Central PA Fall Discussions and Obs

[canderson]

33 here. Close to the first freeze!

[mahantango#1]

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[Mount Joy Snowman]

Low of 36. 

[ChescoWx]

Plenty of lows below freezing across most of the valley locations including Nottingham, Warwick Township, West Bradford, West Chester, Devault with the lowest the 29.1 degree reading at Warwick. At our higher ridge spots like here in East Nantmeal we got no lower than 38.9 degrees this morning. Temperatures during the day have been running 5 to 7 degrees below normal during the last couple of days and this chilly trend looks to continue through at least the next week taking us into the first week of November.  We stay dry till midweek when we will turn our attention to a possible coastal storm which may impact the region from Wednesday night into Friday.

[Superstorm]

36F here. I assume many of the lower lying areas went below freezing. Growing season is over there.


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[Superstorm]

Mellissa is exploding right now.


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[canderson]

Met a friend for lunch and when I got home the furnace was on. Oh well, happy wife and all  

[Jns2183]

Anyone have any links to weather stations or web cams in Jamaica? Island wide rainfall gauge network? Or wind speed?

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[mahantango#1]

30 this morning with fog that rolled in.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Low of 37. Had a nice fire last night. Big one between The Pack and Steelers tonight. 

[pawatch]

37 for the low here.

kind of weird having a hard freeze then have fog roll in.”earlier in the week”

Fired my coal stove up earlier in the week, 70 degree heat in the house has been nice.

Appears Melissa is really going to really dump some rain in Jamaica.

[canderson]

2 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Low of 37. Had a nice fire last night. Big one between The Pack and Steelers tonight. 

2nd day I’ve gotten lower than you - interesting. 34 here. 

[mahantango#1]

19 minutes ago, pawatch said:

 

Appears Melissa is really going to really dump some rain in Jamaica.

I have a friend who just spent a week in Jamaica. He posted last night that he got out of there before they shut down the airports. But he has some other friends that didn't make it off the island before they shutdown the airports, so they are stuck there.

[ChescoWx]

This morning saw quite a few valley spots across the area fall below freezing. Warwick Township our typical cold spot fell to 29.4 degrees. Here just a few miles south but 250 feet higher in East Nantmeal we saw a low of 36.7 degrees this was our chilliest morning since last April 17th when we reached 34.2 degrees. Higher ridge locations have still not experienced a frost or freeze so far this autumn. Our cool autumnal pattern continues this week with the potential of another coastal storm by mid to late week. This storm has the potential to bring some widespread beneficial rains to the area. We will remain with temperatures below normal through next weekend.

[Voyager]

35 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

I have a friend who just spent a week in Jamaica. He posted last night that he got out of there before they shut down the airports. But he has some other friends that didn't make it off the island before they shutdown the airports, so they are stuck there.

Oh man....

I love severe weather anomalies, but I think I'd be scared poopless if I were stuck there. Prayers that his friends (and as many others as are possible) remain safe as they ride out this beast.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

2 hours ago, canderson said:

2nd day I’ve gotten lower than you - interesting. 34 here. 

Noticed that, interesting indeed. I think sometimes when the inversions are quite shallow that I sit juuuuust above them at my new location. I say “new” even though we’ve been here going on three years ha, but our last place sat about 100’ lower and I got noticeably colder lows over there.