Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[Ruin]

12 hours ago, pasnownut said:

Yeah this weeks "warmup" so far has been an epic fail.  Just looked and NWS has me in upper 40's today and tomorrow.  i memory serves a week ago I thought I'd be in the 60's and some said ticklin 70.  Regardless this is typical spring weather and while I HATE mud....we need the rain and looks like plenty of chances to suppress the spring wildfire worries.

Why i always bitch they can't get most things right jist 3 days or so out

[canderson]

Heavy rain. Good spring stuff. 

[Itstrainingtime]

Thunderstorm in progress here. Cats aren't happy.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Just now, Itstrainingtime said:

Thunderstorm in progress here. Cats aren't happy.

Yep just saw my first lightning in quite a while. Heavy batch getting ready to roll through. Our dogs don’t love it either. 

[mahantango#1]

1.09 rain so far today. No thunder or lightning here.

[Blizzard of 93]

10 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Yep just saw my first lightning in quite a while. Heavy batch getting ready to roll through. Our dogs don’t love it either. 

Thunderstorms in Winter mean snow within 10 days according to the old time folklore!

[Blizzard of 93]

Here is our next window of Winter opportunity after the muted warmup.

[canderson]

Had some thunder but didn’t notice lightning. 

[AccuChris]

1.24” in the bucket today here in Lebanon


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[Mount Joy Snowman]

6 minutes ago, AccuChris said:

1.24” in the bucket today here in Lebanon


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Nothing even remotely close to that here. Looking at the radar throughout the day, I figured you guys to my north and west would see much bigger totals. 

[canderson]

.85” of rain today for me.  .6” of that was in an hour and half this evening.