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@Mount Joy Snowman It is a biotic and infectious tree disease that mainly affects conifers, but it can also spread the hardwoods but apparently it rarely kills hardwoods. Calling in a arborist to be safe, probably wouldn't be a bad idea.

I'm really not a tree guy, but i've seen a lot of different things in my landscaping. For my unprofessional viewpoint, the likely culprit looks to be annosus . Annosus Root Rot Courtesy USDA Forest Service, Bugwood.org Hosts Annosus root and butt rot is a commercially important disease of conifers. All southern pines are susceptible, but loblolly and slash pine are most severely affected. Identification Conks are often present in the litter at the base of dead or dying trees or tree stumps, or under root masses of windthrown trees. Conks, when fresh, are tan to brownish on the upper surface and white with tiny pores on the lower surface. They are rubbery and tough to tear. In the southern United States, conks are most common from December through March. Damage Damage from annosus root and butt rot may be scattered throughout a stand or in pockets of dead and dying pine trees called “infection centers.” Mortality is sometimes preceded by thinning and yellowing of the crown; however, some trees simply turn red and die. Trees in various stages of dying or death may suffer windthrow. Infected roots exhibit resin or pitch-soaking, and stringy root decay. Biology Annosus root and butt rot probably enters the stand when fungal spores land on fresh cut stump surfaces. The fungus grows through the remaining root system into nearby live trees via root grafts or contacts. Mortality usually begins 2 to 3 years after thinning and often ceases 5 to 7 years later. Damage increases with the sand content of the soil. Twelve inches (30 mm) or more of sand or sandy loam above a clay subsoil in a soil with good internal drainage is considered a high hazard site for tree mortality. Control Prevention and control strategies for annosus root rot include stump treatment, timing of thinnings, prescribed burns, and the manipulation of planting density

Maybe those rascals over at the SPC are making up stories again, who knows. Day 4-8 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0337 AM CDT Fri Jul 24 2026 Valid 271200Z - 011200Z ...DISCUSSION... ...Day 4/Monday... A prominent upper high will remain centered over the central and southern Plains with a belt of enhanced mid-level flow forecast along the periphery of that feature from the northern Plains into the Great Lakes. Within that flow regime, a short-wave trough is forecast to translate through the Great Lakes in tandem with a surface low and trailing cold front. A hot and moist boundary layer is expected ahead of the front, yielding moderate to strong instability by afternoon. Despite veered low-level winds, strengthening mid/upper-level winds in the exit region of a jet streak will contribute to sufficient vertical shear for organized severe storms across portions of the Great Lakes into the OH Valley Monday afternoon into night. ...Day 5/Tuesday... The Day 4/Monday short-wave trough is forecast to evolve into an upper low across southwest ON and the lower Great Lakes with an associated belt of stronger cyclonic flow developing from the OH Valley into the southern Mid-Atlantic and NC. At the surface, an area of low pressure will develop from the lower Great Lakes into central NY with a trailing cold front advancing through the upper OH Valley, central Appalachians, and Mid-Atlantic. Thunderstorms may be ongoing Tuesday morning along and ahead of the front from the lower Great Lakes and upper OH Valley into the Mid-Atlantic. Stronger heating is anticipated to the south of the early-day storms from the southern Mid-Atlantic into NC, where moderate to potentially strong instability is forecast. The strongest instability will coincide with modestly strong deep-layer shear to support some severe weather threat in those areas Tuesday afternoon and evening.

Day 4 clips, western Pa nwhat's slighr risk and Day 5 clips, southeastern Pa with slight risk.

New records are broken here and definitely not very impressive.

Some mornings you just have to step out of the house and stretch bare ass.

I was just curious because some conifers can handle lean more then others. If there was a hump on one side of the root flare, opposing the direction of the lean, then it was destined to fall for wind or over saturation at some point . If the root flares went out nice and straight in all directions and there was no humps ,bumps or rot in the actual central leader then you might want to have an arborist come check your other conifers on your property if you have any.

Do you know what kind of pine it was?

Spc mentions severe weather, returning to our area in the day 7 time frame.

In all seriousness, I found a YouTube video of old Chuck from 5 months ago. I was delighted to know that it seems like he was doing pretty good.I've talked about Chuck and made up stories about him a few times over the years, in here. Definitely, an integral part of my childhood and teen years, and one of the reasons that I like weather so much along with Dr Greg Forbes and the old weather channel crew. Chuck talks about some of his favorite snow memories in this video.

Lol I Miss old Chuck Rhoads to, he's definitely the king of local weather, but i'm talking about Charles Doogley. He did our school weather senior year and earned the nickname Chuck Choads due to an instident involving a farmers stolen goat and a jar of extra chunky jiff. The Great part actually has nothing to do with his weather forecasting abilities and everything to do with a jar of peanut butter.

The Great Chuck Chodes wouldn't have screwed it up this bad. Speaking of the king, he had a term for this kind of storm behavior. I believe he called it circle jerking the Commonwealth, but I could be mistaken.

I did notice the bottom of the conversation mention 18z but the update time is 7:48pm so i'm a little confused. I guess i'm just assuming they would take it down if they thought if all risk was over at that 7:48 update is the point that I was trying to make.

