Voyager

Just saw a few flurries floating around here in Tamaqua. It feels really cold and raw today, too.

The good thing about the Tuesday event is that I won't be working and in the truck. The bad thing is that it may cancel a long awaited dermatologist appointment I had made way back in July. They were booked solid until December when I set it up.

Keep them there...lol Side note. I thought I made a post about 1:30pm concerning the snow and my employment, but I don't see it. Maybe I forgot to hit reply? I don't know. Hope it wasn't deleted for some reason.

Sure. Just in time for me to go back to hauling water. But that may be a good thing. New (old) boss doesn't really want his trucks out in snowstorms. Present company isn't like that. They want you moving if it's legal and the roads aren't restricted.

It sure can. Keeps blowing my lighter out...

Good temp inversion this morning. 31 at my house and 38 up in Hazleton which is 1,000ft higher than Tamaqua.

More and more I wish I'd have stayed in Arizona.

It's certainly affecting the spring locations where some of the bottled water comes from.

I haven't seen many lightning videos, but the rain and hail videos were something else.

This may look like snow, but it's actually hail from a wild severe thunderstorm that hit West Phoenix in Arizona yesterday. This is the entrance ramp to I-10 from 83rd Ave.

That's as good a day as any for a snowstorm for this truck driver. I'm off on Black Friday, and won't go back to work until 12/3, so let it rip...lol

Dense fog and 28 degrees this morning. Wasn't exactly expecting a foggy morning.

Well, if it would snow, I'd rather it on the weekend when I'm not out driving the big truck...

Actually, I don't know why it posted that way. It was supposed to read "can you guess where I wish I was?"

Can you all guess where I was??? lol

Yup. Snowing in Tamaqua and Hazleton. I had a hell of a ride just to get to the truck. Quarter sized flakes and a Jeep with recessed LED lights meant that they caked up with snow. I got the "star wars" effect, but I couldn't see the road worth a damn...

We had quite the snow squall right as I was picking up my first loaded trailer this morning. Wind blown, sideways falling, near whiteout "blizzard" for a time, which caused chaos on 81. A seven car, one tractor trailer crash southbound killed one motorist and had the freeway closed for 6 hours. Ironically, it was a slick overpass and not visibility that caused this one. Detouring through downtown Hazelton with a 53' trailer was not exactly on my to do list, but it's what I had to do, twice, to get my other two loads for the day

I don't know why there aren't any windmills in the industrial park by Hazleton. It's always windy in/up here.

Yup. Even here. I registered a 17 mph gust today, which I higher than anything in the past wind events. That 38 I recorded back in October was likely (per a NWS post on PWS's) a bird that perched on the station.

They're down at Canderson's place waiting so they can travel together with his cans...

I was driving bus back then and since we weren't super busy, I had a scheduled day off that day. Our lady driver wasn't so lucky, and had an NYC run that day. She said she had one hell of a drive back home that evening. I screenshotted Google Maps around supper time when it was the worst, and I'd not before (nor since) seen that many red roadways. It was a region wide driving disaster. The only other time it might have looked as bad, or worse, would have been VD 07, but I don't think we had Google Maps back then.

Seven years ago today in Tamaqua...

All right guys. Here's my snow shower video running up to New York on Tuesday. Nothing crazy as far as winter weather goes, but the first snowfall of the season usually causes problems on the freeways... Make sure to change the video quality to at least 1440p for best video quality.

Everyone I talk to is already sick of all the windy weather days.

The now again closed off topic section of AMWX is a prime example. Some of the worst behavior I've witnessed took place over there. I literally cringed at some of the posts I'd seen.