Voyager

This popped up in my Facebook feed. Seven day forecast for Phoenix...

So it was 44 in Allentown. Just over the Blue Mountain here south of Tamaqua. 32 and heavy snow...

Unloading in Allentown, and it's up to 44 degrees. Finally a day where nothing's frozen on the trailer!

I wish. Many say we don't do snowstorms and winter like we used to. There is truth to that, but we also don't do heat waves like we used to either.

Yeah, I know. As has been mentioned at times in this, and other forums, it seems that lately any modeled warm ups get muted over time.

I like the last part that says warming trend. Just wish there weren't question marks after it.

Of course clouds have rolled in already which will halt any additional warming. Can't even get one sun-up to sundown sunny day...

Yeah, at least it's not windy.

3.0 here right now. No sooner do I go back to hauling water that the gates of arctic hell open up.

Looks like, per this morning's GFS and Euro, we moderate after the 18th. For this water hauling truck driver, that is a most welcome development. First, loading and unloading the water in these temps, is tricky and challenging. Second, I've already had a few cold related issues with the trucks themselves. Sometimes I wish I'd have chosen a different career where I only had to worry about the weather for my commute to and from work, and not my entire day.

Yup. I remember those days.

That's the same with me for summer thunderstorms. When I lived in Bethlehem, all the best storms were northwest of me up in the coal region. I moved to Tamaqua, and now the Lehigh Valley gets smoked.

Same here in Tamaqua. Pixie dust light snow that is starting to coat everything a bit. Even untreated areas of the roads (shoulders, etc).

I can verify the flurries. I've been seeing them all day from Allentown to Hazleton.

Boy do I wish we'd never gotten that snow on Tuesday. I don't know if it's that they are closer to the southern storm, or it's the lack of snowcover, but while Reading and Allentown are hovering around 20 this morning, I'm down to 7 up here. I'd rather have the 20.