Mount Joy Snowman

Really?? Maybe I'm just out of the loop a bit on all this but I just assumed kids would be going back to school completely as normal this year. I mean, I live in one of the largest suburban-type districts in the state (Hempfield) and I don't believe they are requiring any masks of kids this year. Are there school districts in some places that are still talking about not being in-person this year? Again, that would be shocking to me. Well, save anywhere outside of San Francisco haha.

Ah, that makes perfect sense then. If the old locations were sited downtown then it's not really surprising they would have most of the warmth records. I mean, I guess it's a bit surprising that it's to that extent, but as you said the elevation and UHI components are certainly the driving factors. Again, good stuff.

I can't emphasize this enough for the bolded points above, NO.

Wow great work here Tim, quite the compelling case you put together. Now, could it just be that the prior observing site was simply located in a warmer location? Is the airport more rural? I'm not familiar with PIT's history. Either way, great job. This is the type of stuff I come here for, love it. Haha yes, yes it would. But I can assure you there will be no future masking for this guy, just done with all of it. I don't even think my wife and I have masks anymore at this point, lost 'em all or threw 'em out. Could probably scrounge one up somewhere but anyway......moving along.

How 'bout it!? I noted this a while back, in fact it was in regards to storms up above Williamsport that I was seeing down here. It's always fascinating to see how far lightning can reflect through the night sky. Yeah sometimes you can't help but raise an eyebrow at some of the super old records. Hard not to think that some of the attention to detail with observing or just general accuracy would be impaired at times. I mean, 1881!? C'mon haha. I just can't picture things as always being on point back then but perhaps that's just my recency bias showing. I envision a man in a top hat checking some old instrumentation through his monocle ha. Either way, that's what's in the books!

Weekend recap: Some spritzes Saturday night, good for getting .01" into the books. Yesterday, despite the big puffies to my south all day, never had a storm go overhead, nada. I did find a gauge on WU down near the southern Lanc/Chester border that recorded 4.2" though. Also got in lots of swimming and booze, so that's a plus. It looks dry for most of the foreseeable future, get ready for the crunchy grass.

I was a Donegal Indian until 4th grade so I will die on that hill with you. Then I went on to graduate as a Hempfield Black Knight. Who knows, probably something wrong with that term by now too ha. And around and around we go ugh.

So Cleveland is officially going to be The Guardians now?? WTF!? Haha, I mean I just can't with this stuff anymore. Has anyone told Native Americans they are being canceled yet? Since when is it considered anything other than laudatory or a sign of admiration to name a sports team after something/someone? Who's next, the Braves? The Chiefs and Blackhawks? Maybe the Warriors? What about half the high school mascots in America? Who know where the fun goes!? *eye roll*

Could ask the same of the home of the Happy Valley -- Centre County. Although that one's pretty self-explanatory, named after its central location in the state. As we used to say at Penn State, it's equally inaccessible from all parts of the state haha.

I bottomed out at 59 last night. More beautiful days ahead.

haha I do apologize, my mistake boss, will never happen again Was just going to mention that, how at least they'll hopefully fare better than the US women's soccer team, ugly performance.....

I know.....I have no excuses, have to be better. A failure, I am.

I can't tell because I waited too long to check this morning and my craptastic weather station only goes back a couple hours or something like that for the low temp. Plus there's a brief period in the morning where it gets some direct sun and reads artificially high (only an issue in the summer). I'm waiting to install a much nicer one when I move locations. However, according to WU, most around me were in that 58-60 range for a low, but I'm usually amongst the lowest due to my low-lying location.

I see Bradford hit 45 last night, nice. @Itstrainingtime You smashed me yet again, only .13" over here yesterday. @paweather So far the highest total on Cocorahs is someone in Palmyra with 1.3", seems like you were the big winner yesterday. A beautiful stretch of weather upcoming, everyone enjoy it.

Yep everything went right around me.

Wowsers, really takin it on the chin up that way.

haha if nothing else PA you are consistent in your enthusiasm. I'm here for it.

Yeah I'm with ya, I don't pay much mind to the LR during the summer months, just way too much variability day-to-day on the convection elements. Once we start to roll into late Fall and Winter I'll pay more attention to fantasy land to try and get rough ideas of pattern and placement for storm chances, and also because, well, who doesn't love a good LR clown map ha.

Boy you can really see the smoke clearing out over Canada and the Great Lakes behind the front on the satellite....

Looks like a decent chance of some storm activity this afternoon before a cooler drier air mass ushers in and clears things out, including hopefully smoke ha, and then high pressure takes control for a couple days. Should be a nice end to the week.

I always find it interesting when the national high and low temp for the Lower 48 occur within a relatively short distance of one another, as happened yesterday with the high of 119 at Death Valley, CA and the low of 35 at Bodie State Park, CA being separated by only ~160 miles or so. While this doesn't happen all too often, I have witnessed it from time to time and it always seems to be these two locations. The two sites couldn't be more different and extreme in terms of topography haha, with one being well below sea level and the other being a high-elevation valley above 8,000', but still quite the feat.

CTP reading American Weather again I see

All quiet in the Atlantic Tropics. Since no one was asking about it, I figured I better bring it up.....

I wasn't home all day Saturday so not really sure how things broke out but it did seem the line of storms later in the evening was weakening a bit as it moved east so not shocking those to my west got a bit more. Glad to hear you did well, as it looks like we may go a while without anything significant. #DogDays

You guys added ten pages to this thread since Friday, wowsers! Enjoyed a nice weekend of swimming, landscaping, and imbibing. Got .75" from the storms on saturday but despite being warned never witnessed anything you'd call severe. Looks like the forecast is hot and dry with a side of smoke. You can really see the thicker smoke sitting over Canada on the visible imagery, which I guess is supposed to work its way down into our area more as the day goes on. As someone else mentioned, I'm a little surprised there is no mention of this from CTP in the AFD. Overall, nothing too exciting on the horizon weather-wise.