records in high temp for Tampa. This bites. I'm ready for my garden to go to sleep for awhile and the temps to cool down say to 65-70 so I can get some heavy duty hard scaping done!  

[Scott]

I've been very grateful for the temps we've had this summer. I know in some areas it's been no picnic though.

We really broiled last summer and they predicted worse this summer. Sometimes the experts really don't know.

Clear

87°F | 61°F

Wind: S at 6 mph

Humidity: 64%

[NCpalmqueen]

It has been a heck of a hot August here in central NC.  Severe drought conditions.....everything but the palms look terrible.  I gave up trying to water by hand.

Here's the month of August so far for Raleigh, NC:

(Today was 99F and tomorrow is to be 100F)

[amazondk]

August was wetter than normal this year.  The normal percipitation is around 80 mm for the month.  I do not know the totals, but I imagine that it was double that.  We have around 2 months of dry season ahead before the rains start again.  North of the equator in Roraima the rains continue, but are more sporadic.  

Here is the sky going north toward Boa Vista, Roraima about 1.5 degrees north latitude on August 29th at about 145 PM.  When I got to Boa Vista it was around 90 F at 2 PM.  which is about normal.

[happ]

August, like July was uneventful for heat [until the last wk] w/ occasional monsoonal episodes [including hurricane remnants].  Dry thunderstorms are dangerous in severe drought conditions  

AUGUST 2007

Ave Max: 88.9F Norm: 89F/31.6c

Ave Min: 67.1 Norm: 67F/19.4c

Highest temp: 101F

Lowest temp: 63F

Rain: T

Total [rainyear July/June]: 0.05