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About Albedoman
- Birthday 12/20/1958
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Four Letter Airport Code For Weather Obs (Such as KDCA)
KABE
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Lower Macungie Twsp
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Have a degree in physical geography from the University of Memphis , minor in Geology and an atmospheric/environmental concentration with post graduate work in urban planning and satellite imagery in 1981. (Meteorology was in geography depts in the 70's) Was employed in the Navy as an air traffic controller, had a FAA license, and worked with the CIA as landsat imagery analyst . Trained in meteorology by my uncle in the 70's who was the regional meteorology director for the Western US.
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E PA/NJ/DE Spring 2024 OBS/Discussion
Albedoman replied to Hurricane Agnes's topic in Philadelphia Region
another sunny day that has become cloudy. Please make this stop. Its been doing this since last June and the smoke fires. -
you could have saved a bunch a money and visited macungie two weeks ago to see those rates LOL
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E PA/NJ/DE Winter 2023-2024 OBS/Discussion
Albedoman replied to The Iceman's topic in Philadelphia Region
what a dud- brief squall line of 45 mph winds. No t storms and heavy rain ended in three minutes. Too much hype. The rolling thunder this morning in the showers was the highlight of this event. -
E PA/NJ/DE Winter 2023-2024 OBS/Discussion
Albedoman replied to The Iceman's topic in Philadelphia Region
woopee, first t -storm of the new year- in February to say the least. It was nice to wake up hearing rolling thunder with the windows open. I miss the humidity. This is the first time in the past 30+ years I can remember a t storm in Feb but I may be wrong. More to come this afternoon. -
E PA/NJ/DE Winter 2023-2024 OBS/Discussion
Albedoman replied to The Iceman's topic in Philadelphia Region
yes I agree with El nino pattern statement should be expected rains and warmth but not to that extreme that we all experienced. December had the most rain ever recorded in the LV which rivaled good hurricane season rains and flooding was unbelievable. I am also sure it was the cloudiest periods ever for the winter season. Somebody needs to find this out. We went in 5-6 day mostly cloudy stretches for at least two months with no 2-3 day consecutive sunny days That should have been a good tell how this winter was going too. -
E PA/NJ/DE Winter 2023-2024 OBS/Discussion
Albedoman replied to The Iceman's topic in Philadelphia Region
well for macungie, I still rate it a C- even with the nice snowfall event on Saturday and the previous week. The temps have been cold this week and for one week in January but what strikes me about this winter was the amount of warm temps and rainfall from late November into January of nearly 15 inches. Furthermore the excessive cloudy days throughout the entire winter season did a number on my utility bill trying to keep the house warm. This winter sucked except for the last week. A couple of weeks of winter simply does make up for the flooding rains and cloudy days, especially at Christmas time. -
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nice report card synopsis I would change the grade for No 6 however from F- to withdrawn or incomplete. We must grade properly now. By the way, maybe some of the courses were audited so a satisfactory or unsatisfactory maybe more appropriate. I would say no. 6 falls in the category too. LMAO
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thanks for your confidence in me. Last night single digits back up the snow pack too. I just wish everyone would have received the same amount. Its not fair as I feel as I am the one that got served surf and turf while everyone else got mac and cheese. I warning many of those who think winter is dead based on the upcoming weather patterns. A dying el nino pattern usually brings a significant snowfall by mid to late March for our area. My 30+ years, I have observed this phenomenon. The problem is that it will all melt right way because of the sun angle but I still think about it. The 60+ degrees in early March will be replaced by cold rainy April too.
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down to 9 degrees in the LV this morning. Snow pack has helped. Yesterday, I got down to 8 degrees
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I see the single digits are shown over the snowpack areas of the LV. Pretty accurate. Already 20 degrees Got down to 9 degrees this morning under the snow pack. 14 degrees right now.
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I am an official spotter for the NWS for the last 25 years or so. I reported that measurement. I do not hype measurements. I was not kidding with all of observations about the snowfall and snowflakes. I live about two miles from the resort. The total after the snow squalls was over 14 inches. I still have 10+ inches on the northern side of the house. The southern facing sides lost all but about 6 inches.
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I am being very conservative. It would not surprise me though to be near zero if the winds decouple at sunset
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I expect to be in the single digits tonight again. Saturday night was 8. Last night was 18 with some cloudy skies. A foot of snow pack has greatly helped with raditional cooling and I am in a deep valley. My predicted low tonight will near 5-10 degrees
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I have had 35.5 in of snow thus far. The 14 inches I had on Saturday helped. This would rank near the top 5
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reached 35.5 in of snow thus far with Saturdays snow event in Macungie. That is our average snowfall for the year here with another month to go