| May 17, 2024
Unsettled weather continues through this weekend
An area of low pressure currently lurks just off the Atlantic Coast and is spiraling low clouds and some light showers westward into the eastern parts of our area. That system will slowly drift into the Atlantic Friday, allowing for breaks in the clouds and warmer weather for Friday.FRIDAYAs the on
| May 14, 2024
After today’s brief dry weather and sunshine, multiple days of unsettled weather are in our future
A large mass of solar particles ejected from the sun’s corona during last week’s series of powerful solar flares impacted the Earth’s atmosphere Friday night into Saturday, sparking the most-spectacular display of northern lights in two decades. Clouds finally cleared in our area during the pre-daw
| May 10, 2024
Cold rain, clouds, and severe geomagnetic storm for this weekend!
A series of powerful solar flares will likely spark a severe geomagnetic storm early this weekend, with a visible aurora possible for much of the US Friday night or Saturday morning. Unfortunately, as usual, our area will be contending with cloud cover.An area of low pressure will slide eastward a
| May 6, 2024
A parade of disturbances will affect our area through the weekend
A parade of disturbances will maintain unsettled conditions with multiple opportunities for showers and thunderstorms through this weekend and likely into next week. TUESDAYWe will be in between disturbances Tuesday as a surface low to our south will exit out into the Atlantic and another one appro
| May 3, 2024
Spectacular sunshine to finish this week, with potentially soaking rain this weekend
Tuesday’s cold front interacted with the backdoor front off the ocean to ignite a band of powerful thunderstorms along that frontal boundary. Many locations from Scranton to the Lehigh Valley experienced large hail and vivid lightning. Those storms decayed rapidly when they propagated eastward int
| April 30, 2024
Summery finish to April, and a mild start to May
A surface high pressure off the Southeast Coast circulated very warm and somewhat humid air into our region today. With the lack of photosynthesis (the leaves have yet to emerge), temperatures soared well into the 80s in the valleys, with upper 80s in some of the deeper valleys!TUESDAYTuesday will
| April 26, 2024
First 80s of the year possible for parts of the area Monday!
After a few isolated thunderstorms graced our area on Wednesday, yet another surface high will settle over our area tonight to provide clear conditions, calm wind, and widespread late-season frost. The surface high will provide ample sunshine for Friday.FRIDAYAfter a frosty start to the day, ample
| April 23, 2024
A sunny start and finish to the week, with a few April showers in between.
A surface high has settled over our area, providing today’s sunshine and will result in a clear chilly night tonight, with temperatures falling into the 30s.TUESDAYThat surface high will provide a sunny dry day, with gusty SW wind during the afternoon as a cold front approaches from the west. That f
| April 18, 2024
Showers Friday afternoon into Saturday morning segue into dry weekend
A surface low is currently located off the New Jersey coast, with a nose of high pressure stretching from New England southwestward into our area. This is inducing a wind blowing westward off the cold Atlantic Ocean, resulting in the cool damp conditions we are experiencing today. Meanwhile, just
| April 16, 2024
Beautiful start to the week, followed by cooler showery weather Wed-Fri
A cold front crossed the area Sunday evening, delivering a line of strong and isolated severe thunderstorms to our area late Sunday afternoon and Sunday evening. Ahead of that front, strong winds gusted over 40 mph Sunday. Behind that front, a surface high delivered partly sunny skies and breezy
| April 12, 2024
More heavy rain, strong wind, and high-elevation snow!
I hope some of you were fortunate-enough to journey to totality on Monday. I ventured to northern Vermont, where a thin layer of high cirrus clouds provided a striking, almost ominous visual of the approaching shadow of the moon. I tried to capture that moment with a quick panoramic from my phone
| April 7, 2024
Eclipse Cloud Cover
As last week’s epic storm slowly drifts eastward into the Atlantic, we will get to enjoy a brief period of clear weather before the next system ejecting from the Rockies impacts our area with clouds for the eclipse.That system will spread clouds into our area on Monday, although there could be enoug
| April 6, 2024
A week of rain, wind, snow, and earthquakes!
