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US National Weather Service State College PA RECORD-SETTING TEMPERATURES TODAY The good news is, we can only go up from here. Much of central & eastern PA could see their coldest high temperatures on record today, May 23rd. Southeast winds, low clouds, and steady rain will keep temperatures 20-25°F BELOW average.

.36 rain so far from this event.

16 straight hours with rain falling. 1.13 from this batch. 2.11” since Wednesday. 48°.

Thanks for that info! We're new to southern Calvert and I garden as a hobby. The soil here scares me - mix of sand and cement. The horrible drought hasn't helped, and this event has been very paltry so far. Hoping for better luck later today and tonight, but I'm starting to think we end up real short down here.

That sucks. Hopefully you score today. At 6AM. 1.49” for the day and 2.25” for the event.

Days of drizzle haven't done anything for the drought but it has ruined the weekend for lots of fokes. Congrats PA and northern Md on the drought buster. It's been raining for days nonstop up there. Impressive.

2.56" so far 3+ seems reasonable although it looks to be pretty spotty for awhile this morning...currently dry with lots of happy frogs outside

Pretty epic sunrise right now..

2.2” since 5/20/26, hoping for 3-3.5” total by the end of the holiday weekend.

Looks like steady rain Saturday into Sunday morning with showers after that and then more steady rain Monday.

Correct, but it highly depends on the soil characteristics. The measurement here is Volumetric Water Content (WVC). Soil is made out of Soil, Air, and Water. The balance of which changes with precipitation and temperature. The soil fraction remains constant, usually between 50 and 60%. It is soil after all. The rest is either microscopic air pockets or water. The air pockets are just void spaces which water could occupy. When there are no air pockets left. It’s just soil and water which of course is called Mud. A VWC of .4 means it’s 40% water, which means that there likely isn’t much air left. This indicates that the soil can’t take much more water, and will start to run off into streams. The VWC in which that happens varies. Sand for example saturates as low as .2 while Clay can go to .5 or even slightly higher. It just depends on the soil present. We’re gathering data to try to estimate/ establish the thresholds not only each location but also each depth. In the future we hope to have some sort of parameter that goes from 0-100, so there isn’t the VWC guesswork of saturation.

Yeah, the fact that no monthly record low was set in the post-Pinatubo years (1992-1996) makes me believe it's never going to happen again. Global temperatures have jumped so much in the last 30 years.

49 degrees and running the heat on Memorial Day weekend after it was nearly 100 degrees four days ago- my brain can’t grasp this bimodal spring

Good steady soaking now 0,70”

Yeah nam drops like 3-6"+

58.3 for high and looks like a lull incoming

yep they dont talk about how cold it is and hype it up as much they do when its 95 in may lol

Nammy is a deluge

If your argument is that its not dry this year then I got a bridge to sell you over the Potomac.

42F at 10pm… its just an overnight and early morning chill, then moderates rapidly in the AM… but it does impact heating/cooling usage. 67F high, 42F now. The temperature is always moving around here.

Heaviest rain we've had since last year at least. Right at an inch since it started Wednesday night.

Precip is having a hard time pushing north/east at the moment.

Looks like it may have indeed been a tornado according to Ken Weathers.

Regular Nam is basically totally dry tomorrow (probably wrong)

Sorry.. its so dry that there is a 23% chance that the potomac basin reservoirs will be tapped within the next 6 months. Seeing how this area feeds the nation that's good news