These are my old stomping grounds. I went to Oley HS right down the road from here. The Asst. Principal used to hang out here on americanwx no sure what his tag was though. I have some friends that live right by this intersection.
Mt. Holly also has the responsibility to protect against the other outcome too. Something kicks up and drops 3-4 and then someone gets a surprise flash flood... thats a problem.
Try not to spoil the weather-- its a nice day out and my yard is plenty damp this morning. Its going to take a bit for the La Nina enduced drought to attenuate. Forestry service still has fire risk set at high or extreme.
Sure, Philadelphia is a long ways away from North Chester and Southern Berks where I am though. Years that come to ming are 1999, 2002, and when our well dried up in 2006.
Radar could be a calibration issue or rolling shutter effect or picking up a turbulence artifact like you suggest. Radar isn't perfect insight as to what's going on right above you at that exact moment.... there are ....factors.
Very real problem. How could you tell if its a fire far away or a new fire close by. I remember some bad wild fires in Canada back in the early 2000's and we got a little bit of smoke but never like this I can smell it getting in the house
I felt two rain drops here in Ches. Co. Pottstown about an hour and a half ago. I lightly watered two specimen plants that were struggling. Beautiful day at French Creek park yesterday. Lake Hopewell is sitting about 18 inches below the spill way, creek and lake levels aren't as low as I would expect. The cooler temperatures I think have helped. We are going into conservation mode here at our house.
There's actually an entire field dedicated to modeling this kind of stuff using differential equations-- I did a bit of it in engineering school but never became a true expert. Its very important for game mangement and issueing the proper numbers of hunting permits and fishing limits. Accorns in particular are an important nutrition source for deer and wild turkey (accorns also can be turned into flour for human cooking). I also noticed a bumber crop of pine cones at my house. It should be interesting to see how the beech nut and walnut crop does.
I saw a study a while back that used a method called "statisical bootstrapping" to prove that indeed tornado alley has shifted approximatel a few hundred miles eastward
Heading up to Sugarbush for a PSIA exam. Should be there March 22nd to March 28th. Any intuition on the systems moving through the area during that time period? GFS seems to vacillate between Rain an snow. CMC seems to be snowier