Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Watching Skies to the West



Thunderstorms have begun to develop...although very scattered and disorganized so far...in Central Pennsylvania. With strong instability in place, Central and Eastern Pennsylvania have been placed under a severe thunderstorm watch as that instability can cause a t-storm or two to organize to severe limits once a thunderstorm initiates. "Can" is the key word as forcing is weak. But with a "chance", the watch has been posted for the areas out to our west.

The NAM from 18z just in continues to show that these storms remain disorganized due to a lack of strong convergence and that they diminish greatly by the time they arrive in New Jersey as night begins to approach. The instability may cause these storms to survive a bit more than the models indicate...but as I have been indicating...the threat for thunderstorms will be isolated especially with the instability to decrease when they arrive between 8 and 9 or even later.

The slight risk area has also been reduced and cut down to include less of NJ.

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