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Observations Early 2019 S/E Heatwave Duration Record

weatherfide said:
I had to move mine to the roof, too and now have the same problem. Reading 102 at the moment. Wife got tired of looking at it in the backyard. It's ok until around 2pm through about 5:30 pm.
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I understand.... my preference was to place it on a pole 25' up in the middle of the front yard (most wide open space I have, no tree interference) but I got overruled on that idea
 
LovingGulfLows said:
Atlanta's elevation saving it from the super hot temps? Could also be where the ground still has water from April's rains.
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Maybe? I had 91 at my house, looks like Marietta had 92.

I spent the weekend up on lake hartwell and it was 96 when I left there yesterday afternoon and it was 86 at my house in northeastern cobb county. Lake hartwell is 660’ and my house is 1140’.
 
Local Sheetz stores have no slushies...except strawberry.usually have 10 options but everybody trying to beat the heat. Figure ice wouldn’t be hard to refill but...this fact alone deserves a heat advisory for everyone along and east of i77 in NC
 
With today’s 101, KSAV had a 4th 100+ in a row. Whereas there have been a number of instances of 4 in a row, none had occurred in May before now. The longest # in a row for any month dating back to the 1870s is 5, set twice in July. There is a decent chance of reaching 5 tomorrow. Regardless, this heatwave in terms of a combo of earliness and duration is one of a kind recordswise for much of the SE US.
Though the Euro runs from a few days ago and earlier were several degrees too hot, the GFS and Euro have done an excellent job of predicting this long duration heatwave over a week out. The GFS temps have been remarkably accurate!
 
Despite the slow start, temps recovered nicely as Atlanta hit a high of 94*F, tying the record.
 
South the alarms. Heat have will ease up for many this weekend. Brand Pan. now agrees. WXSouth or Robert is out to lunch.
 
BirdManDoomW said:
South the alarms. Heat have will ease up for many this weekend. Brand Pan. now agrees. WXSouth or Robert is out to lunch.
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The models have been suggesting this from the start. I don’t subscribe to Robert. Therefore, I don’t know any details of his forecasts. But regardless, this will end up as one of the longest durations of intense heat for a good portion of the SE.
 
Jimmy Hypocracy said:
Only 95 here. Stout breeze. I could work in this all day every day twice on Sunday. This ain’t nothing. Next
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I agree for the upstate this heatwave didn't pack much of a punch. I for one am glad for that. I know CAE and down toward gawx it was worse. I'd take this over 85 and a dewpoint of 75 anyday. Although it does suck with no rain and brown grass.
 
Wilmington NC has broke several records for May. 100 degrees, less than .3” of rain, etc
 
SoutheastRidge said:
It would be nuts if the biggest heat wave of the year ends up being in May. Is that even possible?
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Would actually love that, get this extreme heat out the way and have the rest of the summer in upper 80s/low 90s.

We would need some rain for that to happen though.
 
NAM has strong T-storms in NC on Friday with a decent breakdown of the ridge, severe storms would be likely with that supported pattern except for tornadoes, lets see if it holds
 
For the first time in days, there's not a cloud to be seen here and it is already 97.3 at 12:20 PM with very light winds vs 96.2 with some clouds 24 hours ago. KSAV had 95 at noon, which is the same as 24 hours ago. Hunter AAFB, however, is at 93 vs 96 24 hours ago. If KSAV reaches 100, it would tie the longest 100+ streak on record (back to the 1870s) with 2 other 5 day streaks that occurred in July. There hasn't even been one in June or August!
 
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Damn looking at the 12z NAM, if it weren't for a damn cutoff upper level low forming over CA/NV, we might have been able to get a tall upper level ridge to form over the west(and get a nice trough over us). Still, looking at hour 84, definitely some relief as we get winds from the NW.
 
Myfrotho704_ said:
NAM has strong T-storms in NC on Friday with a decent breakdown of the ridge, severe storms would be likely with that supported pattern except for tornadoes, lets see if it holds
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Lol believe that when its raining

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Got a decent surge of S to SE winds, which quickly cooled it off here by ~2.5 F to ~94.9 at 12:50 PM from 97.4 at 12:20 PM. Still no clouds. Maybe today's high will have been at ~12:20 PM?? If the winds from this point on were to be mainly from the S to SE, there's a good chance for that. We'll see.
 
GaWx said:
Got a decent surge of S to SE winds, which quickly cooled it off here by ~2.5 F to ~94.9 at 12:50 PM from 97.4 at 12:20 PM. Still no clouds. Maybe today's high will have been at ~12:20 PM?? If the winds from this point on were to be mainly from the S to SE, there's a good chance for that. We'll see.
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No such luck as shifting winds allowed a quick rise back to 97.7 at 1:18 PM for the high so far today.
 
95/72 heat index of 103.... this is how we roll, get winter out of the way in December and get summer out of the way in May. Next
 
4th straight day of 100° at KCHS today.. now tied for the 2nd longest streak of consecutive days 100° or greater. The Longest occurred in July 1986 with 7 and another 4 day streak also occurring in July 1986 (July 1986 had a total of 13 days 100° or greater that year). Highs Thurs are expected to be in the upper 90s to near 100 before slipping down into the mid 90s for Friday.
 
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