mahantango#1

4 hours ago, Voyager said:

I got 0.10" more between 11 and 12 last night to take my total to 1.93" for the day.

Caveat...what I mentioned about the USGS gauge being lower. It's total was 1.45".

My dilemma. Which is more accurate? A tipping bucket or a hepatic gauge?

Buy a rain Guage at your local hardware store and compare readings after it rains.

.68 rain yesterday.

That Tamaqua split is affecting the rainfall for your friends including me southwest of your locale.

17 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Well, I certainly did NOT expect 1.83" of rain from "round one", but that what I got in my backyard. With that said, I wonder if it stabilized the air mass enough that it thwarts our chances here for potential severe later on. It seems as if the focus is on points southeast as of now.

Man, your cashing in on the rainfall.

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.44 from this morning thunderstorms 

.DISCUSSION...

KEY MESSAGE 1: Severe thunderstorms with damaging winds and heavy rainfall are possible from mid-day into late evening. Tornadoes also possible. SPC has kept the Enhanced risk of severe weather expectation for all of Central PA today. They have also added a special (conditional intensity group or CIG) hatching to SErn PA (including areas S & E of Harrisburg. The CIG designation means that tornadoes that do develop in that area could be stronger than just EF0/1. A reasonable maximum intensity of EF2-strength tornadoes is possible today - again, mainly in SE PA. Early showers and even a thunderstorm or two will occur near/along a pair of warm fronts moving north and east through the area this morning and early afternoon. The vort max moving into western PA at 07Z is expected to continue to touch off showers this morning. Some lightning is possible, mainly across the S. There should not be a threat for severe weather until at least late this morning after we can get the clouds and showers away and get some heating/pump up the CAPE. The timing of that vort max and the SHRA/TSRA it helps generate look like they will be early enough in the day that ample heating should then occur as the main warm front pushes into the srn counties and across the CWA late this morning and early this afternoon. As the CAPEs climb, and the wind profiles/hodographs become rounded, the risk for deep convection that would also take advantage of the high helicity to produce supercells increases. This convection could start a couple hours earlier than climatologically-favored timing...more like a noon kickoff than early- to mid-aftn. The risk for discrete, spinning cells is highest over the Lower Susq, but is possible anywhere across the CWA with the warm front(s) and varied boundaries from earlier rain and differential heating playing roles to make the near storm llvl/blyr environment favorable. 70F+ dewpoints will arrive in the S with the first warm front, and the LCLs should be low and favorable for tornado development. The Sig Tor Parameter (STP) is highest over the SE, esp in Lancaster Co. Lower (l-m60s) dewpoints hang on across the N for much of the day. The NW will have the next-best chance for severe storms to develop. However, the increasing moisture and moderate-high shear and moderate-high CAPEs will mean we`ll have to watch all of the CWA for storm initiation in early and mid afternoon. These could also be supercells away from the SE - at least early in the event. The wind profile becomes more-aligned/straight hodographs that would be more favorable for storm clusters or a broken line, esp if a pre-frontal trough materializes.

52 minutes ago, Superstorm said:

452 near Middletown. Brutal.

Within the last half hour the thicker smoke showed up here, and you can smell it.

22 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

My wife and I at last night's MLB all star game:

Didn't coach ask you to suit up?

37 minutes ago, Voyager said:

A little cooler here this morning at 69 degrees. We got 0.05" of rain from the storms that missed to the east yesterday afternoon. Despite that, the high was 95. 

96 here yesterday with a dp of 79 seen a heat index at times of 112

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2 hours ago, canderson said:

91 here for the high it appears  

92 for the high here.

1 hour ago, Voyager said:

Starting to notice the smoke in the Tamaqua area today already.

Is Willie Nelson and Snoop Dog around your area?

The latest information has a band of thick smoke moving into our area Wednesday afternoon. If this pans out, I wouldn't be surprised to see Air Quality Alerts issued. People with respiratory problems will want to watch this closely. www.fox56.com/weather

10 minutes ago, Voyager said:

I was jut going to ask about this. Caught me off guard...

Wednesday

Patchy smoke before 11am, then patchy smoke after 5pm. Mostly sunny and hot, with a high near 94. West wind 7 to 10 mph.

Wednesday Night

Widespread smoke, mainly between 8pm and 9pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 67. Light northwest wind.