I know a lot of people have given up hope. And I i myself assumed severe is over, but as of the last updates, at 7:48pm Nws seems to still have their eye on the sky. I would have thought they would have changed that if they weren't still foreseeing some possibilitie. National Weather Service State College PA 748 PM EDT Tue Jul 21 2026 .WHAT HAS CHANGED... * No significant changes at this time. && .KEY MESSAGES... 1) Scattered to numerous severe thunderstorms are expected this afternoon through the evening hours today. && .DISCUSSION... KEY MESSAGE 1: Scattered to numerous severe thunderstorms are expected this afternoon through the evening hours today. We are in standby mode for now as the copious amount of energy/lift/strong upper level diffluent flow (associated with the left exit region of a 100+ KT jet) has produced an expansive area of weak convection embedded in light to moderate rain. All of this thick/debris cloud cover will prevent deep convection through the early afternoon, but pockets of fairly quick destabilization via breaks of sun should spread into western PA and remain over our far SE zones to trigger some deeper convection by or shortly after 18Z. We`ll be closely monitoring satellite trends and meso-B stability and shear fields to better hone in on areas under the gun for potential impact of fast-moving TSRA.

I had to get to work.I'm not sure exactly what happened to that the expansive break in the clouds geo was showing this morning, but I maybe got 45 minutes of sun today. Last night's mcs really seems to have things all mucked up now with debris. The cold front's still out in the western Ohio with plenty of time for things to happen. There may be no sun but we still have plenty of time and a powerful system to plow that cold front through. I'm sure the severe risk is falling, but we got a long way to go to say that we're done for the day with storms.

Certainly, can't rule out, you're seeing more storms this morning but either way, it looks like you'll see some sun.

. What's your experiencing should lift north with the warm front , it looks like we're gonna bake off nicely in the warm sector today.

I saw some lighting and heard some thunder from a distance but no rain here . It started as a little blip near Carlisle and became a nice little cluster relatively quickly. Very fast NE motion on those storms already with another weak echo, blazing, due west across the mason dixon. It already seems like there's going to be some ugly stuff around today.

Right now lol.

This video was made five hours ago and the enhanced risk has expanded since, however I'm still always interested to hear Trey Greenwood's take over convective chronicles.

Thank you for checking it out. The Dauphin county youtube channel has some good stuff. I really enjoy the friends of Wildwood and Friends of Fort hunter lecture series. https://youtube.com/@dauphincounty?si=Uhbac1Gt5xRdxPjr

This video has some really fascinating info on the geology of eastern Pa and the Susquahanna river. I had no idea that many of us were living on a piece of Africa that returned after the breakup of Pangaea or that the Little Atlas Mountains in Morocco and the Appalachian mountains were once the same chain.

Day 3 Convective Outlook NWS Storm Prediction Center Norman OK 0210 AM CDT Sun Jul 19 2026 Valid 211200Z - 221200Z ...THERE IS AN ENHANCED RISK OF SEVERE THUNDERSTORMS ACROSS THE OHIO VALLEY... ...SUMMARY... Numerous severe thunderstorms are expected across a broad region from the Ohio Valley into the Mid-Atlantic and Northeast on Tuesday. All severe hazards are possible, but swaths of damaging wind gusts should be the primary severe risk Tuesday afternoon into the nighttime hours. ...Ohio Valley to the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast... A vigorous upper trough will spread across the region on Tuesday. A broad area of strong deep-layer flow, especially by July standards, will overlap a very moist airmass ahead of an eastward progressing surface cold front. Widespread dewpoints in the upper 60s to low 70s are expected. While some uncertainty exists regarding potential morning convection in the form of a remnant MCS from the Day 2/Monday period across parts of MI/IN/OH, pockets of stronger heating should occur, and given rich moisture/continuous warm advection ahead of the surface front, strong destabilization is forecast. While boundary layer moisture will begin the day somewhat muted across parts of the Northeast, strong warm advection and increasing southerly low-level flow across the Mid-Atlantic into the Northeast will also result in northward transport of richer boundary layer moisture through evening. While instability may be somewhat less further east into the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast, strong deep-layer flow will envelop this region as well. Supercell wind profiles are evident across the broad warm sector, with 40+ kt westerly flow common above 850 mb. Where supercells can develop and be maintained, all severe hazards will be possible. However, given the strong flow field, and the progressive trough and surface front, one or more bowing segments will quickly develop and spread eastward. Swaths of damaging winds will be the primary concern during the afternoon and into the nighttime hours. ..Leitman.. 07/19/2026

Yes sir. 11Lbs short of a personal best, but I'll still take it at 44lbs. The past two trips my son has hooked something absolutely monstrous and it's thrown the hook both times. My son and I are on some really big fish at the moment and I think it's only a matter of a trip or two until we land something on a whole other level. We've had some opportunities at something special the last few trips but we just can't land it. I've been a few pounds short of the state record twice in the past 20 years when it was still down in the 50lbs range. Now that it's at sixty six pounds, and i'm fifty years old, the Flathead record is starting to become a tall order

For anybody who doesn't know the Colombia and Wrightsville area of the river is infamous for its mayflie hatch. The municipality has been turning off the lights on the bridge in response to several accidents, and even small pile ups that occurred due to mayfly hatches. The picture I included was found online, probably from a few years ago, before they turned off, the lights prior to may fly hatches.