Earthquake real close to home

December 27th, 2008

Wow… I don’t know if it woke me up or I was awake but I heard a deep rumbling and thought that sounds  like an earthquake.  Well I got up and went on the computer and checked Millersville’s real time seismic data.. Something showed up.. So maybe it wasn’t my imagination.  Checked  USGS’s earthquake site and they showed a confirmed 3.3 earthquake just north of Mountville,pa  Pretty cool!

Here’s info for USGS’s site – Magnitude 3.4 – PENNSYLVANIA

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If only it had been snow..

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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Meteor lights up Canadian skies

November 25th, 2008

Last a meteor came down over Canada and lit up the skies ad it burned up. I wish I could witness one some day.

Anyways they’re estimating it weighed between one and ten tons and was from the size of a chair to the size of a desk. It broke p and the believe pieces landed over Alberta and Saskatchewan. It will be interesting if they find any of the pieces that reached the ground.

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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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November snow sqall

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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chilly for November this week

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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October 28th storm

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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Late October storm

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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Dillsburg still having tremors

October 24th, 2008

Wow.. This is pretty interesting to me.  I heard on the news that the earthquakes are continuing in York county.  One even occurred while a scientist was setting up a portable seismograph.  They say they hope to be able to detect where exactly the tremors are happening so they can determine the cause.

They seem to be pretty weak quakes but still it’s pretty unusual on the east coast and even more  unusual to have a swarm of them like Dillsburg has been experiencing.

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Winter is on its way

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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