With about 48 hours until 4th of July Fireworks, we are now in the range where we can feel decently confident about an hourly forecast. It’s looking like areas of central and western PA will face the chance for showers and storms 8:30 – 10:00 PM Thursday. Locations between Pittsburgh and the Laurel Highlands, as…
Strong to severe thunderstorms are possible for much of the area tomorrow as a front passes through the region. Morning rain and thunderstorms is likely for Northwest Pennsylvania in the mid-morning hours. Below is a look at 7:00 AM tomorrow morning: As the day progresses, the chances for severe weather increases. By the afternoon and…
If you read last night’s forecast, you will not be surprised by the severe weather forecast for tomorrow. With that being said, over the last 24 hours, data and observations have increased the risk for an isolated tornado or two tomorrow. Initially, damaging winds was expected to be the main threat, which it still is.…
After this evening’s and tomorrow’s on and off rainfall, our attention turns to Wednesday for severe weather. A warm front will lift northward overnight Tuesday into early Wednesday morning, allowing for a cold front to pass through the state from west to east Wednesday afternoon. This cold front has the potential of producing scattered severe…
The active pattern of this summer will continue into the first week of fall, as we have everything from heavy rain to a day four severe thunderstorm threat on tap for the first few days of this week. A frontal boundary will move into the area, bringing heavy rain to the state beginning Monday afternoon…
Another round of severe weather is on the way Tuesday. This time around, our focus is on Western and Central PA for the possibility of severe storms accompanied by damaging winds, hail, and a few tornadoes. Conditions will be favorable for individual supercell thunderstorms, along with clusters of strong to severe storms. Thunderstorms will begin…
As we receive the latest data for tomorrow’s severe weather, the trend has been for a later start time compared to what we were looking at last night. Western areas will still experience the storms first and should also expect the worst of the storms. A few discrete cells will likely develop around noontime ahead…
We are once again expecting another round of severe weather to pass through the state Tuesday afternoon and evening. A line of strong to severe storms are expected to develop to our west early Tuesday, and will push east hitting our western areas first early Tuesday afternoon and our central areas by the middle of…
After the past couple days of dry and mostly sunny weather, we have our eyes turned to the weekend as a low pressure system will track just south of Pennsylvania during the day Friday and will transfer its energy to the coast Friday night. This coastal low will enhance precipitation across the state overnight Friday…
Significant to major flooding has taken place in several PA towns this evening, where as much as 3 to 6 inches of rain has fallen in these towns. Dauphin, York, and Lebanon counties were a few of the counties hit hardest. Roads were turned into rivers this evening, leaving motorists stranded. Below are images from…
Severe weather is expected to impact the state of Pennsylvania both Saturday and Sunday this weekend. The Storm Prediction Center has placed most of us under a SLIGHT RISK for severe weather both days. For Saturday, the primary threat will arrive in the afternoon hours and will carry over into the early morning hours of…
A potent storm system will be making large impacts to our weather starting tomorrow and lasting through Friday. Heavy rain is expected tomorrow, especially for the eastern half of the state. As the storm system passes to our north, winds will change to a cold northwest flow, this will allow for any rain showers to…
A system pushing through Ohio right now, will be crossing Pennsylvania during the overnight hours and into the day on Sunday. Due to cloud coverage, Western PA will be in for a chance of showers and downpours, but nothing severe. However, skies will be more clear to the East, which will lead to increased instability and the…
Since last night’s update, the Storm Prediction Center has now expanded their SLIGHT RISK for Severe Weather to cover just about the entire state with the exception for far Northwest PA. These storms will still be isolated, with many locations not seeing a drop of rain. However, areas that do receive these storms, will be…
The only way to breakdown this pattern of extreme heat and humidity is to have multiple systems pass through the area, and sure enough that is what we have here this week. Tomorrow a potent system will be passing through our state, leading to the chance of Severe Weather for the entire State. Will this…