Sunday, March 10, 2024

The Appalachian Effect

Once again the Appalachian Mountains, that follow the diagonal from SW to NE through Pennsylvania, have put us out of the path of a storm. On your phone's weather channel radar, these storm paths seem to start in the SW USA or near the Gulf of Mexico and travel as a long green "slash" to the Northeast. So many of them lately have come up the east coast, hitting all those major cities along the Atlantic, but sparing all of us on the other side of the "slash"...or Appalachian Mountains. 

Admittedly some of the towns in central PA get more of these storms' effects either as rain or more than 3" of snow! State College, home of Penn State, is a shining example.

For the storm that was all over the news this weekend...here is a photo of our predicted 1-3" of snow---instead, bringing spring rain (albeit a bit cold) to our first primroses. 



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