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MU officially recorded a trace of snow yesterday - in a season where less than 1" fell they still pull off measurable in May. Just to clarify - it was snow that fell...not another form of frozen precip that gets recorded as snow.

.03" at home - home station down the road from work actually recorded .16" yesterday. Quite rainy during the morning to early afternoon time frame. I mowed last evening and will do so again tomorrow. With the breeze yesterday the grass wasn't too bad to cut last evening.

Not a huge surprise given that our area was in moderate drought status previously and we received less rain than most over the past week.

At least here at work, much more in the way of rain today over the past couple of days. I had no measurable rainfall yesterday but have had several showers today already.

I would have as well had I not watched dozens of Amtrak meatball videos. LOL

We planned our trip by watching travel vlogs - Jeb Brooks is one of our favorites. And he talks at length about said meatballs.

That's good info - I know I'm guilty of overestimating warmth and underestimating the cool spells. (AN spells always seem longer to me than BN streaks do) That really puts things in perspective.

After a week on and off the train, we're looking forward to being in control of our own travel. The entire trip is meticulously planned EXCEPT for the drive south along the coast. We're going to take time and enjoy things on a whim. After years of coach seating on Florida trips, we splurged (somewhat) for a roomette. It's small, but we'll have beds and access to showers. Plus privacy.

We've taken the Auto Train to Sanford FL many times, the Silver Star to Orlando, and many regional trips to NYC and such. Really excited to head west! Heading west it's a little over 51 hours on that route, 65 hours heading east. As always with Amtrak, delays are to be expected and built into the traveler's schedule. It's not the way to travel if you're inpatient or in a hurry, but if you're in a total relax vibe like we'll be you can't beat it. We'll be heading nearly due west through Denver as Bubbler mentioned and reaching the west coast near San Francisco. It'll take us a week to get there as we're stopping several places along the way. Spending a week in California and then heading east out of LA across the deep south before turning north along the Mississippi towards Chicagoland.

California Zephyr westbound from Chicago to San Francisco, then the Texas Eagle eastbound from Los Angeles to Chicago. A series of routes from Mount Joy out to Chicago and back. We'll be renting a car to drive the Pacific Coast highway south from SF along the coast.

We're actually taking Amtrak.

Yes, Friday will make #10.

51 here with on and off sprinkles/very light showers. Definitely does not have the look and feel of early May, that's for sure. I still might be able to sneak in #9 in the next couple of hours...

You might very well catch and pass "me" this month as I'll be traveling for 23 days beginning on Saturday. Rest assured, family will be stepping in to keep the mow count growing. LOL

My grass needs cut - tonight is an obvious choice but the weather might have other ideas for me. I might have to wait until Thursday!

That's exactly why I said what I did - I was on the same cam.

Looking at radar out in western PA it appears as if the Laurels are getting smoked right now. Some really intense rates in the higher elevations.

Loving every second of it! Picked up .07" of rain this evening.

After my earlier bravado, it never did rain here!

That is correct! Mammoth is expecting a couple of feet of snow this week.

Radar almost looks more encouraging for rain this afternoon than it did yesterday. (at least here) A lot of stuff is popping across the western 2/3rds of the state.

Sure is, and the .87" east of York city and the .93" in E-town lines up perfectly with the .89" that I reported as I fall between those 2 points exactly how the bands were oriented yesterday.

Yesterday's rainfall map - the .93" in Elizabethtown is within .04" of my final total:

I dish sarcasm with the best, no doubt. Having said that, I take a lot of pride in my numbers and it seemed like you were doubting them. I do not over or underreport data. Moving on now.

I responded to him as well. The difference was he asked a legitimate question and you came across as sarcastic.