E PA/NJ/DE Spring 2025 Obs/Discussion

[Birds~69]

34 minutes ago, RedSky said:

It's quickly becoming more  dry by the day. Local mulch business had their mountainous mulch piles spontaneously ignite the last two days with many fire engines. Need a logo for drought guy we can shine in the sky like the bat signal.

 

Hatboro area is really becoming a skyscraper territory. One apartment building in replace of the CVS  constructed and another four-story up the road also going up... Think it's four stories and such? Town too small to support this, really think things will crumble, 40 ft Plus. Really should bring in brought guy to see if the land is stable....firm believer in drought guy. Hopefully the liquor bars don't crumble... Think the land is on the old Hatboro movie theater location? Good times  for old timers! 1.50 a ticket....

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[Albedoman]

2 hours ago, RedSky said:

It's quickly becoming more  dry by the day. Local mulch business had their mountainous mulch piles spontaneously ignite the last two days with many fire engines. Need a logo for drought guy we can shine in the sky like the bat signal.

 

the levels in the Little Lehigh are the lowest I have everseen in the last 40+ years for the spring. Its rough as the base flows of the stream are srt to dry up quickly as the vegetation and trees come out of dormancy.  Its only going to get worse.  The dense morning fog  by the end of the week will help some with the extremely dry humidity but we really need a stationary front over us for two weeks at this rate. The recent dry winds of 35 + are killing us. . I see nothing significant until April.  An onion snow will do nothing for the drought too. we need a 16 inch wet snow to at least get the grass green. I have never seen this yellow in march ever.

 

[Albedoman]

[Albedoman]

Just now, Albedoman said:

make this say "bring rain"  and here you go 

 

[Kevin Reilly]

1 hour ago, Albedoman said:

the levels in the Little Lehigh are the lowest I have everseen in the last 40+ years for the spring. Its rough as the base flows of the stream are srt to dry up quickly as the vegetation and trees come out of dormancy.  Its only going to get worse.  The dense morning fog  by the end of the week will help some with the extremely dry humidity but we really need a stationary front over us for two weeks at this rate. The recent dry winds of 35 + are killing us. . I see nothing significant until April.  An onion snow will do nothing for the drought too. we need a 16 inch wet snow to at least get the grass green. I have never seen this yellow in march ever.

 

Any idea how Bushkill Falls are fairing up north may take a look and do some hiking up there in April. 

[Albedoman]

3 hours ago, Kevin Reilly said:

Any idea how Bushkill Falls are fairing up north may take a look and do some hiking up there in April. 

sorry do not know as they are closed. I expect they water is down because there is no snow pack anywhere  except man made.

https://www.alltrails.com/trail/us/pennsylvania/bushkill-falls-red-and-blue-trail

 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

7 hours ago, Albedoman said:

the levels in the Little Lehigh are the lowest I have everseen in the last 40+ years for the spring. Its rough as the base flows of the stream are srt to dry up quickly as the vegetation and trees come out of dormancy.  Its only going to get worse.  The dense morning fog  by the end of the week will help some with the extremely dry humidity but we really need a stationary front over us for two weeks at this rate. The recent dry winds of 35 + are killing us. . I see nothing significant until April.  An onion snow will do nothing for the drought too. we need a 16 inch wet snow to at least get the grass green. I have never seen this yellow in march ever.

 

Even lower than spring 2002?

[Albedoman]

1 hour ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

Even lower than spring 2002?

yes.  The are sections in the Little Lehigh Creek in the upper reaches where its barely deep enough for trout to swim right now.  The spring base flows are down  big time. There has been no snow melt recharge for the entire watershed while LCA and the industries  for 50 to 100 water, soda  and other beverage bottling companies plus the  food manufacturers are pumping the living shit out of the groundwater system  in Upper Macungie Township. Every single bottle of Deer Park, coke, DR pepper, 7 up, Pierre, Nestle,  and others for the people in the entire NE USA are bottled right here using the Little Lehigh ground and surface water , the cleanest urbanized stream in the country. Believe me, you may think  I am Bull shitting you guys, but the industrial people as well as LCA  are in panic mode up here.  Rationing water between the industries and the residents may become an issue soon if we do not get some decent rains.

 

[Albedoman]

https://www.drought.gov/states/pennsylvania/county/lehigh

https://www.lehighcountyauthority.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/LCA-WeeklyReport-DroughtMonitoring-Dashboard-021925.pdf

 

[JTA66]

I will say I can't remember the last March I was able to get out and do some yardwork without being knee deep in mud.

[Mikeymac5306]

They really knocked off the rain totals for Sunday/Monday. Looking like less of an inch now. 

[PhiEaglesfan712]

19 minutes ago, JTA66 said:

I will say I can't remember the last March I was able to get out and do some yardwork without being knee deep in mud.

I walked through mud during the Eagles parade. 2001-02 was probably the last cold season I remember where there was no mud at all. The weather was so warm and dry that fall/winter, we had outdoor recess almost every day, even through the dead of winter.

[RedSky]

Mostly cloudy outlook for the lunar eclipse Friday morning

 

[LVblizzard]

Really nice day today despite the cold front moving through. Tomorrow looks like backdoor cold front hell then we get 2 really nice days before the rain comes on Sunday.