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Now that I have had a moment to look up maybe not , off to the radar. Lol

Perfect weather as far as I'm concerned today.

I try not to take up half a page with explanations anymore. I figured everyone would understand why I post the lightning maps . Maybe some guys don't even know that they are lightning maps, I really don't know ? I post them because they seem to be a somewhat decent tool for many things both before and after storms. The idea of the one I posted Thurs night fri morning was to say hey fellows look at where all this lightning is heading over the last 24hours. It's not a perfect tool just something easy to help me get my own ideas.

Lightningmaps.org , It's a pain in the butt with adds lol.

The purple time stroke dots show the cell getting its act together and pretty well illustrate its hard right turn up by Penn State and again above Harrisburg. It appears to lose some energy over @Blizzard of 93 before another pulse over The Harrisburg area , then most likely collapsing and resulting in the minor wind reports and heavy rains over the area by the looks of the lightning map.

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html I didn't find anything very substantial in terms of damage, but that was another awesome classic right turner that @Jns2183 spotted yesterday. I can't say I'v ever seen a cell do anything like that in terms of just snowplowing its way south through other cells heading east north east . Not to mention, when I first noticed it, I never thought it could affect our area considering the other storm motions I was seeing on radar. I didn't even have any idea it was on our doorstep when I responded to @Jns2183 post about it. That was absolutely amazing and it turns out that there is several local wind reports from Harrisburg and surrounding areas, including New Cumberland and another less than a mile down the road from my house on Steigerwalt hollow Rd. , although it does get a little foggy South of Harrisburg In terms of what's cell is responsible for what report. Figures I'd be watching it from the PaulB parking lot in Mechanicsburg. https://www.spc.noaa.gov/climo/reports/today.html

Looks like I'm going to be working overtime tonight to bring this one home fellows.

The only thing I really expected today or tonight was a great lightning show. Whether I'm watching it from a distance sliding south of me or it's stroking my back yard, I still have high hopes of that later tonight. It's good to see you got more beneficial rain for your yard today.

I'm not sure what's funnier , people posting a skew T without saying a single word to try to explain anything and getting trophies from guys that have 0 clue what there looking at or a guy that has very little understanding with the balls to try his best at something we all wish we could do. I've already made my decision on that question. Lol

One again I realize this is Baltimore at noon ,but Im pretty sure that the circled inversions kinking of the cape filed towards the lower levels is the culprit for the lack of bite at the ground. Pitt also had two inversions around the same levels.

That said you have no skew t for our area to look at. Lol Pittsburgh Pittsburgh and Baltimore had it today.

If you look at the wind profile on the skew t log P it's Indicative to rain falling directly from under the core. Your getting everything dumped right on top of you.

There was a few significant super cell and hail matches on this mornings soundings for both Pittsburgh and Baltimore that I noticed along with mid upper level winds that could hold a Volkswagen above the freezing line.

I'm pretty sure I'm looking at a sloppy rfd horseshoe atm . Rfd Doesn't mean there's a tornado but a prett good indicator of a super cell. The Pic above is a lowering I noticed near the meso.

It's here, I'm looking at from PaulB in Mechanicsburg

If your talking about the one that took a right turn towards Harrisburg ,yep that little bugger looked nasty.

After a sleepy few weeks the beast awakes in a bad direction. Faraday cage anyone?

https://www.spc.noaa.gov/products/outlook/day1otlk.html

They could escape the worst of what could have been and skirt the edge . I think it's hard to say atp.

I wonder how this will play out ? Looking at the radar things could start looking a little better or much worse for them soon . I don't know much about this system, but it's clear there are a lot of dynamics at play for them just by simply looking at the radar. The pivot like motion and training could keep Cumberland under that heavier stuff for a while.

Here is a view from KDIX Mt. Holly for a more detailed view for are eastern zones.

Radar estimations of over an inch for some of us now and over 2" in a few places for this event.