Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[mahantango#1]

We have certainly been surprised and truly grateful at the overwhelming support, concern and prayers on behalf of our family. We greatly appreciate the people who come each summer to our orchard!

It was a pleasure to have CBS 21 news come and interview us concerning the impact of the April 21st freeze. The CBS team was both genuine and professional as they assembled the points of interest for the news segment.

The value of the potential crop loss, as reported, was accurate. As with most farms, every spring brings fresh hope for a potentially good year. But as farming is very weather dependent events like frosts, freezes, insects, or markets can really take a toll on expected income, as we well know. However, whether it’s a great year, average year, or poor year, input costs remain the same. This is a management scenario most farms take very seriously as we do, and prepare for it financially through rainy day funds, insurance, diversity in crops, etc.

Coping with the emotional aspect of something like this can be difficult and at times discouraging. But regardless weather God choses to prosper us or God choses to shape us through adversity our desire is to honor God in our lives as we move forward. So, as God gives us health and strength we will try again next year (2027) to produce our crops of fresh fruits and vegetables for you, our valued customers!

 

With much love, 

Your Honey Bear Family and Staff

(Including Juliet and Georgia, our granddaughters, who are excited to be old enough to wait on customers next year!)

[mahantango#1]

Starting this weekend, we turn a corner & highs in the 70s and 80s will be the norm for the rest of May. local21news.com/weather

 

[WmsptWx]

Euro shows Philadelphia flirting with the century mark this weekend.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Low of 45 with .04" of rain.  Mostly a delightful spring week ahead.

[ChescoWx]

We have received measurable rain in 5 of the last 6 days across the county. Below normal temperatures are likely to continue today through Friday before we warm back to above normal by the weekend. The best chances of rain will be Wednesday into Thursday morning.

[WmsptWx]

Holy Christ, this place is dead.

[Jns2183]

I've been reading up on some old time weather events around this area. Anyone know where I can get some more information regarding the August 22, 1915 Hanover tornado? Seems like it was probably part of line, and was more likely than not high end EF-2/low end EF-3 that went straight through downtown. Apparently gloves from the glove factory were found many many miles away. I pulled up the reanalysis maps and it was definitely a high shear low cape. Seemed like Harrisburg area got firehosed picking up 4"-5" of rain

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[Superstorm]

WGAL report on crop damage due to freeze....

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1349543337094583

[Itstrainingtime]

2 hours ago, WmsptWx said:

Holy Christ, this place is dead.

I've been posting a lot in the Sports threads. I've kept pretty quiet here as I realize that what I want is a lot different than most of you now that the winter crowd has left. I don't want to bring the group down by posting how great I feel every day it's cloudy, cool and damp or just cooler than normal. The older I get the more I despise the heat. It is the only reason my wife and I continue to live in PA. Otherwise we'd be living on the gulf coast of Florida. 

[canderson]

13 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I've been posting a lot in the Sports threads. I've kept pretty quiet here as I realize that I want is a lot different than most of you now that the winter crowd has left. I don't want to bring the group down by posting how great I feel every day it's cloudy, cool and damp or just cooler than normal. The older I get the more I despise the heat. It is the only reason my wife and I continue to live in PA. Otherwise we'd be living on the gulf coast of Florida. 

F the heat! It’s why I left Texas. 

[mahantango#1]

Frost advisory's and freeze warnings are out for tonight.

[Voyager]

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I've been posting a lot in the Sports threads. I've kept pretty quiet here as I realize that what I want is a lot different than most of you now that the winter crowd has left. I don't want to bring the group down by posting how great I feel every day it's cloudy, cool and damp or just cooler than normal. The older I get the more I despise the heat. It is the only reason my wife and I continue to live in PA. Otherwise we'd be living on the gulf coast of Florida. 

It's strange how our human bodies work differently. The older I get, the more I despise the cold. When I was young, I didn't mind it, but as I got older I started to dislike it. Now I flat out hate it. If it's really cold, it can be downright painful, but in general, I just hate bundling up anymore, and love the freedom of a short sleeve shirt and shorts/jeans.

As for the snow and ice, that's a trucking thing. If I worked inside and just had a to and from work commute, I'd probably somewhat like snow