Tag Archive for 'wind damage'
March 14th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
11:20 AM
The area of low pressure responsible for widespread flooding, coastal flooding, and wind damage is finally starting to weaken over the central Mid Atlantic this morning.
The surface low and upper level structure of the storm have become vertically stacked. What this means is the surface, 850 MB, 700 MB, and 500 MB low pressure [...]
March 14th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
9:45 AM
The area of low pressure that has produced widespread flooding and wind damage continues to sit just southwest of the Philadelphia metropolitan area over central Maryland.
The low pressure system is currently drawing an area of showers and thunderstorms into the forecast area from the Atlantic. These showers and thunderstorms are capable of heavy downpours, [...]
March 13th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
9:10 AM
Heavy rain and winds sustained at 15 to 25 mph have been observed since last night as the first round of heavy rain continues to move through the Philadelphia and New York City metropolitan area.
A break in the heavy rainfall is expected for late this morning into the early afternoon hours as a new [...]
February 2nd, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
– Weather When Posted –Temperature: 28°F;Humidity: 58%;Heat Index: 28°F;Wind Chill: 22°F;Pressure: 30.28 in.;
January 26th, 2010 by Steven DiMartino
8:10 AM
A weak disturbance behind the exiting cold front from yesterday, which produced rainfall amounts well over an inch in many locations, flash flooding, and some wind damage, has produced a few rain and snow showers early this morning, but is exiting into the Atlantic. A deep Polar trough is become established over the eastern [...]
August 11th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:15 AM
Some fairly significant changes will be developing over the next 24 hours that will once again bring more wet conditions to the forecast area. However, before those changes take hold, hot conditions will return to the forecast area.
A cold front will slowly drift off the New Jersey coast through the morning and into the [...]
August 3rd, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
9:16 PM
Model guidance this afternoon and evening suggest that the pattern is about to take a shift towards warmer and drier conditions, maybe. Let’s take a look at the water vapor satellite image tonight.
First lets discuss the next 36 hours, as they will be the warmest period of weather experienced this summer, so far at [...]
August 2nd, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
5:15 AM
After a very pleasant break to the stormy weather conditions on Saturday, the forecast area will be under the gun with another round of showers and strong to severe thunderstorms through this evening. An upper level low and long wave trough over the central Great Lakes will once again drift to the east towards [...]
July 30th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
7:16 AM
I think most will agree that the Philadelphia and New York City metro is in serious need of a break from all of these thunderstorms. The forecast area experienced significant ground to cloud lightning, hail damage, wind damage, and with a touch of Oklahoma, even a tornado. Your forecaster felt like he was back [...]
July 30th, 2009 by Steven DiMartino
6:44 AM
A strong upper level disturbance and a slow and weakening cold front combined to produce some rather impressive severe thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and evening. The atmosphere exhibited some unusual properties for this region, namely strong low level wind shear that supported a well developed tornado. The tornado tracked from Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania to Sussex, New [...]