Bubbler86

3 hours ago, Voyager said:

Virga is going good in Tamaqua. Per the current radar it should be raining here.

It has rained here for hours but so slow it does not make the street wet.  Better than nothing but not helping with the dry much.  Cold though.  58.   If the radar is to be believed, York  and Adams are getting something more substantial. 

Rain has commenced in the 'Ville

4 minutes ago, canderson said:

Curious if MDT can hit 90 for 4 consecutive days coming up, it’s got a shot.

Icon says make it so.  Going to be ugly if this trend does not reverse. Maytown Electric Co-Op better get the coal burning!   GFS says no worries, a nice week coming up. 

17 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Yep, as someone who is fully vaccinated, I am ready to lose mine forever. However, many businesses are and will continue requiring them and I have every intention of respecting their decision and will continue to wear mine where I need to.

Yea, sometimes being courteous or fitting in to avoid making others uncomfortable is a good thing.  

3 hours ago, TimB84 said:

That said, it looks like CTP has bumped precip chances into the 50/50 category a lot of places. PBZ doesn’t have rain in the grids outside the mountains.

Saw your post in the MA.  My simple way to explain the whole situation is if a store says shoes and shirt required, you are expected to wear shoes and a shirt.  Same for a mask.  

12 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

That said, it looks like CTP has bumped precip chances into the 50/50 category a lot of places. PBZ doesn’t have rain in the grids outside the mountains.

Latest HRRR gives pretty much everyone in the LSV a grass watering. 

Just now, TimB84 said:

Upstream, it was entirely virga. Not a drop of rain.

That was a worry. 

5 minutes ago, Cashtown_Coop said:

It’s dry.   I’ve thrown out more water than I ever have this early in the last 13 years I’ve been superintendent.   Farmers are saying same thing, plowing fields and nothing but dust.   I wouldn’t call it a drought but I don’t like the look going into June.   You can’t judge by looking at your yard lol.  

That's saying a lot after last year.  On this side of the mountain we have had a LOT more rain the first half of May vs. last year.   But the plants are wilting now and the Pond at Red Run is quickly shrinking again. 

Radar looks decent.  Not sure how much virga is going on. 

3 hours ago, blueberryfaygo said:

I can tell you 100% for sure that in Howard County it is the shoppers self regulating and not the shops.. yesterday I went to all of the following without a mask on:

• Columbia Mall
• Barnes and Noble
• Ellicott City Walmart

At each location I made a point of it to go somewhere where I had to interact with staff members/ security.  At every place I was the ONLY person without a mask on and not once was I asked to put the mask on.  

I had two close calls, which proves that the staff members have been reluctantly informed that they are not allowed to impose their own rules outside of the CDC policy - 

1. some teenage kid who was "standing guard" at a store in the mall, told me.. "I can't tell you to put your mask on, but.. but.. well that's all I have to say"
2. the first women to check me out of Barnes and Noble shook her head, sighed in discuss and grabbed her manager keys and walked away and someone else had to check me out.  

So this is actually really awesome news.  If the "choose civility" howard county MD people can't make you where masks.. it is just a matter of time before people start catching on, start going places without their masks on and this awful nightmare will be over. 

 

Two of the stores I went in MD, Martins (Giant) and Petsmart in Hagerstown, they were not allowing people in without a mask.  I am sure once in you could probably get away without one. 

9 hours ago, Chris78 said:

Dowd!!!!

Big time heads up shot by Oshie.   Perfect screen/tip by Dowd. 

7 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

I just think it is hilarious when I see nothing but beautiful Spring colors wherever I go in Central PA. 
Reading through this thread makes me think that the next Dust Bowl is coming!

All it takes is a week of no rain for the lush grass to go dormant.  And people growing flowers just need a few dry days before they need to add watering to their daily activities.  Still think some in the lsv see rain today. 

5 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

Out in Pittsburgh we are running a -7.4 anomaly so far, which I have no doubt will be mostly erased if not completely. So I’m very certain MDT will finish the month above normal. But the bigger story is precip chances for the next 10 days for just about anywhere in this state seem to be disappearing rapidly, to almost zero on the Euro.

Still hopeful for the lsv tomorrow.  I think all of southern PA is in the game.  Going by memory we would be about a -18 anomaly here over the last 10 days.  Highs about 20 below normal and lows about 15 below.

15 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

We aren't requiring shoppers to mask up. It's their choice. 

I'm sure as the days and weeks pass on there will be less and less masks being worn in the store. 

 Store Associates in the store will be wearing masks for a while.

Agree it will loosen up some at larger stores as the weeks go by.  Think a lot of smaller places stay mask required.

9 hours ago, Chris78 said:

I work in the grocery industry and I would say there is about 90% still wearing masks this morning. 

I was at 8-9 different places between PA and MD today and almost everyone was masked.  Only Habitat in Chambersburg, PA was letting people follow CDC. 

27 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Hopefully we start to make up our precip deficit for the year around November 20th with heavy snow through New Year’s Eve.
It would be a win-win scenario! We can finish the year with above normal precip to ease the drought concerns and then also get us on our way to an above normal snow season!

 

LOL, you do not like drought talk do you?  

3 hours ago, TheDreamTraveler said:

You know what I hate? I hate it when you get a cold snap for 1-2 weeks and then you only get a few days of more average weather until you're hit with extreme heat. Those temps are looking godawful next week

 

Well the past week or two hasn't been a cold snap but definitely 5-10 degrees below average. And then boom we go 10-18 above average with no inbetween

And those below average "averages" are MDT ob's.  Some rural areas have been 20-30 degrees below normal the last 10-12 days.  We have hit 60 only 3 days of the last 10.  Today's 68 was the warmest in 10+ days but still well below normal. 

7 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

And yet it looks like they’re going to get their long, hot, brutal summer they wanted,  starting before Memorial Day yet again.

They wanted it in March.  LOL.  Instead they got an old fashioned normal spring with lots of cold mornings.  

17 minutes ago, TimB84 said:

Actually 37, but who’s counting?

Watch it.  The MA cancel crowd paid the penalty for trying to start Spring and Summer in Mid Feb by having 3 months of cool weather with only little samples of their summer wants.    Don't curse us and take away December 2021 winter.  Ha

Just now, Voyager said:

Make your Saturday start off right.  LOL.  Was a surprising 39 here this AM.    Chance that is the last 30's mark until fall.  

Maryland drops masks for anyone....vaccinated or not.  Most large local stores in PA will still require masks for now.  Giant, Wegmans, Target, etc...Wal-Mart is an exception but like I said, they stopped enforcing masks at my local Wal-Mart weeks ago. 

10 hours ago, TimB84 said:

18z GFS is better and no sustained heat

0Z brings back the pain heat wise.  Cmc is record breaking heat in East PA.  

8 hours ago, canderson said:

We need rain- lawns already browning.

 

Yep, tomorrow is a big deal for those with nice lawns right now.

1 hour ago, TimB84 said:

18z GFS is better and no sustained heat

Nice rains Sunday and a high of 50 (Including Trainingtime), MDT barely breaks 80 a few days next week then early spring weather into June.  Score! 

35 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

If we can get that Sunday rain to rake us all then we get the week off to a good start. 

18Z Nam is less impressive.