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53 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Will we get garbage can and shingle updates also?

I'm pretty sure that those who suffer through those calamities will keep us advised.   

Just now, Bubbler86 said:

I wanted to make my first post one that reflected my current attitude toward rain chances.  :-) 

Rain sort of seems like a Maverick idea right now - though I think it might be raining down in Irving. 

2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Is this where we get updates on the drought?

Obviously. I made that point in my introductory post!

Rain hopes have diminished quicker than a Euro snow map from winter 2022/23. 

New thread started:

Your one stop shop for spring weather, severe, drought, mowing, and more! 

59 and cloudy. Rainfall overnight- 0.00"

Today's highs in Eastern PA:

Maytown 84

MU 83 (tied record)

Reading 69

Allentown 58

Today was mow #5 - I just mowed this past Saturday and the grass was very high today. Honestly it needed cut yesterday but I didn't have time.

Mostly sunny and 83 in Maytown, 83 is the record at MU. They are currently at 82. 

1 minute ago, Bubbler86 said:

Banging an 84 here.   It is hotter than a Texas Port-a-Potty. 

I was stuck at 58 as recently as 11:30am.

Temp is up to 81 and still rising rapidly. 

13 minutes ago, sauss06 said:

that'll give you gas

Maybe, but that food looks awfully damn good. 

Backdoor cold front has moved back NE and out of Lanco (at least the western areas) and my temp has skyrocketed from 58 to 77 in just over 90 minutes. 

1 minute ago, Bubbler86 said:

Just as much my fault for not mentioning.  I actually thought for this evening it looked more decent that I was thinking we would have.

It would be really nice to get rain tonight and tomorrow. 

2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

That is for this evening, but the line tomorrow does not look much different. 

I'm sorry. I did not even look at the time stamp. My bad. 

Hopefully if the line look similar tomorrow the gaps in coverage are in different locations within the line. 

17 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

I really hope that line is more solid than depicted. Going to be have's and have not's tomorrow. 

3 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

The 3K has some fairly severe looking cells later today.  My problem with the above...both forecasts are models, who is to say the MJO forecast was better than the ground truth?  This past winter the MJO forecasts moved drastically day to day especially late in the season.  If the MJO was fact then yea, this would be a more valid point but, IN MY OPINION, picking one or the other to believe has a component of guessing. 

Can't argue that at all. 

Just now, Bubbler86 said:

I am very much hoping we all get rain tomorrow. 

Same - especially with this waiting in the wing: (good meteorology lesson here from MU)

(1/3) Forecasting 101: How to use the MJO to beat computer models. 4-5 days ago, the models were suggesting an abrupt shift to an unseasonably cold pattern in the East from April 8-18. Some even showed a major, late-season snowstorm in PA on April 9/10!

(2/3) At the same time, they were forecasting the MJO to become active in phases 6/7.. and still are. In an ENSO-neutral April, MJO phases 6/7 favor a #JETSTREAM ridge in the East, & the correlation is strong. Thus, I didn’t bite on the cold & snow, & it’s a good thing I didn’t..

(3/3) Fast forward to today, and the models have caught on to the MJO’s influence on the pattern and now show a sprawling ridge in the East next week. So, after a cooldown #EasterWeekend, expect this week’s unseasonable warmth to come roaring back by the middle of next week!

At least down here in Lanco we are consistent - after being left high and dry all winter, the theme continues into spring:

5 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

So, the last sentence is fantasy not sports.  Got it!  LOL. 

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

Now is his time to gloat about the Buc's win last night. 

1 hour ago, TimB said:

You are not going to use me as a pawn to devolve this place into sports talk. 

Me either, because I won't talk about sports on here.

But yeah...I do have Oneil Cruz on my fantasy team.  

Just now, Bubbler86 said:

Sure, just off to our SE....not sprawling into the Ohio Valley for over a week. 

True...

@TimB - glad that Bubbler pulled you over here - always enjoy reading your thoughts. 

Just now, Bubbler86 said:

No doubt, just hope that uber ridge does not set up both for temps and precip.  Warm is one thing, one to two weeks of a constant "high pressure" is another.  I was not ready for my AC bill to jump yet.   Noticed a little tropical like storm spinning around off the coast of Florida. 

That ridge has been there is some fashion for months.