Clouds on the increase today and a good bit warmer than yesterday with temps reaching the low to mid 80's. Rain chances increase late tonight through tomorrow. Best chances for heavier rain would be tomorrow night with a cold frontal passage. Much cooler again for Monday with temps slowly warming as we head toward July 4th. Chester County records for today: High 103 degrees at Phoenixville (1934) / Low 45 degrees at Coatesville (1988) / Rain 3.88" at West Chester (1973)

6z gfs really bulked up this ridge. Oregon melts and Washington Cooks

Mother Nature may provide some fireworks here on the 4th of July. The GFS has been consistent with heavy rain, hopefully it's out of here by the evening.

.65 inches fell here last night giving me 2.4 inches for the week. The storms brought a lot of wind, some powerlines are down this morning and many in my area on south are without power. Looks like great weather here this evening as my family gets together for some fireworks and BBQ.

100%... This kind of thing drives me nuts. Heck, even Jim Cantore, who is very good, talked about Iowa this way a couple days ago. He lumped the entire state into the flooding discussion, as if we have all received 15 inches of rain and we just can't handle any more. The reality is much of the southern 2/3 of Iowa had/has been dry in June, but I have not heard a single met acknowledge this fact. Instead, it's, "OMG, there's bad flooding somewhere in the upper midwest, so we don't want to see any more rain anywhere!!!" Ugh.