Mount Joy Snowman

Thunder shaking the room. Dogs are acting up. Glorious.

Absolutely dumping here as I lay my head upon my pillow. Massive lightning strike just lit up the bedroom. First real T’storm of the year, a sign of spring.

Looks like more than three quarters of an inch out there. Official measurement in the morning but a very nice rainfall.

Elliott had mentioned yesterday that he wasn't buying it with regard to today's severe potential, noting the low dew points and a low-level temp inversion in place.

Overnight low of 44, up to 53 with a RH of 85% when I left the house. Let’s get wet.

Yeah it is. @Itstrainingtime has gone radio silent too, hope he's alright.

Low of 28. Tomorrow looks like a miserable day, albeit a much needed one. Hoping for maybe three quarters of an inch.

It sure does haha. Would be nice to see some other model support, although a couple of others have something quasi-close to that, if you squint hard enough. It's probably just a one-off but who knows. A boy can dream. Either way, this is shaping up to be a classic up and down March.

Well, I'm 9 miles ESE of @Itstrainingtime so maybe that'll be enough to get it done ha. Low of 20 here. Next week could see our first 70s around the area.

Low of 16 here, wowsers. Wasn’t quite expecting that. Nice frigid day ahead.

Low of 40 with a brutal couple of days on tap. Big transition day today. Going to feel like mid winter out there from tonight through Monday.

I get that everybody dials back a bit once winter comes to an end but really hope you two stick around. Board would suffer a huge loss without yinz. As long as everyone sticks to keeping the nonsense to the "red banner" thread, as directed, we should be fine here. Big ask, I know ha.

Back to weather, there seems to be a strong consensus around the following pattern: A couple-day cold blast late this weekend, followed by a mid-week soaker (yes I know we've been burned by these a lot recently but this one seems like it might pack a bit more punch), and then another cold blast to end the week through next weekend (just in time for the PIAA state wrestling championships in Hershey, swear it's always cold for that). I would also say the chances of any type of final mid-month winter storm seem to be diminishing, although too far to completely rule anything out. Looks like a classic March ahead to me.......up and down, up and down. Onward.

Low of 39 with .03" of rain. Always great to be greeted with the red banner as we head into the weekend haha.

Low of only 42 here with just a couple hundredths of an inch at most.

Keep digging Saus, you'll find it in there somewhere! For some reason I thought it was on a more obscure forum but when Blizz said he (he being UTS) was on the old Accuweather forums that's when it clicked, as I used to frequent those prior to coming here. Nowadays, this is the only forum I visit, and it's been that way for many years. Weather forums are like women, I can't manage one, much less two ha.

Haha yes that's him. I remember that avatar as well. I don't recall getting any type of confirmation but I could be wrong. I think you mentioned something vaguely about him posting in some forums but not sure. In any case, I can finally let this rest ha.

A big ‘ol Trace of rain yesterday and 34 when I left the house this morning but hit 27 on car therm through the rurals.

Yes, that’s him! Thank you Blizz! I only lurked there, didn’t post. I think he had a Rockville address and lived up on Blue Mountain with decent elevation (~1,000’). Man that’s a trip down memory lane. I’m just glad someone could finally confirm my half-baked recollections ha.

Yes, and I am still looking for someone to confirm the existence of a poster named UndertakersSon (went by UTS) from some far-flung weather board from many moons ago

Some of you may be wondering if we can complete the winter sweep, with Dec Jan and Feb all coming in below normal? With that in mind, I got out the MJS crystal ball and it says, yes indeed we will pull off the trifecta, but not by much. The final average monthly temp for February will come in at 32.6, good for almost a one-degree BN departure and middle of the pack all-time. Book it. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.

Glad to hear sledding was good. Sounds like a rock-solid base up there. As for tracking, yeah things become even that much more thread-the-needle-ish as we move towards the equinox. We'll need things to line up just right but I see some signs of a possible board pleaser at some point. Wouldn't say the odds are great ha, but they aren't extinguished either.

Low of 26. Pretty nice week ahead. Seems likely we'll have some storm chances of varying type through mid-March.

If true, that’s unfortunate. Got to be able to laugh at oneself.

Low of 18. Solid seasonable weekend on tap.