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8 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Bottomed out at 38 here last night.  Just a beautiful stretch of weather incoming.

Beautiful indeed - not much rain in sight though. For those of us that didn't get much last week, I'll be spending a lot of time watering my flowers and veggies. 

14 minutes ago, paweather said:

True. But you have to admit this is the first spring where we didn't go into Summer Heat in a long time. I know you would want that but it actually feels like Spring Weather for a change. Hope we can get back to 4 seasons again. 

As a father who just spent years watching his kids in spring high school sports, I can tell you that we've had many very cold and windy Aprils lately. Maybe May has turned hot, but we watched a lot of very cold April baseball games...

What a beautiful morning! Sunny, 51 and the sky is a blue. Going to be a great day to get outside. 

Last year I had gas but no toilet paper to deal with the problem - now I have toilet paper sitting around because of a lack of gas...

Just now, WarrenCtyWx said:

February 2014 was pretty snowy.

You are correct, and I completely forgot a big storm on the 12th that dropped over a 1' here. Thanks for bringing that up, without looking at my records, I had forgotten about that. 

5 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

We will be only a couple months from being back to normal at that point (per Fauci) 

So...yeah. Some things are better left alone.  

I was grumbling a little over the weekend about rain, or the lack thereof, and my wife reminded me of what happened last year when we went to the Outer Banks in early June. (we're returning once again this year) 10" of rain over the first 4 days of our week's vacation. 

I'm totally satisfied with all of the rain we received this past week. It was more than enough...

2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

I think so as well but I hear it a lot on the boards in general.  Not this one as much as others.  It usually starts when the LR models do not show a great January...the "February is when we score big anyway" talk starts. 

I know that every winter Horst talks about February being Lancaster's snowiest month on average...and we had snow this past February. The last big ones that I remember in February were the 2 in 2010 - and that's all I remember since 2003 or 2004. 

5 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

FWIW,  MDT normal at this point would dictate ~13.85" so you are about 1.5" behind normal at MDT.   Not too bad.

Also an interesting tidbit.  It's a common theme that our "big snows" are always in February.  February is by far the driest month of the year, on average, at  MDT, by almost 1/2" vs. the second driest which is December. 

 

 

 

 

 

I wonder if the long-term averages will change over time on that - most big snows over the past decade or so have all seemed to fall in March, January, and December by my memory. February has been a poor snow month (at least big snows) for some time now. 

2 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

What's your YTD precip total?  I'm at 12.32".

I'll check when I get home...I think I'm higher than that, though. 

29 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

I failed you with my enthusiasm.  Model reader hex on me. 

My expectations were exceptionally low - once I saw the track of the LP, I knew I was cooked. 

5 minutes ago, paweather said:

Ahhh.....That is me as well. I'll admit to that now. 

It's hard not to inherently place trust in them - I saved myself a lot of frustration and disappointment during the winter once I stopped relying on models several years ago. 

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

I only got .03" yesterday and .26" cumulative for the last three days, meh.  Did hear some reports of sleet around us on Saturday though.  Looks like a chilly but mostly pleasant week ahead before some more prolonged warmth tries to build in starting this weekend.  Onward....

Exactly what I got yesterday...I got .28" for the weekend.

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

Maybe another burst coming later, right? 

We shall see- sun is out here, heading for the river trail now.

1 hour ago, canderson said:

Forecast high is 59 … it’s currency 48. We’re not getting there by any stretch. 

Hmm...56.6 here...

2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

At 1:15PM it is 44 degrees with a sustained wind of 20 and a wind chill of 35.  Happy Valentines day everyone. 

Finished with .03" of rain. Cloudy, a few breaks in the sky emerging and sitting at 50.0 degrees. (It did drop from 52 down to 47 during my 40 minutes of light rain,  but temps are starting to rise again.)

A little light rain falling here now and 52.2 degrees.

I think my sleet idea in the LSV is toast. 

12 minutes ago, Voyager said:

You guys are crazy...lol

I can tell you that the mother of my children is with me and less than thrilled with the weather today. 

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

It happens fast in May and June. 

Yep, once things start heating up and you get a 10-14 day dry spell, things start changing in a hurry. 

2 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

Yea, you have been left out of the cornucopia of rain many have received this week.   That rain moving through Lancaster county right now seems like it could drop some quick pours. 

Unfortunately, it did not - we received an additional 11 drops. .64" for the week it is. 

12 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Need that low to dip a bit farther south for us to get back into the good rains. 

Yes.

It's gotten very dark here - let's see what happens. My 7 day rain total is at .64". Compared to what you experienced last year it's a rain forest, but I know I'm way behind most on here.

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

Heavy, small diameter hail/graupel here with Thunder right now.  Literally a mulch topper. 

A week of very little action continues here - a light shower produced a whopping .03" earlier this afternoon. Otherwise, partly sunny and cool. 

Daughter reported heavy rain/hail in Lancaster city around 3:00pm. She said that water was running everywhere. 

My point and click for tomorrow/tomorrow night is down to a tenth to a quarter of an inch. 

Sun has popped out, up to 47.

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

35 and light rain.  

Wow...that's pretty close to frozen precip kinda weather there. Cloudy and 42 here. 

Just hit a quarter inch of rain here and a chilly 47 degrees. 

1 hour ago, Voyager said:

Again, all I can say is 

There's a time and place for everything, and, like November/December when it's supposed to be cold, were talking middle/late May. It's supposed to be warm...

In fairness - I think maybe Canderson posted this earlier in the week, but our long-term average temperatures are increasing. And while I'm sure it's frustrating when it's cold and miserable in May, we also have many mild days in November and December. Aggregately, there is more warm than cold or otherwise our long term averages wouldn't be increasing. 

As a cold weather nut - I'm with you on this. I was really enjoying the 60s and 70s and wish honestly we'd stay right there for another 5 months. 

I dunno - if precip comes in early enough on Sunday, I wouldn't be surprised if there's a little sleet mixed in all the way down to the LSV. Don't know that I would expect it, but I could see it happening...