TheDreamTraveler

I hope this year isn't dry. The lack of thunderstorms was depressing last year. After may we had barely anything. I remember reading last year was the least amount of lightning ever recorded in the US in history

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

Next week is looking a lot more toasty than I thought lol

I know some of you can't stand extreme heat but I'm weird and like it sometimes...just as long as it's not like that the entire summer. There's just something fun about it getting that hot and having to go into the pool or find some nice ac or other way to get cool. Maybe it's just a nostalgia thing from when it'd get hot as a kid lol because regardless of how much I might like that stuff I would never wish a night temp in the high 70s with extreme humidity on anyone because that stuff is just torture if you don't have any type of cooling

I wouldn't say it's a mystery. It could be as simple as that community wearing masks and following guidelines more than others if they aren't vaccinated which would be keeping their numbers down. Also 1/3 of the country being vaccinated does help tons of communities even if those vaccinated people all aren't in one spot together since it means there's less people the virus can jump to and continue spreading so it limits how far it can travel compared to previously.

I haven't heard about it but if it's the johnson&johnson vaccine that's because it's only 66% effective and that's after a certain amount of time has passed. Honestly if any of you get a vaccine I'd stay away from that one lol. The moderna and pfizer mrna vaccines are over 90% effective and apparently less side effects from what I've seen. My friend and grandpa got it a while ago and basically had no issues except my friend having a slightly sore arm I also wouldn't trust J&J considering they knowingly had cancer causing materials in their baby powder for decades and didn't do anything until recently being sued. There's a reason the original formula has been banned in other countries for decades lol Forgot I should add you can catch covid with being vaccinated but as long as you're asymptomatic there's a low chance you'll spread it to other people. So it's honestly not that bad but I've been pretty vocal about my feelings on the J&J vaccine elsewhere especially after the blood clotting stuff in 6 women. But apparently that seems linked to a birth control medication which would make sense why all of them were women.

It wasn't windy out earlier when I was out but I noticed once it got cloudy out it picked up. Looks like there's some light rain on the radar nearby too

I'm not too far...really doubt we'll see any snow but then again I didn't think we were gonna see that huge snow squall at this time last year either. Either way it's crazy the heavy snow that's been falling up north

I was afraid it was gonna feel chilly today but it's already really nice out in the sun. I always forget how strong the sun angle is at this time of year when there's cooler temps

Tomorrow is gonna feel hot. Even today was hot enough in the sun for me

Not really looking forward to the high winds later today. Last night was already windy enough

Definitely could get close to tying records tomorrow. Been seeing a lot of temps between 85-88 for tomorrow

Yeah same here. There's not that very many years I can remember seeing snow falling this late over here. Besides last year lol

I almost forgot about how awful last years winter was lmao

It was actually flurrying here for a little bit. Pretty shocked this is the 2nd year in a row where we'd had snow fall extremely late in the year. I can't really remember any year in recent memory besides the snow squall in early may last year where we've had snow this late. I'm guessing it's probably happened a lot in the past but I've been so used to how warm it's been the past 2 decades that it seems weird when it does snow this late. Also interesting is we've still yet to hit 80 degrees in harrisburg this year. Just about every year this past decade I remember seeing multiple days hitting 80+ in feb/mar/apr

the power flickered here and the street lights got knocked out for a bit but thankfully didn't lose power

was coming in here to say the same thing. haven't seen anything this bad since spring or summer of last year

I was not expecting storms this powerful. That wind is nuts out there right now

Yeah I don't even bother with facebook now. It just ends up rotting your brain and it's better for your mental health to take a break from it every now and then. It's good to have an avenue to keep in contact with friends and family but it's good to not let it consume you lol

I wish people weren't so headstrong or ignorant about these things. It's like you try and tell them something you know to be true but nothing convinces them and then they still get mad when their plants die lol you can't believe everything your friends post on social media

It got really cloudy and you can see the rainclouds around harrisburg...it wasn't supposed to rain until late tonight/early morning. no rain yet but it's pretty close

79 here now...completely smashed the record of 70 in 2009

yeah. that's what i've been seeing here

66 here currently...i think it was 68 yesterday but that didn't happen until 5 pm

That snow squall in may last year was absolutely crazy. I had to go out to drive and drove into whiteout conditions. The mountains were almost impossible to see. It was the most surreal thing to see in may and I doubt I'll ever forget it