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They should have started the warning sooner. I began having gusts into the 40's back at 2:00am. So far peak gust has hit 48mph 3 different times. Had my highest 1-minute average back at 8:10am at 34.7mph! That's sadly impressive.

No soaking here. Just 0.12" for the event. Getting ready for the HWW. At least 50% of all foliage here is not fully out yet. Yesterday's 86 degrees did speed up the process some.

Thanks for sharing. We'll have plenty of time to observe the scenery because we are taking a train trip that lasts for 7 hours between Fairbanks and Anchorage. I love train rides and I love being able to sit while I'm enjoying the passing scenery...lol.

Ahhhh yes, the summer solstice. My favorite day of the year. While some of you were talking about your upcoming trips to Florida, I am looking forward to a vacation in Alaska at the end of June! My wife's nephew is an F-35 pilot/trainer and was deployed to Fairbanks last summer. We are going up to see he and his wife as well as visiting Denali National Forest and also going to Anchorage to take a whale-hunting boat trip among other fun activities. I really wanted to be able to go up to the arctic circle which is about 5 hours north of Fairbanks so I could witness perpetual daylight. But we couldn't swing that on this upcoming trip. I'll have to settle for 21 1/2 hours of daylight in Fairbanks instead. It will only be a week after the solstice so I'll get almost the closest experience of extended daylight. The sun sets at around 12:45am and then rises just 2 1/2 hours later at 3:15am. Maybe on my next trip up I'll go near the winter solstice to experience near-perpetual darkness along with a good chance of seeing the northern lights which are very prominent up there during the winter months.

haha...same here. Peak of 86.0 now down to 85.5. Only 1.5 degrees away from "upper" 80's. Edit>> NWS grid forecast high for me is 86. Glad to see the more pleasant 60's will be making a comeback by Friday and the weekend. Heating season in my house has not yet ended. I have no problem with running either AC or heat and switching between them. It seems like some of you talk like once the switch to A/C occurs, you cannot go back to heat or it would be blasphemy! Whatever it takes to keep me comfy in my home is what I like. It's the #1 thing for me where I'll spend any amount of money to keep myself feeling comfortable. At 67 I'd have the heat on for sure. I'm cold below 72. I guess I've been hanging out at my in-laws a little too much as I have actually gotten used to their heat setting of 78 !! My mother-in-law is 89. I guess this is what happens to you when you reach that age.

The winds have suddenly picked up considerably within the last 10 minutes with a stiff West wind at 10-15 with gusts to 20. First time this season that higher winds don't make it feel uncomfortable out.

At 2:40pm I'm at my high of the day at 86.0 degrees. It doesn't feel all that bad out with a nice breeze and dew points around 60. Sun keeps peeking out from the mostly cloudy skies. I could easily see 88 by later this afternoon with just partial sunshine.

It seems weird because I was thinking that you and @Cashtown_Coop and @Itstrainingtime were getting jackpots. Most likely all of us has been a bullseye for snow showers / squalls at some point. After nearly an hour of continuous snow falling...and almost 30 minutes of it falling heavily...it's winding down. I just have larger flakes but they're falling in slow motion. Mulch whiteness is rapidly disappearing. I took a bunch of pics. Maybe I'll try to put something up on here a little later. One great shot of my pink dogwood in full bloom with all the blossoms covered in snow. I don't think I've ever seen that before. Temp still holding, at 33.4 degrees, but I see patches of blue sky breaking through to my northwest.

Officially have now recorded 0.1" !! Lot of snow grains actually and not flakes. Looks like fertilizer. Temp now down to freezing... 32.2 degrees!! It was really heavy about 10 minutes ago.

Squall has definitely arrived. Almost heavy at the moment. Temp dropping down to 36 and falling.

Harrisburg is about to get squalled. It just needs to sink a tad further south to put me in it. On second look it looks like Harrisburg might only get fringed. It's dropping just south of MDT.

Snow flurries here for the past 10 minutes with some wind blowing it around. Low this morning was 28.6 but there was no frost because dew points were in the low 20's. Currently up to 38.8. It's getting darker to my west. Incoming squall??

What a crazy light and sound show this evening. I didn't even need to look at the radar as my Tempest was showing near-constant flashes of lightning out at a distance of 20 miles away. By the time the heavy rain and wind arrived there had been over 3000 strikes (within a 28-mile radius of my station). At the arrival the winds picked up dramatically and began gusting multiple times to between 40 and 45 miles per hour. Had a sustained 1-min average of 29mph (max) but plenty more 1-min's over 25. Next, the torrential rain to add on to this morning's 1.20". By the end I had picked up another 0.89" giving me a daily total of 2.09". There had been a grand total of 4,853 lightning strikes with tonight's deluge. Also, like many of you have already mentioned, continuous thunder that went on for more than 15 minutes. That was definitely noteworthy. This was the first time this year I had a daily total => 2.00". Furthermore, today was another sub-1000mb day with the pressure bottoming out at 997mb. Sandwiched in between those two events was occasional sunshine which boosted late afternoon temps up to 74 degrees. I'm looking forward to maxes back down around 60 for a while. All-in-all a pretty active spring weather day in these parts.

