Itstrainingtime

2nd storm here at the office now. No hail but heavy rain, lightning and thunder.

He can go with it but hail was going with force into my car. LOL

Temp dropped down to 50 at the height of the storm but has rebounded to 55 now. Not much if any wind so the hail did not drift.

The cell that produced hail here at work and at home is going nuts SW of Lancaster city right now. That area is getting smoked.

I was caught off guard by the lightning - multiple close cloud to ground strikes. I was in Columbia heading to Conestoga and the hail was significant - I was driving so no good measurements but the car was getting torpedoed. Best hail display I've seen in some time.

I'll say! Hail, heavy rain, vivid lightning and thunder. Just arrived here at work and it's impressive.

Rain wasn't even on my radar ( ) this morning...I just looked back at the loop from earlier this morning and it took a LOT of skill to miss out on the fun...there was the tiniest gap in a line that came through earlier and that tiny gap found my casa. I'm offsite today and just checked in with a couple of people in the office...they were like "duh, it rained." Made me feel even worse. LOL

According to MU, we might have envelopes falling from the skies later today! A few showers are currently impacting southeastern PA & northern MD, but they’ll become more widespread this afternoon & evening after a brief lull late this morning. As the atmosphere becomes more unstable, some rumbles of thunder & small mail may accompany the heaviest showers.

Liking the all caps to reinforce the message of how bad I suck at weather.

You're too Young to be following like a Hawk! Last night was our night - we had perfectly clear skies and calm winds during the evening hours and my temp was dropping like a rock. It was 61 at 6pm, 39 by 11pm. Much colder than the previous 2 nights. Shortly after midnight the clouds moved in and that was that. Only dropped to 38 here. Wait - it rained overnight or this morning? I really do live in the precip anus of PA...nothing even close to precip in Maytown.

Noted. Hopefully I don't pull a Celtics and choke away my lead!

Sorry about that- not a good choice of words on my part. Reading it again gives me the same feeling it did to you.

Agree, very sudden departure.

The long-time voice of Beaver Stadium will not be in the booth again: https://www.statecollege.com/articles/penn-state-football/beaver-stadium-pa-announcer-dean-devore-no-longer-with-penn-state-athletics/ Dean was a total weather geek like myself at Penn Manor High School, we were in the same meteorology class. (I was class of 1983, he was 1984) He is also heard around the country every day on AccuWeather.

Exactly! But...I was sweating paweather's 10 count!

See, our mowing derby is far better than snowfall totals. At least with mowing we have something to count.

I was going to say...I need to beef up my mowing. You had me worried.

Today will be the 7th mow of the season - 8th for the year. I did my annual snow mow in January prior to the crippling 1" we got that was gone in 18 minutes.

Approaching 12pm with no nooner in sight...53 here with partly sunny conditions.

I look like a lot of things (wife says a hot mess) but I've never been referred to as Mexican.

Yeah wise guy, you can safely remove one of them.

Mowing in t minus 5 hours. I swear it shot up 6" yesterday. By next week it might be an every other day thing if we get a lot of rain.

MU has been tweeting a lot about the upcoming pattern - this is all from the past hour: (1/3) Now that's a change! The Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO) wave has migrated into phase 1. In an ENSO-neutral April, there is a strong correlation between phase 1 & the large-scale pattern across North America. Unfortunately, phase 1 promotes below-normal temps in the East. (2/3) The ECMWF computer model 500 mb height anomaly forecast for the upcoming weekend looks a lot like the MJO phase 1 pattern. A ridge over the West (+PNA) will combine with high-latitude, Greenland blocking (-NAO) to suppress the Jet Stream over the eastern U.S.. (3/3) What does this mean for us? To make a long story short, the summerlike warmth of recent weeks is gone. Highs will be stuck in the 50s/60s each afternoon through at least May 5th. And yes, we'll deal with a few "cold rains" and perhaps another frost or two. I'm not a fan..

Any drifting expected?

You know fun times are ahead when Weather Will is breaking out probability maps on 4/25....