Central PA Spring 2026 Discussion/Obs Thread

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Low of 49. Nice one today. My wife wanted me to turn on the heat the last two mornings. I’ve never scoffed at her so hard ha. 

[mahantango#1]

This seems a little off as  in my local where I picked up .88 of rain on Wednesday evening. The colors on the map show I only got .25-.50

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The latest drought monitor was released this morning and it's not good news for the areas already in drought. Although the extent has not changed, the severity of the existing drought increased. Over the past 24 hours, up to an inch of rain fell, but the heaviest amounts were mostly in areas unaffected by drought. The next 72 hours will not bring any relief as less than 0.25 inches, and increasing temperatures, are expected

 

[Jns2183]

another week we had a good amount of rain but still this map hasnt changed
 
 

Haha, it might be because people are still below the 40th percentile for ytd rainfall. Honestly unless we get area wide coverage of 25" from now till end of August I'd expect this map will be there the entire summer. Add in the fact that many have not had an above normal season in 3-4 years I'd be more worried if the map showed nothing.

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[Superstorm]

1 minute ago, Jns2183 said:

Haha, it might be because people are still below the 40th percentile for ytd rainfall. Honestly unless we get area wide coverage of 25" from now till end of August I'd expect this map will be there the entire summer. Add in the fact that many have not had an above normal season in 3-4 years I'd be more worried if the map showed nothing.

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Depending on thunderstorms in the summer to make up the drought is a crap shoot.  I fear this gets much worse.

[pasnownut]

22 hours ago, mahantango#1 said:

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.

good luck w/ the crops.  Sounds like later is better for your garden.  Happy planting.  We gave up on our garden a couple years ago.  I/we miss the "fruits of the labor, but it was my wifes hobby, and i was just the weed guy.  I hate pullin weeds....lol.  She just does small batch stuff in some of our larger beds.  Jalapenos going in very soon she says.  Her pepper jam is a crowd pleaser, just like her horseradish used to be.  

Have a good weekend all.