Hurricane Agnes

I was watching the blobs rolling over that area and had wondered what the impact might have been when there was "radio silence" for a check in. Didn't realize you were down in Jersey. My sister in Wyndmoor still has power out (her whole neighborhood). They made some progress with power restoration in her township (Springfield, Montco) but most of Wyndmoor and Erdenheim in the township, are still out. Her street always has issues too because they are at the bottom of a hill and the electric wires are running along a wooded creek on her side of the street, so downed trees and branches are a continual issue.

Of all times for you to be out of town because it looked like a bunch of stuff blew through Reading this time.

There are a whole pile of LSRs posted. But one caught my attention - for a report at Cape May Point - https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXLSRPHI&wfo=phi The Brandywine Shoal Lighthouse has an anemometer on top and it reported an 80 mph gust. A recent video of the lighthouse (you can see the anemometer at the top). Am not sure who is maintaining it but it is an active/working lighthouse. My sis said that she and her hubby drove around Wyndmoor and Erdenheim and she said it looked as if a tornado had hit. I am assuming it was straight-line winds and/or a microburst since there didn't seem to be any rotation signals in that cell. I do know when the gust front came through, it was pretty loud. She said they counted at least 16 houses with trees that fell on that house and many streets are impassable due to trees ("dozens" of them) snapped at the base, many broken branches, and live wires across the roads. She described what were literally leaves and branches ripped from the trees and exclaimed that she had never seen damage like that in her life (and we have seen plenty of tropical storms that did some major tree damage like the back to back years with TS Irene in 2011 and the... ahem.... *unmentionable* storm the following year (both pancaking rows of large street trees). These were a few reports that were from areas within 5 miles of me -

Nice spot for it! Maybe looking for seagull food. Got another hundredth of an inch being fringed by that cell so am up to 0.02" for the day so far, but am still grateful for the power. Temp is 74 with dp up a bit to 70.

I just watched a cell just blow up out of nowhere, literally a couple blocks from me (could see it out the window). Getting thunder now although it's generally east of me at the moment. I am literally on the western fringe of it. It blew up over the couple blocks of Wyndmoor that might have still had power (I think my side of the county line and theirs share the same substation).

Fox29 had some pics of the storm including the hail in Flourtown - https://www.fox29.com/news/severe-storms-bring-hail-damaging-winds-to-area

My sister's power is out (looks like her whole township is out) and she texted a couple pics that she said people in the area posted. It literally looked like a winter sleetfest except with hail. Yards and driveways covered with probably 1/2" deep of hail plus trees snapped - I think one of the pics was from Flourtown. The sun is out here (first time this long all day due to the haze), although the temp continues to creep up and is at 77 but at least the dp is below 70 and is at 68.

I ended up with a grand total of 0.01" and some pots overturned. But thankfully I still have my power. But about 4 miles north of here in the Jenkintown area (and am guessing the surrounding and nearby communities like Glenside, Roslyn, Elkins Park, Melrose Park, etc..) got hit pretty bad. KYW said there are a lot of power outages and downed trees in that area and included Willow Grove and Blue Bell in the damage area. Temp here is recovering and back up to 72 and overcast with dp at 65.

That complex is moving fast and seems to be headed for the river.

My sis in Wydmoor texted about getting hail. I have some big drops of rain here (at 0.01"). Temp is down to 68.

That's literally a couple miles north of me. KYW said 80 mph reports from that.

Big gust front just came through here with some loud winds. Temp is down to 75 with dp 63.

Mt. Holly just put up a Warning for the area. Temp holding at 86 with dp 68.

Watching that. Wonder if CoolHandMike is getting nailed by any of that. Looks like LBI is getting stuff continually back-building over it.

Looks like all hell is breaking loose at the shore already! Temp here up to 86 with dp 71. Still have the haze.

SPC's Severe Thunderstorm Watch - There's some stuff firing up on the radar already. Currently 84 with dp 70 IMBY.

Looks like I may have hit my low for this morning of 71. Currently 72 and hazy with dp 66.

Didn't make it to 90 today but did reach 88. The haze was too much. Currently 80 and still hazy with dp 70.

You can see it on GOES-16. It's like a firehose got formed on and the smoke is flowing within it. Currently a hazy 87 with dp 70.

Low this morning was 71 and I expect to maybe get closer to 90 today depending on what the wildfire haze does... Currently sunny with some haze and 74, with dp 67.

Got up to 87 as a high today and although the dp stayed mostly in the low 60s, it has now started creeping up. Currently a hazy (wildfire smoke?) 80, with dp 68. I know there is an Air Quality Alert up for the area for tomorrow.

My low this morning managed to get to 70, but at some point with a dp of 62. Big difference from dps in the upper 70s. Currently 76 and sunny with some scattered clouds, and a dp of 64. Really nice out for a late July summer day.

I saw Mt. Holly confirmed an EF1 around the Columbus/Johnston area of Jersey north of Ft. Dix. That was as that last line was moving through and I did catch a screenshot of the TORW around 10:30 pm last night.

Although I can still feel the residual heat radiating from the brick of the house, today is like day and night compared to the last couple days. Temp has yet to reach 80 here and dp finally dropped below 70 this morning. The atmosphere is still unsettled so despite some early sun, the clouds have rolled in and it's generally been overcast since (although that is probably keeping the temp down too). Currently 77 and overcast with dp 67.

That whole complex of convection eventually formed a line as it barreled through the city, and was just loaded with lightning. The only saving grace was that once it formed the line, it was moving quickly instead of stalling out and just puking rain like what happened last Monday.