CarlislePaWx

Just finished up another great thunderstorm. Torrential rains that looked like it was snowing as the winds blew repeatedly over 30mph. I had at least 4 separate gusts into the 30's with the highest gust at 35mph. It only lasted maybe 15 minutes depositing 0.28" of rainfall. It seems that almost every storm that has managed to hit me in the past month has delivered high wind gusts and torrential rains for a time. Looks like Mechanicsburg getting hit pretty hard right now but it's going to pass maybe just south of MDT.

Another great thunderstorm just concluded. Had no idea anything was coming until the dark clouds started rolling in from the west. Then, kaboom! Torrential rains and the temp plummeted from 82 down to 65 at the end of the event with 0.64" of rainfall. Combine that with the 0.69" that fell late Monday and another 0.03" on Tuesday and I've had 1.36" in the past 3 days. That helps to make up some for what was an incredibly dry June leading into this week. I only had 1.34" for the month as of the 21st, but now am up to 2.70" having doubled the monthly total.

For those who were wondering, the length of daylight on Saturday maxed out at 15 hours 2 minutes 11 seconds. Today, 3 days later we have lost 20 seconds. The first few weeks after the solstices the amount of daily change increases by only 3 to 5 seconds per day. On June 30th our day length will be down to 14:59:00 for only a loss of 3 minutes and 11 seconds...lol. On the winter solstice our shortest day is 9 hours 18 minutes 39 seconds (which actually occurs the day before on 12/20 because winter begins at 5:02am on the 21st and that day is two seconds longer...haha). I have a neat program that gives these times to the second when you input your precise GPS coordinates for Lat/Long. Anyone living along roughly 40'10" north will have these same day lengths. If you live a bit north then you have slightly longer day length on the summer solstice and slightly shorter days on the winter solstice. It's the opposite effect if you live a little south of me. I have a nephew who's an F-35 bomber pilot in the air force. He is literally driving to his new base assignment in Fairbanks, AL this week. I was curious about the sunrise and sunset up there this past weekend. Last Saturday, in Fairbanks, the sun rose at 2:58AM and didn't set until Sunday morning at 12:48AM! Total day length was 21 hours 50 minutes. Fairbanks is less than 200 miles south of the Arctic Circle. He will be deployed there for the next 3 years. I'm hoping to make a trip up there next June to witness near-perpetual daylight.

Totally skipped right over me. Picked up a whopping trace here. All the action was from Blue Mountain on north and from South Mountain on south.

When was the last time you saw a tropical cyclone forecast track like this??? Note...it strengthens (wind-wise) as it reaches Canada Wednesday afternoon!!

I think almost the heart of that cell went close to me. It was some of the most torrential rainfall I've ever seen with visibility maybe 50 yards. Had a peak wind gust to 38mph. Not sure if I had any hail...don't think I saw any. @Anduril are you still at the Staples next to Walmart? If so I'm only about one mile southwest of your store. It was a fast mover as I only picked up 0.27" of rainfall, but that was in about 10 minutes or so.

ALEET! ALEET! It's now official. I have just hit 90.0 degrees for the first time this year. Okay, now can I go back to last Saturday, please?

Can we have this weather for the next 3 months please? Near perfection with high of 70 and lows tonight low to mid 40's. Dew points in the 30's doesn't get much better than this for the soon-to-be start of June!

Wow! Many thanks for posting this info. So I was at least partially right that 2 named systems in May are rare. While I remember the names of the early storms from 2016 and 2012 I wouldn't have remembered them having hit within the past 8 years. My own personal opinion on the January storms is that even though the calendar year was new, it was less than 2 months after the end of the preceding season whereas the current year's season still had over 4 months to go before starting. So the January storms belong in the previous year...imo.

Didn't know about TS Bertha down by coastal SC. I'm sure this isn't a record but when was the last time any of you remember there being 2 named systems BEFORE the official start of the hurricane season on June 1st? When Arthur formed last week I couldn't even remember the last time a named storm came in May. Anyone else have some stats or memories to share?

