Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Man what a nice line of storms, with solid winds and plenty of L&T. Still some solid rain left to go here on the backend too. Came through right as I was putting the kids to bed, always fun seeing how they react to that ha. 

[pawatch]

What a storm last night. Radar looked impressive!
Lightning was crazy , been awhile since I seen so much lightning.

straight down strikes, across the sky lightning, circling lightning

precipitation was sporadic. .39” to nothing less than a mile away.

Currently 45 degrees

edit: got up at 2:00am  pbreak solid fog, got up at 5:00am no fog at all.

[mahantango#1]

My rain rate was 2.03in. hr. during the thunderstorm last night. It's been awhile since I think last July that my rain rate was that high.

[mahantango#1]

Weather World

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We see more temperature ups and downs on the way for Pennsylvania over the next 5 weeks with frequent frontal passages. Despite the fronts, the pattern may not be excessively wet, meaning that drought conditions are likely to persist for SEPA

[mahantango#1]

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Low of 49 and a robust .63" of rain.  The mower should get another nice workout tomorrow.

[WmsptWx]

1 hour ago, mahantango#1 said:

F***in... ALEET!

[mahantango#1]

Another cloud filled sky day, temp 51. another dismal day. Talked to someone that helps farmers out planting an harvesting crops. He said planting is running behind schedule with this cold May.

[pasnownut]

21 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Another cloud filled sky day, temp 51. another dismal day. Talked to someone that helps farmers out planting an harvesting crops. He said planting is running behind schedule with this cold May.

My wifes family is 2 generation farming family (Pine View Dairy for those that know the area). 

They told me many moons ago that safe bet was memorial day for planting.  I think because of the many warm springs that've been sprinkled in, it has moved up the planting timeframe, but to the peril of the planter.  Spring hasnt changed that much, that its worth the gamble imo.  I see sweet corn already 4-6" tall near my house, but thats much smaller scale gamble than a few hundred acres of regular corn.  Fruit folks, totally diff ballgame (and not a good one this year).  

Hope yall are doing well.

[ChescoWx]

16 hours ago, Jns2183 said:

If I were you I'd take a deep dive into station history metadata if your using raw values. One of the biggest issue I found was time of observation bias for temperature. Easily can throw things off 1-2 degres

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I actually did just such a deep dive into for example the NWS COOP station at Coatesville 1SW below shows any bias would only have potentially been present from 1910-1921. So not significant based on the 89 years of history for that station.

[ChescoWx]

We picked up 0.44" here in East Nantmeal since last night, Cool and breezy today before we start a nice warming trend. Some lower valley spots may touch 90 by next Tuesday. Higher ridge locations are likely to remain in the mid to upper 80's. We will likely see a return to cooler temps toward the end of next week. Our next chance of rain looks to be toward mid-week.

[WmsptWx]

2 hours ago, mahantango#1 said:

Weather World

enospodStr300m6i6uu4a319mutflth76mh0u0il69gii1lgi15i0t7ct119 ·

 

We see more temperature ups and downs on the way for Pennsylvania over the next 5 weeks with frequent frontal passages. Despite the fronts, the pattern may not be excessively wet, meaning that drought conditions are likely to persist for SEPA

Missed this one earlier. I think that graphic hits the nail on the head, and is in agreement with AccuWeather's seasonal graphic. I think the NY/PA border or just north of it may be where the fronts roll along and the most of PA probably stays pretty dry.

[mahantango#1]

6 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

My wifes family is 2 generation farming family (Pine View Dairy for those that know the area). 

They told me many moons ago that safe bet was memorial day for planting.  I think because of the many warm springs that've been sprinkled in, it has moved up the planting timeframe, but to the peril of the planter.  Spring hasnt changed that much, that its worth the gamble imo.  I see sweet corn already 4-6" tall near my house, but thats much smaller scale gamble than a few hundred acres of regular corn.  Fruit folks, totally diff ballgame (and not a good one this year).  

Hope yall are doing well.

Yea I was talking about field corn and soybean planting. As far as planting my garden. I planted my potatoes about 2 weeks ago. There not up yet. Just planted stringbeans and peas e days ago. I should have some sweet corn planted by now, but that ground is too cold yet. And now just had .88 rain last night. And my garden is in the bottom land next to a creek. Last night during the thunderstorm my garden was basically underwater. If it would be a sunny day today and temps in the 70's I could get in the garden later today. But with a completely overcast sky and cool temps that won't be the case today. Hopefully it warms up soon and stays.

[Jns2183]

I sit at a dismal 9.74" of rain for the year which puts me at about the 21st percentile

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[TheDreamTraveler]

Geez might get up to 95 on Monday now. Pretty insane to see in mid May. Also with how cold its been for a while it's just going to make it feel that much hotter

[ChescoWx]

8 minutes ago, TheDreamTraveler said:

Geez might get up to 95 on Monday now. Pretty insane to see in mid May. Also with how cold its been for a while it's just going to make it feel that much hotter

Quite the difference my NWS point and click had the warmest being Tuesday and only 87 degrees...Enola has 94 on Tuesday

[mahantango#1]

1 hour ago, Jns2183 said:

I sit at a dismal 9.74" of rain for the year which puts me at about the 21st percentile

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I got 12.40 rain for the year. And 1.70 for the month of May.

[Voyager]

1 hour ago, TheDreamTraveler said:

Geez might get up to 95 on Monday now. Pretty insane to see in mid May. Also with how cold its been for a while it's just going to make it feel that much hotter

Probably be a 30 degree swing between next week and the end of the month and Memorial Day ends up being 65 and cloudy...lol

[Itstrainingtime]

0.37" of rain in Maytown last evening.