Streak

2 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

 

Rain supported.

 

 

Are any of the models more reliable than others right now? If I’m remembering correctly, last summer the Euro was more consistently accurate with the heat while other models were undershooting by a few to several degrees. 

(I know it’s all just guidance and I shouldn’t get my hopes up, but I’m really rooting for some rain here.)

Beautiful morning in York county — 63 and clear skies at 7:23 am. 

28 minutes ago, canderson said:

That’s a bit surprising. A friend lives very close to Roundtop and it’s infested there. She posted a video and it’s SO loud. I’ve seen some in the city but not many, but they’re all over the burbs. 

Sounds like they’ll be arriving here shortly, then. I’m about 15 miles SE of Roundtop. 

55 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Speaking of cicadas, the Hazleton area is infested with them, yet nothing in my neighborhood.

Nothing here in York yet either, and I’m not complaining. They never used to bother me but the past couple years they’ve been getting quite loud.

On the upside, I’m glad to see the fireflies have finally been out the past few nights. If I’m not mistaken, they used to show up sometime during the 3rd or 4th week of May, but both this year and last year they had a late start. I read somewhere that the unseasonably cold weather in May delays their usual cycle.  

2 minutes ago, paweather said:

High keeps going down for Saturday in my zone forecast. Definitely could be in the 30's Saturday night. I am still holding out for some white flakes we haven't seen since February to drop yet. 

Don’t forget about the white flakes just a couple weeks ago in late April! 

21 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

We were over 10" below normal for a large period of the summer last year.  I know it was scattered but for some last years drought was moderate to major.  

Yes, you definitely had it worse than we did here in York! Here's hoping we see enough rain this spring/summer to rectify that.

8 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Well that escalated quickly, what was supposed to be a nuisance type rain is now looking like a hefty soaking.  For days on end my NWS P&C was only showing around a tenth of an inch of rain but now it's damn near an inch.  Almost all the models want to soak the area with well over an inch (particularly from lancaster and points east), although most of them failed to pick up on this potential until roughly the last 12-24 hours.  Pretty poor performance all around.

Delurking to say, I'm glad we're getting some slow, steady rain today. York County didn’t show up on the drought maps last year and there were numerous days where storms were in the forecast, but very little actually made it to my backyard. It became something of a hobby to be outside watching storms as they headed east, just missing us to our north, while my poor lawn was dying. Some parts of York county did fine, but our section of Mt Zion hill was definitely hurting for lack of rain. A lot of homes in this area (including mine) rely on wells, so even mild droughts cause a bit of stress for everyone.

I know the snow helped a bit and we’ve also had some rain over the past few weeks, but I don’t think we’ve recovered yet from last year’s deficit. I admit, I'm a Warminsta (sp?) and I love sunshine, but right now if the snow is over for the season, I'm hoping the sunny days will be scattered between lots of steady rain and thunderstorms.

1 minute ago, Storm Clouds said:

I’m all snow now, but it’s light stuff at the moment. 

It’s coming down pretty heavily now in east York. Until about 15 minutes ago I was starting to wonder if the whole thing might have shifted far enough north to miss us, but it looks like we’re going to have a decent event here.

5 minutes ago, Storm Clouds said:

After a lull for almost 3 hours here in west York, it is...sleeting again! Ugh this is so frustrating. 

I’m a few miles away in east York and it’s the exact same pattern here. Little to nothing all morning and now sleet.