E PA/NJ/DE Spring 2025 Obs/Discussion

[BBasile]

Heavy rain is almost here.  Just had a close CG strike.  Sky is as dark as 8:30 PM.  New severe warning just posted for South Jersey.  About to get crushed, I guess.  

[RedSky]

It happened again 1.80"!

8.50" for May! Only May 16!

 

 

[RedSky]

Water is coming out of the ground roads are swamped sinkholes all filled in make it stop

 

[BBasile]

Best storm in years.  Torrential rains, high winds, tons of lightning.  What a ride!!  

[RedSky]

3 minutes ago, BBasile said:

Best storm in years.  Torrential rains, high winds, tons of lightning.  What a ride!!  

Lightning history says that region got smashed

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;r=0;t=2;s=0;o=0;b=;n=0;y=39.5104;x=-74.6864;z=9;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;ts=0;

[AlexD1990]

Storm near Millville has a halfway decent couplet on it with a TOR.

[BBasile]

3 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Lightning history says that region got smashed

https://www.lightningmaps.org/#m=oss;r=0;t=2;s=0;o=0;b=;n=0;y=39.5104;x=-74.6864;z=9;d=2;dl=2;dc=0;ts=0;

I almost got struck 4 times.  lol.  Havent seen rain like that in a long time.  I'm hearing trees and wires down on the fire/ems band.  

[RedSky]

1 minute ago, BBasile said:

I almost got struck 4 times.  lol.  Havent seen rain like that in a long time.  I'm hearing trees and wires down on the fire/ems band.  

Very nice. Birds is going to be jealous.

 

[mattinpa]

Heavy but needed rain here earlier. Got lucky considering what is going on in NJ.

[BBasile]

Can't access my weather station online right now, but another local station recorded 1.75" of rain from that storm. 

[BBasile]

That's a lot of rotation.  

[KamuSnow]

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

They got you guys warned now!  Looks pretty nasty!

 

It was nice, got 0.76" of rain, some wind, lightning and thunder but nothing closer than about a quarter mile. Cooled things off for the moment too!

[Hurricane Agnes]

See a couple TORs up in BBasile land... 

I think the heaviest is done here and so far have 0.66" in the bucket.  Temp is 67 with dp 67.

[Lady Di]

Southern Chesco fared well.  Some heavy downpours and thunder.  Lost power.  Had to come home to fetch a big delivery off the porch.  It's not soaked but have some wet cardboard.  Power is on here.  Heavier stuff was northeast of me, and yeah Jersey getting hammered.

[RedSky]

Hrrr and NAM dropped the ball biggly

 

[RedSky]

A lightning strike made a hole through Lehigh Valley high school 

 

[JTA66]

I knew severe weather was possible today, I was thinking wind, maybe some downed limbs and a power outage or two. But I didn't have flooding on my bingo card.

There's water in my basement and garage. Water rescues in and around Lansdale/Towamencin. Looks like 2.25" -- most of which fell in about 30 minutes.

[RedSky]

South Jersey transit strike/extra commuters on the roads with giant storm what a combo

[BBasile]

Inflow band extending southward from the tornado warned storm over Camden/Atlantic Counties.   I'm guessing the cloud was probably only 150 ft or so above the ground at it's lowest point.  

[KamuSnow]

KDOX radar (Dover) is running again, yay! Maybe a little something this evening?

[Hurricane Agnes]

Norman, OK re-upped the Watches!  I did see the cells popping way west of here.

Quote

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 266
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
435 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2025

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 266 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

PAC011-017-029-045-077-091-101-170400-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0266.250516T2035Z-250517T0400Z/

PA
.    PENNSYLVANIA COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

BERKS                BUCKS               CHESTER
DELAWARE             LEHIGH              MONTGOMERY
PHILADELPHIA
$$

 

Quote

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 266
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
435 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2025

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 266 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

NJC001-005-007-009-011-015-021-029-033-170400-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0266.250516T2035Z-250517T0400Z/

NJ
.    NEW JERSEY COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

ATLANTIC             BURLINGTON          CAMDEN
CAPE MAY             CUMBERLAND          GLOUCESTER
MERCER               OCEAN               SALEM
$$

 

Quote

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH OUTLINE UPDATE FOR WS 266
NWS STORM PREDICTION CENTER NORMAN OK
435 PM EDT FRI MAY 16 2025

SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WATCH 266 IS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1200 AM EDT
FOR THE FOLLOWING LOCATIONS

DEC001-003-005-170400-
/O.NEW.KWNS.SV.A.0266.250516T2035Z-250517T0400Z/

DE
.    DELAWARE COUNTIES INCLUDED ARE

KENT                 NEW CASTLE          SUSSEX
$$

When the sun came out, the temp started shooting up and I did hit a high (so far) of 77 just before 4 pm, when it started clouding up again.  Currently 75 and cloudy with dp a juicy 70. 

[RedSky]

30 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

KDOX radar (Dover) is running again, yay! Maybe a little something this evening?

How about no

[RedSky]

Another round was on zero guidance what the hell is going on

[KamuSnow]

16 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Another round was on zero guidance what the hell is going on

Weather!

[MGorse]

18 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Another round was on zero guidance what the hell is going on

MCV, which the guidance tends to struggle with. 

[JTA66]

Got to use the snow shovel today—shoveling mud out of the garage. I knew I put the shovel away too soon this season! 

[LVLion77]

I was so curious while at work what my weather station would register for that storm (I have an older model, not connected to the Internet, only wireless to the base station.) Just got home and 1.72”. It’s certainly not normal to be at 5” rain mid month! Hope the line to the west disintegrates before it gets here as we really cannot absorb anymore water.


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