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7 hours ago, Voyager said:

Is this the line associated with the FROPA? It's AccuWeather's future radar and appears to be what's left over from yesterday's line and action in Ohio. If so, it appears to be a 9am to noon passage for eastern PA which seems early. 

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A lot of times  showers and storms that form  during the day will outrun the front as time progresses.  By the next morning, what's left over will often  be way out ahead of the front as it dissipates and ends up becoming fuel for the next round or a  hindrance to daytime heating and convection.

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8 hours ago, Voyager said:

Is this the line associated with the FROPA? It's AccuWeather's future radar and appears to be what's left over from yesterday's line and action in Ohio. If so, it appears to be a 9am to noon passage for eastern PA which seems early. 

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I hope I'm not out of place . I am trying to come from a helpful and kind place. I see you did your best this morning to fill yourself in and thats awesome. Start your morning with a surface map . I have confidence you will find the fronts lol. 

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One day I'll actually learn how to read skew charts. Until then, I'm basically staring at Mandarin Chinese. 
I bit the bullet this winter and spent 5-6 hours mostly through youtube videos learning the basics so that soundings and skew charts don't look totally foreign to me. I am absolutely amazed at just how much information gets packed into those sounding/skew images that metrologist post on social media. Now I'm trying to dig into all mesoanaylais abbreviations one finds on the soundings, teach myself what exactly it's measuring, why it's being measured, how it interacts with other meso indices, how it's displayed on the nws mesoanaylais maps, that many times like to display many indices at once on the same map.

I would pay a nice amount for software similar to space engine/Microsoft flight simulator, that allows you to play around and learn about weather through interactive 3D simulation. Be able to tweak the soundings as well as the low strengths at different levels, moisture, basically everything you can see on a meso map and let the statistical model make an approximation. Have past major weather events simulated so one can explore them from start to finish. Best hope I probably have at ever seeing anything close to that would probably be some add on to new Microsoft flight simulator 2024 since it already has live weather integration. My one friend has invested many thousands in his simulator setup over the years and the graphics on this new version are amazing. Just all overkill for weather only.

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Latest EPS/GEFS suggests a brief period of cool and drier
weather is likely Friday/Friday night associated with a surface
high passing north of PA. However, medium range guidance
indicates additional waves of low pressure riding along the
stalled front will result in a rainy weekend. Latest ensemble
mean qpf between Wed PM and Sun PM ranges from 1.5 to 2 inches
over much of Central PA, which would certainly be beneficial
given the recent dryness. This is especially true over the
southeastern part of central PA, which has been under moderate
to severe drought conditions for quite some time.

There is broad consensus among medium range guidance that upper
troughing builds over the region early next week, accompanied by
below normal temperatures and scattered rain/snow showers over
the Allegheny Plateau. Below average temps are favored for much
of next week, which could raise some frost/freeze concerns as
the spring growing season gets underway.
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Some rainfall amounts across the area from last night and overnight's storms. Atglen 1.33: / Coatesville Airport 1.13" / Glenmoore 1.48" / East Nantmeal 1.61" / Nottingham 1.55" / Warwick Twp. 1.49" / Brandywine Airport 1.28" / Devault 1.74" / Kennett Square 2.07" / Longwood Gardens 1.98" / West Bradford Twp. 1.89" / Avondale 1.54"/ West Chester 1.96" / West Grove 1.69"

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