Hurricane Agnes

Had to fire up the central air a couple hours ago to cool it down in here since the fans were useless and I figured that it was a good time to test it out to make sure it was operating okay. The warm front has been wavering in the area and it took a bit to get the temps here into the mid-60s vs yesterday's 77. So far it has gotten as high as 67 after a low of 55 and it's currently partly sunny and 64 with dp 56.

SWDY2 has a good chunk of the lower 1/3rd of the CWA under a "Marginal Risk" for severe - I managed to remain mild overnight with a "low" (so far) at 57. Currently overcast (had some low stratus earlier) and 59 with dp 58.

SPC SWDY2 has Philly metro, S. Jersey, and all of Delaware in "Marginal Risk" - If the temps do get anywhere near the 80s on Thursday and the cold front manages to generate a significant a strong squall line, then it might get interesting around these parts.

Actually ended up hitting 77 for a high and it's currently partly sunny and 72 with dp that has crept up to 60.

I was seeing some sites forecasting possible 80s Thursday. Someone busted out a weed whacker too. Now up to 76 with dp 57. Also partly sunny with lots of cumulus!

Solid 75 IMBY with 57 and partly cloudy. Heard someone nearby pull out the lawn mower.

Latest severe storms reporting - I know one of those was barreling on the ground not far from Great Adventure and I hope they really check and double check and triple check before trying to reopen Wednesday.

You were the first one I was thinking of when I saw them mention "Wrightstown". Glad you guys got through that!

Definitely where you are! I know I grew up with the "avoid planting until after Mother's Day" and for the tenders, we wait until after Memorial Day. A lot of garden centers have been wiped out in the past and will often hold back on putting out tender annuals (mostly veggie plants like tomatoes and peppers) until later in May, although a few forget and sometimes get their plants fried expectantly.

Finally getting chance to post but latest summary from Mt. Holly - 2 EF1s from 6 tornadoes confirmed -

With the rain that we have gotten so far, assuming it doesn't suddenly go bone dry, chances are there would be no "triple digit" summer. I do recall a pile of heatwave or near-heatwave 3rd-week-of-Aprils during my years of living in an apartment building that had central heat/air and that didn't turn on the chillers until May. Ended up buying my own window AC to mitigate that. Glad to be in a house with a thermostat that I can control.

I have seen frosts as late as the 2nd or 3rd week of May. I had actually bottomed out at 40 on May 8, 2017 and I expect it was colder north and west of here. But for now, I'm at 61 and mostly sunny with dp up to 41.

Looks like I bottomed out at 32 at 6:19 am this morning (with dp having gone as low as 13) and then a couple puffs of a breeze broke that up. Currently sunny and 37 with dp recovering and at 24.

A 5th tornado (4th for NJ) confirmed - Cinnaminson tornado was determined to be an EF1 -

3 more confirmed tornadoes - all in New Jersey -

One of Brett Adair's crew chase of the Bridgeville, DE tornado -

Tornado confirmed near Bridgeville, DE - Also for the tier now with the growing season underway, some frost/freeze headlines are up - There is a star magnolia not far from me that has been in bloom for sometime although I expect it is past its peak. My lilacs have started leafing out although I don't think the late-blooming one has flower buds up yet (have to look closely). That one doesn't normally bloom until May.

Enough to get you outta storage and posting after that event yesterday!

LSRs that were posted last night (the "train flipped over" certainly caught my attention ) - Full list -

Survey teams due to go out today for the locations that had TORs up yesterday - My final high for yesterday was 69 with the 1.24" of rain. Low so far this morning has been 41 and it's currently mostly sunny and 43, with dp slowly dropping and down to 26.

There was something that had spun up in Jersey.

I actually had what I am calling pain-inducing "bean sized" hail - something that I don't recall ever seeing here. The hail that we saw when I was a kid was mostly the pea-sized. This stuff was much bigger. As it is, this past year was the first in many years that I have had hail here - most times that small stuff has already melted before it hits the ground and it comes down in large droplets vs actual frozen stuff. Currently recovering from that steep temp drop and am at 52 with dp 51. Picked up an additional 0.85" of rain so far from round 2 for a total of 1.24" for the day.

I'm a couple miles east of where a tree went down on Bell's Mill Rd. here in Chestnut Hill per the report. Temp dropped like 20 degrees and am down to 49! with dp 49.

TORs up for part of NE Philly and across into Jersey around Princeton. I actually have an "accumulation" of "bean size" (bigger than peas) hail that was more than I got for snow from any individual storm this past winter.

Bigger HAIL. Yikes!!! Haven't had something like that here since I was a kid.