Ruin

this is from 6 hours ago but how on earth does that part of lancaster county have no damn rain? this is how inaccurate weather reporting is imo.

15 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

It’s ridiculous that I need to have heat on in the house this Memorial Day weekend, but here we are…

yep they dont talk about how cold it is and hype it up as much they do when its 95 in may lol 

had .30 yesterday last night the collector fell over so no reading.

On 5/15/2026 at 8:44 AM, Jns2183 said:

Haha, it might be because people are still below the 40th percentile for ytd rainfall. Honestly unless we get area wide coverage of 25" from now till end of August I'd expect this map will be there the entire summer. Add in the fact that many have not had an above normal season in 3-4 years I'd be more worried if the map showed nothing.

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when I had the landscaping crew putting in the trees they did a test and the moisture in the ground was like 46%-48%

15 hours ago, Jns2183 said:

Haha, it might be because people are still below the 40th percentile for ytd rainfall. Honestly unless we get area wide coverage of 25" from now till end of August I'd expect this map will be there the entire summer. Add in the fact that many have not had an above normal season in 3-4 years I'd be more worried if the map showed nothing.

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we had above precip the last few months and this map hasnt changed. winter was a tad dry but I feel like they just keep releasing the same map cause they dont want to make a new one cause not many people even care about it. no way we are even close to any of this drought color. 

Yep its way off it hasnt really been updated in like 2 months at least. I got close to 1.00 of rain in the last week that would put us even for the year.

another week we had a good amount of rain but still this map hasnt changed

7 hours ago, WmsptWx said:

It has barely rained in those areas.

I live in the orange area and we have had rain the last month like 2-3 days a week. while some of it was showers and was only .20 we had other rain events 1.24  1.01 .86 .66.

 May 5, 2026, Harrisburg has experienced rainfall total of 11.56 inches, which is a deficit (departure) of -1.39 inches compared to the 13.95 inches average typically seen by this date. we are only down 1.39 This update doesnt even include the thge last round of rain where we picked up about .40 so that means we are about a 1 inch down. no way we should be in the orange color of drought 

still the same bs map they havent updated it tho they claim they have 

On 5/4/2026 at 2:44 AM, Jns2183 said:

It's a lot more than rain goes into that. You have to look at absorption vs run off vs evapotranspiration. We have baked all April. I only got about 55% of normal preceiptitation. Go look at the PEMN sites on pa climate website. They have soil moisture at 3-5 different depths. That really tells the story. This super El nino building is not good either

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I did some stuff outback ground is pretty green and wet dug down a bit to plant a new tree in the back yard and moisture content was very high. the landscaping crew told me only to water it a little after planting since the ground lvl water table is high. So yeah we had a short period in april where we got way hotter then normal. but last 2 weeks aside from this tuesday we have been very cool to cold over night. 3 times last week I had frost on my car at 530-6am getting out of work.

26 minutes ago, Voyager said:

I didn't know it was going to rain all night. Picked up another .17" from this little event.

last 3 days Ive picked up 1.21 

No way this is accurate we have been the same color since late jan we have had so much rain for a month plus.

Forecast high today 83 still 55 lol

this is fake spring atm temps to go back down but its nice to have some warm weather. bee's were out in force today but no flowers just yet blooming for them to gather any honey.

5 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Yes, I would sign for the 12z AI.

A nice & simple moderate wave with a good non complicated slug of precip this run.

 

 

in time they will all loose it then the ghost of the storm will show for a run or 2 then vanish its how it works 

9 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Endless drought talk? What?

I haven't said a word in months. Literally.

 

I have seen a ton of talk about this all the time if we are just a inch down they talk about this on the local news weather. infact last spring was very wet we were up like 4.00 inches for the year it didnt rain for a week and we were down like -1 inch for the year? they honestly havent relaly stopped talking about it even during the cold snap 

12 hours ago, pasnownut said:

Yeah this weeks "warmup" so far has been an epic fail.  Just looked and NWS has me in upper 40's today and tomorrow.  i memory serves a week ago I thought I'd be in the 60's and some said ticklin 70.  Regardless this is typical spring weather and while I HATE mud....we need the rain and looks like plenty of chances to suppress the spring wildfire worries.

Why i always bitch they can't get most things right jist 3 days or so out

2 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

More on the Winter comeback potential from @bncho in the Mid Atlantic thread…

Euro AI has back to back hits.

 

Ill bet a chick fil a meal this will be cut in half in a few days then turns into a apps runner 

7 hours ago, ChescoWx said:

This Winter Season (December thru February) of 2025-26 here in the philly burbs of Chester County PA finished as the 14th coldest winter across 133 winter seasons since 1893-94. Below are the top 20 coldest winters. Of note 4 of the coldest have occurred since Y2K.

I kind of feel it was way colder then this 

Winter about over put a nail in the coffin. nice cold with to many missed opportunities 1 good storm

50 minutes ago, Imgoinhungry said:

Bring on 70 degrees and baseball


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No I hate that big of a warm up from 40s or 50 to 70s. we have all spring to hit 70s, 50s is fine for march april is fin for 60s 

6 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

I really would have but let's not forget I was still around for it, albeit suckling on my mother's teet.  Speaking of whom, I asked her if she remembers that event and she did not but said she would check through some old photos.  We lived in Mount Joy Borough at the time (I haven't made it far ha) so they should have had a nice hit there.  I'm waiting to hear back from my dad but doubt he cared to remember ha.  I think sometimes we forget just how little most of the population really cares about weather.  Sometimes I'll mention what I think is something cool about weather to someone and they'll just look at me like, "yeah sure thing pal".    

It's really unhealthy the disdain I'm starting to feel for this man haha.

Yep called it 

dont buy what these models say 

got to love the virga show on radar last night go out today under mostly cloudy skies and its almost 50? didnt think it would be that warm today