Bubbler86

I have no issue with that. Snow in Dec and January seems to be such the traditional favorite with many.

And it was so ironic it came after such a bad winter snow wise. More snow in May than some winter months. Strange 2020.

Pretty gross 75 here this AM.

Pretty gross 75 here this AM.

Eh, I guess its the big game hunter in me but getting 40" of snow in bites of 3-6" is not a "winner" at the end of the day but I can certainly see how others would see it that way. I have been back for two full winters now and have only had to shovel 3-4 times of which the highest was 8" . When I said a few years I was thinking back to 2016.

I was thinking we were probably 5-6+ coming into the summer depending on locale. But for our yards, crops, and really the water level we are not even because the extra rain came when there was much less evaporation going on so when it started going downhill it feel off a cliff. Assuming Cashtown's 28" through Aug 31 but taking my locale into consideration we have only had 7-9" of rain here since May 1 so say 8". That means we had 20" of rain when we least needed it and 8" over 4 months when we needed it most. Result? Farmers filing claims for crop damage and wells running dry.

So almost exact, thanks. I was thinking we were well above coming into summer.

PS-Feel free to suggest an alternate that is cheaper. LOL.

Oh yea, then in it easy going but outside the last two days that has been pie in the sky hopes for me. I am thinking of using the Scott's PA Mix. The person working on my yard said its hard to put down one type of seed and keep weeds out.

The thing that worries/bothers me, and I am having some very expensive procedures done here to try and get back on the right track, is the bags always say you need to water the seed every day for 2-3 weeks. That is a LOT of work without an irrigation system.

@Cashtown_Coop, where do you stand for total precip in 2020? My records are not trustworthy past May so curious if we are normal for the year despite the large summer deficit. MDT would be at 28" through August if you average out their norm monthly numbers.

But the models always under forecast CAD.

That was a nice 1/3 of an inch. Nice last two days. Up to close to an inch now last 24 hours or so.

The leading edges of it is here and its harder than anything we had yesterday.

There is a nice blob of raining coming out of Fulton but it may skirt south of you.

Regardless of the smoothed over departure from normal maps the NWS puts out, they do not take micro weather into account, there is a definite trend of drier, dry, normal, wetter, wettest if one takes a line from North Central PA and goes South and West into the Delaware Valley. If this has been during a cold/winter scenario Philly may have broken their snowfall record for a season.

Well the board is back up. I thought our fall thread may have crashed it. Second time (at least) down in the last few days.

Board reminder...the GFS is really the Fv3 with a different name. LOL

Everyone else has struck out for several years in a row now if one wants snow. Moving over.

Go for it! We do not stand a chance of making 90 pages in here now unless a tropical storm came right up to us before 9/21. Still mid 70's is impressive.

Welcome to Fall.

It has been amazing with temps especially the 90's type.

The RWS (Rouzerville Weather Service) almost official qpf totals for Met Summer 2020 will 5.75" (pending anything extra in the next 6 hours) making it both the hottest (on average) Summer in history as well as the driest per my discussion with a local met who assists with NWS reporting in Northern MD. This comes on the heels of the lowest snow total in modern recorded history making 2020 one of rarest weather seasons ever.