Itstrainingtime

3 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

We have the kids up at my parent’s house in Etown and a nice soaker is rolling through right now. 

Sun is out brightly here just to your southeast.

Current totals:

0.17" since midnight 

1.11" so far for the event

10.37" so far in May.

.82" today which gets me to 10.08" for May. 

Also - my barometer reading is 29.34". That seems super impressive for late May.

14 minutes ago, canderson said:

I just passed 8.5” rain for the month.  1” today. 
 

Edit: sorry .9” as of now. 

This next batch will likely take me over the 10" mark. 11" is not out of the question overnight. 

Rain with 0.36" so far. A heavy batch approaching from the south and the comma head to follow overnight. 

10 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

All the action staying over towards York thus far. We’ll see what the overnight brings. 

Watching the cells in Baltimore currently.

2 hours ago, Superstorm said:

Tornado watches out


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Yep, southern tier counties. Some pretty nasty cells approaching from our southwest.

36 minutes ago, AccuChris said:

If Lebanon can pick up 2.80”+ before the end of the month we will hit 12” of rain on the month…amazing


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I need 2.74" to reach that mark. 

23 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Yikes. 

Still, the weather geek in me wishes that threat was up to I-80 instead of US-30. I've got the video cameras out, so it would make an interesting finish to my work night and video 

I'm just the opposite. I wish like heck that threat moved way south. Don't like severe weather. Ever. 

41 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Working, so not much chance to hunt it down.

Cliff notes, or a link?

Severe threat until 1am, Tornado threat up to Rt. 30. Expecting everyone to get .5" - 1.5" of rainfall with some areas getting 3-4". More storms with hail tomorrow PM but more scattered and brief in nature. 

Elliott has been very active on X this morning with lots of updates on tonight's heavy rainfall and severe weather potential. Worth a look if interested. 

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

I usually check the E-Wall radar first thing in the morning and that goes back six hours, so it covers most of the night after I go to bed.

That's helpful, thank you!

4 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Low of 62 and some unexpected overnight rainfall to the tune of .05".  Assuming I receive some measurable rainfall today and tomorrow, I'll tie my personal record for days in a month with 21.  Might try and sneak in a mow after work today before the steady stuff moves in later in the evening.

2 hours ago, canderson said:

I got .08” rain overnight. Looks like MDT had .01” while CXY had .11” 

2 hours ago, canderson said:

Beween 12:30 - 1:30 am it seems. I've never seen a "look back" radar but that'd be cool! 

1 hour ago, Superstorm said:

According to my weather station, I received about 0.02” of rain right around midnight.


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So obviously it wasn't an isolated occurrence. I wonder what it was attributed to - was there a warm front that went through, a weak pulse of energy, etc.? 

Whatever it was it missed Maytown. I've been doing okay this month.  

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Low of 62 and some unexpected overnight rainfall to the tune of .05".  Assuming I receive some measurable rainfall today and tomorrow, I'll tie my personal record for days in a month with 21.  Might try and sneak in a mow after work today before the steady stuff moves in later in the evening.

Interesting - do you have any idea when it rained? Nothing measurable fell here.

I've often wondered this but never asked, is there a radar history that is available to review over the past 24 hours or so? I'd love to see what came through overnight...when, how large of a cell, etc. 

MU's summer and hurricane season outlooks just came out:

https://www.millersville.edu/weathercenter/forecasts/summer_outlook_2025.php

1 hour ago, canderson said:

1.55" was my total. Everything is so lush and green. 

And my post the other day about a nice weekend - yeah never mind. Scattered rain and even some thunderstorms both Saturday and Sunday it seems. 

Neither Elliott or CTP agrees with you:

Sunday                 Mostly sunny, with a high near 68.

I just looked at the GFS, CMC, ICON, EURO and NAVGEM and not a single one of them shows rain on Sunday. 

They could all be wrong, however.   

12 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Finished with 1.72" for the event.

Friday/Saturday brings a real chance at getting me to double digit totals for May. We all saw this coming back in April. 

Or not.

Truly finished with 1.82" - I slowly tacked on an additional tenth long after radar returns were gone from my area. 

Finished with 1.72" for the event.

Friday/Saturday brings a real chance at getting me to double digit totals for May. We all saw this coming back in April. 

Or not.

1.59" of rain for the event, 1.43" for the day. And with that, as of this moment...9.00" for the month.

24 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Oh wow, good on him.  I was just speaking to model-gazing, but that's why he's a pro.  It does look like he's had to up his predicted amounts substantially.  It looks like the record min max for MDT of 57 from 1996 has a chance to go down, although the station has spiked to 55 recently.  I'll have to check the flight log. 

Yep. His original call was for .50" - 1.00" of rain which he doubled this morning.

Just hit 1.00" of rain at home. Not sure I'll add more than another couple of tenths. 

0.81" of rain so far at home. What an incredibly soggy month it's been. 

Up at 2:15am to take our oldest son to PHL - nice soggy trip both ways. At least traffic wasn't bad at those hours.   

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Low of 52 with .23” of rain. Doubt the temp budges much today. This was a pretty big forecast miss with regard to timing. I checked every single model yesterday and I don’t think a one of them had rain moving in as early as last evening, nor did they have me getting anywhere close to a quarter inch prior to 6am. Consensus was rain moving in during the pre-dawn to early morning hours. That’s wildly off for being less than 24 hours out. Anyway, should be a nice miserable walk into the capital city this morning. 

I got up yesterday and saw that Elliott was predicting that rain would arrive in Lanco just after the evening commute. I had to do a double take to verify that he meant yesterday. At any rate, not sure what he saw but he said we'd be wet by 9pm. Rain started at my house at 8:45pm. 

Warm/hot weather lovers...it's coming: (from MU)

Fortunately, the large-scale weather pattern will do a "complete 180" during the first week of June. The high-latitude blocking that developed over Greenland during the middle of May will finally vanish in the next 7 days. As a result, the persistent trough, or dip in the Jet Stream, over the eastern United States and pattern of slow-moving, upper-level lows will be replaced by faster, zonal (west-to-east) flow and even a subtle northward bulge in the Jet Stream. A subsequent warming trend will take place from Monday through at least the middle of next week, and it could be a big one. The week will probably kick off on a sunny but rather cool note with high temperatures in the mid 70s, but southwesterly flow on the backside of a high pressure system over the western Atlantic should return by the middle of the week and boost highs back into the 80s by Tuesday. While uncertain, the mercury may even make a run at the 90-degree mark at least once or twice between next Wednesday and Saturday. In addition, the large-scale subsidence, or sinking motion, associated with the high pressure system should promote much drier/brighter conditions and spell an end to our soggy pattern. However, dewpoints could climb into the uncomfortable 60s or perhaps even low 70s later in the week, so steamy/sultry conditions may replace unseasonably chilly ones within the span of just 3-5 days.

1 hour ago, canderson said:

Not a drop of rain at my house today but we ran into a bunch of showers driving all around the area. 

I didn't have a drop of rain yesterday.