Hurricane Agnes

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!

There was a mesonet down in Glen Burnie, MD that recorded a 72 mph gust and I heard on KYW that some place in Ocean County (ASOS) reported an 82 mph gust (didn't catch where).

Sun now popping in and out.

Sky slowly starting to brighten to the south and west, although still overcast here. I think the warm front finally popped up. Temp up to 65 here now. 1.83" of rain so far.

The warm front has been hung up much of the day but might be finally moving again and might be north of where you are now. The delay has kept it "cooler" and more stable ahead of the cold front.

Just had a loud rumbling thunder. Temp 64. Up to 1.82" rain so far.

Cold front is still back over central Ohio. Once it starts moving closer to here, winds from convection might get crazy. Temps are down into the 20s/30s and low 40s behind it.

Yeah had been watching that one outside of Baltimore and now the other one popped up further south of D.C.

You made me look out and check the station - yup rain is back. Another 0.08" here from light rain, for a total of 1.65" so far. Temp is up to 63.

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