Voyager

Seriously? Hell of a way to describe weather enthusiasts who like something other than endless cloudy days, snowstorms, and frigid temperatures that coincide with a dead looking landscape.

Man, these last few posts. All true for me. 87storms. You sound like the Mid Atlantic version of me. A true warmanista. My work as a truck driver, hauling spring water, and spending 50% of my day outdoors makes me prefer temps of 50+ as a minimum. IronTy. That's about how I feel about winter. Christmas to Valentine's is about enough for me.

You are 100% correct.

Today's mid 30's feels SO much better than yesterday's mid 30's. Sunshine changes everything.

Just to add insult to injury, to go along with the stupid 32 degree temperature, now it's snowing up in Hazleton too.

38 in my backyard. 31 to 33 depending on station in Hazleton.

That's because I'm not there. If I was, it would be warm here and cold there...lol

I just hope we don't ride the boundary all summer long where we get a nice day or two followed by 2-3 muck days, then a nice one again, and so forth and so on. I'm delivering Hazleton today again, and it's cloudy, drizzly, and 36 outside. Nasty, depressing stuff.

Seems to be garden variety stuff here, but was kind of expected. Supposedly there were 10 strikes near my station, but I've not heard one rumble of thunder.

AccuWeather future radar indicates a potentially busy next couple hours here in Tamaqua. I just hope the hail stays away. Back in May 2011, we had a prolific hailstorm the ruined the Dodge Stratus I owned at the time. The pic is one of the hailstones I picked up in our backyard from that storm.

First drops here, but no noise, or even lightning detection, yet... Edited to add that future radar shows more interesting stuff coming after this first slug between 6:30 and 7:30.

Of interest (whether good for storms or not) is that we were partly to mostly sunny all afternoon. Now, the clouds that we've had around are pushing south, and we have a totally cloudless sky. Just wondering if that's going to fuel bigger and better storms, or if it's going to hinder our chances for severe. 68/51 currently.

It's been sunny up in Tamaqua for about 2 hours now. Up to 63 degrees so far as well.

I just came along to mention the same exact thing. Seems to me that this one may produce better than Monday did.

The last part of this post is where the truth lies.

I don't care if this entire forum puts me on ignore, but I'm sick of this. Saturday Sunny, with a high near 44. This blasted pattern has been persistent since Thanksgiving. You'd think that western heat would eventually move east, but NO.... It's rucking fidiculous. My wife keeps telling me to move out to AZ and be happy again, but I can see her dinging for alimony, taking half my paycheck, and then I'd be worse off instead of better I have such a wonderful future........ not.

It's disgusting and depressing.

Not a bad day today. 59 in the backyard, and even 54 where I am today up in Hazleton.

If only we could get that to the East Coast...

Me too!

Sunny and 50 in Fogelsville.

My night shift truck partner had a fear of God moment last night. She was north bound, empty, on 309, just about to the base of the Blue Mountain when all hell broke loose. Blinding rain and wind so strong that she thought our taker truck was going to lay over on its side. She parked and waited. After it passed, she managed to get up over the mountain, but she said it looked like a war zone with trees and wires down up the entire Lehigh County side. End result of that was a 16 hour closure of 309 going over the mountain for clean up and utility repairs.

So I look outside and find out that a squall went through and dropped 3/4 inch....

I haven't heard anything yet. I went up the mountain after my last load when it finally opened, and you couldn't tell that anything even happened.

Yup. They opened it up sometime around 5pm.