I'm shocked that no one reported on the snow that fell overnight! Was it super-localized? I had 0.2" with cars, grass, and rooves covered in white when I woke up this morning. Someone yesterday I think mentioned that the HRRR was showing this possibility yesterday. After no measurable in the month of March, April comes in with some. Boy, it looks and sure feels like winter this morning with wind chills down near 20. Had a low of 27.3 degrees this morning and am only up to 32.7 just before 10:00am.

Ahhh...Heat Miser, from "The Year Without A Santa Claus". One of my childhood favs including the Miser Brothers song. I always thought Snow Miser was superior...haha.

Haha. Yes, I must say that reading all those measurements reminded me of myself! Nice to see we have a second person who likes to keep track of finer measurement details. @Mount Joy Snowman

I wasn't expecting the high winds that popped up here a few hours ago. As if the 40mph gusts from the squall line weren't enough, now I've hit 50mph again for the second time in only 3 days. Gusting now frequently into the 30s with sustained mostly in the teens to low 20's. It sure has been a windy March! Another item to note is that today was another sub 1000mb pressure day with it bottoming out at 997 before the squall line pushed through.

Looks like a tornado warning very close to @Bubbler86 now as of 4:42pm.

Heads up guys, @canderson @sauss06. This narrow squall line headed your way has multiple wind gusts to 40mph and sustained 1-min average winds of 25-30 mph. It won't last very long, less than 10 minutes, but it's the first one of the season. Picked up a quick 0.25" of rainfall as well. Total here for today now 0.52".

Just got back from a nice walk with the dog. No jacket needed. Sun warm but not too warm with air temp of 58 degrees. Low this morning was 24. High a little earlier was 60. Low yesterday morning was 31. I got right around one inch of rain a few days ago. Prior to that rain I had only recorded 0.25" for the month...very dry and kind of like January moisture-wise. Even with that inch I only have 1.25" for the month so far which I'm pretty sure is at least 0.75" below average-to-date. And now, ready for a string of days like today continuing. @canderson, congrats on getting to your first shot. I was fortunate to have gotten my first dose just this past Wednesday. My wife and in-laws got their second shot 2 weeks ago so they should all be good now. In-laws are 88 and 89 so I'm really glad to finally have received mine. We see them very often as they only live 2 minutes away from us in a retirement community. I got the Pfizer, so I go back in 2 1/2 weeks for the final.

I mentioned this over the weekend. But that was with temps in the 50's and dews in the teens. Today it's low 40's with dew point hovering around -2F and 15% RH. Generally you see this more in April. I think we've only seen sub-zero dew points maybe one other time this winter? Maybe today is the lowest of the season.

At my former apartment residence about 0.25 mi. away from where I now live, I got them to let me keep my Tempest weather station set up in a nearby field with almost no obstructions in all directions. This afternoon I've recorded multiple gusts into the 40's with a peak gust of 53.8 mph back around 2:45. Sustained 1-minute averages have frequently been in the 22 to 25mph range. We love our new townhome that we moved into back in August, but, it has the worst location for a station I've ever had. My prior location was the best I ever had. The only direction that is remotely accurate for wind speed is WNW to WSW. All other directions have either homes or trees blocking. I have an integrated sensor suite so I have to keep it down at 2 meters because temperature is much more important than wind for accurate readings (IMO).

My brother-in-law lives west of Denver in Golden at 6000 feet. I'll let you know what he reports to me later today or this evening.

Very unusual day today temperature-wise. My overnight low this morning was an amazing 56.5 degrees. Right now at 9:30pm I've dropped to a new daily low of 54.9 degrees with a staggering low humidity of 25% and a dewpoint of just 22F. I had a low humidity this afternoon of just 19%. These low humidity's are much more common a month from now in mid April when temps reach the 60s or 70s with dewpoints in the 20s producing relative humidity's all the way down to 10% sometimes. Glad we are returning to much more "normal" temps for March beginning tomorrow. Upper 70's yesterday here were prematurely toasty.

You're welcome! For me the coldest temperature I ever had at my home in NJ (until 2000) was -8 which happened twice. Possibly the first time might have been 1983. I think what I remember about Christmas day 1983 is that the wind chills (which were still calculated on the old, original scale and were overdone with temps below zero), on my Heathkit 4001 showed wind chills below -50F multiple times that morning as the winds were easily gusting in to the 30s. On that day my high temperature was only +4F, the coldest daily maximum I've ever lived through. The coldest temperature I've ever experienced outdoors anywhere was -17F up in Haverhill, New Hampshire visiting a weather friend. There was no wind with that temp, thankfully.