Mon, Apr 30

57°F: that's too cold. I am ready for the air of the North to head north. Tomorrow is May after all, and I remember a very warm January and February. What is this? 7mph winds from the SSW (so you'd think that they would be bringing up some warm moist air...) Obviously there was moisture in the air, which accounted the overcast skies all day which are finally breaking up into some clumps of large cumulus. A low from the West is expected (by wunderground) to kick up some warm weather tomorrow. Take note of the cold front to the south, doesn't it almost LOOK like the edge of that CP air mass?

Also of note: you may notice that there were some severe storms in the East again this past weekend (with more rain coming if you're headed out that way). At least there aren't any tornadoes, like last year, when an April 27 storm took 250 lives in Alabama alone. 

Fri, Apr 27

This evening, temperatures were in the low sixties, and sitting right at 60° at around 7. There was no rain like I had predicted, it seems that the High pressure system sitting on top of us right now is being propped up by a ridge in the jet stream, so this continental polar air is taking a while to move out. Being 60 and sunny though, I would have to say that there isn't much "polar" about the weather today, especially by comparison to Wednesday. Looking ahead, I still expect this High to recede, temps will probably be cooler tomorrow and maybe we will see some precipitation.

Wed, Apr 25

It is currently a measly 50°F outside, but at least the clouds cleared up and it looks pretty. There are still some scattered cirrostratus. Winds are 10 mph from the ESE, we are beginning to finally actually see the jet streams changing and hopefully they won't be coming back again anytime soon. There are some more lows to the west coming up, and I expect some more precipitation tomorrow or Friday. Fortunately, that will be kicking up some of the nice warm air from the south too so that might facilitate warmer temps as well, I think I'll take it.

Tues Apr 24

Right now the temperatures are a fine 68°F and the skies are clear (with a few leftover cirrostratus from this morning). The day did start off as pretty grey but cleared up this afternoon, with temps remaining in the upper sixties all day as that cold air moves along. There is some rainy weather definitely coming, those lows in the West will be here by noon tomorrow. More Lows may be developing behind them... but we will have to see what happens.

Monday Apr 23

There seems to have been some mistake... there was snow in Pennsylvania yesterday and apparently there is supposed to be some more today... what? It's April, and we all noticed the extremely warm winter, right? Anyway, no snow here, so that's nice. In fact, the skies cleared up behind that nasty weekend we just got through (not so nasty by comparison, right?) Today saw temps in the low 60's, the pressure dropped steadily over the day and we are currently looking at that continuing into the next couple days as we see another Low moving out of the West... behind another cold front. So cool temps coming up. Soon however, we can look forward to a shift in the unusually persistent jets to send this trough north and keep that continental polar air out of here come may. fingers crossed. Maybe some precip en route.

check it. http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/with_snow_in_western_pa_govern.html.
state of emergency. ewwww.

Fri, Apr. 6

Today was a gorgeous day, temperatures hovered around 60°F this afternoon and at my observation around 7:15 we were still looking at 57°. It's a bit breezy, accuweather reporting about 10 mph winds. There are a couple of Lows scattered around the Great Plains this evening, moving this direction with a decent-sized cold front which means that we should expect these clear skies to disappear in the near future, definitely some precipitation this weekend.

Wednesday, Apr 4

Happy hump day everybody. Closing time conditions were 60°.

Tuesday, Apr. 3

Tonight, the temperature sat at 60° F, with a light breeze from the north and relatively clear skies marked with only a few strands of cirrus remaining of a day that began as overcast. These light upper atmospheric morsels mark the high pressure that is going to dominate for the next day or so as it rolls over us from the West. Tonight's sky will be clear, and the temperatures should get fairly cold as this high pushes cool northern air over us and deprives us of our night-time "heat blanket" of clouds which we've been enjoying the last few days. It will be cold in the morning (maybe even freezing!), but lows are already beginning to develop over the Rockies which look like they'll be taking this cold away soon.

Sat, Mar 31 and Sun, Apr Fool's.

in progress.....

Monday, Apr 2

Good Evening, folks! It looks like an exciting night in the area tonight! We are talking thunder and rain! Perhaps the first good storm of the season, here come your April Showers Mom! Current conditions are 64° F with winds from the Southeast and a mere 1008 mB of barometric pressure. The skies are grey after a brief period of clear skies around 6 (when the pressure bottomed out) and storms are expected! AS that low passes to the South of us, the winds will shift to the East and storms will roll in as warm, moist air pushed up from the south collides with the cool parcel of air that dominated our weekend here. Just look at the K index for Minneapolis, earlier in the day:

That 27 means scattered thunderstorms folks, and they are coming this way. I expect precipitation by midnight, accompanied by a cacophony of thunder. We wont be getting it as good as the areas further south in the country, such as Northern Texas and Oklahoma as illuminated by the nauseous green in this accuweather map. I hope that they don't get it too bad.

P.S. it took me an obscenely long time to isolate that graphic from accuweather. I got it now though. I am a web MASTER. Unfortunately, I could only figure out how to get the maps for the FUTURE. So here is what it should look like right when I fall asleep...