canderson Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 73, no clouds. Sweated during my lunchtime walk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 I need one more degree (69 currently) to hit the magical 70 degree mark. Can I do it??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 23, 2017 Author Share Posted February 23, 2017 There's a lot of mesowest stations in the south central and Sus Valley regions that are 74-75ºF+ currently. Saw one station near Carlisle reporting 77ºF. Literally about as warm as you can possibly get this time of the year. I've seen the majority of opening weekends of trout season (the mid April one) be cooler than what we've had this week. It may end up average to a few degrees below the last few days of the month but I'd have to think this likely easily ends up as the warmest February ever in our region...or certainly one of them. There's just no offsetting such abnormal warmth for a large chunk of the month.. especially when the "cold" we had earlier in the month is more akin to average cold than anything else. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Made it to 70 degrees here in the coal region mountains. Incredible!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiier04 Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 Well this sounds like a fun day Saturday Rain showers before 4pm, then rain and snow showers likely. Some thunder is also possible. High near 61. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 30 mph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 23, 2017 Share Posted February 23, 2017 31 degrees above the average high at MDT today. That's nuts. Tomorrow will be even more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Absolutely incredible here today. Hit 77.0 degrees for my high temp at 315pm. I honestly cannot remember if it has ever hit a higher temperature earlier ever before where I have lived, either in north jersey or here in Cumberland County. Even with the doors and windows opened the temps in my house were in the upper 70's to 81 degrees in the bedroom facing the south. I was forced to turn my A/C on to get it back down to 75 degrees! I am quite certain I have never in my life turned the A/C on in the month of February before today. Even now, just past 7:30pm it's still 63 outside. It's getting harder and harder to think about it snowing here again this season even though the odds still easily favor an event happening here over the next 3 weeks. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Just came in from running errands and saw lightning in the distance. Also, have flies in the house. All in all, it's a pleasant evening heading into Memorial Day weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 2 minutes ago, maytownpawx said: Just came in from running errands and saw lightning in the distance. Also, have flies in the house. All in all, it's a pleasant evening heading into Memorial Day weekend... LOL! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jns2183 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Scranton has a nice spring Thunderstorm tonight!Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lte5000 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 1 hour ago, maytownpawx said: Just came in from running errands and saw lightning in the distance. Also, have flies in the house. All in all, it's a pleasant evening heading into Memorial Day weekend... Ha! I noticed the flies today as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Horst throwing the chance of snow into his outlook for next weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmister Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 NWS is forecasting a high of 77 in State College today. The record for Feb 24 is 69 set in 1985. Not only would that crush the daily record, but the record high in all of Feb is 73 (which we already came within 1 degree of yesterday). Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 1 minute ago, Jmister said: NWS is forecasting a high of 77 in State College today. The record for Feb 24 is 69 set in 1985. Not only would that crush the daily record, but the record high in all of Feb is 73 (which we already came within 1 degree of yesterday). Wow. Was just about to post this...freakishly warm stretch this week. It will also be the only time we have recorded two 70F+ temperatures in February. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jmister Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 18 minutes ago, heavy_wx said: Was just about to post this...freakishly warm stretch this week. It will also be the only time we have recorded two 70F+ temperatures in February. One other crazy note: 77 degrees is the average for... June 7th. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 So our tulips are 3-4" high and our lentin rose is already out. I'm scared they're all going to die. :/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 My tulips are out, too. They also came out last Christmas, along with our hyacinths. What saved them last year was that we got snow when it finally did get cold and insulated them. That may not happen this time. Anyway, it's already 64 degrees here at 9:30AM. I wonder just how high we actually go today if it's this warm already... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Up to 70 now at 10:30... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 75 here at noon. I gotta think a few valley locations down this way hit 80 this afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jns2183 Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Minneapolis went from the models showing 12" of snow a couple days ago (showing 1"- 4" yesterday morning) to not even seeing a flake. Look at that gradient. 10 miles separating 0.2" from 6". Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Pro Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 78 in Harrisburg. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001kx Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Not sure how accurate but it shows 78 on my (Accurite weather station) I think its a few to high. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 3 minutes ago, 2001kx said: Not sure how accurate but it shows 78 on my (Accurite weather station) I think its a few to high. I also have an Accurite station (mine is fan aspirated) and I'm at 75 which will likely be my high for the day. Unless yours is a lesser non fan aspirated model, I'd be inclined to trust it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasnownut Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 I've not been outside yet today, but can tell you that my office needs the a/c turned on. I'm just roastin in here. SMH. Cant wait for one week from now, cause winter might actually show up for a couple weeks before I crawl back in my cave for the summer. Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 24, 2017 Share Posted February 24, 2017 Everyone, per the NWS reporting locations, except Johnstown (69) and Mount Pocono (66) is at or above 70 degrees as of 2:00pm. Astonishing for February! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 I don't know if I can recall a warmer 2-3 day period than this one in our region as a whole not only in the month of February but in the entire meteorological winter (DJF). I don't even think the infamous "July in Christmas" heat wave we had Christmas week last winter had such widespread 70-75ºF+ temps. There might be some severe weather risk tomorrow with the frontal passage, especially in the Sus Valley.. where CAPE's of up to several hundred J/kg poke up into PA as the front doesn't get in that region til later in the day. Primarily a wind threat with a mainly unidirectional flow aloft. There is some modest helicity present between 15-18z Sat also, so with the bit of CAPE we do have that does trigger some 0-1km EHI values up near 1 in the Sus Valley. So wouldn't rule out a random low topped cell or two throwing down a weak, short lived tornado either. SPC has central and eastern Penn down into the Mid-Atlantic in a marginal threat tomorrow, and mentions maybe eventually needing a slight risk. Either way it probably won't be the enhanced threat we see today in Ohio. We finally get back to somewhat normal temps after the front goes through into early next week. It looks like the next system mid week will be primarily a rain threat before reinforcing a colder regime beyond that. Overall, it looks pretty active and volatile going into the first week or so of March. There will be a good bit of cold available, it certainly does not look like a return to the ridiculousness we have now in the near future. Big question of course will be storm track in what looks to be a northern branch dominated regime. A big theme this year with northern branch storms has been simply the lows are tracking too far north...even with okay pattern alignments. Clipper lows tracking north of PA generally invite some combination (or all of the above) of less QPF, downsloping issues for the Sus Valley, and marginal low level temps that make for p-type issues. We shall see if we can finally sneak a couple under the mason-dixon line for a change. I do think there will be another threat or two to be had in the coming month, but at the same time am still pessimistic of this winters ability to finally shake the issues it's given us all along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 24, 2017 Author Share Posted February 24, 2017 1 hour ago, Voyager said: Everyone, per the NWS reporting locations, except Johnstown (69) and Mount Pocono (66) is at or above 70 degrees as of 2:00pm. Astonishing for February! JST is now 72ºF, so now the only one left is Mount Pocono. Also see that KCXY (Harrisburg) is 79ºF. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 I'm guessing that I'm the only one here who is saddened by the return of normal temps on Sunday, and full on winter possibly returning by next weekend... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 It's 71 degrees at 11:23 am. on February 25. THIS SUCKS Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 10 minutes ago, canderson said: It's 71 degrees at 11:23 am. on February 25. THIS SUCKS It really does, though my son is enjoying baseball practice on the field vs inside the gym. It also appears to me that as the cold front moves through, most of the rain will fall at a latitude of MDT on north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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