Voyager

1 hour ago, mahantango#1 said:

I wonder if this will be the summer that wasn't.

It better not be.... 

Interesting about the wind observations. It's nearly dead calm where I'm at, and I'm at a restaurant out in the open suburbs south of Tamaqua.

I really hate to be a Debbie Downer, but...

Got the baker's dozen...

13.01" so far.

Someone got a video of Canderson setting up a pool in his backyard...

https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1ABoYjj8Ar/

Talk about getting lucky....no, not that way...

We got about an hour of broken clouds/sunshine, which dried out the lawn, so I decided to try and get a mowing and edging done. No sooner (mere seconds) did I finish cleaning up with the blower when a heavy squall blew in.

I need 0.26" more before midnight to get to 13 inches for the month.

Crazy stuff...

16 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Joe Bastardi is still talking about a tropical system forming in the gulf and coming north riding the east coast in about 11 days or so.

Not that it can't happen, either. Hurricane Agnes in 1972 comes to mind...

17 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

1.72 for this event so far and 9.02 for the month. 

Nice. You did better than I did for this event so far. As for the monthly total, I'm headed towards a baker's dozen.

Just noticed, too, that I'm in a flood warning until 6:15am.

...FLOOD WARNING IN EFFECT UNTIL 615 AM EDT THIS MORNING...

* WHAT...Flooding caused by excessive rainfall is expected.

* WHERE...A portion of central Pennsylvania, including the following
  counties, Columbia, Dauphin, Lebanon, Lycoming, Montour,
  Northumberland, Schuylkill and Sullivan.

* WHEN...Until 615 AM EDT.

* IMPACTS...Flooding of rivers, creeks, streams, and other low-lying
  and flood-prone locations is imminent or occurring. Streams
  continue to rise due to excess runoff from earlier rainfall.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...
  - At 319 AM EDT, gauge reports indicated heavy rain. Flooding
    is ongoing or expected to begin shortly in the warned area.
    Between 1 and 2 inches of rain have fallen.
  - Additional rainfall amounts up to 1 inch are possible in the
    warned area.
  - Some locations that will experience flooding include...
    Bloomsburg, Pottsville, Berwick, Sunbury, Shamokin, Tamaqua,
    Mount Carmel, Shenandoah, Danville, Minersville, Mahanoy
    City, Frackville, St. Clair, Kulpmont, Ashland, Valley View,
    Mcadoo, Elysburg, Pine Grove and Fairview-Ferndale.

7 hours ago, Voyager said:

Another slow mover. Rain JUST started here now.

Delayed, but not denied.

1.62" as of my 5:30am wake up.

8 minutes ago, canderson said:

I just passed 8.5” rain for the month.  1” today. 

Another slow mover. Rain JUST started here now.

30 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Rain with 0.36" so far. A heavy batch approaching from the south and the comma head to follow overnight. 

Sounds like a January snowstorm report.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but on the current and future radar loop, it looks like the heaviest rain will fall north of the flood watch zone.

20 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Severe threat until 1am, Tornado threat up to Rt. 30. Expecting everyone to get .5" - 1.5" of rainfall with some areas getting 3-4". More storms with hail tomorrow PM but more scattered and brief in nature. 

Yikes. 

Still, the weather geek in me wishes that threat was up to I-80 instead of US-30. I've got the video cameras out, so it would make an interesting finish to my work night and video 

2 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Elliott has been very active on X this morning with lots of updates on tonight's heavy rainfall and severe weather potential. Worth a look if interested. 

Working, so not much chance to hunt it down.

Cliff notes, or a link?

14 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Interesting - do you have any idea when it rained? Nothing measurable fell here.

I've often wondered this but never asked, is there a radar history that is available to review over the past 24 hours or so? I'd love to see what came through overnight...when, how large of a cell, etc. 

I found one awhile back, but I forgot to bookmark it, so I don't remember what site it was from.

21 minutes ago, canderson said:

I knew it was going to rain but didn’t expect such big forecasts. 

Me neither, hence my earlier post.

Well, THIS caught me off guard this morning....

Tonight: Showers and thunderstorms likely before 11pm, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm between 11pm and 2am, then showers after 2am. Low around 53. Light north wind. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.

I'm sure someone out there has had more rain than me this month. They're probably just not on the forum.

Event total was 0.47".

Tomorrow and Saturday SHOULD put me over 11 inches for the month as I sit right now at 10.85".

Up to 0.29" now in my backyard. 

We now have a rain gauge at out water loading facility, and that one shows 0.30" so pretty even rainfall across my immediate region.

Only 0.18" at my house.

1 hour ago, canderson said:

Signs heat arrives by next weekend and not really leaving. Above normal temps for the summer it seems are likely. 

I said to the wife this morning that we do extremes quite well here. Told her that once the pattern flips we'll probably go extended dry and warm/hot.

Not that I'm complaining about it. Just that it probably happens... 

32 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Slow mover was an understatement. It's 6:15am Wednesday morning and the rain hasn't gotten to Tamaqua yet.

And just like that......it's raining.