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This is awesome! I would love a September first freeze. That hasn't happened in a while. Yes I am a cold weather lover.

Taking tomorrow out of the equation, forecast is sunny and low 80s for the next 7 days. That's what I'm talking about! Gorgeous summer conditions.

Pleasant evening on the trail at Mt. Talbert. Clean air and low 80s. Never would guess that we're only two days removed from a 105 degree smokehouse.

77 here. The cooler weather today was a nice surprise.

Thank you.

Most of us middle to south-central cold weather lovers haven't had much to enjoy in 30 months or so. Nearly every major longer range model trending colder as we go forward. I'm good with a cold September and early leaf change. It will be beautiful here.

CMC shows something similar. With an upper trough and convective opportunities a bit later Thursday.

After a brief taste of Autumn yesterday (that I didn't mind), it's now time to get out and soak up some of that vitamin D and delightful temps near 80F today! The next 7-10 days look like perfection around these parts, except for tomorrow's cloudy/intermittent rains. Today's wx looks exceptional. Some high cirrus/debris clouds are rolling in from the west coming off of the heavy rains in NE/KS. Filtered sunshine later today...not gonna complain. Have a great Saturday.

Alright mother nature...Uncle! Sunrise pic from two days ago and a late afternoon pic from today. This morning the sun did not have any rays whatsoever, it was just an opaque red/orange disc in the sky. I have never seen that. Still hurt to look at even with sunglasses though.

Wow. Those are awesome. I saw waterspouts when I was a kid visiting the Gulf for the first time. Haven't gotten to see another one since.

Water Spout season has begun! These shots were taken near Buffalo, NY on Lake Erie...

Topped out at 64 at my house yesterday, 67 at DEN (-14 departure for the day). Coolest day since 6/23. Looks like consistent highs in the 70s starting on Sunday.

@Tom. I love this weather! This month has the potential to be cooler than any august I have ever lived through here except maybe '04 or '07. Either way. My favorite year to compare to here is 1977. There's a lot of August left though so we'll see how the last half goes. 77º with full sun at 1:00. Crazy August.

This topic of convo is not only debatable, but it can get emotionally taxing due to one's beliefs. We can argue both sides until we turn blue in the face. The only thing I can say is, I do believe in Climate Change, although, I don't necessarily believe in the root causes the AGW crowd pushes. One thing for sure, we can Agree to Disagree!

Yeah his "agenda" and the majority of the scientific world's agenda. Dumb scientists. https://phys.org/news/2017-07-earth-degrees-century.html

Same cell from South Pasadena NWS_LA

Building over San Gabriel mts. 95 70 45 HX 102

I'm actually really glad to hear that. Sorry, I tend I be a little jaded about that stuff at times. So much of climate science has become ridiculously politicized.

Maybe public lectures with a political flavor? I can definitely see that. This was a lecture for PSU students though, specifically for those in Geography or the School of the Environment. It wouldn't serve the presenter nor the audience to be sensationalistic. People who study this stuff would see right through that. He basically went over some of his research and the conclusions he's drawn. The takeaway was that it's currently not possible to predict fire activity in a changing climate, and that carte blanche predictions of hotter weather = more fire are not grounded in evidence. It's just conjecture. Basically the opposite of what you might think at first glance.