Yay!!! My wife is so happy because that means the pet salons can open back up in Yellow. At least our dog can get a cut now...lol. On the other hand, I'm sorry for those close to the east shore. No yellow for Dauphin or Lebanon on the 22nd. I know I left out Lancaster. I hope your numbers drop soon!! Meanwhile, in weather news. I just hit 80 degrees here for the first time this year. Dew point of 62 isn't horrible, but after all the cold weather it's going to feel a tad humid. My A/C is on.

Yep! Finally got hit with a decent almost squall-like snow shower. Large flakes this time. Only lasted a few minutes then a few more minutes with finer flakes. Took the temp down from 42 to 38 degrees in less than 5 minutes. I videoed this one for posterity.

Blue Mountain...the downsloping snow eater!!! While the radar looked great and the clouds off to my northwest looked great, I ended up with a whopping 2 minutes of a moderate snow shower. No squall! Nevertheless, snow in the mid afternoon on May 9th as others have already said....unreal. Still looks like a few more chances coming down from the northwest, so we'll see. Sun just popping back out as I write this. Temp dropped to 40.6 with the snow showers. I think MDT will break it's mini-max temp of 48 by the end of the afternoon, from 1947. So coldest May 9th in 73 years here today looking probable.

Oh boy, I can see the snow squall slowly headed towards me. Blue mountain totally gone now which means the snow will be more significant. Radar looks like bullseye hit for me in about 10 minutes. Will send update. Temp 41.9.

Round 2 of flurries just arrived and are flying by horizontally. Temp 41.7.

Happy belated 43rd birthday, then!!! Skies breaking up here now. Glad that I at least got to see the flurries for however short the time was.

Just looked outside and see flurries flying by! Amazing that it's happening precisely on the 43rd anniversary of the last time it did this...May 9th, 1977. Incredible. Putting down a trace for the date!!

The overcast is nearly total now and getting lower and thicker. I can still see Blue Mountain from here (about 10 miles north) so I don't think any snow showers are near just yet. Temp slowly falling again, back at 40 with a stiff NW breeze. Easily a day we'd see in March.

I'm having a hard time believing that much snow fell by you. The temperature barely dropped to freezing overnight. This is a conspiracy between you and @paweather.

Yeah. After I wrote that I thought about it and the snow really couldn't have accumulated and stayed there afterwards unless the temp was close to freezing, which would not have been the case at midnight as temps were only in the upper 30's then. Btw, out by Pittsburgh my sister-in-law just texted and said they have fluffy, white snowflakes falling there right now. They also picked up a tiny accumulation last night as the cold air was rushing in. This whole experience is about as surreal as the virus lockdown.

I'm guessing you and @canderson got this from that snow shower I mentioned back at midnight? Huge congrats @paweather. It was "NO SNOW FOR YOU!" for me...haha.

Don't give up hope quite yet. At 11:45pm there's a pretty good line of snow showers headed rapidly southeast towards Harrisburg that may hit you if it doesn't fall apart. Looks pretty solid right now on radar. The western fringe of it looks like it will just clip me or miss to my east by a few miles. So, heads up @paweather and @Blizzard of 93 your snow may arrive between 12:00 and 12:30am.

Even though you don't want it, congrats Voyager!! Temp now down to 38.3 with winds 10 to 15, gust to 20+ and wind chills below freezing. Just a typical May evening....lol. Back edge of precip now here and after stepping outside there is nothing more than a few rain drops flying. Can't spot any snow/frozen. Sigh!

I'm losing hope for seeing any flakes tonight. Winds just picked up and temp is beginning to fall as the last good slug of precip is bearing down. Temp 43.3. Looking at the radar it looks like precip is going to end before it's cold enough for the change. But it will be close. Will keep an eye out as I see the back edge of precip approaching. I'll hold out some hope that there'll be a good snow shower from instability during the late morning tomorrow. This setup I think is fairly similar to 1977 with upstate NY into New England getting a pretty good snow. Edit>>Temp dropping pretty quickly now 42.8, down 3 degrees in the past 10 minutes.

Looks like you're completely out of the precip. Southern edge is here in Cumberland county. I've had on and off light rain since this morning and have picked up 0.26" so far.