This week’s storm brough heavy rain, power-disrupting wind, and accumulating snow. Rainfall amounts for the week were generally 1-3″. Most areas received 1-3″ snowfall, with the exception of the lower elevations in the southern part of our area.And then the week culminated with a very-rare 4.8 ea
| April 3, 2024
Strong wind and possible minor flooding this afternoon
A coastal low currently intensifying rapidly over the Chesapeake Bay area will churn northeastward along the coast to reach Cape Cod by Thursday afternoon. The storm is generating strong wind off the ocean and into our area, with gusts in some areas exposed to the east experiencing gusts over 50 mp
| April 2, 2024
Raw wind-blown heavy rain this week, possibly ending with accumulating snow Thursday!
The endless parade of storms will continue this week, with a storm system tracking into the Great Lakes Tuesday into Wednesday. Meanwhile, a strong coastal low will ignite off the Mid-Atlantic Coast Tuesday into Wednesday, inducing a strong raw wind off the ocean and heavy rainfall. Widespread rain
| March 28, 2024
Easter Weekend Forecast
A cold front delivered showers and even a few isolated thunderstorms to our area Wednesday, mainly over the eastern portions where some small hail was reported. Rainfall amounts ranged from about a half inch near the Delaware River to just a trace in Bradford County.That cold front stalled just ea
| March 26, 2024
After enjoying a rare full-sunshine day, additional clouds and rain are on the way
This morning’s penumbral lunar eclipse dimmed the moon somewhat, but despite 96% of the moon within Earth’s ‘penumbra’, without the full shadow of Earth’s umbra, you might have noticed that the moon did not appear too different than ‘normal’. All locations on the moon within Earth’s penumbra exper
| March 22, 2024
Frigid start to Spring, soaking rain and wind this weekend, and Lunar eclipse pre-dawn Monday!
As people celebrated the first full day of Spring yesterday, a cold front crossed late in the day. The front generated afternoon rain, graupel, and snow squalls that deposited around an inch of snow in the higher elevations. There were even some reports of thunder!Gusty post-frontal wind drove co
| March 19, 2024
Windy conditions this week delivers below-normal temperatures and wildfire danger, with potential weekend wintry precipitation.
After a very warm week inspired nature to enter Springtime, a series of upper-level disturbances and cold fronts will cross our area this week, delivering normal to below-normal temperatures this week into next week. Gusty windy conditions this week will also result in an elevated brush-fire danger.
| March 15, 2024
Early-season heat will end, but normal to slightly-above-normal temperatures will persist
After a wild windy Monday, temperatures soared to well above normal with temperatures reaching into the 70s in the Valleys this week. This was much different than the weather 7 years ago today when 1-3 feet of snow buried the region. Please enjoy a map of that event:A weak system passing to our no
| March 12, 2024
Tree-snapping wind today yields to mild week ahead
Heavy rain over the weekend luckily did not result in flooding despite regional rainfall totals for the week reaching into the 2-4” range.Today’s sunshine generated thermals which mixed down tree-snapping wind gusts exceeding 40-50 mph in the valleys and 55mph in the higher elevations, resulting in
| March 8, 2024
Rain, wind, and TIME CHANGE this weekend!
After several gloomy days and a couple rounds of rainfall, the sun finally broke through this afternoon as a surface high moved into the region.FRIDAYThat surface high will provide sunshine through much of Friday. Clouds will increase late in the day as the next system approaches from the southwest
| March 5, 2024
Several rounds of soaking rain on the way. Remember to Spring Ahead Sunday 2am!
TUESDAYA storm system currently developing over the Carolinas will crawl northward along the coast tonight, inducing onshore flow and spreading rain into our area for Tuesday, with a general third to half inch falling across the area. The onshore flow will keep temperatures in the 40s for most locat
| March 1, 2024