Bubbler86

1.25" in Pen Mar in the last 45 min. 1/3 of Summer almost in the books and we have been blessed up here.  No drought in sight. 

1 minute ago, katabatic said:

Cooled off fairly well last night; 65.7 goes in the books. While you are cooking today to a solid medium/medium-well, realize that Christmas Eve future is now closer than Christmas Eve past.

I saw Christmas stuff going out at Hobby Lobby this weekend. 

10 hours ago, Chris78 said:

You know its hot when it's 94 up in the Catoctins at 5pm. 

Even on hot summer days when the area is in the 90s Cascade/ Catoctins area above 1500ft will be in the 80s. 94 is cooking for this area.

It was still 90 here at 9PM last night.  This is worse than Florida.  

40 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Aw man I love that place. Great spot to just relax.

The Sunday concerts are quite cool.  A lot of dancing and such.   Might not literally as cool today but Antietam Dairy/Ice Cream will be there to try and cool off everyone! 

82/65 at Pen Mar Park, MD.   Going to be a boiler for the Sunday Summer Concert today.  Arrow is the band today. 

Met Summer is 15-20% over and enjoying another downpour.  A dry 4-5 days coming up before the rain moves back in but best 1/3 start of summer in a while as to temps and precip. 

37 this am in Pen Mar.

Eastern Hagerstown looks post weak hurricane tree wise.  

10 hours ago, yoda said:

75 mph gust at HGR

Also at mesonet - CWOP station CW1323 75mph gust

I concur as I thought we were headed to the basement here with sustained over 70 for 30-60 seconds. 

An impressive 22 in Pen Mar.

A very chilly 23 this AM in Pen Mar. 

54 minutes ago, nw baltimore wx said:

Ovi down to 7!!!  Let’s get another one tonight!

Caps playing scared.   Bad passes and bad prevent defense.

Hope for AO to pot two tonight against the under manned and disliked Philly squad.    Playoff goals do not count toward the record so he needs to start getting a few more to make it this season.  

Car therm 38 earlier in Emmitsburg...cold and wet.

20 in the North Maryland area this AM.  

8 banger. 

Just now, mahantango#1 said:

The floor is gone at several places  but some people still access the bridge despite Dauphin County spending almost $20,000 in 1992 to put up a chain link fence with barbwire at the top. But now the barbwire is rusted through and breaking up.

Pretty cool, thanks for the info. 

28 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

I would assume all liability associated with it. Some one gets hurt on it, the bridge falls in the creek i'm responsible to remove it out of an approved trout stream. The bridge was used for vehicles and school busses until 1983. The road is still there. Shame the county didn't want to spend $500,000 in 1993 to fix it. That quote was from Professor Kim of Bucknell University in Lewisburg, Pa. He went around the country He was an engineer  rehabilitating, and fixing bridges. 

I guess I can see responsibility for up keep but not responsibility for life and limb.  Can it still be walked across now/is the floor still in it? 

3 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Nothing now It was a bridge that was used to connect Dauphin and Northumberland counties. But was closed in 1983 due to being unsafe. The county wanted to sell it to me for a dollar, an then I assume all liability that goes with it. We also found out the county of Dauphin wanted to tear it down and sell it to an outfit in Oregon. In the meantime my wife did her research with a professor from Bucknell University in 1993 and the got the bridge on the National Register of Historic Places. thus stopping the sale, as they would have to do an archeological dig. The bridge is unique because the the turnbuckes on the bridge are opposite than a regular bridge. This bridge is often called the Seaman Bridge (named after my grandfather) it's also known as Dauphin County Bridge #27 There was a plaque on the bridge that said it was built in 1896 by The Chambersburg Bridge Company. But the plaque is missing now. chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_PA/93000720.pdf

That is interesting.    Was it for cars?  Or pedestrian?  Does not look like there is a road there but maybe it is obscured now.    So wait, you buy the bridge and if someone goes over they authorities saw, "Not our issue, the guy does the road owns it".       You could have also done this...a toll troll.

6 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

The ice this morning on the Mahantango Creek is doing a good bit of creaking and cracking. It was very loud earlier. I don't expect the ice to go. The water level is just fluctuating Making the ice creak and crack. I wanted to get closer to the creek but there is thick ice in the yard. So I'm not attempting to go down there. After last weeks episode of me thinking I could walk in the yard on that thin ice which was thicker then I thought i didnt break through it. I took a nice fall and hurt both my wrists and had to crawl out of the yard to the road. Thankfully I didn't break any thing but I sprained the one wrist pretty good.

Sorry you got hurt.  What is the bridge in the background use for? 

The 12Z Icon does not set the table well with its Tue rainer...leaving the boundary too far north for the next storm on the 27th (extrapolated.)    This is also what the GFS Graphcast (AI) and Euro AIFS show right now. 

3 minutes ago, Festus said:

it's mid February, so I do my usual check in here to catch up on the latest winter threats.  I see a page of geography.  

Not a good sign.

We are on hold until later next week when we enter our next window of potential winter storms.  The AFD from the NWS today suggested they needed a break:

.LONG TERM /FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH TUESDAY/...
The arctic punch will moderate by the weekend with temperatures
trending warmer/closer to long term averages Saturday-Tuesday
thanks to weak ridging aloft and at the surface. Model
variability with fast moving/moisture lacking clipper type
disturbances in the northern stream will favor low POPs on
balance this weekend into early next week. No significant
precipitation is expected through Monday, which will be a
welcome break after a seemingly incessant batch of winter storms
every few days over the last couple of weeks.

By Monday night into Tuesday, another more potent shortwave is
progged to drift across Pennsylvania as low pressure passes
north of Pennsylvania. Still plenty of time for this system to
evolve, but the most likely scenario will be a mix of rain and
snow at higher elevations with plain rain favored for elsewhere
as temperatures trend above average for the last week in
February.

Just now, Itstrainingtime said:

One thing GPS has done is make younger drivers totally ignorant of road and highway names. I have adult kids, one who drives for a living but can't tell me more than 2 road names...the one he lives on and the one his parents live on. When he goes anywhere he's never been before he inputs and drives. He grew up 5 miles from Rt. 30 and couldn't identify it today. He never had to learn it. I find all of it so bizarre. 

Which is weird because GPS is wrong too often to not have some semblance of where you are.    It gets you close every time but often sends one down mystery roads, confuses situations when turns are close, etc. 

2 minutes ago, Burghblizz said:

lol - no it’s not

(I understand the idea of these, but this one isn’t that)

Yea, it is not even close.  I assumed he was right. 

4 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

It's so funny you said this.  I was just about to post how MY big claim to fame is being able to fill in all 67 PA counties on a blank map haha.  The guys at work didn't believe me and printed out a blank PA map for me to complete right on the spot and I scored a 100.  It hangs on my desk wall to this day.  I used to know all the county seats too.  Now, I'd probably miss a few.  So yeah, add me to the list of geography freaks ha.  We are a screwed-up bunch.

What county is Dubois, PA the county seat of?