CoolHandMike

Dang. Haven't seen such a strong hail signature in a while. Radarscope reports 2" hail.

Dang. Haven't seen a hail signature like that in quite some time...

Granted, I only have four years of data from current location, but this is the earliest we've been above 80. Peaked at 85.2°F.

man I stopped checking for digital snow on the GFS like a month ago. It's all fake news. Pretty to look at, and ponder at, but never real.

I feel like nowcasting is the only way to see how things pan out these days. Forecasts have been utter rubbish for (checks notes...) years now? Yeesh. No disrespect to our prof mets, but yeah. Rain all afternoon today? Nope. Ten degrees lower than forecasted yesterday. Countless model-predicted snows this winter and nothing. Something is deeply amiss in our ability to forecast weather with any kind of accuracy these days. I feel like all we can do at this point is watch the radar and try to see what's going to happen in the next couple of hours. Forget being able to see anything long-term, other than painting really, really broad strokes. That said... I am somewhat concerned with the radar at the moment:

Temps now creeping up, we're at 52, woo hoo.

Our high was 50.9 here, almost 10 degrees off the forecast. Can't win 'em all, I guess.

Ok, that'll do. Still coming down, too.

Still waiting for this to verify. Surely this will verify, right? I captured this about 10am this morning: Current conditions:

And just like we all knew would happen, poof, gone. It was a pretty OK winter this year at least. I'm kinda on to scoping some spring t-storms now.

Wind advisory for Berks just went up. Good grief, I swear I don't remember it ever being as windy as it has been these past few years. It's kind of ridiculous. My wife and I were going to do a bunch of outdoor stuff today but we noped out when it started gusting above 20.

My high IMBY was 47.8°F today, and 44 the day before. My top soil is dry AF. We're still super dry up here in Reading. FWIW, we got near to an inch of liquid precip (snow melt+rain) last Sunday, and my basement sump started cycling almost as soon as the snow started melting. I would have thought that if the ground was deeply frozen that all of that would have run off, but our extremely localized groundwater flow has seemingly been forever altered by our massive flooding rains in July 2023, so who knows what is actually happening down there. As much as I'd love one last, good snow storm, I agree, we still need rain and lots of it. Although, maybe not another flooding event. I think there are still some roads closed from that previous event I mentioned (due to bridges still being washed out).

34 and snizzle to rain. Then blowing 20-30 the day after. At this point I'm just happy if it's cloudy out. Maybe we should start a thread and just mercilessly mock this digital snowstorm until then. It'd at least give us something to do.

Ok. So. Why was today's forecast so hilariously bad? It was supposed to get above 50, but we never even cracked 40. And now I see possible snow in the overnight? I guess the rain panned out, but still. Underpredicting the temp by ~10°F on the day is somewhat alarming.

~128k in Peco territory alone. Stay safe out there everyone!