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Sucks to be you... ...on the other hand, this is what we have to look forward to: MU Weather Center @MUweather Another mean trough, or dip in the #JETSTREAM, will set up shop over the eastern U.S. through the middle of next week. As such, 90-degree heat will be non-existent, and temps should average 3-6 degrees below normal over the next 7 days. We’ll get a few rounds of showers, too.

Meh, I was a Comet in school anyway.

The city of Lancaster's school district is the Red Tornado.

I was at .11" as late as 5:30pm last evening.

I ended up with 0.34". My "issue" was that pretty much everyone east of the river was expected would do well. And most even exceeded projections. Shoot, there were areas less than 10 miles from me that were closing in on or surpassed 2". I drove home from work yesterday in a deluge - it was the kind of rain where you start wondering "can it rain any harder than this?" Traffic was moving about 15mph on a 45mph road. It's 12 miles from work to home...I got within 3 miles of home and drove out of the wall of water and right into sun. When I got home, everything was dry. This was at 4:30, my wife said it hadn't rained since morning. She couldn't believe what I told her that I drove home through.

Here's the freshly minted WPC 7 day QPF map - hmm. I wonder where the driest area in PA is on this map?

Had anything fallen up there prior to 11am? I'm only asking as I noticed it was a 12 hour map. Regardless, I'm glad you responded and made that correction. My pathetic total gets worse by the minute.

I haven't made that list in a long time - I don't remember the last time I got more than an inch.

Yeah, that sure is on a sunny day. 72 here approaching noon.

It really is - perfect day out there! (and another day without excessive heat)

You'd like to think that things even out over time but in truth, it doesn't always work out that way. Really hard to say at this point. This time of year though can be especially cruel - several years ago in late August, Mount Joy received over 10" of rain in a few hours. I recorded 6.16" in Maytown. My wife and I were at Hersheypark that day and it never rained. So, it absolutely can flood in areas while other areas remained parched.

Really only one area east of the Susquehanna that lost yesterday: Oh wait...that's where Maytown is.

I'm only pulling his a** out if I get more snow than he does. LOL

And that's exactly my point. What MDT got means nothing suddenly.

I understand. However...the airport is 20 minutes up the road from me. Today they received over 4X the amount of rain that I did. That fact does not make me feel any better about what fell in my yard. I got nowhere near the "official" amount. Honest question - if we get a snowstorm this winter and MDT got 16" and you got 3", would you be happy?

If this were snow I would feel the same way I do right now about MDT. Who. Freaking. Cares.

Would you believe I finished with 0.34"? Very, very disappointed.

Rainfall here at work: 0.01" (from station 1/4 mile away) and officially at MU: 0.14" (4.5 miles away)

At my age, that's a marathon.

A SWS for a shower straight to a TOR warning.

SLGT was indeed moved west from this morning - not into the LSV but close for the eastern areas:

That escalated quickly - and here comes with it my severe concerns for our area this afternoon.

Yep...

We are under a Special Weather Statement now for a Gusty Shower. I've never seen that before.

Good to hear! .20" in Maytown. Not much more than a trace here in Conestoga, and looking at radar it's still going to be another hour (or more) until anything of consequence hits here.