Itstrainingtime

The long-time voice of Beaver Stadium will not be in the booth again:

https://www.statecollege.com/articles/penn-state-football/beaver-stadium-pa-announcer-dean-devore-no-longer-with-penn-state-athletics/

Dean was a total weather geek like myself at Penn Manor High School, we were in the same meteorology class. (I was class of 1983, he was 1984) He is also heard around the country every day on AccuWeather. 

1 minute ago, Bubbler86 said:

And so far no one has posted with doubt on someone's totals. 

Exactly!

But...I was sweating paweather's 10 count!

See, our mowing derby is far better than snowfall totals. At least with mowing we have something to count. 

44 minutes ago, paweather said:

Yeah just want to contribute. 

I was going to say...I need to beef up my mowing. You had me worried.   

30 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

That makes our current count (from memory)

ITT-7 or 8  (Andale, andale!!)

Canderson-4.5

Sauss-4

MJS-3

Blizz-2 or 3

Manantango- 2 1/4

Rou-2

 

Today will be the 7th mow of the season - 8th for the year. I did my annual snow mow in January prior to the crippling 1" we got that was gone in 18 minutes. 

2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Nooners....it was up around 50 at 11 but down to 48 now.  Sunny. 

Approaching 12pm with no nooner in sight...53 here with partly sunny conditions. 

1 minute ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

You remind me of my old Mexican neighbor from many years back who used to mow quite literally every other day, and afterwards would spend endless hours hand clipping stuff with scissors.  Kid you not.  He once intimated to me that it was mainly to get away from his wife haha.

I will be mowing for the 4th time on Thursday, prior to the weekend wetness.

I look like a lot of things (wife says a hot mess) but I've never been referred to as Mexican. 

10 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

So many answers....

Yeah wise guy, you can safely remove one of them.   

19 minutes ago, sauss06 said:

Mine is growing rapidly. I didn't even weed and feed. Thursday will be a week. Honestly i should have mowed last night. 

3 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Mine looks pretty stout as well after the weekend rain.   This is the golden time for it as long as it rains....no super cold freezes and the sun is not too bad yet.  Mid-May into Sept, it needs rains every 2-3 days or begins to wilt. 

Mowing in t minus 5 hours. I swear it shot up 6" yesterday. By next week it might be an every other day thing if we get a lot of rain. 

MU has been tweeting a lot about the upcoming pattern - this is all from the past hour:

(1/3) Now that's a change! The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) wave has migrated into phase 1. In an ENSO-neutral April, there is a strong correlation between phase 1 & the large-scale pattern across North America. Unfortunately, phase 1 promotes below-normal temps in the East.

(2/3) The ECMWF computer model 500 mb height anomaly forecast for the upcoming weekend looks a lot like the MJO phase 1 pattern. A ridge over the West (+PNA) will combine with high-latitude, Greenland blocking (-NAO) to suppress the Jet Stream over the eastern U.S..

(3/3) What does this mean for us? To make a long story short, the summerlike warmth of recent weeks is gone. Highs will be stuck in the 50s/60s each afternoon through at least May 5th. And yes, we'll deal with a few "cold rains" and perhaps another frost or two. I'm not a fan..

6 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

EJ says we need 4-8" over the next 4 weeks to be rid of the drought. 

Any drifting expected? 

You know fun times are ahead when Weather Will is breaking out probability maps on 4/25....

1 minute ago, Bubbler86 said:

Do you see forst tonight?  Yea or nay.    That wunderground map I put up showed the high differences between the East and West Shore as to temps last night. A few mid 20's in Cumberland if I remember correctly. 

I'm going to say a big FUKING no to forst tonight but I was right last night so it's time for me to be taken behind the wood shed. LOL

21 minutes ago, canderson said:

Wtf my highest was 14 

19 minutes ago, anotherman said:

I think he means that the wind kept the temperature from dropping.

Correct, it wasn't "windy" per se but it was more than windy enough to prevent good radiational cooling. 

My concerns about the winds last night were well founded. I was still at 41 at 4:00am before it dropped off sharply after that.

Warmer this morning than yesterday- 36.1 was my low yesterday, 36.4 this morning.

46.2 and quite breezy at 10:40pm. Going to need the winds to die off soon if we're going to get frosty overnight.

Ruh roh...paging @Blizzard of 93 straight from MU's warminsta himself!

(1/2) A weak disturbance near the base of an upper-level trough over southeastern Canada will pivot through NY and PA on Wednesday. Expect isolated showers to erupt during the afternoon/evening hours, and I can't even rule out some #graupel due to the presence of cold air aloft..

(2/2) The freezing level on Wednesday will only be about 5,000 ft. above the ground, and rapidly ↓ temps with ↑ height indicate an unstable atmosphere. Graupel forms when supercooled water droplets accumulate and freeze on falling snowflakes and will be most likely N/W of I-81.

Update from Maytown while I'm at work:

Wife: "Does our air conditioning really need to be running today?"

Me: "If the air conditioning is running, then obviously the temp inside is warm enough for it to run." 

(I'm waiting for the "can I please open the windows?" question next)

Just now, Bubbler86 said:

It was the looming Sox and birds series that pointed me toward posting this.  The only other info I had was a rumor that Tucker Carlson is considering wxrisk.com as his next career stop.

What a fiasco Americanwx OT was over this news! 

It's been a LONG time since this map looked anything close to this:

26 minutes ago, canderson said:

Yes.

And a long duration rain event is needed. 

A couple of days of light to moderate rain? Sign me up! 

51 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Speaking of raining on a parade, the Sox would be 1/2 game out of first in the AL Central.  They are 7.5 games out in the AL East. 

.667 baseball has us 4.5 games out on 4/24. 

1984 Tigers won 35 of their first 40 games. The AL East was decided by the end of May. 

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

I bet a lot depends on how much rain we get especially if it starts Thur night. 

Absolutely correct. Hopefully we all share the wealth this week. 

4 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

The NWS has Friday highs in the 60's.  The GFS has 40's near 50 and the CMC mid 50's.  Forecast fight. 

Elliott rides the middle ground and has mid 50s here in Lanco.