Posts by Michael Pontrelli

Happy Independence Day!   After the refreshing start to this week, oppressive humidity is returning today.  The humidity will bring the opportunity to spark natural fireworks…

A cold front ignited strong thunderstorms yesterday afternoon and evening.   Durrance in Luzerne County reported 1" diameter hail, and Kidder Township in Carbon County was…

A cold front pushed away the heat and humidity and generated thunderstorms over the weekend.   However, as is typical for thunderstorms, the distribution of rainfall…

The Summer Solstice occurred today at 4:45pm, marking the sun's highest point in the sky, and the shortest night of the year!   The moon is…

The Canadian surface high that provided a refreshingly cool weekend has moved offshore.  Today was just a preamble for the heat as that surface high…

After a cool start to the week, heat and humidity crept into our area today.  Most locations fell into the 40s last night, but soared…

An upper-level low just to our north has been responsible for the below-normal temperatures we've enjoyed this past weekend into the first part of this…

I suspect everyone enjoyed this morning's barrage of thunderstorms that unleashed an inch of rain on parts of our area along with gusty wind and…

A surface high over New England induced a gentle onshore flow overnight, resulting in clouds and fog to start the day for parts of our…

An area of low pressure currently lurks just off the Atlantic Coast and is spiraling low clouds and some light showers westward into the eastern…

A large mass of solar particles ejected from the sun's corona during last week's series of powerful solar flares impacted the Earth's atmosphere Friday night…

A series of powerful solar flares will likely spark a severe geomagnetic storm early this weekend, with a visible aurora possible for much of the…