A tad chilly

Cudjoe Key is famous now, the landfall point of the center of Irma. Here's a house with the water right up to the door. The caption says this house is on 15-foot stilts. Those shrubs are the tops of palm trees.

just craziness.  that pic tho

UGH! 87°F in the Soo today, a record for the date. And the next 3 days are also forecast to hit the mid 80s. The normal daily high for this date is 64°F.

Another day, another record high in the Soo. 90°F this past afternoon, and still 3 more hot days coming before a forecast 30° drop for mid-week.

That should have prepared you quite well in case if you ever come down to Australia. 

hehe! 

you made the decision to live where you do. a few days of unbearable temps should be considered when we have seen record storms.

yes, record high temps are unbearable. but...

i do not know any way to explain this other than telling what happened. i evacuated florida. drove to PA. what was supposed to be a 14 hour drive took 23 hours.  i'm back now, but i have seen the damage. prior to driving back, i was concerned about maria. well, it didn't hit my neck of the woods, but it hit the islands in the south atlantic as hard as irma. in some places it was worse. i really feel for the people of those islands.

moving to florida from chicago, my world view has grown (i thought i knew a lot). we may see news of typhoons, earthquakes, tornadoes,  but, if it doesn't affect us, and, we have a job to get to, it is not a concern for some.

i'm almost 50 years old. still learning. as i have grown i seem to have less patience with those that bitch about rain. i think about katrina, earthquakes, etc. for years i have said "don't mess with mother nature", but some have a different view. 

so, while i hope you can cool off, cp, i tend to have a slightly different perspective on this.  

having said all that, i love what you post here.

i'd like to be clear that i am not complaining. my wife and i have chosen to live where hurricanes could force us out. 

it's a funny thing. i think i read that 80% of people live within 100 miles of where they were born. we choose to live life where we want! and, if we have to leave, so be it. the other 10 months of the year will be great! 

Yes, it's true I've never been in a hurricane. I've never been hit by a meteorite either, but I will continue to complain in a hailstorm.

Whew! That's over with for a while. The chart below is temperatures for the community college weather station 2.1 miles away from me. The official NWS station for the area is the airport in the Soo, about 12 miles east of here, which set record highs for the first four days on the chart and tied the record high yesterday afternoon. The overnight lows were also record high lows for a 5-day stretch.

The circumstance is pretty phenomenal. The records that were broken were established over a span from 1892 to 1930.

In sharp contrast, later today the afternoon temperature is expected to be in the mid-50s.

The NWS says the cause of this heat spell is a reversal of where a persistent ridge and trough system in the upper atmospheric pressure was positioned. For the past week or so the high pressure ridge was parked over the Great Lakes. Per the NWS: "Air beneath a stationary, strong upper ridge slowly sinks and warms, becoming "trapped" within the bubble of high pressure for several days, leading to an unseasonably warm stretch."

This second chart was current 3 days or so ago.

But what will prepare me for the Australians?

kelvin!

I thought he was being a Kiwi now. Or is he over that? Maybe he can't tell the difference!

I can assure you that I know the difference and I am a Kiwi and proud of it.  it will prepare you to meet Crocodile Dundee but make sure you have a bigger knife ! 

This evening there are 26-foot waves off the south shore of Lake Superior in the Munising / Marquette region, and gusts up to 70 mph. Portions of Lakeshore Drive are closed because they're underwater from storm surge. Here at the eastern end of the lake the wind hasn't been so bad. Last night the sustained wind here was only about 30 mph and gusts to 40, though that was enough to kill the power at 1 a.m. (back on by 4:30 a.m., which was much better than some nearby locales that still didn't have power as this second evening started).

Tonight should be a little less windy, but not by much.

That windstorm I wrote about in the previous post generated all-time record waves. Two waves were recorded at 28.8 feet high on Tuesday-- one at 9:30 a.m. by the Munising buoy (Great Lakes Buoy 45173), and a second wave at 2:30 p.m. was measured by the Granite Island buoy (Great Lakes Buoy 45171). These are the highest waves ever recorded on the Great Lakes, breaking the previous record of 27.66 feet measured for a wave off the Keweenaw peninsula on October 05, 2012.

A third buoy at Stannard Rock (Great Lakes Buoy 45179) measured the highest wind speed of the day-- 77 mph [124 kph]-- but the biggest wave there was only 16.8 feet.

i read about that and saw some news reports. for whatever reason, the city of chicago did not close the walk/bike path along the shore. there were live broadcasts of joggers and bikers getting hit by waves.

I don't know what the wind situation was that far south. It had more of a northern component than is typical on Lake Superior, so the Marquette / Munising region was getting a longer fetch for the waves without the Keweenaw peninsula being in the way as much as usual. I think this diagram was an immediately preceding forecast rather than showing actual measurements after the fact, but this is an accurate depiction of the wave height areal distribution last Tuesday.

Yesterday morning's low temperature in the Soo was a record for the date. It got down to 0°F [-17.8°C] , an impressive 9 degrees below the previous record set in 1936. The night before was also a record low, but at a considerably warmer 7°F.

record low here in pa , also.

still had golfers playing. 22 degrees f, and one was wearing shorts.