mahantango#1 Posted yesterday at 12:10 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:10 PM PA Weather Plus, ** PENNSYLVANIA TORNADO COUNT 2026 ** Pennsylvania is now up to 41 confirmed tornadoes for 2026! An EF2 tornado has been confirmed in eastern York County and an EF1 in western Lancaster County from the severe thunderstorms this past Thursday, August 20th. It has been quite the severe weather season, and we are not done yet, with strong storms expected throughout the weekend. The 41 tornadoes are the 3rd most recorded in the state, followed by 44 in 2021 and 59 in 1998. To put it into more perspective, Pennsylvania has seen more tornadoes than Nebraska (37) and Texas (33), and we are not far behind Kansas (44) and Oklahoma (47). How do you feel that Pennsylvania is ranking up with some of the traditional 'Tornado Alley' states? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mount Joy Snowman Posted yesterday at 12:31 PM Share Posted yesterday at 12:31 PM Low of 63 with .59” of rainfall from the overnight line of storms. This month is starting to climb the record books for me. I’ll check my spreadsheet tomorrow but I think I’m over 13” for the month. Should be a beautiful few days ahead. We are hitting the river today. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted yesterday at 01:06 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:06 PM 68 degrees for the low. 1.22” of rain over night. 5.82” of rain for the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm Posted yesterday at 01:22 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:22 PM 0.81” of rain today.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChescoWx Posted yesterday at 01:39 PM Share Posted yesterday at 01:39 PM Per our new ChescoWx model some great weather ahead with below normal highs through Tuesday with highs ranging from the low to mid 70's through Tuesday and then upper 70's through next weekend. Comfortable lows in the 50's through Wednesday morning before low 60's through the weekend. Our only rain chances look to be Thursday into Thursday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreamTraveler Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago 3 hours ago, mahantango#1 said: PA Weather Plus, ** PENNSYLVANIA TORNADO COUNT 2026 ** Pennsylvania is now up to 41 confirmed tornadoes for 2026! An EF2 tornado has been confirmed in eastern York County and an EF1 in western Lancaster County from the severe thunderstorms this past Thursday, August 20th. It has been quite the severe weather season, and we are not done yet, with strong storms expected throughout the weekend. The 41 tornadoes are the 3rd most recorded in the state, followed by 44 in 2021 and 59 in 1998. To put it into more perspective, Pennsylvania has seen more tornadoes than Nebraska (37) and Texas (33), and we are not far behind Kansas (44) and Oklahoma (47). How do you feel that Pennsylvania is ranking up with some of the traditional 'Tornado Alley' states? Thankfully in terms of ranking we don't rank with tornado alley in intensity. Anything over EF3 is usually pretty rare in most of the state and slightly less rare in the western half. Still very impressive. We might be able to beat 2021 but 1998 might be hard to beat unless the fall season is very active 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreamTraveler Posted 23 hours ago Share Posted 23 hours ago I'm pretty sure when I checked yesterday there wasn't a chance for showers or thunderstorms today yet there's a storm coming right for me lmao these forecasts are actual trash now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago 1 hour ago, TheDreamTraveler said: I'm pretty sure when I checked yesterday there wasn't a chance for showers or thunderstorms today yet there's a storm coming right for me lmao these forecasts are actual trash now Two-plus years of eliminating funding, closing offices and firing experts has consequences. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted 21 hours ago Share Posted 21 hours ago Whatever that little cell that went overhead dropped zero rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mahantango#1 Posted 20 hours ago Share Posted 20 hours ago 3 hours ago, TheDreamTraveler said: Thankfully in terms of ranking we don't rank with tornado alley in intensity. Anything over EF3 is usually pretty rare in most of the state and slightly less rare in the western half. Still very impressive. We might be able to beat 2021 but 1998 might be hard to beat unless the fall season is very active You right. And thankfully that most of thse wernt long tracked tornados through urban and city areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yardstickgozinya Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago 7 hours ago, TheDreamTraveler said: I'm pretty sure when I checked yesterday there wasn't a chance for showers or thunderstorms today yet there's a storm coming right for me lmao these forecasts are actual trash now It was in the nws forecast discussion, and SPC had a good chunk of the area highlighted for marginal risk of severe thunderstorms today for the past several days and had all of pennsylvania included in the thunderstorm outlook, other than that, I never heard it mentioned either. I actually had two thunderstorms here today, about two hours apart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted 15 hours ago Share Posted 15 hours ago No rain today here. But a perfect august evening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mount Joy Snowman Posted 13 hours ago Share Posted 13 hours ago Beautiful day on the river. We were able to outrun the one cell. Summertime convection has always been fickle and hard to predict and always will be; let’s not make it anything more than that. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheDreamTraveler Posted 5 hours ago Share Posted 5 hours ago Bit of rain this AM. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted 4 hours ago Share Posted 4 hours ago 53 degrees this morning. .11” in a quick downpour yesterday. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mount Joy Snowman Posted 2 hours ago Share Posted 2 hours ago Low of 59 with .13” of rain. Mondays stink. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mount Joy Snowman Posted 59 minutes ago Share Posted 59 minutes ago My monthly total now stands at 13.28", which would already be good for my third wettest month ever, behind only August of 2018 and September of 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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