Mount Joy Snowman

Ha! No no my friend. While I do have season parking, we are in Lot 12 on the grass. We prefer to rub elbows with the common folk. I always prefer tailgating on grass and we seek out grass lots on all our road trips as well. Less than two weeks until we head out to Evanston! Sneaking in a night in Chicago as well tehe.

Only .49" here but still pleased. Looks like another splendid week on tap. I think the weather will be mostly fine for tailgating on Saturday. Call it a hunch.

Low of 49 here. Looking forward to a dreary day of football watching. Go Pack!

Low of 51. Heading to Oktoberfest with the kids this afternoon. Another A+ day on tap.

Low of 47 here, wasn't expecting to go quite that low. Had the windows open all night and house was at 59 this morning. Glorious, although the wife and kids don't think so ha.

And so it begins. #WinterIsComing

Low of 55 here, and so begins our week-plus stretch of weather perfection. Enjoy, everyone. National high of 108 at Death Valley and low of 24 near Mackay, ID.

Howdy Autumn 2023 thread; how do you do? I put one final post on the summer thread regarding the map I posted earlier, for anyone who cares. Here's to football, crisp nights, cool beers, hoodies, colored leaves, and raging fire pits!

I thought the map was pretty accurate as well, or at least as accurate as these sorts of things can be. Obviously it's smoothed out so you're going to have irregularities, and it will miss some of the smaller geographic outliers but overall, pretty decent. I sit at 23.81" for the year. This is just one of many sources I use but here is the site and a better version of the graphic......I'll move over to the Fall thread now, toodles.... AHPS Precipitation Analysis (weather.gov)

MJS reporting for duty. The highest YTD totals on Cocorahs are 48.66" at Hidden Valley in Somerset County and then a couple in the 42-47" range in Northampton Co. When looking at just the people who report consistently, the lowest seems to be a guy near New Oxford with 15.99" and then a few right around 20" in York and Adams Counties. Here is the estimated observed YTD precip in map form, which lines up pretty well with where we know the most/least amounts have been.

Unfortunately, there were still some embedded downpours that my area missed out on. No worries, as I've had enough rain to spring things back to life. In any event, between the rain and cooling temps I'll be mowing again on Friday for the first time in a while.

.07” of rain and a low of 68. Looking forward to a new airmass moving into the region today and planting itself here for a bit. Fire pit season is upon us.

Hey @Itstrainingtime did you happen to see that the Orioles became the first team in MLB history to beat every other team at least once in a single season. Obviously has only been possible for a small portion of that history but still a cool stat.

This is the route I take to PHL, on the rare occasion I've had to fly out of that place. Always try for BWI or MDT when possible.

Yeah I just missed out on some of those heavy cells. A mere mile or two to my north the Landisville area got over an inch. Still happy to get a nice watering. We have to quit thinking alike Training. I as well have had Allen as my fantasy starter for a couple of years but dropped him this year due to the same sneaking suspicions you had.

Ouch. Just seeing that they think it’s the achilles. I know that was speculated last night but damn. Being confirmed with MRI later today. Hey, there was always a high bust potential there with an aging quarterback behind a shaky O-line. But man, what a win for them. I went to bed in the 4th and never expected to see that result in the morning.

Low of 61 here with thick fog and .2” of rain yesterday. Wait, did the Jets really win last night? Whaaaaaat?

I'm surprised by the amount of popcorn on the radar. Had a tiny cell blow up right over me here but was too early in development to get much, merely spritzed.

Yep, crazy. Seems like a good time to re-up an article I've posted a couple of times previously on the history of the Harrisburg climate reporting sites. A complicated history indeed, and can be a bit messy to follow at times. Seems like CXY was used as the official site from 1939 to 1991. I love the blurb near the end on the "accuracy" of snowfall observations at MDT haha. Anyway, always worth a read. Here ya go..... https://www.weather.gov/media/ctp/ClimateStationHistory/Harrisburg LCD Site History.pdf

As we reach the one-third point of the month, MDT is rocking a +6.5 departure and sitting at an average temp of 78. Gonna be hard to knock that all the way back, particularly if we have another warmup after this cool spell, which seems possible. For the record, only two years in history have had a mean temp of greater than 72 -- 1961 and 1931.

Daily rainfall of .88" here. "Event" total going back to last Thursday of 1.8". Pleased. Looking forward to some fall-like weather moving in through the midweek. Anyone think Cape Cod needs to worry about Lee or do we think she'll be safely out into the Atlantic. NHC seems to think New England will be spared but some models say otherwise.

I think they may have been caught in between the best action out by @canderson and @Itstrainingtime

The atmosphere is really being wrung out today. It’s the opposite of a couple days ago, in that it’s really coming down today even when the radar isn’t overly impressive. I’m at about a half inch here.

The radar was plastered with storms and showers all around me all day and all night and I got…..nothing.

Total daily rainfall of .23” here, with multiple batches moving through. Had you gone off of radar only, you’d think much more fell. Alas, I will take it and be happy.