Itstrainingtime

I'm calling it now - in a winter that will once again be nearly wall to wall total suckage, we're going to get lucky once and wamboozled during a crap pattern. First call: Cumberland county weenies: 30-35" Dauphin: 26-32" York: 28-34" (except for that other blizzard guy down near the M/D line who will get 44") Adams: 30-36" Franklin: 24-30" MAGland: 14-22" Lancaster: 30-36" Schuylkill: 20-26" Lycoming: 10-15" For most of us, our final seasonal totals will be <10" greater than from that one storm alone. I reserve the right to edit this post as I see fit.

Tracking tropical disturbances at long leads is pretty normal, IMHO.

You've been consistently running a few degrees ahead of me this summer. I'm at my high for the day, and exactly what he predicted this morning. 91 on the nose. It must be that I'm opening my back door a lot and some of my 65 degree air is chilling my sensor.

Are you kidding? Why would talking tropics be a bother? I mean, we can only come on so many times and say it's 91...93...95...you get the point. Any type of anomalous weather is fun to track. I've been following the tropic threads closely.

Every time we have a dry summer or even just a dry stretch of days, I'm amazed at how quickly things dry and burn. Get a run of several 90+ degree days and little to no rainfall and things start dying out quickly. Having said that, this will likely be the first week all season that I won't HAVE to mow - up until now my yard has needed cut every 5-6 days. I'm going to give it a break this week.

86.4 here at 10:10am...we got this. I saw irrigation going on yesterday afternoon in places that I've never seen. She's drying and dying quickly...

And a muffed punt it was! Current temp here is 91.

Radar does look lousy. And you're right about going forward as well...not much to be enthused about regarding rain chances over the next week.

I think that's exactly right. Probably a good amount of down sloping from the surrounding ridges. I travel the turnpike a lot and see the same thing happen in Breezewood - it's often 3-5 degrees cooler up on Sideling Hill compared to the land of hotels...

88 at noon with a good amount of cloudiness. 90 obviously within reach but not totally convinced I make it unless there is more sun than there is now. It actually feels pretty good here with the cloud/breeze combo.

There's a beautiful breeze this morning.

97/66. 98 remains as my season high.

Nope! Season high has been 98. Sitting at 97 right now. Things are getting crunchy underfoot...

95/67 here at 1:45. Puts the HI just under 100.

Just hit 90. At least the hours of daylight are shortening. It's going to have to work harder to get hot soon.

I see Bubbler is overflowing with positive vibes these days.

I was reading comments from the Lancaster county agriculture department that said the combination of high heat AND lack of rainfall is significantly impacting the current yield. Corn can thrive in heat but it needs rainfall to grow. That's what I got for you.

Well, good and bad, the success of any organization usually reflect one at the top of the pecking order. Angelos has undeniably turned a once very proud into a laughingstock. The O's have had several highly touted arms over the past couple of decades or so that never developed as hoped. (Hello Dylan Bundy) How many young players have suffered significant injuries in our farm system? Something doesn't seem right there either. It's part of the game, sure, but we do injuries better than anyone else. That's discouraging too. We've been hearing for years about the next great arm to anchor the rotation and we're still waiting. I gladly drove 90 minutes each way to 33rd Street (20-30 times a season) when I was younger to support them but in recent years it's been a couple of trips a season...at most. There was a time when you could proclaim to be an Orioles fan and feel a lot of pride in saying that. No more. It's a shame. It's humiliating to go to a home game when the visiting team's fans outnumber us 4-1.

Jumping in from Lancaster Pa as a 45 year fan and former season ticket holder for my beloved O's. This is likely an historically bad team - I'm going 9-51. If my 76ers could manage just 9 wins in 82 games back in 1972 there's no reason why this team can't match it in 60 games.

Fresh sweet corn is in short supply over this way now due to the dry weather. Several stands announced they will be limiting hours and amounts as the current yield is suffering.

Looks like you are in the cross hairs...again!

Only got .22" over the past 24 hours here. Congrats to the areas that really needed rain and got it!

It's about to rain on Rouzerville again...

Nothing remotely close to me. Yet.

It rains in Tamaqua every day it seems...