Tatamy

I am in the thick of it out here in eastern PA. 0.72” so far and still coming down. Have not seen any sun at all today.

Tornado warning in the Reading, PA area right now.

This is a view of the action as the line forms up west of Allentown. IMG_1989.MP4

I am at 5.34” so far for the event.

Not in the same league- at least in the Philly area.

Strong couplet on radar near S. Brunswick NJ. Any live coverage on the New York stations of this event?

The most vigorous mesocyclone is in the Princeton area now. It is expected to be in the general area of Edison NJ by about 8pm.

4.5” inches of rain so far with this event.

Kudos to the folks at Mt. Holly for all their hard work tonight keeping us warned of all of these threats.

I hope their luck still holds as another tornado is now reported near Washington Crossing.

How about the spin on this radar! You folks in central NJ are going to be next in line for the tornado activity.

Multiple tornado warnings currently up in the Mt Holly WFO including Philadelphia.

The placement of the precip max just south of Allentown corresponds with South Mountain. That is the ridge that I78 weaves in and around in that vicinity.

Be careful what you wish for! Lol.

At the rate conditions are going downhill at that location I doubt it will be on for more than another 30 minutes or so. I give a lot of credit to who ever set it up. That feed ranks with the overnight footage seen from the eye of Gonzalo in Bermuda in 2014. Perfectly calm, pitch black conditions with frogs.

http://Www.wwltv.com For those of you who are interested, I am providing the above link to a NOLA TV station with live local coverage:

Yup - that’s the one.

Where you are located is at elevation high up in the Poconos. Orographically induced storms are common there. Because it’s rural you won’t get much media information. Is there Nextdoor out there?

Same exact weather going on here.

They formed east of there. No worries as there are others popping up all over the place around here.

They have an old narrow truss bridge across the Delaware River at that location. No EZ pass there. They hire senior citizens to stand in the roadway and collect the tolls from motorists.

These storms are already east of there.

They are popping around me as well. Outflow boundary passed me about 10 minutes ago and dropped the temperature about 8 degrees in a few minutes.

Active convection day in NE PA especially in Monroe and Northampton Cty’s near Stroudsburg. These storms are severe warned and are moving into Warren and Sussex Cty NJ at this time. 211 lightning strikes in the past 3 hours with these storms. Use caution if you are driving out west on I80 in NW NJ this afternoon.

From a meteorological perspective Sandy was a hybrid storm for a good part of its existence outside of the Caribbean. It comes down to the realization on the part of the NHC that both subtropical and tropical storms can be highly destructive. At the end of the day the public needs to be warned in advance of a system that can bring high winds, storm surge, and heavy flooding rains. Both of these types of storms can do that. Up to about a decade or so ago only tropical systems were named and subtropical ones weren’t unless they became tropical. Now both are and the process/experience with how Sandy was tracked and the agencies responsible to do so were crystallized. A true hurricane is defined by its scientific/meteorological characteristics and the definition is not going to be changed for the sake of issuing warnings. That is why we have the current system in place. Regarding the Saffir/Simpson scale, this was developed by pioneering tropical meteorologists back in the 60s and 70s. I believe it serves its purpose well. To relate the scale to wind increments of 5 mph makes no sense. The purpose of the scale is to relate the wind speeds and overall intensity of it to the potential damage and it can and does cause.