CoolHandMike

.7" IMBY, let's goooo!

Made it over half-an-inch. NOW we're talking.

This storm wants to fringe me so hard. At least it's been a nice, quiet, rainy day, and I found some time to bake a couple of batches of bread! Hearing pretty much non-stop sirens for the past few hours, it seems like everyone completely forgot how to drive in the wet again. Reminds me a lot of SoCal when the rainy season starts up in the fall, actually.

Anyway, .37" is hardly going to put a dent in our overall dry conditions up here, but at least it's not a complete deluge that just runs right off into the river. This will soak in a little bit. Forecast calls for rain pretty much through to tomorrow afternoon, so we shall see.

Has just BARELY begun to sprinkle. I remain skeptical.

Virga intensifying.

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

Gotta get out there and mow. Stuff moving in a tad quicker than I thought...

49F

You're probably good. Probably got an hour of virga at least lol

Maybe maybe maybe...

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

I guess it was NBC10 where I seen it. 

If you receive 2-3", fire pits should be allowed.

NBC10 at 11pm:

I'm cautiously optimistic, but I'll believe it (and be sure to post here enthusiastically) when I see it. Edging the grass along the sidewalk today with the string trimmer just tossed up clouds of dusty, dry earth, an unusual sight in April.

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

That's what I figure. Get out there 9am or so.

Neighbors to the right mowed at lunch. My wife (who has actually gleefully taken over mower duties, and I'm totally not complaining) texts me "Dammit." Then several hours later, neighbors to the left mow. She texts: "DAMMIT!" After we both signed off work, I string-trimmed while she mowed. End result? Our combined 1/3 of the cul-de-sac looking fresh as heck rn.

It really didn't need mowing, but if the forecast pans out (we'll see. I forecast the now typical Reading dry slot happening), it'd be waist-high by the time we'd be able to mow it again. We're still at about a fifth of the rain we received last year, and a quarter of the rain we received in April in 2021. Our May flowers are gonna need some help if we get shafted again.

F-ing POURED on me all the way down the turnpike from Downingtown to Morgantown, but thankfully everybody was playing nice today for some reason. Not a drop at my house, hoping this supposed "deluge" pans out. We're already watering the garden, something that we usually don't have to do until mid-to-late summer.

12 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Ended up bottoming out at 40 yesterday and had a high of 59.  Had clouds that rolled in and out during the day although it remained party sunny.

Currently 41 with dp 33.

Heard on the radio that an EF1 touched down in Womelsdorf in Berks County this past weekend -

Had to do a quick search to see where that is and it's a bit NW of Reading.

That's...  little bit too close to home. I guess I should be glad we were in the dry slot for so long. I recall checking for relative velocity a couple of times while the system was moving through, but with KDIX down for maintenance, I think large portions of coverage around me were in various shadows. REALLY wish we had a local radar at RDG to fill in that gap.

26 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Yeah, I read. I think they'll lift it sooner.

37F

https://www.dcnr.pa.gov/Communities/Wildfire/BurnBans/Pages/default.aspx#:~:text=Current Burn Bans%3A,to confirm burning is permitted.

 

Nice. Should have clarified that our anniversary is in June, so hopefully this will still happen. Why am I up so late. 35.7°F out. Thanks @Birds~69. Night all. 

12 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

Doing outside stuff at the moment, cranking some Hendrix/BBQ maybe a fire-pit? Could be worse? Not really that bad.

Would like some flying cows/wildfires/tornadoes/flooding rains though...

56F/30F DP...pretty good.

We're under a burn ban here in Berks, hoping it lifts by the end of the month since my wife and I would like to have a back yard campfire for our anniversary (we've spent a majority of our anniversaries camping). Really enjoying this cooler respite though. Got down to 32 and change last night and have another frost warning tonight, currently 36.6°F which is (yet again!) ~5°F lower than my local forecast. Have lots of seedlings already planted in the veggie garden, am slightly worried about that.

.17" for the event thus far, and it's kina looking like it's near its end. We're at .92" for April, about 1/5th of what we had last year by this time. Time to dust off all the soaker hoses, and maybe we'll get some more in about a week, but who knows.

Completely dry-slotted here. Nothing in the rain bucket, but we did have a 30 mph gust earlier.

SPC bumped the risk zones north a bit:

Looked outside and noticed the clouds absolutely booking it. Looks like a divergent upper-level jet will be the main factor in today's severe weather risk, with maybe a little daytime heating stirred in the mix.

Made it to juuust below freezing here. Welp, that was fun while it lasted.

Huh. Woke up today with .29" in the bucket. Nice, but not enough for Berks County to rescind their outdoor burn ban. Hope it lifts by the end of May at least because my wife and I were planning some evening firepit campfires the week of our anniversary.

Oh, would you look at that. More rain avoiding Reading

.04" on the day. Pretty depressing watching and hearing all these huge storms just roll on by the the east and west.

Interesting...

 I postponed an overnight brisket smoke due to last night's forecast, but so far it hasn't rained a drop. The forecast has held steady for t-storms beginning at noon, so we'll see if that pans out.

This is all virga at the moment:

2 hours ago, ChescoWx said:

I noticed that our local channel 6 weather team over in Philadelphia has been posting how since 1970 springs are getting warmer....as is always the case they only seem to look at since 1970. Why is that a problem? A quick look (see below) at the 3 major NWS COOP sites here in Chester County PA show that by starting the analysis in 1970 the data is clearly skewed because overall the 1960's was the decade with the coolest readings. The warmest springs here in Chester County averaged over the 3 long term sites actually occurred back in the 1940's. Only focusing on 50 years does not prove a trend.

 

Well they're not exactly wrong, are they?

Called it. We broke 90 around 12:30, but now the cloud cover is creeping in and we're back down to 89:

Made it up to 89.7°F. Though I've only been recording temps IMBY for three years now, last year's highest in April was 82.7 and in 2021 it was 80.0. I think we might make it to 90 tomorrow, which could start the "above nineties" count for the year a full month earlier than last year.

I think we all saw this coming after our dismal winter, but I was hoping we'd stay cooler a little longer. At least it has been bearable with low humidity. So begins the long slog through the summer months. Starting in April. Not a fan.

Side note: I read somewhere that large tropical volcanic eruptions have been correlated with warm winter months immediately proceeding in the northern hemisphere, following a cold crash the following winter. Here's hoping Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha'apai might have such an effect? I watched this vid recently (he begins to make his point about 3 minutes in if you don't want to watch the whole thing, though I highly recommend you do, it's very good): 

And the paper cited within:

https://ntrs.nasa.gov/api/citations/19930016055/downloads/19930016055.pdf