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Low of 60 with .41" of rain. Sitting at 60/58 with more rain on the doorstep. Squeezed in a quick mini-mow yesterday of some of the thicker spots.

I think Greg Olsen is fantastic.

We keep 72 in the summer as well but can deal with 74-76 for a day or so, particularly if its not too humid. I also find that turning on the circulating fan on the HVAC unit does a great job of moderating things throughout the house and uses very little electric -- a feature that I think people often times forget about.

I will dissent. I refuse to put the AC on for one abnormal day like that, particularly when it's not THAT hot and the nights still cool down enough to have windows open (i.e. ~60 or less). Fans and playing the window game does the trick. I fully expect @Itstrainingtime to disown me at this point

Balmy low of 60 here. No rain, yet. As Bubbs mentioned, the max min record of 57 at MDT today is likely to fall. Carry on.

Low of 54. Interesting couple of days on tap.

The max min record of 57 for April 11th is in play. These upcoming warm nights will have us back above average for the month in no time. Well above.

Low of 40. A ‘beaut on tap.

Low of 36 here. Mow #2 is in the cards for me today. Gonna need my machete for some of these clumps.

Low of 41. Off to Diggerland in NJ with the boy today. Should be a decent enough day.

Low of 36 and a trace of rain here. Time to dry things out.

Nice to see some excitement in here this morning! Love me a good lowkey local earthquake. Didn't feel it over here but I may have been driving.

Low of 39 with an additional .05" of rainfall. Monthly total stands at 4.31" and YTD 17.56". Happy Friday, all.

That line of showers just rolled through here but weakened upon approach. Looks like about .05”. Nothing frozen. Will have to wait for my graupel fix.

That action slid juuuuust by me to the north. Missed it all. I'm hopeful for the stuff approaching @Bubbler86's area. Would be a travesty if I didn't get to see graupel today ha.

I scoured all the Cocorahs and WU stations that are within the vicinity of LNS, THV and MDT, and they all seem to be pretty much in line with the totals reported at those sites. I think the NWS sites just happen to sit in localized spots that weren't hit quite as hard. It happens. We also aren't talking about much of a difference. They are all still over 3" and LNS isn't far off from 4". Chalk it up to randomness, me thinks. As for evaporation with manual gauges, I've actually tested that out and found that's it's virtually nonexistent. I'm talking hot full sun summer days where I've purposely let the water sit in the gauge for days on end, and the amount lost is negligible. I think it has to do with the gauge being mostly enclosed at the top and there not being any easy way for the water vapor to escape, which may be an added benefit of the funnel design. Have I spent too much time thinking about the design mechanics of a weather gauge? Yes. Am I a weather weirdo? Also yes.

I imagine we are looking at some pretty potent lapse rates in the lower atmosphere. Could be a sneaky exciting day. The sight of graupel always gets my juices flowing ha.

Low of 34 here and an additional 1.29" of rainfall brings my 3-day total to 4.26". Quite an event. Those upper level lows always carry surprises and we're not done yet. Perhaps some graupel sightings today! As to your question, let me first state that I trust nothing coming out of CXY haha. But seriously, I don't see anything particularly "off" about those numbers. I just think my area was a local hotspot for this event. Now, this does lead me to an issue that I've been meaning to bring up to the board. Does anyone else keep both an automated gauge and the classic inner/outer cylinder gauge for measuring rainfall, and if so, have you noticed that the automated gauges always under-measure, particularly during periods of lighter rain or drizzle? Over the last year of using both styles, I've noticed that my automated gauge consistently under-measures by ~7-12%. Take this event for instance, where we had many periods of heavy drizzle, my auto gauge only recorded 3.8" over the three days, whereas my official cylinder gauge captured 4.27". Quite the discrepancy. It's interesting because obviously all of these NWS airport sites use automated collection canisters, correct? Now, I'm sure their equipment is top-notch and calibrated regularly and scientifically approved and all that good stuff. Also, my auto gauge is ever so slightly off-level. Not by much at all, and not nearly enough to explain discrepancies that large, but it could explain some of it. All of this is to say, I have no idea what the real story is haha. I'm sure the NWS sites are accurate but I would be curious to know if anyone else keeps both styles of gauges? Relatedly, a lot of those colorful accumulated precipitation maps that we like to throw around are based off of radar estimated precip. Well, when you get events where the radar isn't capturing the strength of the rainfall (i.e. low clouds, easterlies, long periods of heavy drizzle, etc.) like we just experienced, the maps will be grossly underdone. Just some food for thought. Hope others can chime in.

With some rare exceptions, those totals don't include anything after like 7am today, as Cocorahs members provide their daily reports in the morning.

They're not. I was just poking around WU and all the stations around me are pushing 4". I'm stuck here in Harrisburg but will have an update later. Potent event for much of the forum.

Funny you mention, I actually took a different route to the train this morning because the route I normally take has a stretch of backroad that has to be the most easily flooded anywhere along the creek. It's constantly being shut down during heavy rains. Just southeast of town near where Longenecker Road meets Garfield Road (past VFW), if you're familiar.

2-day total of 2.97” here. Gonna be an over-performer. Low of 43 and high of 48 yesterday. This is one of those events where even when the radar is empty it adds up. The drizzle has weight to it ha. #easterlies

I was unable to get a gauge measurement this morning but would estimate ~1.4” total thus far. Temp of 47, which I expect won’t budge all day. Gloom is the word of the day.

Changed it for ya.....

Yeah looks like I'm approaching 3/4" now. I ended March with 4.65".