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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Yesterday we had a good snow storm. Very little wind occurred with it but snowfall rates of maybe 2 or 3 inches an hour happened Friday night. I saw it snowing heavier than I remember seeing it snow before. By the end ot the storm we had about 20 inches of snow on the ground. Not bad considering the storm was forecast to be better just south of us which has happened more than once this year. Near the Mason Dixon line into Maryland have been the big winners.
This was the most snow we’ve received since the President’s day storm of 2003. That storm had given us close to two feet also..
The nice thing is that the snow should stick around for a little while with it getting to near 30 during the day and low teens at night to refreeze the melted snow.
Now looks like maybe some lite snow Tuesday into Wednesday. That should be fun.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
December was a good month.. We had above average snow with the storms overdoing the original forecasts and plenty of cold air. There is still some snow on the ground from the surprise 3-4 inches we received for New years. Now we’re between an ocean storm off the new england coast and high pressure over the northern plains states.
We’ll see what happens later in the week.
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Thursday, February 12th, 2009
Yesterday a strong storm system developed and moved into the great lakes bringing with it a strong cold front. We had highs in the 60s with Sun most of the day and that helped create a really impressive squall line moving east across Pennsylvania. At one point it was moving east at 75 mph but it was just a bit too late for us in northwest Lancaster county. I broke up and we barely got a shower. Still it was impressive for February. I’m sort of disapointed I wasn’t home to watch things develope.
Today we have a high wind warning and the winds have been pretty strong. Once again I am wishing I had the means to setup the wind sensor for my davis vantage pro2.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
The cold has been building in Alaska for a while now and it has mostly stayed where it is. It looks like it will head straight down into the midwest and north east US.. We’ll probably get below zero here but the NWS isn’t forcasting that yet. I imagine it’ll be pretty brutal just a bit north of here where there is snow cover on the ground and if it clears up at night.
I wonder if we’ll make a run at 1994’s numbers.. I still remember that well. I was still in high school and lived with my parents in Bensalem and the temperature never made it above 10 the one day with the sun out. I was also lucky enough to fall through ice and have about 5 blocks to walk home. That year there was also not snow cover.
We’ll see what happens.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
We had a nice moisture rich storm system move from the gulf coast up the East coast.. The system is currently causing snow and major ice in the new england states.
Here we were in the mid 50’s all day yesterday with rain and then in the evening the rain became heavy. ended up with 2 – 3 inches of rain in the area. My Davis vantage pro measured 2.06 inches of rain here. This is on top of the rain from the day before. I’m really surprised there’s not more flooding.
It looks like quite a bit of flooding going on in the area where my parrents live. We had the warmer air in our area but They had snow west of here.. Snow in Texas, snow in New Orleans.
It’s been a pretty interesting December with some snow and plenty of cold air available to storms.
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Thursday, October 16th, 2008
Hurricane Omar has been an interesting storm and shows how quickly these storms can change. It looked pretty good on satellite yesterday with deep convection. Early this morning its intensity peaked at almost category four. I really would’ve never expected that. They plane this morning reported hail and couldn’t get into the entire storm due to extreme turbulence. The National Hurricane Center estimated the storm peaked at category 4 status.
Things change and now the storm is not down to 85 miles per hour with the convection pretty much gone from the center of the storm. and the center is exposed on visible satellite pictures It’s amazing how quickly things can change. This weakening has pretty much happened in just an eight hour time period.
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Tuesday, October 7th, 2008
After the tropics got fairly quiet we now have Tropical Storm Marco in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s not that strong but very interesting still. It’s tiny. The smallest storm I remember seeing and they’re saying tropical storm force winds only extend out 10 miles from the center.
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Monday, September 15th, 2008
Hurricane Ike which was only a category 2 storm made landfall in Texas and moved north through the Ohio valley yesterday proves that the rating doesn’t tell the whole story. They’re saying it caused 30 billion dollars n damage and has caused at least 30 fatalities.
From what I’ve read it brought in a pretty high storm surge over a large area. What really made this storm was the size of it I think. Instead of getting stronger winds it expanded in size after hitting Cuba and looked like at one point it was affecting almost the entire Gulf of Mexico
Even after landfall it’s fast speed and taking a while to wind down brought strong winds all the way into the Great lakes states as it merged with a cold front. It was an amazing storm to watch.
I think a lesson to learn from this storm is that it’s probably not a good idea to build on barrier islands but we’ll never learn that. I really would never want to have my permanent house on one of these types of islands.
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Thursday, September 11th, 2008
Hurricane Ike has maximum sustained winds near 100 miles per hour right now but the real story is it’s size. It’s a big storm with hurricane force winds extending up to 115 miles from the center. Tropical storm force winds extend up to 255 miles from the center.
The minimum pressure (945 millibars) is borderline low enough to support a category 4 storm but I imagine the size of the whole storm is keeping the gradient from being tight enough to cause the winds.
Another interesting storm for this year.
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Tuesday, September 9th, 2008
That was a pretty good line of storms for this time in the day and year. I don’t think it approached severe criteria in my back yard but still we had a nice very heavy wind driven rain. It got as dark as it would be about 8:30 pm as the storms moved in. Just before the rain started I noticed low level clouds racing across the sky from west to east. The line heald together as it crossed the river better than any I remember of this season too. We even had lots of lightning.
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