Voyager

2 hours ago, mahantango#1 said:

Picked up .63 rain overnight. .37 was from that nasty little thunderstorm @1045pm Weekly total rain 2.45 monthly total 4.52 yearly 29.09

Blessed with rain this month!

 

 

 

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WWUS81 KCTP 250244
SPSCTP

Special Weather Statement
National Weather Service State College PA
1044 PM EDT Wed Jul 24 2024

PAZ050-052-057-058-250315-
Northumberland PA-Dauphin PA-Snyder PA-Schuylkill PA-
1044 PM EDT Wed Jul 24 2024

...A STRONG THUNDERSTORM WILL IMPACT WEST CENTRAL SCHUYLKILL...
SOUTHERN NORTHUMBERLAND...NORTH CENTRAL DAUPHIN AND SOUTHEASTERN
SNYDER COUNTIES THROUGH 1115 PM EDT...

At 1043 PM EDT, Doppler radar was tracking a strong thunderstorm near
Selinsgrove, moving east at 30 mph.

HAZARD...Wind gusts up to 50 mph and pea size hail.

SOURCE...Radar indicated.

IMPACT...Gusty winds could knock down tree limbs and blow around
         unsecured objects. Minor hail damage to vegetation is
         possible.

Locations impacted include...
Shamokin, Fairview-Ferndale, Trevorton, Marshallton, Port Trevorton,
Klingerstown, Rebuck, Leck Kill, Urban, Edgewood, Hegins, Gratz,
Freeburg, Dalmatia, Herndon, Pillow, and Pitman.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If outdoors, consider seeking shelter inside a building.

Very heavy rainfall is also occurring with this storm and may lead to
localized flooding. Do not drive your vehicle through flooded
roadways.

&&

LAT...LON 4060 7650 4061 7695 4062 7696 4064 7694
      4064 7697 4077 7697 4084 7650
TIME...MOT...LOC 0243Z 259DEG 24KT 4070 7685

MAX HAIL SIZE...0.25 IN
MAX WIND GUST...50 MPH

$$

Bauco

 

I saw the lightning from that storm all the way over here. Checked radar, and it looked like it was headed my way, so I put the wife's hanging plants out in the yard for a natural drink. Well, it fell apart, and we only got 0.01" out of it...lol

Per CTP, we may see some of the Alberta fire smoke this weekend.

https://www.weather.gov/ctp/weatherstory

9 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Rainfall overnight/early this morning netted me .02". 

Got me by .01 inch...

26 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

At least the "hot" graphic is in the right place...lol

2 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

I am just dismayed that 89 is now a heat wave.    Is anything above Normal now a heat wave?    MDT bagged an 88 today which is one AN.  Call out the news! 

WNEP's weather guy last night had hot in the forecast graphic for a high of 85 degrees.

55 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

I cancelled when Voyager wanted $50/HR to spread it on the lawn! 

Hey man, I was giving you the AMWX special discount.

Cheepskate...

1 hour ago, mahantango#1 said:

Was the famous Tamaqua split in effect yet again? Did Bubbler cancel his water delivery, being he got rain?

I don't know about the Tamaqua Split, but the heavy rain I did encounter yesterday was mostly while I was in the truck enroute to my deliveries and pick ups which was nice. 

And no, I've not been to Bubbler's abode yet...lol

1 hour ago, mahantango#1 said:

1.81 rain total for the event. Wasn't expecting that. Total for the month 3.89. Hopefully a lot of yous cashed in on rain yesterday and overnight.

I got 0.31" here.

I jinxed myself with all that staying dry talk. Only 0.08" in my backyard...lol

Just looked at radar, and it appears I'm living on borrowed time. I've had a few showers while driving, but so far I've stayed rain-free at my load and unload locations. That stroke of luck looks like it's soon coming to an end.

We need rain, but I'm getting tired of it waiting until I start my 2pm work shift to start. Then it ends by midnight, ironically right when I park the truck at the end of my shift. 

13 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

It’s been fascinating to behold. Not sure I’ve ever seen anything quite like it. I’m right in the middle of those two cells and while nearly stationary, each has been moving ever so slightly exactly opposite from one another. The western one moving SW and the eastern one moving NE. It was stunning to watch the radar loop as I got shafted to the tune of .01”. 

I was shocked when I saw it. The only rain in the entire state, and it just popped up out of nowhere.

Where did this come from? I didn't think any rain/storms were forecasted for tonight.

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

You going to spend the 4 hours soaking it in?  

Sure. If you're paying...lol

Alright, who wants their lawn watered? I'm loading one up right now... 

1 hour ago, mahantango#1 said:

I think Voyager could hook you up with deliveries of water. Probably 6200 gallons per delivery. 

Even better. When I came back they put me on an 8,000 gallon tank.

55 minutes ago, canderson said:

I thought it was supposed to be less muggy today. 

It's cooler, but I'm not noticing the less humid part, either.

Getting soaked in Allentown at my delivery location for the second time tonight. It just doesn't want to stop raining here.

Nearest station here showing 0.89", and it's still raining. I thought it would stop shortly after the line blew through.

8 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

It has been cloudy all morning, but now the sun appears to be coming out.

We've been in solid sunshine all morning. Currently 92 degrees here. Missed out on last night's storms. Let's see what happens here today, considering the abundant sunshine. 

2pm. 

98 in Tamaqua.

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Yes.  I've been hammering this point recently.  I'm not sure why but I just know that over the years I've always noticed big differences between PWS DPs and the official stations.  Even more so than temp discrepancies. 

I don't know. It appears I'm in the ballpark. I'm sitting with DP of 73, and many stations are on or two degrees more or less than mine. Look at Allentown for example. 

11 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

Do you live near a creek, marshland, a swamp, corn fields, any agriculture? Your dew point is always so freaking high

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Yes. A baseball's throw just west of the Little Schuylkill River which runs right through town.

90 degrees at 10am. Outside of Arizona, I don't think I've ever recorded an earlier 90 reading at my location.

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

It may be that your home station is overcooking the dew point numbers by a good bit.  A common problem I have found.  Didn't you say your DP was above 80 on a few occasions?  Seems a bit overdone.  And that's to say nothing of any air temp anomalies as well.  I know I can't trust my own station during peak solar hours. 

I did question this the past couple of days, but comparing my station against a mercury thermometer in the shade on my back porch, the numbers are comparable. I just now looked at the NWS hourly roundup, and my current 71 dewpoint is equally comparable with all the reporting stations in the region.

If it's off, it's not by much.

All this hype about the heat index for the upcoming days, and just last week I recorded a 110 and a 113 heat index, or "feels like" temperature if you prefer on my home station. So far they say what? 105? If so, my recordings were much higher and much worse.