Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[Mount Joy Snowman]

MDT's April 21st record low of 30, set in 1956, is in play.  I certainly think a number of unofficial stations will easily get into the 20s, question is whether the "river station" can.  I have my doubts.

[WmsptWx]

Had a tree and grass topper this morning on Sandy Ridge Summit.

[canderson]

It just rained. Radar was bare ha 

[NepaJames8602]

Woke up to another coating of snow and 30 degrees this am.

Tonight's forecasted low is 21.

 

[pasnownut]

Left cabin yesterday w/ snow/sleet combo, and had a few slushbombs hitting windshield on way to office this morning.  Not sure were done w/ flakes flyin up north, but it was a fitting end to my trackin for the year.  Cave's a callin, but I'll stop in once in a while.

 

[ChescoWx]

A Freeze Warning is in effect tonight through 9am tomorrow morning. Be sure to protect any tender plants by late tonight. In my 22 years here the average date of my last freeze has been April 10th. Valley locations across the area have averaged later last freeze dates. High temperatures today will be almost 20 degrees below normal temperatures in the 40's. We start a warming trend through the rest of the work week before chilling down and turning wet for the weekend.

[Yardstickgozinya]

3 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

MDT's April 21st record low of 30, set in 1956, is in play.  I certainly think a number of unofficial stations will easily get into the 20s, question is whether the "river station" can.  I have my doubts.

   This isn't the usual freeze hype .    Tonight's the real deal and a very concerning situation for local fruit farmers.  Any amount of time at or below 28°F will be catastrophic to local  fruit farming.  Cherry and apple fruitlets have already developed. Fruitlets go from alive and well at 29°F to complete cellular damage and abortion at 28°F. 

[Itstrainingtime]

4 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

MDT's April 21st record low of 30, set in 1956, is in play.  I certainly think a number of unofficial stations will easily get into the 20s, question is whether the "river station" can.  I have my doubts.

 

11 minutes ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

   This isn't the usual freeze hype .    Tonight's the real deal and a very concerning situation for local fruit farmers.  Any amount of time at or below 28°F will be catastrophic to local  fruit farming.  Cherry and apple fruitlets have already developed. Fruitlets go from alive and well at 29°F to complete cellular damage and abortion at 28°F. 

Still a couple things to resolve - cloud cover and wind. We need those to work out to really drop.

[Yardstickgozinya]

40 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

 

Still a couple things to resolve - cloud cover and wind. We need those to work out to really drop.

Absolutely, I saw that in the discussion today, pray for clouds and wind. 

[Itstrainingtime]

Going to record a T of snowfall today as a heavy graupel shower rolled through earlier.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

16 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Going to record a T of snowfall today as a heavy graupel shower rolled through earlier.

That’s awesome. No such thing happened here. 

[Itstrainingtime]

55 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

That’s awesome. No such thing happened here. 

I took an extra day off today to recover from our trip and I was reading reports of graupel and even snow down in the DMV. Shortly thereafter a little shower rolled through here. It couldn't have lasted 2 minutes but it came down heavy for about a minute.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I took an extra day off today to recover from our trip and I was reading reports of graupel and even snow down in the DMV. Shortly thereafter a little shower rolled through here. It couldn't have lasted 2 minutes but it came down heavy for about a minute.

I’ve experienced them quite a few times over the years, almost always this time of year. They are fun little events.