Voyager

Oh man.... I love severe weather anomalies, but I think I'd be scared poopless if I were stuck there. Prayers that his friends (and as many others as are possible) remain safe as they ride out this beast.

I'll take the add, but pass on the subtract.

Add 20 and then it would be glorious...

Hazleton must sit at the right elevation for some kind of upper level jet stream. It can be dead calm everywhere else (especially Tamaqua) but wicked windy up here in the Humboldt Industrial Park where I'm based out of. Even the early morning, when winds are usually the calmest of the day.

This. The darkness is the worst part of winter. Of course, being a truck driver, I'm not fond of snow, either, but getting dark at 4:30pm is very depressing.

Mostly cloudy and 71 currently in Tamaqua. Peak gust so far has been 10.5 mph, that occurred just a few minutes ago so the winds are just now starting to ramp up here. I suspect I'll see higher gusts as the day goes on. It'll be interesting later when the front blows through.

Lock it in. Snowbirdbob on Facebook says we're going to have a epic winter...

Not all of us...

I had seven gusts over 20 and two over 30. Guess that probably rules out the neighbor messing with me with a leaf blower...lol

Who else had wind? Finally getting good gusts with this new station. I do think my old one was too low with wind speed.

Got me by a hundredth....lol

Nothing really here yet. Peak gust jumped to 7.9 mph. Since the neighbor removed a big pine tree in their backyard, my station is more open. Last week after the front, I recorded a 24 mph gust.

Wow!!! What a storm... So far I'm up to 0.01" and recorded a peak wind gust of 6.8 mph. What a far cry from all the social media doomsday posts as well as what the models were sometimes showing a few days ago

I saw that swath of heavier precipitation out your way. Here its been nothing but drizzle. I've yet to record even 0.01" on the Tempest, but the most I've seen from conventional tipping bucket gauges locally is 0.03".

Not sure about this Tempest weather station. I guess drizzle drops aren't heavy enough to register on the hepatic rain gauge. It's been drizzling for over 4 hours here, and it hasn't even measured 1/100 of an inch. I might have to replace it at some point (maybe New Year) with a traditional weather station. Especially since I already know it won't register snow flakes. At least with a traditional tipping bucket, once the snow melts, it measures the liquid equivalent.