When God was upset with mankind and the direction taken, he charged Noah to build an ark and gather every animal \u2014 two-by-two \u2014 and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. In Central Pennsylvania it hasn\u2019t reached that stage, but it has been close.
\n\u201cWe\u2019ve been stuck in a rut that we haven\u2019t seen in the past few years,\u201d said Accu-Weather meteorologist Brian Pappalardi. \u201cThere is relief in sight. We have started to see a shift in the weather from the cool rainy conditions, to the warmer, more humid rainfalls.\u201d
\nBelieve it or not, the rainfall amount in Altoona is lower than 2002. This year, between April 1 and June 12, 10.81 inches of rain has fallen. In 2002, Altoona received 11.68 inches and in 2001 the accumulation was 5.38 inches. The average rainfall for Altoona over that 40 plus day period is 8.8 inches.
\n\u201cWe have had fronts stalling over our region and the cool high pressure systems that came from Canada were not powerful enough to push out the fronts,\u201d said Pappalardi. \u201cWe are starting to see a change in the jet stream which will start bringing a change in the weather.\u201d
\nThe 40 days and 40 nights of rain were not that far of a stretch. In the last 43 days, from May 1 through June 12, there have been five days in which it did not rain. There were four days without rain in May and one thus far in June.
\n\u201cI\u2019m sick of forecasting this weather that we have been having,\u201d said Pappalardi. \u201cThe cool, rainy days are numbered. People are looking forward to real summer and there is a dry stretch on the way.\u201d
\nAccording to Pappalardi, the gloomy weather today and tomorrow will be the end for a while.
\n\u201cThere should be a shower or thunderstorm tomorrow as this pattern moves out,\u201d said Pappalardi. \u201cWe should see dry and sunny conditions Sunday through Wednesday, a shower on Thursday and then another dry period after that.\u201d
\nThis weather pattern has played havoc with area farmers and gardeners.
\nMany of the residents of the area that have gardens haven\u2019t had the opportunity to even plant anything yet.
\nOne resident said, \u201chow am I going to plant anything in this mud.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
When God was upset with mankind and the direction taken, he charged Noah to build an ark and gather every animal \u2014 two-by-two \u2014 and it rained for 40 days and 40 nights. In Central Pennsylvania it hasn\u2019t reached that stage, but it has been close. \u201cWe\u2019ve been stuck in a rut that we haven\u2019t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-in-the-tyrone-pennsylvania-area"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tyronepa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}