Mount Joy Snowman

Excellent info Newman! It's funny you bring all that up about the tropical systems to the west and whatnot because I was having the same thoughts, how even if we are likely to miss out on the main slug of precipitation we'll be in a prime spot in the warm sector for some discrete severe potential. Certainly worth keeping an eye on. Excellent analysis with the Skews and Hodos, big double thumbs-up for you sir.

.06" here in lovely Farmdale. Looks like the best totals associated with Fred will be west or north of my area. Gonna be more hit or miss around here.

Oh my, now you got me thinking......Bubbler is Snowman, Snowman is Bubbler! *for the Ace Ventura fans out there*

I'm not Bubbler but here ya go......

Agree with the focus being west of our area but we should still get in a couple good tussles with the rain gods.

Fun week ahead, someone in the mid-state will cash in bigtime. This Hazardous Weather Outlook is for central Pennsylvania. .DAY ONE...Today and tonight. Locally heavy rain could produce flooding in a few spots across central Pennsylvania late today or tonight. The area most likely to see torrential downpours will be the Laurel Highlands into the central mountains. .DAYS TWO THROUGH SEVEN...Tuesday through Sunday. Thunderstorms could produce flooding in a few spots Tuesday afternoon, mainly over the eastern half of Pennsylvania. The remnants of Tropical Storm Fred may bring additional heavy downpours and the threat of localized flooding on Wednesday.

Thanks Voyager! Ah yes the Sloppy Secondz boys haha. It's coming back to me now. Actually, this is the video I was thinking of, the Katy Perry parody. Classic......

As someone who has a fascination with all things small-town PA, that was glorious. Nice focus on Lancaster County at the end there too. Hey, are these the same dudes (believe they were from Sunbury) who had that viral video years ago "Pennsylvania Guys" or something like that?

A measly .03” for me yesterday. Time to enjoy a beautiful summer weekend.

Yeah it just never really got going here, looks like only a few hundredths in the gauge for me. Side note, wife and I started watching The Queen’s Gambit last night. I’ve heard good things. Anyone else give it a watch?

The highest I could find in my notes was from 8/13/16 when I hit a temp of 98 and a dew of 80 for a heat index of 119. I'm sure there was a little home weenie station error in that but still......anyone else have anything crazy from that August 13th date, or any other date for that matter?

I topped out at 95 yesterday and bottomed out at 67 last night, got only .03" rain as most of the action slid by me. As others have mentioned though, a nice light show. One more day of extreme heat then we see some relief. Hang in there folks, and find some water to play in.

Oh I completely agree. Sadly, I wonder how intently these stations are being monitored half the time. Sometimes it takes someone from the public (e.g. Horst) having to point it out to them for it to even be noticed, which shouldn't be the case. So, I just checked all the WU stations directly surrounding the airport and yeah, they have all gotten 2.5"+ the last couple of days haha.

KLNS is having issues. Clearly not able to collect rainfall correctly at the moment. I have multiple friends who live basically right by the airport and it completely trounced that entire area. The station is just malfunctioning in some respect, which it is know to do from time to time. Horst has pointed it out to them a couple times over the years as well. Anyway, I got .54" last night. Loving these summertime storms but man this heat today and tomorrow is going to be stifling, and my dad has me power washing for him tomorrow ugh.

Is there any other way!?

Should be perfect for you down there, enjoy! I'm off to the pool this afternoon, not as good as the beach but I'll take it.

Well sure enough, after some investigative work it appears the Mulberry tree nearest my house took a direct lightning strike. I can see the fresh black scorch marks about halfway up and on the ground below are some decent sized freshly fallen limbs. This is only 40' from the back of my house. Also, my one GFI circuit tripped (apologies if I've said this wrong as I'm the furthest thing from an electrician ha). I'm tellin ya, that strike had me jumpin out of ma' underpants whilst sittin on the couch in ma' livin room. I ended up with .84" but some friends just to the east near the Lititz area got double that and report quite a few ruined mulch beds and a number of downed limbs. All in all, a crazy little evening. Let's see what the next couple of days bring, outside of oppressive heat.

Wow for once I outdid you, and by more than a little. Looks like about .85” in the gauge and a rainbow to the east to boot. Lord knows I was due. I’ll scope out the scene for a lightning strike tomorrow, still an ominous look out there.

Holy hell did it ever! What a T&L show! Swear I just had a lightning strike right in my backyard, instantaneous thunder and the loudest I have ever heard. Could hear it singeing the air from inside the house. Not making it any easier to put the baby down though. I’ll go out and get a measurement in a few but a bit tepid right now haha. Lightning nearby has continued long after rains blew by.

That seems aggressive but what do I know. I guess we have a decent shot this evening but 80%? meh. I'm currently at 95/70

Yeah we had nice views of the storm from our walk up on the hill last night. Found this from a guy on Cocorahs in Manchester, York Co...... High Accumulation for this area due to a small, concentrated storm that stalled overhead for appx 1 hour. Rainfall rate exceeded 4" per hour at times. Local retention pond filled rapidly. UPDATE: TOTAL RAINFALL IN ONE (1) HOUR FROM 600PM THRU 659PM WAS 1.72 ". (PREVIOUS INFO: Rain fell at over 4" per hour, now at moderate rate but still falling moderate to heavy at times. Retention pond filling rapidly. Rain Still accumulating.)

I hit 92 today but only 89 yesterday. Did you happen to see that storm earlier this evening right across the river from us that completely stalled out? Seems to have dropped a couple inches over a very narrow area.

Seems like a pretty consistent daily forecast upcoming, that being 90 degree days with a mix of sun and clouds with high humidity and a slight chance of storms. Otherwise known as late summer. #DogDays

100% agree with this. Humidity is the killer.

Sadly, I agree with this.