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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.

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.

Wow!!!!!

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...

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

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...

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.

Latest run of the GFS shows the Pine Grove, Tremont, Tower City, Grantville area picking up another 5+ inches by hour 240.

If I were a betting man, I'd say that the area south of the M-D Line to about I-81 and then up to I-78 Lehigh Valley on south and east stand the best chance of severe. There isn't much action in PA at the moment outside of some cells out along I-99 and west..

I guess with nightfall and the instability diminishing, so is the areal coverage of the rain. The eastern edge (where I am) of the line is weakening somewhat, and the heaviest rains actually appear to be shrinking back slightly westward...

Storms to left of me, rain to the right... Here I am, stuck in the middle and dry...

Yeah, I remember that post. There is something to it, though. With the moist southerly flow, you'd have thought that upsloping would have caused us to see much more precip than we did. This event, and past ones (TS Lee comes to mind) reminds me of the winter when I sit in the subsidence zone between two heavy bands of snow

Also, I have this nagging feeling that when it does reach my location, the back edge will be moving faster than the leading edge and it'll be in and out in 15 minutes. If you've watched my posts, the radar, and the general weather pattern in and around Tamaqua, you'll see that it's been this way for years. No matter what kind of event, set up, or season. Hell, even the worst storm in probably a century (Sandy) was rather benign here. There is definitely something about the geography and topography of northeastern Schuylkill County that tames or prevents any kind of extreme event here.