Voyager

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.

Which is one of the reasons I'd like to have seen this move east as time progressed. Aside from my selfish, weather enthusiast mentality that wants to be in the "bullseye" for a weather event, I, too, feel sorry for those who've already seen massive flooding, and are seeing buckets of unwanted rain yet again.

And they can start with Tamaqua. It hasn't {{{yawn}}} rained a drop here all day...

I'm right there with you. It's why we are weather enthusiasts. Anomalous and historical weather is what a lot of us crave. I, for the most part, hate winter, and even snow, but...if the potential is there, then I want a blizzard. It's no different with the warmer seasons. Severe storms, training rain events, hurricanes...etc. I love following and tracking them, and even more-so, experiencing them when they happen.

It sure is. Just looked at the radar, and although the trajectory has changed a bit, the same areas that got it the past few days are getting it yet again.

I tried that for my location the other day by saying CTP should cancel the flood watch here. It didn't work...lol We did get 3.5" here today, though.

Picked up 0.81" here since midnight with the heaviest falling right as my wife was leaving for work. As for me, I get to go to Honesdale this afternoon and pick up a group and take them into JFK Airport. it'll be interesting to see what I encounter during my travels, AND what I might come home to later.

You really can't make this stuff up. All the action to the west that I'm missing out on, and now the east as well...

I wish I could. I guess it bothers me somewhat because it's not just this event. Every single time we get a set up like this the same area gets it, and I sit painfully just east of the action.

Riddle me this. What is causing the same areas to get dumped on while others get very little? It seems the plume has originated over the Chesapeake Bay the past 3 days and moved right up the Susquehanna valley and it's tributary locations.

I have 2.25" for the whole event since Sunday morning. Today's total (so far) was 0.55" I suppose it's better than Allentown, though. According to WNEP, they only got 0.06" today.

Looking at the radar, CTP may as well drop the flood watch for Eastern Schuylkill County. We aren't getting crap out of this. The plumes just keep training over the same damn area with nothing upstream to even give me any hope...

I was about to say that you guys down there look to be getting some action soon.

Cluster of storms rolled through from the south a few minutes ago, but miraculously split right in town and regrouped north of me. I got a whole whopping tenth of an inch out of it...

I mentioned that to my wife yesterday. Similar set up, but perhaps not as wet...

I feel your pain. Water rescues and flooding just 25 miles southwest of me from post midnight storms, and I got 0.13" in my backyard during the same time period.

I should be, but the weather "geek" in me wants to see something interesting in my own locale. It sounds sick, but in a way it's not unlike those who want to see that 30+ inch blizzard in their own backyard. After all, isn't that why we follow the weather? To experience the anomalous?

Yup. The southwestern half. Up my way, nada. Everything missed west, as usual. I'm at 1.83" in the same time period. And only 0.13" since midnight. I can't even squish any water in my backyard when I walk through it. Saturday: 1.20" Saturday overnight: 0.00" Sunday: 0.50" Sunday overnight: 0.02" Monday (so far); 0.11"

I swear, the Susquehanna Valley is just a heavy rain magnet. Every time we get an event like this, the training, and heaviest precipitation seems to run right up the Susquehanna. Never to the east. Being a weather "geek", I love anomalous events, especially in my backyard, but it never happens...