Tag Archive for 'Berks'
March 29th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:38 PM
While a very strong severe thunderstorm continues to push northeastward through Berks County and into Lehigh County, Pennsylvania; the thunderstorms to the south and southwest over Lancaster and western Chester Counties continue to intensify. Thunderstorms are also rapidly developing over northeastern Maryland and beginning to move towards northern Delaware.
Over the next two hours, [...]
March 29th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
4:43 PM
Thunderstorms are rapidly developing over Lancaster, Berks, and Schuylkill Counties of Pennsylvania and will continue to press eastward towards central and southern New Jersey. The unstable nature of the atmosphere combined with the strong disturbance from the upper level over the Great Lakes has already produced severe thunderstorms capable of large hail, wind gusts [...]
March 3rd, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:41 AM
The following snow and wind observations are from the National Weather Service. There were many areas that received heavy snow via the mesoscale banding that developed within this storm, however there were also some areas that received less than expected because of the influence of mesoscale banding. Overall, verification came in rather well on [...]
February 12th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
8:44 PM
As many of you know, it’s been pretty windy around the New York City and Philadelphia metro areas! Personally, there’s nothing been than playing dodge ball with a glass door flying back and forth on it’s hinges, but sadly there have already been some deadly consequences to these windy conditions.
The winds have been [...]
February 4th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:19 AM
An area of low pressure and an inverted trough produced a moderate to heavy snow event over the forecast area. While a portion of the snow did not stick until the evening, the snowfall still caused issues on the roadways. If colder air was in place, one could make the argument that this storm [...]
January 29th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:40 AM
For most of the forecast area, the forecasted ice and snow totals verified via reports from the National Weather Service. The one area that busted was in northeastern Pennsylvania where 6 to 10 inches of snow was expected. Instead, most locations in extreme northeastern Pennsylvania only received around 4 inches. When I looked back [...]
January 20th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:41 AM
The following are official snowfall totals from the National Weather Service for Monday, January 19th 2009. However, it appears that the Albany office may have combined yesterday’s snowfall amounts with Sunday’s storm as well.
DELAWARE
…NEW CASTLE COUNTY…
BEAR [...]
January 11th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
Here are the official snow and ice totals from the National Weather Service for the winter storm of Saturday, January 10th.
DELAWARE
…NEW CASTLE COUNTY…
BEAR 0.1 700 PM 1/10
WILMINGTON 0.1 700 PM 1/10 COUNTY AIRPORT
NEW JERSEY
…BURLINGTON COUNTY…
EDGEWATER PARK 0.2 725 PM 1/10
SOUTHAMPTON 0.2 700 PM 1/10
MOUNT HOLLY 0.1 700 PM 1/10 NWS [...]
December 6th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
The precipitation over the Mid Atlantic is starting to show significant signs of back building, which indicates that the coastal low’s influence is starting to take hold. Of specific importance is the precipitation redeveloping and expanding over southwestern New Jersey, Delaware, and extreme eastern Maryland around Galena.
Another area of development can be seen over [...]
August 10th, 2008 by Steven DiMartino
The severe thunderstorms over Chester and Montgomery Counties of Pennsylvania have produced hail over 1 inch in diameter this morning. Official spotter observations from the National Weather service have reported hail size ranging from 0.50″ to 2.00″ in diameter over West Chester, Pennsylvania.
These thunderstorms will continue into central Montgomery County in the next hour [...]
