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Mother Nature's Mood Swings On Display
Mar 9, 2008 | 9:53 AM
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Yesterday's wild weather was punctuated by three events of varying dramatics. First, the heavy rainfall that moved through Philadelphia between 10:30 and 2, bringing a good inch of rain to the region and helping bring a total storm rainfall of two plus inches to much of the I-95 corridor.

The second was two squall lines that developed and moved through the region during the afternoon. The first moved through between 3 and 5 and brought some heavy showers and some gusty winds to the region. The second squall line, in association with the actual cold front, crossed the region between 5:30 and 6:30 and that front meant business.

Winds gusted to 71 mph in Northeast Philadelphia with the storm, causing damage to homes throughout the area and knocking out power to tens of thousands of residents. Phillyweather.net reader Reilly Sharp commented that nickel-sized hail fell in Newtown, Bucks County from the storm system and that the sky looked green. Reilly added that "intimidating green lighting and quickly whipping winds occurred" with the storm as it passed through Bucks.

The storm came through my area around 5:30, with low hanging clouds eerily similar to the War Of The Worlds scene when the lightning was striking the same spot repeatedly, right before those fancy looking machines the aliens were driving came out of the ground. If $200 million big budget special effects movies have taught me anything, it's to find comparisons in weather conditions to movies with god-awful endings. The storm brought little in the way of rain in this area but winds did gust in the 40 to 50 mph range across Upper Montco as the squall blew through.

The third facet of this weird, wild, and wacky storm was the temperature swings. Temperatures dropped from the 60's in the mid afternoon in Philadelphia to the 30's, with a biting west wind, at midnight. Allentown dropped 22 degrees in three hours and temperatures across the region crashed with the passage of the cold front.

After a windy and cold day today in Philadelphia we should see the weather improve as we move towards mid-week, with (yep) another storm looming for next weekend with (yep) more rain in the offing for our region.

Credit:  http://philadelphiaweather.blogspot.com/2008/03/mother-
natures-mood-swings-on-display.html
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