The terrifying tornado in Western Pennsylvania covered in an earlier post today has now been rated an EF2 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale. An ominous photograph has surfaced this afternoon, courtesy of the National Weather Service Forecast Office in Pittsburgh. 146 tornadoes have been recorded in New Jersey since 1950. Now, 740 tornadoes have been recorded in Pennsylvania. Some tornadoes are of higher impact because of what they impact and how long their path of destruction is. In this case, the path length was 7 miles.
Otherwise, you can see on the satellite imagery that sunshine has been slowly increasing to our north. It will likely not reach into portions of Southern New Jersey before the sun sets this evening. This means the day will go down as overcast in the portions of the south. Friday at this point will have some sporadic clouds.
The picture for the week is beginning to become clearer. It appears as though a wave of low pressure will pass to our south on Sunday. Clouds will increase on Saturday Evening and Sunday should be mostly cloudy. Some of the models are suggesting some precipitation brushing our southern counties on Sunday and with cold air entrenched and a storm track so far south, what does fall may be in the form of wet snow or sleet. We will need to watch any northward progression of the storm system which could result in a more widespread impacting event, but perhaps a slightly warmer one.
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