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severe weather then a heat wave
2008-06-06 15:31:00 Wow.. What an awesome line of storms that was that went through on Wednesday. There were lots of reports of damage from the winds. What was even more surprising was the fact that a second strong line of storms went through a few hours later. There were even some reports of tornadoes. We ... More About: Weather , Heat , Tornado , Wave , Heat Wave
Moderate Risk last Saturday but not much happened
2008-06-03 15:37:00 Last Saturday we ended up not getting any good thunderstorms here but during the day we had been under a moderate risk. I think our chances got killed by thunderstorm remnants moving through keeping it cloudy during the the day with the best dynamics. All we ended up with was some thunder and ... More About: Risk , Moderate
Phoenix lands safely and is sending pictures
2008-05-26 16:38:00 This news is something I really wish there was more of. The Phoenix Mars lander has successfully landed and already sent back some pictures. It’s really great that they had another lander on Mars in a different area. I am looking forward to the new discoveries it brings to us. I think it’s really important to ... More About: Pictures , Sending
two noresters within a week in May
2008-05-12 20:30:00 May 12 and two nice noreasters in the past week. This has been an cool weather week for sure. They produced tornadoes in the Midwest and in the south and heavy rain in the mid Atlantic. They even had some snow today in the larurel highlands of Pennsylvania today. This most recent storm would have made ... More About: Weather , Week
That may not have been the best idea after all
2008-05-06 14:42:00 What is it with people in Lancaster county and being really stupid around railroad equipment? I heard this on the news last night and thought it couldn’t be true but the newspaper’s website said it is. They said they believe he climbed a metal tower and was trying to cut the copper to steal it. Didn’t ... More About: Idea
Ilinois Earthquake
2008-04-18 16:48:00 It’s not something that happens all too often but an earthquake occurred in Illinois this morning. Of course my first thought was whether it was on the new midrid fault but it wasn’t. It registered 5.2 on the Richter scale and doesn’t seem to have caused any major damage. It looks like there have been four ... More About: Earthquake
April 11th thunderstorms
2008-04-12 12:46:00 Last night was a pretty interesting night for weather. We had a couple of thunderstorms before I went to bed. Nothing major or anything but a surprising amount of lightning for this time of the year. I guess a high in the low 70’s will help with that. It did seem ... More About: April , Thunderstorms
Bushkill Falls
2008-04-07 15:09:00 Last we ekend we visited Bushkill falls in northeastern Pennsylvania. Our trip began on an ugly looking day in which it looked like it could rain at any minute. It was a bit of a later start than I would have liked but that happens some times. It’s only about a 2˝ hours drive from here. When ... More About: Waterfalls , Falls
Organic Material at Enceladus
2008-03-27 18:24:00 Cassini Tastes Organic Material at Saturn’s Geyser Moon I saw some pretty exciting news from NASA. Cassini, the space craft out near Saturn detected higher temperatures than expected on Saturn’s moon Enceladus. Cassini flew through a geyser like eruption and sensed water vapor and organic materials. I thought this was pretty amazing news. I only wish we ...
star explosion
2008-03-22 12:46:00 Stellar Explosion Is Most Distant Object Visible to Naked Eye Nature and the universe never cease to amaze me. Yesterday morning a a gamma ray burst was observed that was so bright it would have been visible to the naked eye. It became the furthest away object to be visible with the naked eye for a short ... More About: Star
Another very wet storm
2008-03-21 15:06:00 Another week and another storm. The wet year continues with me recording .80 inches of rain from the last storm. That’s nothing compared to what they got in the Mississippi valley. They received insane amounts of rain and lots of flooding including some record crests. As the storm moved northeast it deepened and caused us plenty ... More About: Weather , Storm
caching in the coal region
2008-03-18 13:31:00 Last Saturday we did some caching in the coal region of PA. That’s always an interesting area to visit for me. Growing up I went to the mountains with my grandfather in the Hazleton area and some of the older people there were miners at one time. I learned a lot from them and enjoyed ... More About: Caching , Coal , Region
weekend storm
2008-03-11 12:35:00 Last weekends storm didn’t give us as much rain as promised but it did rain some. Saturday afternoon the low seemed to start to intensify more rapidly just as it crossed central Pa. We’d gone to eat at Red Robin’s in Hershey and when we came out it was sunny and clear except for a ... More About: Storm , Weekend
floow watch again with more heavy rain coming
2008-03-07 14:34:00 Once again we’ll be under a flood watch. Things could be pretty ugly. I am just think that the river will be just a couple of feet below flood stage to start with storm total rainfall of two inches possible again by Saturday. TJudging by the radar it looks like the storm has plenty of ... More About: Watch , Rain , Heavy
heavy rain may lead to minor river flooding
2008-03-05 12:27:00 I got woken up last night by howling winds and the heaviest downpour since last summer. My Vantage pro2 said 2.06 inches an hour for rainfall rates.. It also said it’s raining cats and dogs, well no shit! Sounds like there is a little minor flooding out there now. I got up and looked at the ... More About: Rain , River , Flooding , Heavy , Lead
flood watch and mild
2008-03-04 13:44:00 A storm moving up from the south has plenty of moisture with it and warm temperatures here. This is expected to bring one to two inches of rain to central pa with possibly more where thunderstorms occur. the NWS has issued a flood watch for much of central PA due to this. This could have ... More About: Watch , Flood
Why do people get stupid when driviing?
