Hurricane Agnes

Getting some light drizzle. Temp is 34 with dp 24 (air has slooooowwwwwwlllllyyyy been moistening up after some arid air the past couple days). Not sure how this incoming will manifest...

Another snow shower going on here. Temp is 35.

Getting some pancake flakes that have been coating the cars and grass. Temp just above freezing at 35.

I have an older Ambient WS-1001 that I am about to retire (I've had it for almost 6 years and it is slowly dying). I bought an Ambient WS-2000 the past year as a replacement and have the 2 side-by-side. The main impetus was the ease of getting the data online and since I can't put anything up on my roof, I figured to just go with an all-in-one setup (so my wind readings are more for a "subjective" reading of direction than for speed accuracy). I did mount the two stations up on masts attached to my privacy fence's 4" wide posts so that the 1001 is about 6.5 ft up and the 2000 is about 7.5 ft up. I also bought a Stratus rain gauge that I mounted on a fence post across from them - about 3.5 ft away and about 6.5ft up, so I can get a rainfall comparison (manual vs tipping bucket). So far for rainfall, the readings have been pretty close, +/- a couple tenths (usually the Stratus has been more on the tenths "less" compared to the Ambients, when not getting matching amounts, which I believe is within the margin of error). As I delved into the station discussions on wxforum, since several Ambient items (including the station) are made by the hardware company "Fine Offset", that got me off onto other tangents like buying the mini Ecowitt GW-1000 indoor gateway/station to capture data from the WS-2000 as well as data transmissions from other Ambient and/or Ecowitt/Fine Offset add-ons (like a lightning detector, PM2.5 sensors, soil moisture probes, temp/humidity probes, etc). Ended up then buying a Raspberry Pi 4 (Cana kit) and getting weewx up and running on it to generate pages on a web server also set up on the Pi, so that I can look at the data stream formatted on a local webpage. I am still putzing around with that as I find time tweaking the code. I do like my lightning detector and once you get it sited/configured so it is sensitive enough to pick up strikes but not so sensitive that it experiences stray interference, it has been pretty spot on when I've compared the activity it picks up to that displayed on places like lightningmaps.org. I actually have it indoors a couple feet from a window pointed NW where the storms tend to blow in from. I know a number of people have them outside under eaves or somehow enclosed/protected outside, but I knew that would be tricky to do here (and that goes for my outdoor PM2.5 sensor that I have Macgyvered to sit under my Stratus with a tiny plastic seedling "greenhouse cover" over it to keep it mostly out of the weather and I know that model has a limited operating temp range too although they were supposed to also come out with a multiple particle size meter that I'm hoping expands the temp range). So I have lots of projects going! I believe the WS-5000 is basically a WS-2000 with an ultrasonic wind sensor.

Have been crazy busy the past few days but ended up with a 2.41" 2-day event total (1.84" + 0.57") Christmas Eve into early Christmas Day and then the temperature bottom fell out (a bit earlier than I expected), dropping from the low 60s down to the upper 30s and eventually to near 30 by late in the day. Ended up driving through the Christmas Eve rain and was thankfully able to not have to drive past where a tree went down during the squall when I was out the next day. Had pixie dust flakes Christmas Day afternoon but other than that, all the snow is completely gone including the plowed mounds at the store parking lots. Had a couple 22/23 mornings with low dps until this morning when some apparent virga (got no bucket tips or even wet walks) event came through. Otherwise currently 48 and not a cloud in the sky.

Firefox had announced that any versions after the version that they have been rolling out this week (v84.x), will no longer support Flash, so most browsers have been wrapping up their dropping of support for it it - https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/84.0/releasenotes/ And apparently Adobe itself is dropping support of it (it has been considered a big security risk and source of all kinds of malware, etc) - https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/end-support-adobe-flash I remember when "Shockwave Flash" first came out not long after the graphical "web" was getting underway to replace the text-based early web that deployed in the early - mid '90s. There is still a lot of content out there (particularly training stuff) that is still using Flash and I expect it has been difficult for some of the hosts of that material to get it converted to HTML 5 video format (and/or considering whether it is even worth converting if the info has been deprecated and/or updated). One of the coolest Weather-related flash presentations was the depiction of the type of damage that one might expect with the various hurricane intensities. NHC had embedded it on one of their pages - https://www.nhc.noaa.gov/prepare/hazards.php Thankfully the creator had put it on YouTube about 5 years ago -

Don't know if a storm obs thread is gonna be created (probably) but sticking an obs here for now since it is desert dry - temp 26 with dp 11 & cloudy. Will take some time to moisten that up!

Looks like it's done here although it has been generally overcast. Nothing accumulated, neither on the grass or colder surfaces but it was coming at a pretty good clip for light snow. Temp crept up a degree to 35.

Although it's still wet here including on the grass, it's still going and the temp is down a few degrees to 34. I guess you could call it a little "over-performer".

Getting flakes here. Not even flurries but actual SN-. Temp is 37 so too warm to stick.

LOL @ Mt. Holly looking way west! Currently 41 and unsettled out there.

First little band was virga but this 2nd one and there be flakes here (first of the season here). Temp had bottomed out at 33 (with dp 25) before the flakes started flying. Currently 36 with dp 28.

Mt. Holly confirmed an EF0 in Montgomeryville (I was last up on that area in late September) - I know there were a bunch of TOR warnings down in Delaware but didn't hear whether anything was confirmed there (although I haven't really looked that hard but figured it would have been highlighted in the news.

Finished up with 1.74" of rain. Currently clear and 54.

Getting some moderate rain as a band moves through. Temp is 63 and currently up to 1.64" today so far.

Headed towards Doylestown.

TOR lofted in Central Montco.

My lightning detector has been popping. The line is still sitting west of here. There have been a few TORs down in Delaware too and the little complex is about to head across the Delaware Bay into South Jersey.

Stuff popping all around. Am up to 1.42" of rain since my last reporting of that and currently 64 with a line on my doorstep.

Currently at 1.29" of rain so far with temp at 64 and misty.

Norman has awoken!

Those look to be La Niña years but weak ones. Have seen progs of moderate to strong LA Niña, so will be interesting to see how it pans out.

Some more from the Washington Post Capital Gang - https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2019/11/05/category-super-typhoon-halong-among-strongest-storms-ever-observed-by-satellite/

Here is an article on the follow-up of that -