Extended stretch of blazing sun, blue skies, and warm days ahead!
Comet Tsuchinshan–ATLAS is visible in the western sky for about 2 hours after sunset, but unfortunately is struggling against the residual twilight and the bright…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Comet now visible at sunset! First flakes of snow possible in higher elevations!
Hopefully everyone enjoyed Thursday evening's spectacular aurora and the first frosts of the season. After a mild weekend, a cold front delivered gusty wind and…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
First widespread frost and vivid aurora tonight! Bright comet becomes visible in a few days!
A surface high settled over the region today and will provide optimal radiational cooling conditions tonight, with many locations enjoying their first frost of the…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Mostly dry autumnal weather for our area. Milton intensifies to Cat 5 and takes aim at Florida Wednesday night!
Hurricane Milton intensified explosively in the Gulf today, and is now a Cat 5 hurricane with 180 mph wind! He is a tightly-wound system at…
Northern lights possible this weekend, bright comet possible next weekend!
A powerful solar flare on Tuesday sent a weak coronal mass ejection our way which could spark auroras this evening. The good news is that…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Slightly unsettled weather continues through Wednesday. Bright comet visible mid October!
Hurricane Helene churned through the Southeast and slammed into the southern Appalachians Thursday night and Friday. The deep tropical moisture was driven into the 5000-ft…
Powerful Hurricane Helene makes landfall this evening!
This week's showers delivered around a half inch of much-needed rainfall to our area so far. A cut-off upper-level low is currently located over the Tennessee/Arkansas/Missouri…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Showery week ahead for Pennsylvania. Powerful hurricane will take aim at Florida Panhandle later this week!
Autumn began Sunday at 8:44 AM. Right on cue, leaves have started changing rapidly despite the recent mild weather. While most of our area enjoyed…
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Autumn Equinox Sunday Morning!
A nearly-stationary low is currently lurking off the coast. We were far-enough west to remain mostly sunny with warm and slightly-humid weather on these final…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
The Gulf births Francine while we enjoy warm sunshine through this weekend!
Saturday's cold front provided widespread showers for our region, with as much as an inch of rain in some of our eastern counties. That cold…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
After Saturday’s rain, extended stretch of spectacular September sunshine returns Sunday through next week!
This week offered spectacular September weather, featuring blazing blue sky and crisp cool nights. As the Canadian surface high settled over our region Tuesday morning,…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Humid and unsettled weather through Sunday. Dry crisp autumnal air arrives Monday!
A frontal zone currently stretches east-west across our area, with numerous showers and thunderstorms developing across the region. As the front moves southward tonight, the…
A couple of Dog Days of Summer on the way!
Daytime heating beneath a large cut-off upper-level low over New England sparked some thunderstorms across New England and into New Jersey this afternoon. That upper-level…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Summery weather returns this weekend!
An upper-level low has remained stationary over New England this week. Daytime heating from the sun bubbled random showers and thunderstorms into the upper-level low's…
Posted inNortheast PA - Mike Pontrelli
Refreshing autumn air this week. Summer weather returns for the weekend!
The weekend's system generated showers and thunderstorms that inundated parts of the area with 3-5" rain. This resulted in flooding along some of the creeks,…