Voyager

Facebook post with lots of damage photos. https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1Bu5gWgPKs/

The house/building in New Ringgold.

Just found out New Ringgold, southwest of Tamaqua got hit hard as well. Saw a photo as well as verified reports of a building collapse. Pic looked like it was a house.

And it did just that. Lehighton got walloped. Trees and wires down everywhere. Here, hardly anything.

Things are starting to get interesting with regard to storms. Looks like some good cells are popping from Williamsport to Bloomsburg moving southeast.

When I lived in Arizona, 115+ was somewhat common in Phoenix, but the hottest temperature I've ever experienced was 128 in Bullhead City. That was just crazy hot, and pretty much too hot for even this summer loving warmanista. The heat radiating up from the asphalt parking lots almost literally burned my legs.

It's why I have the guy on ignore. Him posting his climate stats and obs here, would be the equivalent of me doing it in the Mid Atlantic forum. Now I do post from time to time in the Philly thread, but I'm five miles from Carbon and 8 miles from Lehigh, so sometimes I cross over. Plus...I was born and raised in Bethlehem, so I feel a kindred spirit with those guys down there.

Exactly. That's why I went. Of course it wasn't as bad at 11am in Tamaqua as it was in the afternoon farther south toward Reading and beyond.

I was lucky the train came through Tamaqua around 11am, before peak heating, but it was still plenty hot. There were a handful of heat emergencies here, though, too.

Yup. The 4012 is up there on static display. For a bit, they parked the operating Big Boy next to the static one.

It's looking like 98 is going to be my high for today.

As Canderson said, I have the Tempest station. I like it a lot, but with the hepatic rain gauge, you're not going to get accurate winter precipitation readings, as the snowflakes aren't heavy enough to trip the sensors. You'll need a separate gauge to melt and record snow.

Still an hour from train time, and Tamaqua is full of people trackside already...

If I can get some good stuff, I will!