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Well, one the heavier rain got here, it sure did get pretty wild outside. The wind is blowing it sideways half the time, and I'm guessing the worst has yet to get here?

Well we have 0.02" in the gauge so far. That happened about a half hour ago when I went out to fill a script at Rite-Aid and then took a ride to Walmart because the wife want's me to get a new house computer. I skipped the Walmart adventure when I saw the line of people waiting to get into the store. No way am I standing in the rain to shop at Walmart, so I came home. It's just a rather windblown, light rain at the moment, so we'll have to see what happens when more of that main slug gets here.

But if it were snow???

We're still dry here yet as well. We had a enough rain to wet the pavement, but not even register in the gauge, sometime prior to sunrise, but that was it. Nothing since then except for a gusty breeze.

I've been watching the HRRR closely this morning, and it now appears that we don't really get our heaviest rain until after 3:00pm and probably close to supper time. Originally, I was kind of expecting an all day washout.

And location. We got kind of sideswiped by Lee while the Susquehanna basin got dumped on. That same thing happened back in 2018 when Pine Grove kept getting floods. I wonder why, when south to north training events set up, the Susquehanna seems to be the favored location for the fire hose to spray...

Thanks. Neither do I, but mine is usually pretty close to the USGS automated gauge about a half mile north of my house. Over the next hour (which is as far as it goes) AccuWx's future radar does not move the eastern edge at all and basically stalls it along a line from Bloomsburg to Hegins to Hershey to Spring Grove.

How much do you have so far today. I'm at 0.00" as it hasn't started here yet, save for a couple of fat raindrops when I put the dog out this morning around 5:00am.

Hope some of you western guys start posting obs reports. I'll be living through your eyes for the first part of the day until that precip shield makes it east of the Susquehanna.

Well, we know it won't be in Tamaqua...

Perhaps. I wonder how long it would take to get to Philly if I kayaked the Schuylkill River?

Absurdity at it's finest...

If we actually get any May snow at my house I will not be responsible for my actions...

That is almost jaw dropping. It's crazy how the pattern set up overall since December. Trough west/ridge east all winter and now the reversal. But, I guess what we're seeing is still better than the repeat after repeat of severe outbreaks in the southeast, which this pattern seems to keep producing as well... Side note. My mom lives in Phoenix, AZ and the winter was chilly and wet by their standards. Now, all this week they are under an excessive heat warning with high temps running 100 to 105 nearly every day.

This morning's 0z bumped things up a notch in central PA, but cut back NJ a bit. The 2.3" over Hazleton is now 3.0". It's all noise at this point though. The 0z had a convective banding look to it, so some will get more than others. Who that will be probably will change between now and game time.

And right on cue, when the storm moves out, the winds move in. While it's not as bad as past events, 45 degrees with a 20+ mph wind is chilly. I am SO OVER this pattern. Where is our late April/early May normal weather???

I don't know. My low this morning so far has been 41. Wednesday/Thursday look to be washouts though with 1.5 to 3 inches at my house (depending on model) at my house...

Pretty much how it's been, and don't mind me. I've lost my corona coconut as well. No work, no prospects, and stuck in the house is a real downer...

I can understand a love of snow for it's peaceful, serene beauty as well as how it changes a landscape, (and better yet, the pure awesomeness of a wind whipped blizzard for it's sheer power and awe) but I truly can't understand a love for 45 degree, rainy, wet, windy, miserable days.

You are so right. It has felt like March for 6 months...

I love mowing my lawn. I'd certainly take one of those as a snowblower, though...lol

I hope so. Like I pointed out in the Philly thread, as soon as we went into lockdown, the pattern flipped and we got our "winter". To me it just feels like a piling on of misery.

No treat here. Solid dark grey overcast. I'm beyond sick of the whole ordeal. The virus, the lockdown, the lack of work or ability to get hired somewhere, the shitty weather. I can't take much more and the cracks in the dam are getting bigger and bigger...

Actually, it's disgusting...

Noooo...... I'm depressed enough as it is. I can't wait for some sunny 80 degree weather.