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11:00am roundup: MDT: 88 LNS: 87 THV: 86

My point and click is running a couple of degrees cooler than the Harrisburg area for today and tomorrow. I'm guessing it's because we've gotten significantly more rain down this way the past 2 days. (Mine is 94 today, 97 tomorrow)

I heard of them but wouldn't have been able to identify one until Brian came along.

Picked up 2.4" over the past 2 days, .8" since midnight. Should be interesting to see how hot we get...

I need to take her to the Tug Hill for ME. 81/77 at LNS right now. When was the last time we had that kind of combination?

Thanks Brian! I don't think my wife really appreciated what she was seeing anyway. I texted her last evening and asked if we got a lot of rain or wind, her response was "it rained a little I guess." I got home and discovered we got over 1.5" in less than an hour. She definitely will never get a job in any type of media...my wife is probably the biggest under-exaggerator I know. (She was in Boone, NC last December when 22" of snow fell in 15 hours. She called me and said she was disappointed that it wasn't that much.)

I had read CTP's afternoon disco where they all but completely dismissed a severe weather threat yesterday, so as an acting weather weenie I was trying to prepare fans last night for lightning and heavy rain. I went beyond my duties and started asking people to leave the seating bowl due to all the cloud to ground strikes going on, people seemed oblivious to it. Anyway, the sky got really ominous to the southwest...probably one of the scariest skies I've seen. I wasn't prepared for that based on the information I was getting from weather outlets. My wife was driving home and she stopped at various spots and took like 50 pictures. I posted the one because I've never seen anything like it. She did say that what I posted lasted seconds before it dissipated.

I thought of a rope tornado...but a waterspout over open farmland? I'm not saying you're wrong...I didn't know if it was possible.

So I have a part time job with the Barnstormers. Last night around 6:30 the sky was green. I mean...it was really green. I've heard people describe seeing that before but until last night I'm not sure I ever did. I was commenting about this to fans who were adjacent to me. One guy kind of laughed and then when he looked he got this look of horror on his face, turned to his wife and said "holy f*ck, it is green!" Then he looks back at me and says...what does that mean? I say, I'm not sure exactly but it ain't a good thing. I didn't find out until after the fact that Lancaster city was under a Tornado Warning at the time...

I received 1.6" of rain, no idea about wind but looking around Maytown this morning I didn't see much to indicate there was wind. Washington Boro got a smack down. Trees, branches and wires everywhere. Heard the southern end got a whoopin' too.

Is it possible that the Nats have a worse bullpen than the O's? Holy cow, what an implosion last night. Nice to see the Orioles win a game like that!

My wife took this picture about a half mile from our home last evening. I've never seen anything like it...any ideas? I was at the ballpark in Lancaster working when the storm hit.

Storms are a firing...and a watch is up for east of the river.

@Voyager QPF jackpot today?

WPC goes SLIGHT for excessive rainfall for much of the SE portion of our area today and tonight.

Max wind gust - 7 mph.

You would know, but I so miss the old ballparks. I saw over 600 games at Memorial Stadium, which many thought was a total dump. Personally, I would give my heart and soul to watch baseball there over Camden Yards any day or night. Bringing weather into it, I was an 18 year old Sunday season ticket holder back in 1984 at Memorial. Took a friend from work down to a Sunday afternoon double dip against the Tigers. (they started that year 35-5) At any rate, the Tigers won game #1 12-4 and were up 10-0 in the nightcap and there I sat blissfully watching the game I love so much. The guy with me was beside himself that we were still there, 6 hours after game #1 started. You see, the announced temperature at game time was 101 degrees. And like Arlington Stadium, Memorial Stadium's upper level was almost entirely metal benches with metal backs. There were over 50,000 at 2pm...probably about 500 of us at 8pm, lol. That was the hottest sporting event I've attended. I've been to a lot of 'em. Edit: If any of you go to an O's game (no idea why any would want to, sadly) but anyway...take note of the announced game time temperature. Since sometime at least back to the 1970s the temperature has ALWAYS been an odd number. It's a tradition that I'm not sure how it started but I know it to be true.

Gutsy call! Going higher at MDT than Thomasville. You'll probably nail it, as usual.

I remember when the Rangers played at old Arlington Stadium that they were the only MLB team to play their Sunday home games in the evening because it was just too hot during the afternoon.

44" in 6 days...but who's counting?

'95 and '97 both had big heat waves. At least at LNS the temps were a bit higher in 97. (though '95 I think was more oppressive.) LNS's all time record is 107. July record is 104...

Yep, thanks for clarifying... Can't remember the year (stuff like this happens at my age) but there was a July heatwave back in the 90s that will be tough to beat. I remember working on a Saturday morning and LNS was 96 at 9am. Ninety freaking six. I think we ended up at a buck o four that day. Dews were outrageous as well. That...was miserable. Edit: It was 1997. LNS had consecutive days over 100, on one of which it was 96 at the 10am reading.

Thank you! 100% agree with every word penned right here... Just for fun, and to prove my total ignorance, here are my guesses for highest recorded temps as we experience the wave: THV: 99 MDT: 96 LNS: 97

If we stay dry during the midweek period I suppose we could make a run at it...my personal feeling is we max out around 95-96 but we'll see.

We are now entering the hottest 10 day period of the year based on the long-term average.