2008-03-03 02:01:00 What the hell is it with people when they’re driving? We were on our way home today and there were two people that seemed to be racing down the road including driving in the wrong lane and the left hand turning lane today. Why does driving seem to bring out the asshole in people? This is ... More About: People , Stupid
cold night
2008-02-29 13:44:00 It’s a pretty cold morning today for the end of February. My vantage pro2 recorded a low of 14.1 and the coldest it’s recorded this year has been 8 so it’s not that far off. Yesterday was chilly too. The wind made it feel even colder. It’s just a little more wasted cold. Today we should ... More About: Cold , Night
Florida blackout
2008-02-26 21:25:00 Just thought this was an interesting event. CNN had reports of four million with out power then the power company said 800 thousand. Either way it reminded me of the blackout in the summer a few years ago that occurred in the Northeast. Having electricity is one of those things we take for granted but there ... More About: Florida , Blackout
No OS war
2008-02-25 16:24:00 I see it it so many places and I just don’t understand why people have to try to make wars and that sort of thing out of which operating system to use. They all have their pluses and minuses and really in the end isn’t having multiple reasonable choices the best outcome? It’s great to ...
Wundermap - neat new toy
2008-02-25 15:49:00 I just came across a pretty cool new feature on wunderground. It’s called wundermap and it overlays weather station information on a map or satellite image. It would be pretty interesting to watch a strong cold front on here or something like that. It also has the ability to overlay radar images. which I haven’t tried ... More About: General
A little snow is better than none
2008-02-22 22:36:00 We ended up with an inch or two of snow this morning before the precipitation shut off. I can’t really complain, its more than I had expected. More About: Snow
another week and another possible ice storm
2008-02-21 16:25:00 Well no big shocker here but another week and another potential ice storm in southern Pennsylvania. State college seems to think up to 1 to 3 inches of snow then it switches to sleet and freezing rain. They’re thinking southern Pennsylvania could receive more than a quarter inches of ice accumulation. They have put us ... More About: Storm , Week
snow and lunar eclipse in the same day
2008-02-21 14:19:00 Yesterday gave two very nice surprises. First one was the clipper left us more than an inch of very fluffy snow acumulation. It just kept snowing with nothing showing on radar anywhere near us. My guess would have to be the precipitation was below the radar beam. Last night about 9pm we decided to run to ... More About: Snow , Eclipse , Lunar , Lunar Eclipse
Total Lunar eclipse tomorrow
2008-02-19 12:45:00 Tomorrow night will be the first total lunar eclipse of the year over North America. The next one will not be until December 2010. Naturally it will probably be cloudy here. I will definitely keep checking outside but I don’t expect to see it. A lunar eclipse is when the moon moves into the Earth’s shadow. ... More About: Tomorrow , Total , Eclipse , Lunar , Lunar Eclipse
another day another storm to the west
2008-02-17 16:00:00 This has been a stormy winter for some areas so far this season and it’s continuing as I write this. Another storm cutting up into the great lakes to keep us on the warm side while the rich get richer with more snow and some severe weather to the south. Rain for us and maybe heavy ... More About: Storm , West
Titan?s hydrocarbons
2008-02-14 20:04:00 Titan?s surface organics surpass oil reserves on Earth I just saw this on Slashdot and thought this was really interesting. They say that the lakes and dunes on TItan are hydrocarbons. Actually I find all of the gas giants interesting. They have so many moons and they have such different properties. More About: Titan
Fun little ice storm
2008-02-14 14:24:00 Well this last storm was one of those times where the cold air just hangs tough at the surface. We ended up below freezing here until about 11am with freezing rain. Some of it was heavy. Cold air damming sure is fun to watch in action. It was a good thing ... More About: Storm
Switched over to freezing rain and sleet.
2008-02-13 01:34:00 We just got back from a short walk around the neighborhood. We ended up with about 2 inches of snow I’d guess. It seems the accumulating snow is over now. It’s switched over to freezing rain and some sleet and is showery with a temperature of 23. Should be a fun night especially for ... More About: Rain , Switched
Last Year?s memorable sleet storm
More articles from this author:2008-02-12 19:23:00 This time last year we had the most sleet I have ever seen. We ended up with about six inches of very compacted sleet and it was heavy to shovel it. It was funny to see the people on the news trying to dig there cars out of the icy mass after everything refroze. It warmed ... More About: Storm , Year 1, 2, 3 |
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