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14 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Wow, we have had gusts over 40 with sustained 25ish.  It has calmed down a bit the last 30 min but was blowing all morning.   A warm 62 nooner. 

So far at least, the flag in front of the office isn't moving at all. It's calm.

14 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Exactly…good luck to the northern tier.

This is a back yard sport for many of us…

1 hour ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Exactly… MDT had around 16 inches last year. It certainly wasn’t a good year last season, but I needed the shovel a few times.

2021, we had lots of shoveling opportunities with MDT getting 36 inches of snow.

This year, sadly no shovel was needed for me!

Following your own words, just remember that not everyone lives in Marysville and even fewer of us live at MDT.  There was no shoveling in Maytown for the past 2 years. (I had a storm that dropped about 5" on my yard last winter, but there was 1" at most on my driveway, which melted in minutes. 

8 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

I think the last one to hit in this area was Hurricane Sebastian. 

Isabel wasn't a hurricane here but we officially reached 73 mph in gusts. It was a night I won't soon forget. 

10 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

We had several occasions for shoveling last year over here but none this year of course. 

I mean...2 years without shoveling is equivalent to us being under a Hurricane warning!

10 minutes ago, canderson said:

I haven’t touched a snow shovel since 2020. Maybe next year. 

Same here - 2 consecutive winters without shoveling once. That's uncanny. 

5 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Put down some grass seed today as things are greening up and finally some buds on the Maple.  Going to be blooming in early April.  High of 61. 

Welcome to spring - my property looks like mid April I'd say. I'll be mowing for sure on Tuesday. 

43 minutes ago, canderson said:

There have been fishing boats on the water for a month already here. Tipsy feels like a Jine day to me, honestly. 

Well...I do see boats out on the river down here in the dead of winter, but today it seems like everyone is out and about. 

1 minute ago, canderson said:

For sure. We went to Rita’s and the line has like 25 people! Then came back and weeded more - this week stuff is going to absolutely explode growing. 

That's kind of part of what I was alluding to in my post above - being out today, you sense that collectively people are now in spring mode. 

Something about today -  I know that I'm behind a lot of you and I know that I've already mowed the grass twice, but today was the first time for me that it clicked. 

Today just feels different than previous nice days. Spring has officially sprung. 

15 minutes ago, canderson said:

60 at 2. Sun is hot but the 30 ‘mph winds help ….did a few hours of yard work this am. Had to mow some thick stuff. 

Sunny and 62 here - went for a walk and sweated my arse off.

1 minute ago, paweather said:

Yep can't wait until my Halloween 2023 snowstorm! LOL. 

Going to wish away another winter next year...

6 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

12Z Global wise, a Potpourri of depictions for the M-W period next week...N PA gets snow in most.  Track a bit too far north for the LSV right now, so cold rain down here.   The CMC is a NE thriller. 

 

Late Nooners...43 and raw. 

Temp is up to 47 here under cloudy skies. 1.19" of rain so far since yesterday morning. 

3 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

A soaker here continues.  We did not get the storms last night but raining quite hard right now.   43 and about .8 total so far.   We may get more than some (later) as the front hangs in N MD. 

Decent shot at 2" or perhaps more here with what's coming with the 2nd wave tomorrow. 

6 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Temps are falling Was 49 when I got up at 5:15am now it's 43. 

Yep, down to 43 here now. 

Temps continue to fall right along with the rain - down to 44 now. (it was 49 at 7am)

1.12" and counting. 

Just now, pawatch said:

41 degrees this morning. We only picked up 0.14” of rain yesterday which is less than they was forecasting.

Here is where I have been spending my time. They have been biting.

 

THAT is a beautiful picture!

1.05" of rain and 46 degrees.

3 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

I saw that hail core on the radar and thought of you. As far as I can tell no hail here but I was busy putting a toddler to bed so it’s possible I missed a brief bout. 

It literally formed crossing the river and dissipated as soon as it moved SE of me - it was only on 1, perhaps 2 frames and gone. Just happened to hit me square.  

4 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Ice equals snow

This might be "better" than any storm we had last year. We had a very lackluster storm season - we missed a few of the big light shows that hit other areas. Thunder right now is nearly continuous. 

Hail and heavy rain in Maytown. Wow! 

Heat wasn't THAT far away today - DCA got to 83 and Charlottesville got up to 88! 

1 minute ago, Bubbler86 said:

HH GFs went back toward having a system for next week....rates are not there for snow but a somewhat surprising back pedal. 

FWIW, MU believes there will be a storm next week.

With zero chance of snow. LOL

Pretty good disco in the MA long ranger about the SER - why will it not go away? Every time it's modeled to do so...it doesn't. If that doesn't get eradicated somehow, it's foolish to think that winters will be improve much at all over this year. 

Hopefully with the death of Nina there will be a positive response by next winter. 

6 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

The apparent lack of hitting 70 today sets up MDT for a decent chance of no 70's in March...would be first time since 2018 as I mentioned the other day.   Still 7 days to go but today was the obvious chance to break that. 

While talking about weather oddities, here are a few more facts thrown out today to illustrate just how bad we sucked at winter this year:

 Speaking of snow, Millersville has still only received a whopping 0.9 inches of snow since October 1. Thus, it's a virtual "lock" that the record for least-snowy winter season (4.0 inches in 1949-1950) will be obliterated. Should this indeed occur, Millersville will fail to receive at least one, single-storm snowfall of one or more inches for the first time on record (since 1926). By April 1, no measurable snow will have occurred in November, December, February, and March at the 'Ville. The only measurable snow this season (0.9 inches) came on January 25, 2023. Never before has there been just one measurable snowfall in a winter season and no measurable snowfall in all 4 of the months mentioned above. The moving 4-year average for snow is now the lowest on record at a measly 13.6 inches. Combine these stats with a record-warm January-February period, and the unprecedented nature of this winter is truly brought into focus. 

64 at home at 3:45pm. Very little sun here today which kept temps a little lower than thought.