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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....

I'm going to say a big FUKING no to forst tonight but I was right last night so it's time for me to be taken behind the wood shed. LOL

Correct, it wasn't "windy" per se but it was more than windy enough to prevent good radiational cooling.

My concerns about the winds last night were well founded. I was still at 41 at 4:00am before it dropped off sharply after that.

Warmer this morning than yesterday- 36.1 was my low yesterday, 36.4 this morning.

46.2 and quite breezy at 10:40pm. Going to need the winds to die off soon if we're going to get frosty overnight.

Ruh roh...paging @Blizzard of 93 straight from MU's warminsta himself! (1/2) A weak disturbance near the base of an upper-level trough over southeastern Canada will pivot through NY and PA on Wednesday. Expect isolated showers to erupt during the afternoon/evening hours, and I can't even rule out some #graupel due to the presence of cold air aloft.. (2/2) The freezing level on Wednesday will only be about 5,000 ft. above the ground, and rapidly ↓ temps with ↑ height indicate an unstable atmosphere. Graupel forms when supercooled water droplets accumulate and freeze on falling snowflakes and will be most likely N/W of I-81.

Update from Maytown while I'm at work: Wife: "Does our air conditioning really need to be running today?" Me: "If the air conditioning is running, then obviously the temp inside is warm enough for it to run." (I'm waiting for the "can I please open the windows?" question next)

What a fiasco Americanwx OT was over this news!

It's been a LONG time since this map looked anything close to this: