Itstrainingtime

Looks like it already is.

Last couple of scans on CTP's radar seems to indicate some weakening. Or it is consolidating.

It was just raining in Strasburg. It rains in Strasburg every day it seems. It's like Corry PA with snow only in Strasburg it rains. Harrisburg...you ain't got nothin' on Strasburg! They must be approaching 100" on the year by now.

I have an uncle who is in his 80s now and has spent a lot of time out on the water - he was in the Coast Guard way back when and has had a boat for as long as I can remember. He lives in Lewes DE and spends much of his time out on the bay and in the Atlantic. When I was quite small, my dad and I were out with him one day and a storm blew in. No movement whatsoever to head for land. It was almost like my uncle and my father were defying the gods to strike us. There we were, in his small-ass 18' dinghy in the middle of the open waters with the storm pounding us. Lightning everywhere. Water was churnin'. Dad kept looking at me like "you're fine" - I wasn't fine. I wanted off the damn boat and back in the beach house. That wouldn't happen for many more hours. Ever since than I've been leery about being on the open water in storms.

I knew that south of you there was a big area of D2, I wasn't sure how they had fared over the past week.

Last thing I want to do is give you wrong advice about Friday. I do think the day is when we transition into a nicer pattern...MU's Elliott also mentioned a scenario that Bubbler shared regarding the NAM's depiction of one last line rolling through midday. If that doesn't materialize the day will end up dry. SPC was touting Monday in yesterday's Day 4-8 outlook. They seemed concerned about a potential severe outbreak.

Really think you should be D2 at least but will they paint that for such a small area?

Total rainfall yesterday was .09" after the shower that rolled through just before midnight.

HR denied! Just a few drops falling.

Lightning across the river is incredible.

Currently there is non-stop (literally) rolling thunder here, but only .03" of rain as the storm slides past JUST to my west.

Sun, clouds, humid and 84.

That is more than 15 times wetter for Lanco than the past weekend's flood watch-o-rama.

R'ville in the center of the map!

What an amazing event it had to be for those lucky enough to get under that squall. Thanks for sharing your story.

Yes indeed. Popomatic has commenced!

A lone cell has popped over Adams county - only other activity is up towards Williamsport.

Mostly sunny and 82 currently.

Sun is finally making an appearance here - we'll see if we get some destabilization going this afternoon.

To all who provided information, thank you very much! In my nearly 58 years on earth, this stands out to me as the biggest freak weather event to ever hit my county. And I was on the outside looking in. But it was still amazing.

Thank you! Including Horst is always a win. I actually started my search with him, I remember quite clearly his twitter posts the following morning. I wasn't able to go back far enough on twitter to find this. We talk about once in a lifetime weather events...this is certainly one of them. These things simply don't happen in Lancaster county PA. In the snowbelts, sure. Not here. This will likely never happen again.

Thank you! Great writeup.

Thank you SO much! I have been searching online for weeks and kind of stunned that I hadn't found anything about it. Appreciate it!

Does anyone remember the date, or at least the year that the central part of Lancaster county got that freak 1' inverted trough/snow squall maybe 12ish years ago? I have no record since I got no snow...but there was a night when the area from Lititz down through Manheim Twp area got up to 12" of snow while the rest of the county was partly cloudy. I do know that some models were indicating something was going to happen but I think it was modeled to happen a bit further east of us. At any rate, I remember getting a call early the following morning from a colleague asking if I was going to go into the office...keep in mind that I had nothing beyond a partly cloudy, cold night. When he told me that he had a foot of snow overnight...I thought he was up to some dark, twisted form of tomfoolery. I was not amused. I was even less amused when I found out it actually happened.

.02" here in Maytown.