Centre County Lows 5/19

Quite chilly this morning in the favored areas... though Penn State was +10 compared to their daily record.

Selected* Online Centre County Lows this morning:

Elliot Abrams: 35
Jesse Ferrell: 35
Corl Street:   36
AccuWeather:   37
PSU Shelter:   42
KUNV Airport:  39
Walker Top:    43

If your station is not included in this list, please post a comment with your low from this morning.

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Centre County Flooding 5/16

Eastern Centre County received heavy rainfall yesterday afternoon through early this morning. Some rain gauge amounts:

Penn State: 2.78"
UNV Airport: 2.65"
AccuWeather HQ: 2.45"
Jesse's House: 2.57"
CoCoRAHs (W to E): 2.14, 2.88, 2.98, 2.65, 3.50"

NWS EDD estimates for the area (12Z):



This drove local USGS gauges to their highest levels this year. Here are the gauge heights from the USGS gauges closest to State College:



I took the following pictures at gauge height 6.65" (max was 6.76") in Houserville:

Centre County Highs 5/13

It was hot, hot, hot today! Penn State broke their previous record for the day at 86 degrees. Other selected high temperatures:

AccuWeather HQ: 87
Jesse's House: 89

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Station Maintenance Notice

The AccuWeather HQ Davis weather station lost power and stopped transmitting Saturday at 5:08 AM. I believe it lost power because the batteries were not in correctly.

I rebooted the station this afternoon, but it would no longer receive data. I rebooted again and the console received data, then froze up.

Third reboot seemed to be work but it stopped transmitting to the Internet soon thereafter.

A fourth reboot has worked thus far. I'd like to upgrade the firmware on the device but I need to find the IP address first.

Because the station was actually unpowered, it did not maintain a record during that period. The nearest station (my house) reported these temperatures:

SATURDAY: 39/68
SUNDAY: 33/66
MONDAY: 28/62 (as of 3 PM)

In addition, the "WeatherMatrix" station at my house was not transmitting temperatures between 6 AM & 4 PM on April 30th. This was due to a dead battery and not enough solar power this week. Both outages are shown below:

Centre County Lows 4/16

One more (?) cold snap for Centre County? PSU records are in the teens, so this morning didn't set one, but today is the last day of the season with "normals" in the 30s, so these readings are still pretty impressive.

Selected* Online Centre County Lows this morning:

Elliot Abrams: 20
Jesse Ferrell: 21
Corl Street:   22
Marshall Moss: 22
AccuWeather:   22
PSU Shelter:   23
KUNV Airport:  23
Walker Top:    24

If your station is not included in this list, please post a comment with your low from this morning.

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High Winds & Shelf Cloud 4/14

A forming shelf cloud was accompanied by heavy rain and high winds, gusting to 47 mph downtown on the top of the Walker Building, and 38 mph atop AccuWeather HQ. Other stations that were at 30m, were not close to the front of the forming bow echo, or were away from the heaviest rain did not report winds over 32 mph and/or reported the max gust earlier in the day.



There were no warnings issued or lightning detected. Above is the radar reflectivity at 6:10 PM with my location (Blue Course & Havershire) tagged in the middle; this was just a few minutes after the photos below were taken (the AccuCams & Walker Cam, which are timestamped).

Centre County Highs 4/13

Penn State University in State College, PA rose to 84 degrees, breaking the daily record from 1941. It has only been warmer than 84 degrees four times this early in the year (Jan 1 - Apr 13) in history. It was especially ironic since one month ago today we were in the single digits. The mountains won the contest yesterday, with 90 reported in Maryland & West Virginia.

Selected* Online Centre County highs today:

Joe Bastardi:  87
Jesse Ferrell: 86
Mark Mancuso:  85
PSU Shelter:   84
Corl Street:   84
KUNV Airport:  84
Elliot Abrams: 83
AccuWeather:   83
Marshall Moss: 83
Walker Top:    83

If your station is not included in this list, please post a comment with your high from this afternoon.

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