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10 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

It's going to take a lot of rain to climb out of the 10-in hole we are in since last fall. Seeing plus two inches from March so far as nice but we need to build on that. Unfortunately the only way out I see is to have an incredibly stormy wet spring. It's funny as much as I looked into the '60s for snow I totally forgot that they were also note here in the summertime for a ridiculous drought for numerous years.

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I guess we'll see what happens in the next 2 months, if we get above normal rainfall or continued drought conditions.

Drought update: I have received 4.63 precipitation so far this month and 6.47 for the year.

My take on the severe weather that was supposed to happen but really didn't get it's act together. Social Media, TV were saying it could happen and let the public know. But it seems the public now won't believe the media if there is a real threat in the near future, and there could be property damage and injuries, and loss of life from not heeding warnings. I understand forecasts aren't perfect. But if the models are hinting at something like severe weather, we should all pay attention and take the necessary precautions.

17 this morning.

March is turning out to be a wet month so far 4.55 rain so fat this month. Waiting on the snow in the rain Guage to melt to add to the total for this month.

3 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Yup. They opened it up sometime around 5pm.

Did NWS get called to investigate the damage?

1 hour ago, Voyager said:

Whatever ripped on the Blue Mountain out my way was nasty. 309 was closed for 14 hours for cleanup. My night shift partner hit it and thought it was going to flip the truck.

Didn't I read 309 is still closed at 3:45pm?

Have about an inch of snow here that is very crusty.

The old saying of: after a thunderstorm in winter within 10 days it will snow, rang true again.

Snowing here and temp 33.

1 minute ago, canderson said:

Dow to 36. It was 64 at 7. 

38 here.

1.09 rain so far today. I had .23 rain before that front came through.

Temp down to 39 here.

5 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

Fropa about 15 minutes ago.  Westerly winds 10-20, gusting to 30.  Heavy rain.  Total today 0.89" so far.  Temperature drop of 14 degrees in 15 minutes...from 60 down to 46 at the moment and still dropping rapidly.  Pressure bottomed out at 29.20".  Radar sure looks promising for some snow.  It's snowing all the way back to eastern OH.

I expect the first flakes to begin mixing in when my temp reaches 37.  Now 45 degrees (at 8:20).

Front coming through now experienced the same temp drop. Heavy rain  blowing sideways.

7 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Sounds like the early part of the afternoon offers the best chance for a Tornado and then the evening line is likely to be focused on straight line winds. 

Sort of surprised to see that the actual front that would contain damaging wind gusts doesn't come through here until after 8pm. This seems a good bit later than I was hearing yesterday. 

Yes it sounds much later than yesterday. But this afternoon sounds like we have to be on the lookout for severe weather.

14 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I've already been approached in the office this morning for my thoughts. I politely declined. One team member spoke up and said that "the weather people they follow on Facebook said that some of us aren't going to make it through the day."

I replied "well, go with that I guess." 

You should have did a powerpoint presentation on the weather threats were facing today and offered counseling to those individuals.

Great discussion from Brett Thackara https://www.facebook.com/abc27news/videos/909059098554635/

Live NWS update from State College NWS https://www.facebook.com/reel/1253372836765634

1 hour ago, canderson said:

From CTP

Within the line,
embedded supercells could support concentrated tornadic winds in
the midst of a potentially expansive area of damaging wind
gusts.

Seems quite unusual that CTP is strongly on board for this event. They are usually pretty conservative. 

Tomorrow I'd just like to have a good thunderstorm consisting of good thunder and continuous lightning without wind over 25mph. But I guess we'll see what tomorrow brings.