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Very eerie looking outside with a yellowish glow.

2023 Precipitation Departures from normal (in inches) through 5/27: Allentown, PA (ABE): -2.37 Reading, PA (RDG): -3.99 Mount Pocono, PA (MPO): -1.48 Philadelphia, PA (PHL): -4.10 Trenton, NJ (TTN): -3.71 Atlantic City, NJ (ACY): -1.68 Atlantic City Marina, NJ (55N): -3.53 Wilmington, DE (ILG): -5.21 Georgetown, DE (GED): 2.06

Many trees down in my town (Delran, NJ). The roar was quite evident before the massive wind hit.

The 2 feet of snow mention was from much earlier today.

Not sure and since I did not compose that AFD, I don't want to speculate.

Oh I did not realize we had 2 feet mentioned in our AFD. Just went back and saw that. Hmmm

Farther down in the Winter Storm Warning it states... * ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Rain or a mix of rain and snow will change to snow by later this evening. Some heavier snow is possible late tonight and Tuesday morning. The greatest snow totals will be in the higher elevations mainly above 1000 feet.

I figured I would share this here.

Great photo and nice write-up. Congrats!

Buffalo airport picked up 5 inches in an hour. KBUF 200354Z 24008KT 3/4SM -SN BR VV005 M04/M06 A2988 RMK AO2 PK WND 26027/0301 SLP131 SNINCR 5/26 P0013 T10441056 RVRNO $

Epic lake effect snow event!

This was the third tornado this year. The first one was in Bucks County at the end of March, second one was in Monmouth County in May. The new tornado ally continues.

That looks to be just about over NWS Mount Holly, so I will let you know.

That is a Weather Channel naming thing.

Just curious. Thanks.

That wording sounds like a Winter Storm or Ice Storm Warning should be issued for at least parts of that region. Maybe that is what they are implying?

You can tell them it is actually an upgrade. Look at the coding (UPG)… NJZ007-008-PAZ060>062-242200- /O.UPG.KPHI.WS.A.0005.220225T0000Z-220225T1800Z/ /O.NEW.KPHI.WW.Y.0012.220225T0000Z-220225T1800Z/ Warren-Morris-Berks-Lehigh-Northampton- Including the cities of Washington, Morristown, Reading, Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton 338 AM EST Thu Feb 24 2022 ...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT FROM 7 PM THIS EVENING TO 1 PM EST FRIDAY...

Zones overall match the county borders. There are some exceptions like Bucks, Montgomery and Chester counties which were split years ago to better define the more urban from the higher elevation areas. Splitting of counties/zones is a long process. Emergency Managers do no set the criteria. They review what is planned to be in place basically to provide feedback. The criteria is based in part on climatology. PennDOT is usually not involved because the criteria is not strictly for what accumulates on roads. That is very difficult to predict. Some adjustments for as least some areas to the warning/advisory criteria were made over the years. There is some wiggle room when it comes to winter storm warnings as combined impacts can be taken into account despite the individual snow and ice amounts being below warning criteria. Lastly, I had no hand in expanding the winter storm watch this afternoon.

Great observation! Dew points will be first to really drop with the frontal passage. Main cold air push is during tonight.

Yeah those are different and based on known impacts tied to a river gage level.

Yup especially with watches, warnings and advisories. Appreciate it!

Perhaps but a challenge given the recent warmth. I could see more sleet occurring over snow.

Thank you for the kind words and understanding.

The warning and advisory criteria is by zones not mountain ranges and such. The criteria is also run by each county Emergency Manager. We try to factor in many things when deciding where to issue a watch. We did not purposely leave out Lehigh County, but focused where the higher snow/sleet is forecast plus where the higher confidence was. We have to start somewhere. Look for additional forecast updates later this afternoon and again tonight. We try our best and we are certainly not perfect!