Central PA Summer 2025

[Mount Joy Snowman]

76 when I left the house. MDT should smash its min max records of 75 for today and tomorrow. 

[Voyager]

I'm just gonna drop this here...

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Looks like our relief should come the way of a potent little backdoor cold front that sweeps through Thursday evening.

[Itstrainingtime]

99 was my high yesterday, 77 was my overnight low. At 9:10am it's already up to 88.3.

Imagine if it hadn't been so wet over the past 2 months? I would have flown by the century mark. 

Good lord. 

[canderson]

80 was my low. 

[canderson]

3 hours ago, Voyager said:

I'm just gonna drop this here...

For fun I once fried an egg in the driveway back home. Mom was not amused I wasted an egg and made me eat it. 

[Voyager]

4 minutes ago, canderson said:

For fun I once fried an egg in the driveway back home. Mom was not assumed I wasted an egg and made me eat it. 

Yikes...

[CarlislePaWx]

My overnight low was 73.6.  Now, at 10:15am the temperature has skyrocketed nearly 20 degrees and is up to 91.9.  Dew point a smidge higher than yesterday, currently reading 76.8.  I guess I was one of the lucky ones to escape the 80+ dew points with a max yesterday of 76.  Oh, yeah, my heat index is 103.  And to think, just 5 short months ago I dropped to 10 below with 4 consecutive nights below zero!

[canderson]

32 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

My overnight low was 73.6.  Now, at 10:15am the temperature has skyrocketed nearly 20 degrees and is up to 91.9.  Dew point a smidge higher than yesterday, currently reading 76.8.  I guess I was one of the lucky ones to escape the 80+ dew points with a max yesterday of 76.  Oh, yeah, my heat index is 103.  And to think, just 5 short months ago I dropped to 10 below with 4 consecutive nights below zero!

I had this through last night. Let’s say I don’t get above 100 today - I was -7 in January. A 107 degree difference is quite extreme for a location. 

[Itstrainingtime]

93/78 at 11am. Can't wait to get to Florida and cool off. 

[Superstorm]

9 minutes ago, canderson said:

I had this through last night. Let’s say I don’t get above 100 today - I was -7 in January. A 107 degree difference is quite extreme for a location. 

For our location yes, that is very extreme.

 

I lived in Nebraska for a few years.  Talk about extremes.  Easily -10s in winter and 105F to 110F in summer.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

15 minutes ago, Superstorm said:

For our location yes, that is very extreme.

 

I lived in Nebraska for a few years.  Talk about extremes.  Easily -10s in winter and 105F to 110F in summer.

For sure.  Generally speaking, the more land-locked you are, the greater the seasonality.  I remember one of the first days of a Meteo class I took at PSU the professor saying something to the effect of "Miami has never hit 100 and never gone below freezing, while Bismark, ND has hit [insert insanely high and low values].  That my friends, is seasonality. Large bodies of water work wonders for moderation."

[Itstrainingtime]

23 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

For sure.  Generally speaking, the more land-locked you are, the greater the seasonality.  I remember one of the first days of a Meteo class I took at PSU the professor saying something to the effect of "Miami has never hit 100 and never gone below freezing, while Bismark, ND has hit [insert insanely high and low values].  That my friends, is seasonality. Large bodies of water work wonders for moderation."

Key West's coolest nights are often in the 60s while their hottest days typically reach the upper 80s annually. 

[Itstrainingtime]

4 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Looks like our relief should come the way of a potent little backdoor cold front that sweeps through Thursday evening.

A really nice one day reprieve...forecast highs for Friday are being adjusted wayyyyy down. CTP going for mid 70s over here now. 

[Mount Joy Snowman]

26 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

A really nice one day reprieve...forecast highs for Friday are being adjusted wayyyyy down. CTP going for mid 70s over here now. 

Tell me about it. Has thrown a real wrench into my monthly prediction I made yesterday haha. Should have known the mainstream forecasts hadn’t yet fully caught on to the backdoor cold front idea. Rats. 

[pawatch]

8 hours ago, pawatch said:

69 degrees this morning. Today is the start of my retirement fishing league this morning.

4th out of 17 boats. Missed 3rd by 2 oz.

I was ready to get out of the heat.

[AccuChris]

Up to 97° in Lebanon now. Lets see if we can crack 100 today


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[Mount Joy Snowman]

MDT has officially reached 96, two more to go to tie the daily record.

[Itstrainingtime]

97 at 2:30. Running one degree lower than the same time as yesterday; however, my dewpoint is down 5 over the same time frame. In fact, it's dropped at least briefly into the 60s at MU now. Got a subtle NNW component to the winds this afternoon. 

[Itstrainingtime]

Hmmm - it is now 100 at the airpark down the road. Didn't make it yesterday. 

Quite a few New York metro areas are in the 102-104 range. Nuts. 

[Jonesy56]

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

MDT has officially reached 96, two more to go to tie the daily record.

Looks like they got to 98 with the 3 PM reading.

[Voyager]

99.1 was the high, so far, in Tamaqua. Not sure if we can get up to 100 or not.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

45 minutes ago, Jonesy56 said:

Looks like they got to 98 with the 3 PM reading.

Sure did!  Now we wait to see where things officially round out, 99 or 100 still on the table.

[canderson]

MDT hit 99 many times so the record should be set. 

[Mount Joy Snowman]

41 minutes ago, canderson said:

MDT hit 99 many times so the record should be set. 

Well careful now, recall that they do the converting back’n’forth between Celsius and Fahrenheit and then round, which can lead to some misleading readings. There are many times when the five minute observations show a certain temp but when the actual high is divulged on the six hour intervals it doesn’t reach to that extreme. Happens in both the hot and cold directions. The readings at 56 past the hour are the actual METAR observations that are accurate. I was schooled on all this by some poster a while back, who was kind of rude about it ha. Forget his name. In any case, we’ll found out for sure at the 7:56pm update. I do agree we probably hit 99. I’ve said too much. Carry on. 

[canderson]

9 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Well careful now, recall that they do the converting back’n’forth between Celsius and Fahrenheit and then round, which can lead to some misleading readings. There are many times when the five minute observations show a certain temp but when the actual high is divulged on the six hour intervals it doesn’t reach to that extreme. Happens in both the hot and cold directions. The readings at 56 past the hour are the actual METAR observations that are accurate. I was schooled on all this by some poster a while back, who was kind of rude about it ha. Forget his name. In any case, we’ll found out for sure at the 7:56pm update. I do agree we probably hit 99. I’ve said too much. Carry on. 

I saw 99 so by god it is 99! Haha