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Cold Front Moving Through Northeast

Posted on by gmachos

I just came back from having an early dinner, and noticed that the sun was trying to come out. The storm system that was forecast to bring some rain into the Central Jersey area is pushing through, but isn’t done yet. There is a squall line that formed in Western Pennsylvania at about 3:00 PM, and has pushed eastward and gained some energy within the past three hours. The forecast is calling for some showers and perhaps a thunderstorm by around 9:00 PM.

While I was out and about, a person who had been inside much of the day asked me about the weather. So, I explained that it had been raining lightly when I left the house a bit before 4:00 PM, and had picked up in intensity prior to my arrival at the restaurant. The person had commented that she had heard that it was going to be a lot worse than it had turned out thus far. I then stated that there is more weather to come from Pennsylvania.

Looking at the thunderstorm forecast map courtesy of the Weather Channel, a large area of possible thunderstorm development does exist from Central Texas to portions of the Northeast including Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania. However, none of those areas are expected to get anything of the severe variety. Severe storms occur when there are any of the following conditions:

  • Winds of 58 miles per hour or greater.
  • 3/4 inch or larger hail.
  • Possible tornado development

Investigating further, I looked at the latest TWC Doppler Radar of the entire United States, and there are two very long, but narrow areas of storms that have already pushed off, or are pushing off the East Coast of the United States. However, our third squall line that is still approaching stretches from Vermont through New York into Pennsylvania, and then breaks up a bit before forming again across Eastern Tennessee. The National Weather Service office in Mount Holly, New Jersey has issued a Hazardous Weather Outlook for the Central Jersey area calling for the possibility of a few thunderstorms capable of producing strong and gusty winds.

We’ll continue to follow this developing weather situation, and intend to have some timelapse video footage of it posted online in the coming days.