Voyager

Welcome, Ruin. I am the resident warmanista of the forum, largely due to my career as a commercial driver, but I do like snow when it's a big event. That being said, kick off your shoes and spend your time with us. We may not be as active as those in the forum to the south of us, but we are friendlier!

I don't know if it's a money issue or what, but up here in Schuylkill County, Penndot stopped spraying the roads about 10 years ago. In Allentown city, on the other hand, they spray EVERYTHING. Main roads, side streets, back alleys, you name it. I was surprised when I saw it.

Yeah really. The difference between TT and Pivotal are like night and day...

Haha...I knew I'd get you guys wondering. I was waiting for someone to ask "who posted this and what did you do to Voyager?"

Yessir. Going out to Phoenix for a visit with my mom from the 23rd to the 2nd...

Hopefully the final week of February torches the west and allows for cold in the east.

Well, snow isn't going to help out the swampy conditions any. Snow melts...lol What we need is an extended dry pattern for a few weeks.

Not for nothing, but hearing about an "train of storms" is not music to my ears, be it snow OR rain. Since last mid July, it's been nothing but stormy around these parts with some form of precipitation for what seems to be 2-3 days per week. I, for one, would love to see a bit of some drought-like conditions set up for awhile as I need a break from all this moisture, I feel like an old wooden pier growing barnacles...

Hit 62 this afternoon in Tamaqua according to my weather app. Quite impressive after being -1 on Saturday morning.

Check out the crazy temperature inversion this morning. It's 53 in Hazleton, 52 in Tamaqua, and only 40 in Allentown and 38 in Reading...

It's 46 absolutely beautiful, wonderful degrees here in Tamaqua!!!

At least it's 21 (I have the same temp here) and not -5, like the past few nights. I finally was able to use my washer fluid in the Jeep. The past few days it was frozen solid...

So I'm sitting here in Lancaster at Thaddeus Stevens College and it's colder here (27F) than it is at home in Tamaqua (31F). Go figure. I hate cold so it follows me...lol

Three straight nights with lows below zero. Thurs: -9 Fri: -9 Sat: -1 as of 6:00am Pretty impressive!

Finally getting a chance to read the forum as I sit here watching the skiers at Blue Mountan near Palmerton. The wife brought me supper as she works not far from here. Her car thermometer showed 11 degrees. I saw some flurries today in Tamaqua/Hazleton, but that was it. Glad some of you got a nice little event today.

Tied yesterday's low temp of -9 sometime after midnight. Now currently -7 at 6:00am.

By breaking it, you mean negative double digits right? I'm at negative 6 right now. As much as I don't like cold, I'm hoping for -10 or lower. It would only be the third time in my life experiencing negative 10 or lower.

While most areas are a bit warmer than last night, we are colder. Down to -6 already.

Hit zero an hour earlier than last night. Wonder if that'll correlate into a colder low tomorrow morning...

Do you really think I see an inch out of this. I kind of hope not, although my HS group probably does. I'm taking a busload of high school kids from Freeland over to Blue Mountain Ski Area tomorrow night. I've got some pretty decent mountain roads to traverse to get from our shop to the high school and then to the ski lodge. An inch will be just enough with this cold to make it a bit treacherous.

Does anyone have the new(?) Acu-Rite Atlas personal weather station, and if so, can you tell me about it. If you like it. If you'd recommend it. Etc... https://www.acurite.com/atlas-weather-station.html I'm in need of a new station, and while I'd love to have a Davis Pro, I can't afford the hefty price tag. Davis does have an "all in one" similar to the Acu-Rite models, but they only use a radiation panel to insulate the temperature sensor from the sun, while Acu-Rite uses a fan aspirated temp sensor. Not sure which is better, but my old Acu-Rite with the fan was pretty accurate during the mid-day hours with the sun beating on it. The other thing I like about the Acu-Rite set up is that you can buy an extension and raise the anemometer 30 ft into the air to get a more accurate reading of wind speed. All this runs for about the same price as a Davis all in one.

Still -9 here. Someone 10 miles west of me in New Philadelphia (halfway to Pottsville) has -13.

And...right after I post, we drop one to -9.

See if we drop one or two more, but so far this is my third coldest morning since moving to Tamaqua in 2001.

Been bouncing back and forth between -3 and -4 for the past hour.