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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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Friday, November 21st, 2008
So much for the flurries I thought we might get last night. The ground is white. even the street has snow covering it. It’s too bad the band didn’t sit over us, some of the counties to the north of us were under a winter weather advisory for three to six inches of snow. Pretty impressive considering it’s not even December yet. It’s been an interesting fall so far. Remember the storm in October that produced heavy snow in the mountains and even an accumulating snowfall in the Philly suburbs.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
November 20th and there’s a nice looking snow squall stretching across the state of Pennsylvania. It goes from Northwestern PA to Philly and is pretty solid looking. The heavy band of snow is pretty much staying over the same areas with snowfall rates of up to 1 to 2 inches an hour. It would be nice if it shifted 30 miles south now.
Looks like it’s crossing I 81 near the Schuylkill and Berks county border. I wounder how many people will wreck there coming between the mountains. Pretty cool to see snow on radar so early in the year though, even if it is just a squall. We actually made it into the low 40s today but stayed in the 30s earlier in the week. NWS is forecasting a high only 32 tomorrow.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
After last week being a mild week we had a fairly strong storm system move through Saturday. It wasclose to 70 that day with a tornado watch in effect. While a line of showers developed and moved through the area it was not near severe limits. We had some heavy rain and a bit of wind.
Sunday was cooler with some wind. Nothing major. I was sort of surprise by that considering our pressure made it down to 29.26 on Saturday.
I’ve been noticing the lake effect snow on radar since then. I haven’t seen any here but they said on the news this morning that they had some in the Harrisburg area. We should have a hight temperature today of about 38. The same for tormorow and we finally get back. It feels like winter now.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Yesterday’s storm was not too bad at all for a late October storm system. It deepened throughout the day and the wind picked up. We had howling winds most of the night with occasional gusts that seemed pretty strong.
We only got rain here and most of the precipitation didn’t make it this far west but down in my mom’s area in Bensalem they had some snow. She said none stuck to the ground but I did see a spotter report of .5 inches in Bensalem. Her elevation is only like 50 feet or something like that.. There are some parts of Bensalem that are a bit higher.
The big winners appear to be the higher elevations in north east PA. I saw a few places with reports of over a foot of snow. The highest total I saw was 17 inches in Freeland, Pa
This would have been a pretty good setup for snow during the winter. lets hope that we have more like it! Now the storm is pretty wound up just north of new england.
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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
An October coastal storm system is developing off the mid atlantic coast. It started yesterday with an area of rain developing and persisting through the night here in central Pa. This would have been a nice situation for a little snow here in January. Right now and yesterday during the afternoon the temperature held in the low 40’s
Now in the Poconos and higher elevations of northern Pa. I wish I still had my place up near Hazleton and would be going up there. With an elevation of 1600 feet or so and the fact that they always tended to get more snow than the surrounding areas I bet it would be a nice late fall snowfall.
It should be a cool blustery day later as the wind picks up with highs in the 40’s.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
It’s always a sign of winter coming when the leaves are turning but It’s even more exciting when the NWS is starting to talk about lake effect snow. State college is saying temperatures should support lake effect snow into tuesday after the arctic from moves through.
I’m not looking forward to the rain but arctic fronts can be fun.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
It’s a pretty cold morning today for the end of February. My vantage pro2 recorded a low of 14.1 and the coldest it’s recorded this year has been 8 so it’s not that far off. Yesterday was chilly too. The wind made it feel even colder. It’s just a little more wasted cold.
Today we should see a clipper move through the area but most of the snow will be to the north. Here the NWS is saying snow and rain in the evening with accumulations of less than an inch. That sounds about right. It would be nice if this clipper was an over performer like they are sometimes but that’s pretty unlikely.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
We ended up with an inch or two of snow this morning before the precipitation shut off. I can’t really complain, its more than I had expected.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Well no big shocker here but another week and another potential ice storm in southern Pennsylvania. State college seems to think up to 1 to 3 inches of snow then it switches to sleet and freezing rain. They’re thinking southern Pennsylvania could receive more than a quarter inches of ice accumulation. They have put us under a winter storm watch.
Don’t get me wrong. Ice is interesting but snow is better and more fun and we haven’t had much of that this year.
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