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I chased that storm in Kutztown and near Allentown that was tornado warned earlier. I was basically under the core of the rotation, just SE of it in a safer location. There was some scud clouds and maybe a little bit of visible rotation, but no funnel. Regardless, still a wild storm and crazy with the multiple tornado warnings and confirmed reported funnels/tornados today. Not entirely surprised though. Some of our best setups are when we have MCVs move through to the north, like today, and you get some pretty strong directional shear that storms can tap into

There's been a solid hook on that storm for awhile. Not surprised we have such a robust looking supercell. Often times on the leading edge of these MCSs that move through in the summer is where you have transient supercellular storms. And the VIL values are off the charts, very high dbz in the core

Severe watch up

Just about to head out to mow the lawn and the sun is out. Dripping in sweat thinking about this humidity

Feels like a nor'easter coming in. Chilly, very breezy with a ENE wind, rain on the doorstep

Really strong line of storms heading into southern Lancaster and Chester counties. Severe warned

Picked up ~1.5" here

Currently 64/48 split and I'm walking around with a hoodie on. Perfect cool weather

I just wanna see blue skies again

AQI is currently almost near 400 in Fleetwood and is "Hazardous" 6/6 on the scale. Stay inside

Was driving home from somewhere and as soon as I stepped out of my car it was unbearable. Really bad here

There will definitely be smoke coming through tonight. It might linger into the morning. It won't be as bad as tomorrow evening though. You can see it on the visible satellite moving south from New York

Tomorrow evening most likely, the HRRR has some very thick smoke around sunset tomorrow

That storm heading towards Philly is warned for Ping Pong ball sized hail

Was just about to say you're gonna get a good one yourself!

About 0.3" of rain from that storm. 3x the amount received in May LOL

Just sent in a report to the NWS. Was a great storm here. Gusty, drenching rain, and got hail cored. Saw the VIL radar and knew there had to be something, was expecting pea size (0.25" but got up to 0.5")

Hail storm here! Just had 0.5" hail pass through. Started to accumulate in areas. Sick storm.

Storm heading through eastern Berks county right now. Finally about to get some rain! First drops incoming in over 3 weeks

Had about 4 drops earlier, but everything fell apart or split me

I'm expecting some storms this evening and tonight, first rain in weeks at my locale!

14/5/2

The look for much of the latter half of this month has been the high geopotential heights across SE Canada and low heights across the SE. Stuck in the middle is weak flow and generally seasonable temps. Occasionally we'll get a disturbance to ride the ridge north of us and bring a glancing blow of showers and a brief cool down. That's what we can expect this Friday evening and Saturday as a disturbance and cold front moves through. So, hopefully we get some showers this weekend

The current scene from the desert of Berks County, a browning and crunchy grass that has expanded across parts of the yard