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looks like a big blob of raining heading our way very soon Blizz.

what do you think is the forecast for the weekend Blizz

Good morning, we've had 0.40" of rain so far up to 10AM. Hust cloudy now , with light mist. 57 degrees.

Of course, just as I say its only a light mist, it has started raining harder, and the Temp has jumped up to 63F, Baro 1009mb falling, wind generally S 5-10 mph. I should have looked at the radar BEFORE posting!

Special Weather Statement

Statement as of 12:35 PM EDT on October 24, 2009

... Potential for severe thunderstorms later this afternoon and evening...

Light showers are scattered throughout the region, but later this
afternoon the potential exists for much stronger storms accompanied
by damaging winds and perhaps isolated tornadoes.

The atmosphere will become more unstable as temperatures rise into
the 70s and dew points in the 60s. In addition... winds ahead of an
approaching cold front are very strong in the lowest layers of the
atmosphere and could descend to the ground with damaging results.

While all areas could experience a strong thunderstorm, the
greatest threat appears to be extreme southeast Pennsylvania,
parts of Maryland, Delaware and New Jersey.

Stay tuned in the event a Severe Thunderstorm Watch is issued.

Did anybody else have trouble getting on the WU site? I couldn't for about 2 hours.

Looking foreward to the new blog, some local mets are hinting at a big storm next weekend, for the mid atlantic and northeast.

69F

0.98" still a bit of drizzle

winds have shifted but mostly calm

Blizz, are you getting any of that big area of rain that developed, or is it just east of you? Its moving NE, I think it will get me in a couple of hours, maybe in three or four hours.

it has been raining the past 1 1/2 hours. not sure how much i lost connection. that is next on my list of things to do. install a new battery and if that doesn't work i will be moving my station. i think i may do that anyway. the locust trees are amazing. they were not even around when i placed my station and now they are 15' tall up on top of the hill in the field adjacent to my yard. they are probably 15' from the station. if they can grow that tall in 2 years then next year they will be over 20'.

It has been pouring here!!! I also heard a few rumbles of thunder

As of 6PM I have 0.90" of rain, it has almost stopped now but it looks like a lot more over the next several hours. Baro. 1004mb falling slowly, SSE wind 5-10 mph.

leaves are peaking around south mountain as well. i took a drive today and saw some great colors throughout the area. final rainfall total for me 1.46". just had a wind gust to 36mph on my new tower.

1.25" for the two days

its amazing how the first part of the month was dry and now we are almost at 4".

my maples are about 50%. my dogwood is a gorgeous red. usually the leaves aren't all on there for the complete turn. usually we have some storms that rip half of them. Japanese maple is also beautiful

Thanks for the recommendation. I saw The Exorcist when it first came out in theaters. People were truly petrified. There were widespread reports of fainting and heart attacks among moviegoers. I've heard this new movie is really frightening as well. It's been a long time since a really good horror movie's come out.

Hi, Bliz, pittsburghnurse, raspberrypatch et.al -

I've heard the same good things about Paranormal Activity. Well, good if you like that sort of thing. Anyway, I have heard and read that you're right, Bliz - it's more a psychological thriller and not so much special effects, and really, really scary.

Me, I'm going to go see Where the Wild Things Are! I missed the book, so I have some catching up to do.

Enjoy the rest of your weekend.

Hi all, rain stopped here in Stamford CT. at about 1130pm, we had a total of 1.98"...over an inch fell from about 6:30 till 10:30 pm. Skys are clearing, see some stars, Baro 1003mb, wind calm. temp still mild at 60F now. On another topic, was very dissapointed with the W.Channel tonight, went to check it several times between 8-11pm and it was all "canned shows" about tornado chasing, which I've seen already, no dicussion of tonight's weather which was bad enough to post-pone a baseball playoff game. Really bad when they feel it is more important to put on these canned shows than to discuss the weather, their original function. I guess its kind of like MTV not showing music videos, which was their original idea. Except that I feel current weather shuld take precidence over canned shows. Are they doing this for ratings?, if so they'vd lost me as a viewer. Sorry for going on so long, I guess I am just angree.

1.81" (1.57 Sat.) for the two-day event here, Blizz

RE: the weather channel and their so-called "weather features". They lost me some months ago - I got sick to death of flipping the channel on and finding nothing but replays of hurricane Camille or a decades-old earthquake. Or, more glop "global warming". I can get my political propaganda from CNN, MSNBC and Fox, thank you very much.

What bothers me is that so many people - like my mother, age 91, came to depend on the weather channel for - well, for weather. Now, if she wants to know if a local storm is dangerous, she calls me. There's never anything useful on that channel.

End of rant. :-)

shoreacres - we have been saying that on and off throughout Blizz's blog. it is disgusting. if you ever want to read something interesting about TWC - look up the guy that started TWC and his rants on the channel.

what you should do is buy your mother a weather radio. there aren't any graphics, but they tell what is going on in her immediate area. she should have one anyway, at least for emergency purposes. and there is always her daughter hahaha

I really don't watch the weather channel anymore. I keep it glued here when weather strikes or as long as I have power.

RaspberryPatch ~ Trust me on this one. Mom and electronics don't mix. Period. I live within a minute or two of her so I can help out in emergencies quickly. At least twice a week the "emergency" is that she's forgotten how to work her tv remote.

Better I should just keep an eye on things and tell her when to panic ;-)

Shore, I remember when TWC was more than the hype and glitz it's putting out now. It was a first class operation. Maybe they'll figure out their current format needs deep sixing and go back to the way it once was.

Another OT, GO STEELERS! A beautiful day in the Burgh for football. Sunshine and a high of 59 expected. Past peak as far as foliage. We lost a lot of leaves to the wind yesterday.

Hi Blizz and all, Beautiful here in SW CT. after almost 2" of rain. No water in my basement, that's amazing! I guess putting a tarp over my bilco doors worked! Blizz , one more thing about the W.C., did you say they are going to show movies? Wow, thats really going off the deep-end. That's terrible.I wonder what guys like Cantore and Dr. Steve Lyons really think about this and the whole direction that station is taking. I guess they can't say much, they don't want to lose their jobs. Those are the two guys I do like on the station.