Mount Joy Snowman

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.

74 here, looks like MDT also hit 74 already so that daily high record is long gone, as we figured.

Wow, you shoot up a lot faster than I do down here in the hollow. I'm sitting at 53 but expect that to skyrocket within the next 1-2 hours.

The daily max temp record for Harrisburg for March 11 is the "softest" of the entire month, at only 69 set in 1977. Almost all the surrounding day records are upper 70s to low 80s. That puppy is due to be broken and I don't think there's much doubt we take it down today, probably by a substantial margin.

64 here, still taking those static shocks when I get out of the car with a RH of only 36%

Gentlemen, I hate to disrupt the excitement over the never ending train of massive snowstorms that are sure to pummel our area in the ensuing weeks, but let us take a moment to mourn what is one of the saddest days of the year for weather weenies everywhere, that being the day that marks us having to wait an extra hour for the weather models to come through. Yes, Sunday will be a day of tears as we all come to grips with the fact that 12z is no loner 7am but rather the dreaded 8am. However, let us find comfort in the extra hour of evening daylight as we march towards the celebration of the vernal equinox at 5:37am EDT Saturday, March 20, 2021. Rest easy gentle souls, as 2am on Sunday, November 7, 2021 will be here before you know it and order shall be restored. In the meantime, hang in there friends and know that Mount Joy Snowman sends his condolences and his blessings.

I hit 66 today. FYI, for those who are unaware there is a new resource that came online this past year that I believe to be the best site for real-time Pennsylvania observations called the Keystone Mesonet. It's a collaboration between various entities like PennDOT, DEP, FAA, Turnpike Comm., PEMA, etc. that aggregates all of their existing sensors and weather stations into one location. You can click on any individual location to view the live data, which in some cases is fairly detailed. Also has a pretty nice radar that can be overlaid. It's very user-friendly, see link and screenshot below. I may or may not have been loosely involved in said project. Enjoy! https://keystone-mesonet.org/