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Light rain and 79 in Maytown. .03" over the past 10 minutes.

MU Weather Center @MUweather Severe storms are now exploding across south-central PA, WV and northern/western MD. Some of the discrete cells near Hagerstown are showing signs of rotation. Take shelter in an interior room or basement if you live in the path of these storms! The tornado threat is ramping up..

I know there are 2 sides to this and both have been well documented and discussed previously. It's a weather extreme, fascinating, and other things. I just can't bring myself to wish for severe knowing that severe weather basically implies that someone will receive some sort of damage. I won't wish that on anyone.

Just got out of Monday meetings and was reading a well respected red tagger in the MA thread who posted that conditions in this general area are not favorable for Tornadoes...at least yet. I really hope that holds. Here's to hoping we all get a nice rain with a 15 mph breeze...not likely but I can hope. I don't wish damage on anyone.

Very small percentage of PA is in the MOD area currently:

Yes he did, and he actually said eastern PA is primo. Don't like this at all.

Reed Timmer is in southern PA? Yikes.

I'd love to, but I'm unable for some reason on my computer. I can tell you he's predicting dozens if not hundreds of damage reports across the southern PA into northern VA area, with winds producing roof and tree damage a "lock." Biggest Tornado threat is the southern tier counties of PA down into eastern WV and northern VA. There will be discreet cells as well as a damaging squall line to contend with. Potentially, some areas might experience up to 3 separate rounds before it's all over.

I've received .31" of rain so far Please, please stay safe today everyone. MU was tweeting overnight and I don't believe I've ever read a more ominous message for our area.

Just had a brief (less than 5 minute) downpour.

Sneaky run towards 90 today - 86 here at 12:15.

And...skiing at Mammoth Mountain for the historic 2023 season concludes tomorrow. Opening day for the new season will be in just 95 days.

SPC has all of us under a SLGT for Monday; however, in their morning text they acknowledged that an upgrade to a more severe category may be warranted over the next 48 hours.

Nice summer day today. Going to enjoy working outside before rain hopefully comes tomorrow.

Issues are timing of the front and any debris from Sunday's threat. Hopefully at least one prohibits severe storm development.

Got that right. I don't even like severe weather threat days. Makes me very uneasy.

MU talkin' Tornadoes for Monday.

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Welcome to Baltimore Jack Flaherty.

As @Anduril posted earlier, pretty "impressive" that SPC has a 15% for day #5. They think something's up...

Since I've called Lancaster home since 1965, a couple of things stick out from the data that I posted: The winters of 1977-78 and 1993-94 are the 2 winters that I remember most as being bitterly cold. January 1977 featured a ridiculous negative departure of nearly 12 degrees, but the following winter was wall to wall cold. January and March were both more than 4 degrees below normal while February was over 9 degrees below normal. I remember watching the Baltimore news stations back then and people were driving on the Chesapeake. Hard to imagine that today. And then the January through March stretch of 1994 - I know many in this thread remember that...my neighborhood roads were 2 very deep ruts of tire tracks surrounded by a huge glacier of ice on either side, and it just did not melt. I have marked down that I had snow cover for 73 days that winter...think about that. The winter of 77-78 featured a huge February blizzard with little snow otherwise...just day after day of bitter, dry air. The 1994 winter was filled with tons of snow and ice events. On the flip side, 2010 was unrelenting heat. In fact, temps were WAY above normal every month from March all the way through September followed by a more modestly above normal October. That summer seemed like it would never end and in fact it did not end soon enough.

Thanks for the reminder, you did mention this before. Sorry that I did not recall it. It was quite windy today...it might even be windier now than it was earlier.

I don't want to start aggravating over aggregates. LOL It's a PA 233 special!

Here's the monthly temp records data: I forgot just how incredibly warm this past January was! https://www.atmos.millersville.edu/~wic/climo/t-anomaly.htm