Big Time Heat

Think it was hot this past weekend? Wait until this upcoming weekend!

A big ridge of high pressure will build from the central plains to the east coast on Thursday and Friday, eventually pumping up high humidity and heat by the weekend. Highs on Friday and Saturday will exceed 90 in many spots, with [...]

Reflections on spring 2010

Thx to Tim for setting me up on this new and very smart blog layout. I have never managed to post a whole lot but thought I’d check in and add a few words, plus a pic or two if I get it right! Feeling my way around.

Winter was for sure an extreme [...]

Top Ten Ways To Know You’re Done With Winter

A viewer sent this in today and I just wanted to share it with all of you…  Thanks Ralph!

10. You had to Google “Sunlight.”

 9. In your nightmares, you’re being chased by evil snow plows.

 8. You’re wife caught you sitting on your motorcycle and saying “Vroom! Vrooom!”

 7. You’ve given up getting mad at the borough plows for blocking the driveway.

 6. You’ve developed a latent hostility towards Florida and California.

 5. 30 degrees feels warm.

 4. You think snowflakes are actually space invaders.

 3. You dug through 58 inches of snow to remind yourself what grass looks like.

 2. You went out to the garage and fired up the lawn mower “just for old time’s sake.”

 And the number one way you know you’re done with winter…

 Your new name for the WJAC-TV Severe Weather Team is…

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It’s Been Cold for a While!

We’ve been cold since about Thanksgiving, but the last two weeks were brutal. Take a look at this:

The shows when the last time we reached 33°. In Johnstown, for example, it was December 31 and it reached 33° exactly. Before that, it was December 27 and it was in the [...]

Late Week Snow

This go-around, it looks like more of us will see some of the white stuff. An area of low pressure will pass off to our south Friday morning, and bring some accumulating fluffy snow. The high snow:water ratios will aid in piling up the snow, in some cases near 6″. Take a look at [...]

One Of Best Careers of 2010… Meteorologist

I like my job.  Why else would I be here if I didn’t, right?  Well, I just found out something pretty cool.  Meteorologist was named one of the 50 best careers of 2010.

Here’s what US News and World Report has to say about meteorologists…

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Goodbye 2009 … Hello 2010!

This will likely be the last post of 2009 and I just wanted to take this time to express how grateful I am to have all of you as readers of the blog. Thank you for taking the time out of your busy day to come and see what’s going on in the world [...]

A Blanket Of Snow

A widespread 1-3 inches of snow fell over the area last night into this morning with our weak system. A second patch of snow/mix is possible later this evening into tonight as the system pulls away. There could be up to 1-3 inches more snow added on to areas mainly SE of the Laurel [...]

Looking For Some New Year’s Snow

With piles and spots of snow left from the storm on the 19th, it’s time to get the ground covered again. Looks like tomorrow will bring the chance of the ground becoming all white with a 2-4″ maybe up to 6″ snowfall in spots. A weak system will move across the area bringing with [...]

Tracking Santa

We’re tracking Santa again this year. You can follow along here.

In case the widget below isn’t working, you can head to http://www.noradsanta.org. You can follow along with Santa’s trip there.

99 Red Balloons — Or 10!

In an effort to study social networking, there’s a project going on across the United States on Saturday. The project places 10 big red balloons at 10 different locations across the United States and if you spot them all, you can win.

Get the details here… Red Balloon Project

I have no idea if [...]

New Blog Link

I just wanted to let everyone know that there’s a new way to get to the blog. If you’re on the WJAC-TV homepage, just click keyword in the top-right corner of the site and type in ‘weather blog’ and it’ll send you right to this page.

Thanks for reading!

Flooding in Huntingdon

Over the past 10 days, we’ve talked about the historic flooding in  Johnstown and Clearfield. Now it’s Huntingdon’s turn. Check out the video:

http://www.wjactv.com/video/21537382/index.html

Send Your Weather Pictures

We’ve received a bunch of pictures, but you can still send us yours. As a matter of fact, please do! The e-mail is weather@wjactv.com.

We’ve been trying to do our best to TwitPic them to the Twitter account. You can see them by going to http://www.twitter.com/WJAC_Weather

Fall Skywarn Class

Just wanted to pop a quick post to let you know about a fall Skywarn class that the National Weather Service is offering.

It’s in Indiana County on October 20, 2009 at 6:30 PM.

It’ll be held at the Indiana County Emergency Operations Center at 85 Haven Drive in Indiana.

Cool Sky Sighting

Space shuttle Discovery undocked from the International Space Station this afternoon at 3:26 p.m. EDT. The two spacecraft will now produce very distinct and tightly-spaced points of light. Check out the picture taken yesterday when the two were still joined together:

(courtesy – Spaceweather.com and Hal Yeager of Birmingham, [...]

Highest Temperature of the Summer

Just a quick post as we wrap up Monday and head into Tuesday to let you know that we had our highest temperature of the summer Monday. The high in Johnstown got to 85° and that’s the best we’ve done all year!

It’s about time summer gets here!

Tornado in Elk / Clearfield County on 8/9/09

I promised you guys some pictures and I won’t let you down. The only problem is… You’re going to have to wait a day to see them. Sorry for the delay!

Check back tomorrow, Tuesday!

Severe Weather Team Blog 3.0

It’s been a while since we’ve changed things up here and that comes to an end today.

I hope you like what you see here and stay tuned. I plan on adding more soon.

Let me know what you think of the new site by clicking on the number to the left to leave [...]

Space Station Silhouette

Check out this cool picture from France on Sunday (courtesy of spaceweather.com and Thierry Legault) :

On July 26th, the International Space Station flew in front of the sun over Orleans, France, where astrophotographer Thierry Legault was waiting. He couldn’t see the 0.8s transit with the naked eye, but his telescope and [...]