Actulally, It has been kind of cool here today.

High of 80F today with a dewpoint as low as 46F-
that is a big difference to the 100F with 86F dewpoint
last week!

Nice to be outside again!!!!!

Our high was 93, but have a storm coming through now. Hopefully temps say down afterwards.

Glad those of yall who have been in a virtual oven most of the summer can enjoy some relief. Hey it has even cooled down up here the past 2 days. Been upper 60's down from the mid 70's we've had for the past 10 days. Suppose to warm back up tommorow. My palms and bananas will be thankful.

Warm day here, humid and in the mid to upper 80s. Not too much of a change in the forecast (except a few days in the low 80s, especially with the rain coming this weekend). Im not looking forward to fall, but there is some time before we have to worry about that!
-Alex

Heat and humidity finally broke here on the southern Delaware coast. Windows are open and AC off for first time in weeks and the extended forecast says they can stay that way.

The drought has taken it's toll, although the rain the other night has helped. I've lost three shrubs on an adjacent property that I've planted for privacy. It's all I could do to keep up with watering the beds in my own yard.

Also lost a new 2.5 gal windmill palm
that apparently was blocked by a rhododendron from receiving any
water from the sprinkler. By the time
I noticed that it was failing, it was too
late. All other new palms -- windmills, sabal minors, needles, Med fans and a
pindo -- are all happy.

My experimental sabal palmetto seedlings that I planted out in a remote, protected back dune area have succumbed to the drought too. I honestly have been more fearful of the lack of rain more than our relatively mild winters. I'll try again next year, but in the mean time plenty of sabal palmetto seedlings have popped up all over my irrigated garden. They're even healthier looking than the ones I carefully sprouted indoors in peat pots. I'll be able to monitor the ones in the garden better throughout the winter anyway.

Glad to have the cooler dryer weather, but hope we get much more rain before going into our traditionally dry months of September through November.

Another awesome day here, 75 dry and some fair weather clouds. Unfortunately they are saying it is supposed to rain all weekend so I can only enjoy it in the eveneings (when the out of mcontrol mosquitos come out.

well our consecutive 42 day streak of 100+ degrees stopped yesterday. We have finally got rid of the "heat dome" and have had 2.5 inches of rain since monday. Temps are topping out in the lower 90's and the lows are right at 70. We are still in a pretty bad drought and burn bans are still in place but at least everything got a good soak.

mike

Wetsuiter, I see that Delaware drought on the weather channel's site. Also, half of the South is experiencing rather severe drought. We were definitely going that way toward drought but there were a few heavy all day soakers that have helped to rise the soil moisture to decent levels. Expecting another dumping of rainfall on Sunday and Monday.--Still, was the second hottest summer ever. Even hotter than last year. Last year seemed hotter to me but I might have been using the air more this year. Last year's drought was more serious in NJ and Eastern Pa. than this year. A word of optimism though, I know that Sept-Nov. has historically been DRY and SUNNY in the Mid-Atlantic but I think I see something of a trend in erratic, unpredictable Summer rainfall but Fall rainfall seems to be much heavier. What's seems strange is how QUICKLY the pattern can change from drought to flooding and then back again. Hope you get some rain from the next storm system heading East. Beautiful weather in the meantime--strong sun/moderate humidity/mid-80's.

Just had a widespread, heavy rainfall event of between 5-10 inches on Sunday with more expected today. No thunder, no wind, just incessant, heavy, tropical rains that came in waves and broke the back of what had been a fairly dry summer (marginal drought conditions were building). I love the rain but am ready for the sun now. Enough already!

NJoasis, we finall got some much needed rain, but it was a fraction of what they got to our north. Parts of Delaware between Dover (just 50 miles NW of me) and Wilmington got close to 8" of rain. We maybe got a 1/2 to 1" and not in the torrents everyone else got. It was a good soaking rain, so no complaints. But when I was expecting another heavy band of showers and storms after midnight, they all mysteriously evaporated halfway across the DelMarVa. Again. There is some weird weather phenomenon that keeps the Delaware Cape Region from getting ample summer rain. Everyone notices it.