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.

58 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Day drinking rules lol

78.4F and a beach chair and long Island ice T

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

4 hours ago, BBasile said:

8 tornadoes with half of them being EF-2 or stronger?  With a sprinkle of 100 MPH straight-lines?   Yeah, we've got some kind of alley going on here.  

 

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!

14 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

I actually had what I am calling pain-inducing "bean sized" hail - something that I don't recall ever seeing here.  The hail that we saw when I was a kid was mostly the pea-sized.  This stuff was much bigger.  As it is, this past year was the first in many years that I have had hail here - most times that small stuff has already melted before it hits the ground and it comes down in large droplets vs actual frozen stuff.

Currently recovering from that steep temp drop and am at 52 with dp 51.  Picked up and additional 0.85" of rain so far from round 2 for a total of 1.24" for the day.

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:

14 minutes ago, LVblizzard said:

Yeah just flurries near Allentown. No accumulation of any sort anywhere.

Same in Reading.

1 hour ago, penndotguy said:

Well I threw in the towel after the 1st week in February and it’ll be there till next season. What a ratter of a winter it’s been not even 5 days in a row with bn temps at any point this season. Maybe severe season will not disappoint.

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.

15 hours ago, Albedoman said:

OMG. I have to wipe the tears out of my eyes from laughing so much. The point forecast for my house tonight is  literally a joke. No sunshine until Thursday. I edited it for your enjoyment too

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Tonight

Increasing clouds, with a low around 30. South wind 5 to 10 mph.

Saturday

Increasing clouds, with a high near 46. West wind 10 to 15 mph.  (So it is just  cloudy enough for you in the LV yet so we will keep increasing the clouds until it is?)

Saturday Night

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 31. South wind around 5 mph.

Sunday

A slight chance of rain and snow showers before 10am, then a chance of rain showers. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 47. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%. Little or no snow accumulation expected. (Yep it is true, snow is not allow to accumulate for longer then 8 hours in the LV before melting away)

Sunday Night

A slight chance of showers before 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 34. Southwest wind 5 to 15 mph becoming northwest after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 20%.

Monday

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 45.

Monday Night

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 29.

Tuesday

Mostly cloudy, with a high near 36.

Tuesday Night

A chance of snow after 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 25. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Wednesday

A chance of snow showers, mixing with rain after 10am, then gradually ending. Partly sunny, with a high near 36. Chance of precipitation is 40%. 

Wednesday Night

Mostly cloudy, with a low around 23.  (whoopee -- ice  to deal with on my car  as the melted snow freezes- my favorite)

Thursday

Partly sunny, with a high near 33. (Hot dam-- what the hell is that yellow ball in the sky that I see today?) 

Thursday Night

Partly cloudy, with a low around 17.

Friday

Sunny, with a high near 33. (Finally all day sunshine but no again snow on the ground and now it  is below freezing for a high -- typical screw job)

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. 

12 minutes ago, penndotguy said:

39f/dp28 with light sleet 

Same: 39F/dp31