CoolHandMike

I'm not the biggest fan of sunny weather, but even I have to admit that today was just gorgeous and comfortable outside. It even clouded over just a bit towards the evening, which is more to my liking, lightening my mood even more. I worked from home today, and after my last Teams meeting ended at 4, I smoked a bunch of chicken over applewood, finishing it off on the grill alongside some zucchini and mushrooms. A simply superb early April evening. Looks like we hit just over 76°F here, after a low of 35 this morning. Good sleeping weather tonight; dry and in the low 60's/high 50's. Currently 64F/31DP a just a touch of breeze.

Made it down to 30.2°F, which was 6 degrees below forecast. I wonder what tonight's forecast low of 40 will actually be. We have seedlings that are waiting to be planted...

We got down to 27.5¯F, about 7 degrees colder than what was forecast. Wild.

Patiently waiting for the first storm-watching-from-my-garage-with-an-adult-beverage sesh of the season. Doesn't look like today's my lucky day, though I can see the stuff training NE off to my west

9 if you count the one I posted yesterday. You've definitely got a point.

Haven't seen this reported yet because it's just outside of Mt. Holly's coverage. That black line is the PA/MD border just to the west of DE; I grew up just north of there.

Caught a 42mph gust about an hour ago, easily the fasted I've recorded here in a little over two years of logging data. Wow!

We had ice-cube sized hail (and a small tornado I think touched down) near Oxford, PA in 2009. The hail very nearly totaled my wife's car. We were able to park in a grocery store lot and run to shelter right before it started getting serious. I am morbidly looking forward to the damage reports tomorrow.

In all my years of being a weather enthusiast, this ranks up there as one of the most intense systems to track. Thankfully my family is particularly weather-aware these days, but still. Seeing that couplet pass within a mile or two of my parent's farm really got me. I was texting my mom the whole time, she said the sky actually turned a sort of yellow.

This formed and headed east right south of where my parents live:

Got real dark, rumbled a little bit, rained a hundredth of an inch, and left. Sky is getting lighter here. Stay safe everyone downstream!

Hearing our first rumbles. Still no rain yet, quite impressive!

Heavy virga here. None of this has reached the ground yet.

Clouds are beginning to take over. We hit 75°F on the dot, now down to 74.3. It's actually pretty dry out there, DP is only 40. Recorded a 23mph wind gust a little while ago though.

As per the most recent forecast discussion, a 68mph gust was reported at Allegheny Airport new Pittsburg. Whoah. Just now starting to see clouds creeping over my western horizon.

Full sun here, too. Kinda nice out actually. Pressure is dropping though...

Picked up .06" overnight and then it dumped about 1/4" on us a little while ago. Sun popped out for about 30 seconds and it started to feel steamy outside. Gonna need to keep an eye on potential development this afternoon--it feels like our region might be under the gun later today, especially after watching all of those storms form over the Midwest yesterday. This could be headed our way:

Same in Reading.

My wife's been on a tear to begin all of the out-door spring lawn and garden stuff. I keep reminding her that it's still very much winter and that the greenhouses near us aren't even open yet. But yeah, anything we get from here on out will be a surprise. Hard to reconcile with two winters ago when we had snow cover in the back yard the entire month of Feb. At least it was properly cold today with occasional flurries. Currently 32°F IMBY.

After being under virga all morning, we're finally getting the odd flake filtering down. 31.1°F / 15.2 DP

Nearly got caught working outside when that squall line came through. Looked at the sky and thought "Oh, that can't be good" and then checked the radar. Sure enough, we were gonna get bombed. Hastily secured the worksite and beat feet indoors right as the rain started. Made for an exciting afternoon, for sure! In other news, drove through some falling sleet near Morgantown about an hour ago.

I find it a little funny that we get included in the Delaware Bay warnings way up here in Reading. I mean, I guess I won't be taking my kayak out on the Skook today, thanks for the warning!

Wowza! Highest recorded wind gust at my house since I started logging just over two years ago: Today was wild--sampling soil down in SNJ. Thankfully I had a shipping container to hide behind for most of the day at least. My drillers weren't so lucky, but I made sure they were able to take plenty of breaks from the wind. I'm so done with being outside for the next few days though.

About the only thing I have to contribute to this is, erm, this: https://www.amazon.com/OxGord-Windshield-Removal-Protector-Scraping/dp/B01AOHYT50 You might feel like a doofus putting it on in the evening, but you'll thank past you the next morning when you can just pull it off, toss in the back seat, and go. We got two inches of sloppy, wet snow last Wednesday that melted pretty fast, though that didn't stop all of my retired neighbors firing up their massive snowblowers. I was away on travel, but my wife finally got to try our new electric one (just for fun) and she said it worked great.

Same: 39F/dp31