Voyager

10 hours ago, maytownpawx said:

My very best wishes go out to you! 

Thanks Maytown! Staying overnight, but got the Eagles game on, so all is good...lol

12 hours ago, Wmsptwx said:

Good Luck Steve, need my fellow warm bro healthy for long time to come!

Thanks! Been out of surgery for about 4 hours now, and sure am sore in the front throat area, especially swallowing. They are keeping me overnight for observation, but have said I'm doing good!

4 hours ago, canderson said:

Two things:

1) our friend Steve (@Voyager) is having thyroid surgery tomorrow. He could use good thoughts.

2) Might want to keep an eye on Florence in the Atlantic. Got a bad feeling about her,.

Just saw this. Thanks!

As for Florence, I'd think her high latitude is going to make things interesting. She's way north (23.4n vs <20n) of where she should be to be a legitimate threat. But if there's one thing we learned this past year or so is that what should happen (re-curve and a fish storm) may not be the actual end result. Still a long way out, but the WAR has been a major player this spring and summer, and she could just keep heading toward the coast under the right conditions.

YTD totals are pretty impressive this year. Even here in Tamaqua, where we missed the heaviest of the rain in all of the events, my total is 49.08 inches.

OK, someone...

Does anyone know what makes the Tremont/Pine Grove area such a magnet for heavy rain? Once again, per a reliable source, Tremont is beginning to flood again, and if one looks at current radar, there is a heavy cell that is just sitting stationary in that area. Other cells are moving northeast, but not that one.

Ended up with 1.67" for the event.

I honestly didn't expect this much pre fropa rain, but I've got 0.58" already with nothing more than garden variety type showers.

The Pottsville, Saint Clair, Port Carbon area really took it on the chin today. In Port Carbon alone, reports are that 200 homes have some kind of water damage.

15 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Yeah that's what how I felt. Desert or Noah's flood lol.

 

Yeah really. I've been following your posts because we both seemed to be missing out on the best rains. Today we both kind of made up for it. Mine wasn't as epic as yours, but still not as bad as previous days/weeks.

11 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Probably 8" here the last few hours

The pool is overflowed so good estimate

 

 

Wow!!!!!

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

Yep, training to my west this morning...

To a weather geek like me, that is a disheartening image. It's almost a carbon copy of July's firehose. the same areas keep getting it over and over again. Me? I end up on the fringe. Just enough rain to make it miserable, but not enough to make it interesting...

34 minutes ago, Superstorm said:

Heavier rains look east of 81

They do appear to have moved east a bit, per radar. When I woke this morning, though, it looked like the same firehose from July. Up through Lebanon, Pine, Grove, Tremont, and northward...

July redux...

The Susquehanna Valley is getting it once again this morning, while areas to the east of I-81 get fringed. If I took a radar image from the last week of July, this morning's radar would look almost exactly the same....

Just an amazing, frustrating pattern...

Congrats to you, your nephew. and the team on a great accomplishment!

40 minutes ago, canderson said:

That line from York to Lancaster was impressive. 

That line farther north produced  about 3.5" in Reading and Allentown. Parts of the Musikfest festival grounds along the Monocacy Creek in Bethlehem flooded this morning.

23 minutes ago, RedSky said:

I got a basket of snakes that come with me wherever i go.

I hear ya. The heaviest rain in Tamaqua, both last week and this week, was on days that I worked and was out of the area.

17 minutes ago, RedSky said:

TRACE

and TRACE for the week - no joke either lol

 

Wow...

That's incredible. You are more snake bit in your location than I am in mine. I'm almost ashamed to be complaining about being fringed today.

52 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Up here we've been fringed all day. Storms to the west and east, and now this evening's festivities are mostly east. Whatever manages to get close fizzles out. Just take a look at CTP's map. The warnings are up in Berks, Lehigh, Carbon, and Luzerne. An almost complete wrap around of Schuylkill and Tamaqua.

See. You can't make this stuff up...

1 hour ago, EastCoast NPZ said:

It's amazing how hit and miss these rains are.

Thing is, where they hit and miss seems to stay in the same areas. I've got flood warnings all around me to the south, north, and east, but for the most part I got fringed with less than an inch for the day...

A deluge to my southeast, but nothing here but mist and drizzle. Pathetic...

43 minutes ago, canderson said:

Newsflash: it’s still raining

Up here we've been fringed all day. Storms to the west and east, and now this evening's festivities are mostly east. Whatever manages to get close fizzles out. Just take a look at CTP's map. The warnings are up in Berks, Lehigh, Carbon, and Luzerne. An almost complete wrap around of Schuylkill and Tamaqua.

It's certainly been a case of the haves vs the have nots the past couple of weeks. Some areas just keep getting slammed while others get barely anything.

1.76" for August 1st.

0.88" this morning, and 0.88" from the evening storms.

Surprise, surprise... I got a nice little overnight/early morning thump here in Tamaqua.

0.88" as of 8:30am.

Unbelievable day today. Storms fired to my east and west and moved northeast. Then a line formed due north of me that is moving away from the area. Now, a new line is forming to my southeast...moving away from me. All while whatever is west of me is split and fragmented and falling apart and dissipating. Looks like I'm going to split the goalposts again...

I have NEVER seen a place where it is so difficult to get heavy precipitation, in ANY season. The best I can do in most instances is light, garden variety showers with a few rumbles of distant thunder, or a pixie dust snow event.