Hurricane Agnes

Both my sisters (in Delco and Montco) texted about getting flurries. I jumped up and opened the door and saw a flurry.

Under the diffuse 2nd line. More wind and overcast but nothing convective. Temp at 56.

Sun came out briefly here but it has clouded up again and I see a foreboding line to the west. It'll probably be even more meh than what I got from the 1st line but it'll probably be a bookend to this part of the event. Temp is down to 55 now (11 degree drop)!

There's a dryslot and another possible line after that headed east (if it holds together).

Updated Warning (temp here down to 62) -

Sortof meh. Didn't see any lightning although heard a distant thunder earlier. The line broke up around the hills here but can hear a roar to the east of me. The temp is dropping and you can feel to cool air coming in. Temp down to 65 and dropping with some rain. ETA, temp down to 64 and continuing to drop.

Starting to get the winds. Temp up to 66.

LOL @ the real life expletives.

Warning issued further east to Philly metro -

The previously broken line has consolidated pretty well!

Current temp here is 65 and the skies have been variable with clouds moving in and out, with frequent breaks of sun, since the little line of rain came through earlier this morning (no measurable here from that).

Severe Thunderstorm Warning lofted for N/W of Philly metro -

SPC lofted a Severe Thunderstorm Watch for the area -

They let you trial it for 3 weeks and then you'd have to decide to go on and buy or not - http://www.grlevelx.com/grlevel3_2/ Although I haven't had chance to play around with customizing it, it does let you put up multiple panels of different radar parameters. Will be interesting to see if an advisory is lofted for Thursday and/or Friday (most likely). I know they were talking about possible frost for some areas...

That image is from GRLevel3 v2 (I also have GR2Analyst on a different (convertible) laptop, and that is pricey but cool because of the volume view to look at cells... and I do like that the best but it is probably not practical for just occasional use). When I was still upstairs early this morning, I popped open what many here use for mobile - RadarScope - that I have on my phone and that was sufficient, with good resolution, although I expect that the "Pro" version might be better (in terms of archived data) and could get me closer to the Gibson products.

I had signed up for "CodeRED" for PA's ready.gov notifications and OMG at 2:30 am, all hell broke loose in the house with everything (weather radio, texts, actual phone calls on my cells) - and then about 10 minutes later, the storms came. It's been a long time but it was almost continuous lightning (with some thunder), with almost 1"/hr rain rates at ~3 am. I ended up finally coming downstairs and looking at my radar programs and capturing snapshots. Didn't even bother going back to bed. Ended up with 0.58" of rain after that. It was pretty much gone by 6 am. I was surprised that the high for the day was actually warmer here yesterday (68) than Monday (64). Currently partly cloudy, 59 and juicy out, with dews in the upper 50s.

It's also possible a couple big volcanic eruptions could offset some of the drop in vehicle emissions. One thing's for sure - if the rain every couple days pattern continues this spring, there will be a much-reduced chance of any massive triple-digit heatwaves this summer.

Have been watching that as it blasted into South Philly, strung itself out, and then reformed on the other side of the river.

Sun finally popped out here after being overcast and either foggy or misty all day - with the 2 rounds of showers to finish it off. Ended up with 0.14" from them (the line started breaking up as it was approaching here. Temp did make it up to 55 before the rain came in (low was 47 this morning). Currently 52 and mostly cloudy but with plenty of sun getting through the broken deck.

Finished up with 1.06" of rain yesterday, sortof spread over about 15 hours during the day, with a brief heavier bout around 12:30 pmish. High was 58 with a low of 46. Currently overcast and 50 (low this morning was 47).

The winds went calm here this morning and the temps just plummeted to 33. I have some lilac flower buds that have been emerging literally a month early too.

Ended up with 0.87" of rain Monday with a high of 43. Big difference yesterday with sun much of the day and a high of 55 (after a low of 37). Today will probably be a repeat of Monday although the temps might be a bit warmer. Bottomed out this morning at 41 and am currently on the upswing at 42 and overcast.

Made it up to 77 here yesterday after a low of 49. Expect that today's high here will be the 67 at midnight. Currently 48 and partly cloudy, with dps continuing to drop.

Have been socked in much of the morning so far with vis. < 1/10th of a mile. It's now starting to diffuse a bit but still relatively dense. Current temp is creeping up a bit after a low of 49, and it's currently 50.

Registered 0.94" of rain for today since midnight, at post time. Along with the 0.04" from last night, total is 0.98" for the 2-day event so far. Currently 43 and drizzle/mist.