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Horst will be posting his winter forecast tomorrow, but he did leave one hint this morning - above average snowfall for the winter is likely...

At least down this way, we've replaced warm, muggy wet weather with cool, refreshing wet weather. 3rd day in the row we rain. I like the reinforcing shots of cool air every few days now. Barring a late-season tropical storm we should be finished with muggies. I think.

You go to the Red River rivalry? Hook 'em Horns! Very muggy here in Pittsburgh. Drove through a torrential thunderstorm on the pike near Monroeville yesterday.

PA tornado count is now up to 15! (Source: SPC)

I wonder which will be warmer?: (I'm going to both) Steelers-Falcons this Sunday in Pittsburgh (Current forecast high is 82) Jaguars-Texans on 10/21 in Jacksonville

PA total is now up to 12... Actually, it's now 10 confirmed and 2 still under investigation.

Story of the summer - it really wasn't about the heat, it was all about the humidity and extremely warm nights without hardly any radiational cooling. Hope everyone made out okay yesterday. That event wasn't modeled too well, correct? I think that the Binghamton office had put out a HWO yesterday morning but beyond that i don't recall seeing much to indicate weather of that magnitude in the CTP forecast area...

Awesome stuff Don, thank you! By the way, not sure about Harrisburg, but just down the road at Lancaster it was the 2nd warmest September on record. The beat goes on...

Probably the biggest weather disappointment in my lifetime with the Boxing day storm several years ago coming in 2nd.

True...but remember: 1. Whiteouts are always against the marquee team of the season 2. A handful of those games were in the lean years in the wake of the scandal when PSU was clearly overmatched in every way possible. 3. Agree 100% about Franklin. Great coach until game day, lol. It irked me the way he brought up player's grades in the post game press conference. Not cool.

Yeah... In retrospect after a fitful night of sleep I'd be remiss in not giving the Buckeyes some credit. Down 2 scores in that environment and coming back like that...I tip my cap to them for that. 12/30/2000 fellas...I went to bed that night to a forecast of 12"-24" of snow. Woke up excitedly at 6:00am to see the blizzard. Only problem was it was partly cloudy. One of the most cruelest disappointments personally and weather model failures in modern weather history. I remember how empty I felt that day. Isn't it amazing what weather and sports can do to one's morale?

What a head-scratching, horrific call to crush my hopes and dreams tonight. How do you NOT give #9 a chance to win the game? I will see that ill-advised handoff to Sanders in my dreams for days on end. This is true in any sport...with the game on the line, you give your play maker a chance to make a play. The ball (and the game) was literally taken out of Trace's hands. I know, I know...it's easy to 2nd guess things that don't work. My biggest beef is that Ohio State snuffed Sanders ALL night. They did very little to contain McSorley. He only rushed for 175 freaking yards. Being up 12 at home and losing makes the pain doubly bad. Being up 12 at home and losing to Ohio State is killing me. Thanks for letting me vent. We now resume weather talk and what promises to be a week of way above normal temperatures yet again. Joy in abundance tonight.

Wow. We've had a few winter-like events over the past several weeks that have targeted the far southern border counties. I knew you were "doing well" but I honestly didn't know you were doing THAT well. How's the course holding up?

The January 96 storm is still my all-time favorite. 30" of cold powder that actually lasted for 12 days before the epic flood that wiped out the west span of the Market Street bridge...

Have fun and a great time with your family...and go 'Cats! :)

I wonder where the Manheim/Mount Joy area stands for their yearly rainfall total...I'd have to think they're between 60"-70". I'm sitting at 57". Even though I'm only 4 miles outside of Mt. Joy, a couple of events they doubled my total, including the 8/31 deluge.

Thus far the rain has been uninspiring...it isn't even wet right now. Perhaps we get a break and it under-performs this time around?

Agree with all of this. We need a big night from our special teams and we HAVE to win the turnover battle...those 2 things set all PSU's recent success into motion the last time the Buckeyes came calling to Happy Valley.

The unknown variable is how well Haskins handles the atmosphere...he hasn't lined up in ANYTHING like a Beaver Stadium whiteout. It will be absolutely nuts.

I told a few people at work yesterday it would be 52-45.They asked what I really thought and i said 52-45.

.3" here, woke up this morning to a flood watch for later today and tonight. Was not expecting this, thought we were going to get a bit of light rain and drizzle tonight. Will it ever end?...

Thank goodness! After nearly 24 hours without rain, the heavens just unloaded here. I almost forgot what rain looked like.

According to Horst...notsofast. Last Thursday I speculated that a pattern change might bring the arrival of a persistently cooler weather beginning around October 1st. Today, I'm putting that pattern change on hold for at least another week or so. Why? A massive blocking pattern has since developed in the eastern Pacific and ridging in the western Atlantic now looks to hold on into the opening days of October. The bottom line: It may take until October 7 - 14th for the pattern change to fully reach the Eastern US.

Today was the perfect fall weather football day...without football.

That's 2.29" more than me. Why am I always fringed!?!?