Mount Joy Snowman

Yeah it looks to focus more over northcentral PA into northern NY. What elevation you sittin at up 'er?

I would gladly accept this honor. The weight of it is not lost on me haha. Also, I fixed my post but meant to say March 19th, not March 8th, in regards to the record low stuff. 12z GFS likes a nice 4-6" type event across "God's Country" late Wednesday night, similar to 0z Euro. NAM isn't really having it but it's also at range a bit.

46 with sun coming through here. First thunderstorm of the year yesterday as I recorded a daily total of .54" of H2O. This translates to .015 yards, 8.52 x 10(-6) (my attempt at an exponent) miles, 13.716 millimeters, or .0000682 furlongs.....alright I'll stop now. Anyway, still like the northern tier to get some decent snow later this week and some anomalous cold air to briefly move in. 850s in the -10 to -15 range are quite stout for this time of year, could see some good radiational cooling Friday night as skies clear and winds lessen. As for cold records, don't think we'll break any around here, as record lows sit at 22 and 24 for April 2 and 3, respectively. The April 1st record of 11 from 1923 is a real doozy, quite the outlier, got to go back to March 19th to find a daily record lower than that. Min max records all seem out of reach as well, with records in the low to mid 30s. FYI, this is all in regards to Harrisburg area. Carry on gents....

Haha yeah somehow I'm not buying a 19 degree morning in northcentral North Carolina in early April but I've been wrong before! Either way it looks like we are heading for a brief shot of some anomalous cold air late next week and maybe even a dash of snow for some northern peeps. Worth keeping an eye on for sure.

.86” total for me. The wind threat for friday looks like the real deal. You know CTP means business when they start throwing around terms like “isallobaric couplet” haha.

Yes I noticed that as well and thought the same thing. However, things have been filling in pretty steadily since then and a couple decent downpours rolled through. Looks like a nice blob blowing up around the Baltimore area heading this way as well.

Well that escalated quickly, what was supposed to be a nuisance type rain is now looking like a hefty soaking. For days on end my NWS P&C was only showing around a tenth of an inch of rain but now it's damn near an inch. Almost all the models want to soak the area with well over an inch (particularly from lancaster and points east), although most of them failed to pick up on this potential until roughly the last 12-24 hours. Pretty poor performance all around.

Yes that’s me, PSU everything. The last couple days I’ve actually been busy following the NCAA wrestling championships. Mat Madness comes before March Madness for me ha. But yes I like the new PSU basketball hire, unfortunately all the players have entered the transfer portal though so good luck to the guy. Penn State has just never been able to figure out the basketball puzzle, very frustrating.

Well, the chances of seeing even a smidge of snow, to the extent that such chances ever existed at all, went kaput. You could see yesterday that the "threat" was fizzling faster than anticipated. A bit less rain than I thought I'd get here too, only .87". Now we embrace backdoor cold front season as we pray for one last onion snow.

Exactly. Well stated.

And yet I root for all of it. Guilty as charged. I can't help myself. I want maximum chaos when it comes to weather. I want to see extreme events and records broken. Heck, it's the reason I'm a weather enthusiast and on this very forum. But you are so right that lives are lost in all extreme weather and that reality does have to fit in somewhere. A tricky balance.

Well it's a nice dreary soggy day to nurse a hangover. The wife and I ended up getting after it a little harder than planned yesterday, funny how that works ha. We were popping all around downtown Lancaster with some friends. Speaking of friends, where is my water mug.....

Well, I recorded my first precip yesterday, in the form of light sleet/rain, since March 1st. Looks like we'll make up for that lack of precip with a serious rain-maker on the way for Thursday. I'll be thrilled if I can measure a couple tenths of an inch of snow late Thursday night or early Friday morning. Happy St. Patty's day to all! The wife and I are heading out for some beers this afternoon. Cheers!

haha touche, I'm still worked up about that whole "hail being counted as snowfall" conundrum I unearthed last week.

A mix a light sleet and rain just came through here, enthralling stuff I know.

Yeah you love the low temps that result from the potent wet bulbing but hate the virga fest you have to endure while waiting for the atmosphere to moisten. Always something with this weather game I tell ya.

Man, what a dry airmass for this time of year, talking 10th percentile or lower with Dews below zero and RH values in the 15-20% range.

preach brotha

Oh man some real clowns down in that MA forum. Anyway, my take on the upcoming pattern is that significant snowfall is very likely in the coming weeks but will probably be confined to the more typical regions for this time of year (i.e. upstate NY and perhaps extreme northern tier of PA). I would never rule out a coastal popping at just the right spot along a boundary to bring us some action into lower PA but wouldn't place my chips on it either. Regardless, winter is not over and will make itself known a couple more times before the month is out. Now, what's going down in eastern Wyoming/Colorado this weekend, THAT is worthy of some attention. Likely gonna be a season's worth of snowfall for some folks out there. Gotta love the high plains and front range weather!

Sorry for the blank posts. I have no idea why that's happening. All I did was copy and paste the text from the Record Event Report from CTP for Harrisburg and it doesn't seem to like that. Anyway, the record was officially set at 76. Carry on.....

Mid to upper 70s abound. You can see where the rain is.....

Yes, yes it did ugh. A Badger fan I reckon?

First time in 45 years no Duke or Kentucky in the tourney. I'm holding out hope for a miracle Penn State run in the B10 tourney but we all know where this leads haha.