Mount Joy Snowman

Yeah things really exploded out this way. Flash flood warning up around Manheim. Storms just not moving. I missed out on the worst of it but still got a nice drenching to the tune of almost half an inch.

Low of 64 with .17" of rainfall and a nice cell moving through overhead as we speak.

Low of 72 with zero rain. MDT fell one degree shy of the daily high record yesterday, broke the max min record by one degree, and also now stands one degree AN for the month. Supposed to go to a Barnstormers game tonight, so a close eye on the radar, I will have. Cheers.

Hoping for the same here. Have missed everything all day but there’s a tiny little potent cell just NW of Mount Joy headed my way that I hope holds together. Narrator: It did not, in fact, hold together.

Yep, will break today's as well, likely by one degree at 76.

Low of 74. One more yucky day before some relief arrives. Quite a few chances for rain over the coming 7-day period.

We toss!

It’s official, MDT high is “only” 98. Ties the record again.

Well careful now, recall that they do the converting back’n’forth between Celsius and Fahrenheit and then round, which can lead to some misleading readings. There are many times when the five minute observations show a certain temp but when the actual high is divulged on the six hour intervals it doesn’t reach to that extreme. Happens in both the hot and cold directions. The readings at 56 past the hour are the actual METAR observations that are accurate. I was schooled on all this by some poster a while back, who was kind of rude about it ha. Forget his name. In any case, we’ll found out for sure at the 7:56pm update. I do agree we probably hit 99. I’ve said too much. Carry on.

Sure did! Now we wait to see where things officially round out, 99 or 100 still on the table.

MDT has officially reached 96, two more to go to tie the daily record.

Tell me about it. Has thrown a real wrench into my monthly prediction I made yesterday haha. Should have known the mainstream forecasts hadn’t yet fully caught on to the backdoor cold front idea. Rats.

For sure. Generally speaking, the more land-locked you are, the greater the seasonality. I remember one of the first days of a Meteo class I took at PSU the professor saying something to the effect of "Miami has never hit 100 and never gone below freezing, while Bismark, ND has hit [insert insanely high and low values]. That my friends, is seasonality. Large bodies of water work wonders for moderation."

Looks like our relief should come the way of a potent little backdoor cold front that sweeps through Thursday evening.

76 when I left the house. MDT should smash its min max records of 75 for today and tomorrow.

MDT with a quick plunge despite no clouds around and no real change in conditions ha.....

In honor of this heat wave, decided to take an early look in the crystal ball and determined that June will end with an average temp of 74.0, good for ~1.4 AN and tied with 1923 for 12th warmest all-time. Book it.

Low of 75 with .03" of rain. Today's record of 97 and tomorrow's 98 should be within reach for MDT. The max min records of 75 for tomorrow and Wednesday should also be on the table.

We are certainly on a record-watch kind of week.

I know a few people going to tonight’s game. Enjoy and stay cool!

Just sat on the porch and watched rounds of T’showers roll through. Shocked it didn’t amount to more given the extreme moisture in the atmosphere and the solid radar returns. Perplexing. In any case, quite the forecast miss today, as I literally had 0% POPs for days on end for this time period. Air is THICK.

Low of 71 here. Had our annual summer party yesterday and while hot, just glad it wasn’t like today or the next few. Got the yard cleanup done early this morning to beat the heat. Brutal out there. Did not expect this much on the radar and at that close of a distance. Interesting.

Haha tell me about it. Normally we wouldn’t go out on a day like that but we had some friends in town from Alaska who really wanted to go on the boat. What’s nice about that long stretch of river is if you have RadarScope and a weather nerd on board you can pretty easily outrun any storms. But generally speaking, we wouldn’t typically be messing around in such conditions.

Took some cool pics on the river yesterday while we were dodging storms. Fun stuff.

Low of 60 with .78” of rain. Gorgeous day out there.