Hurricane Agnes

Well I bottomed out at 34 (33.8) as a low this morning and am on the way back up. This was "warmer" than my low on 4/17/20, which was 30 after the winds went calm. In this case, the breezes never let up overnight or this morning. Currently 37 and sunny.

Congrats on your (and my) 4000th post! I have seen some Chinese wisterias in Fairmount Park up in the trees. Getting it trained into a tree form like that pic is amazing! That is a huge tarp your wife made. That should hopefully keep the buds protected. Right now at post time, my temp here is barely 35 (34.5). I know it will drop just before and around sunrise (which is a little under 30 minutes from now), when normal diurnal temperature changes are happening, so have been watching closely. Dp is 19 so don't expect frost.

I think because the storms were ahead of the front and that front is now on our doorstep!

Sounds like a plan. The rain will have helped too because the wet ground will take longer to radiate away the heat than if it hadn't rained and the ground was dry!

Yeah if you have young plants and can do so, covering might be prudent. Although I know in the past whenever I did end up covering mine, several times it ended up getting a bit windy the afternoons that I covered them (CAA before the winds went calm overnight like is happening right now) and I was fighting to make sure that the covers were secure and didn't blow off before it got dark. I did a major pruning on my earliest-blooming lilac last year, so it doesn't look like it formed any blooms this year (pretty much expected). The other 2 are normally May-blooming but are weeks ahead of where they should be due to the mild winter.

Funny but the temp continues to go back up here. Now up to 55. I have lilacs with panicles expanded but closed buds. I am so over covering them (did that when they were baby plants). One of them tends to alternate-bloom and it is covered with panicles this year. I am hoping that whatever it goes down to as a low, it doesn't stay there for 4 or more hours. I know 28 and below is considered a "hard freeze" (which I think has its own NWS warning product), so hoping it doesn't eventually get progged for that, prompting a change to a hard freeze warning.

Sun has popped out and rainfall is up to 0.18". May be swiped by another couple little bands if they hold. Temp still holding at 48.

Temp down to 48 and getting some last of the lighter rain. Did have one additional thunder (total about 7 claps through the event , which was more than expected ) and have 0.15" of rain so far at post time.

My sis texted that she was getting hail in Wyndmoor (didn't see any here a few miles away). Had at least 5 instances of thunder and a lightning. Temp is down to 53.

Temp still dropping (down to 57). Getting some rain (up to 0.05" for the event so far) but a little heavier batch might swipe me...

Getting some wind and had a single weak thunder. Temp is slowly dropping. Down to 61.

Looks pretty dark to the west of here as the storm is moving in. The temp has "shot up" to 62.

Warning now moved to the east -

SPC just popped a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for the area -

Sun popped out here and temp crept up to 59.

Severe Thunderstorm Warning lofted for N/W

Must be the warm Delaware Bay water influence or something.

That's why I said "often" but not "always". It seems the areas just across from Center City (Camden and Burlington Counties) seem to have storms "survive". I have even watched tornadic clouds from my office window, roll across downtown Philly, and head across the river to start funneling in Jersey. LOL

I have seen line after line after line literally break up before my eyes when they hit the hills here in NW Philly. It's usually only the real "thick" ones that might have something survive a shredding. Interestingly enough,, the lines will often come back together again once they cross the river into the flatter coastal plains of South Jersey.

Agree. Was surprised to see dew on the cars this morning (temps/dews in the mid-40s this morning) and I hit a high here of 60 just before 10 am, and then the overcast and light rain (not measurable yet) came in and the temp is down to 56.

Kite-flying weather!

Thanks for the heads-up! 2 weeks. Ugh. But that poor radar needs it badly. Hope KDOX holds up during that time!!!

Yesterday was a good oven day. My high was 48 after a low of 33. This morning I was right at the freezing mark at 32 for about 3 hours (flower buds look okay so far). High so far has been 62 and that is the current temp, and it is partly sunny, with some light SW breezes.

Had some good radiational cooling here early this morning and I dropped down to barely 30 (29.5) just after 6:30 am. Have 2 late-blooming lilacs with flower panicles expanding (but with closed buds) that are 2 - 3 weeks too early to be near blooming like this and they appear to be okay so far. I know a hard freeze (28 and below) would have killed those flower buds. The dews earlier this morning were way too low for frost formation (running around 18 - 19 at the temp low) so no frost here. The temp did rebound quickly and it's currently up to 47 now and mostly sunny.

When I saw that, you were the first person I thought about!