Category: Weather

  • Weather Won’t be a Turkey this Thanksgiving Week

    Weather Won’t be a Turkey this Thanksgiving Week

    Everyone knows the song “Over the River and Through the Woods”, the classic Thanksgiving song that tells a tale of traveling through snow to grandma’s house for the big feast. Nice to think about, unless you actually have to travel to grandma’s house for Thanksgiving – snow is the last thing you need. Fortunately, at least in the Bloomsburg area, there’s not much chance for snow this Thanksgiving week. There will be rain – showers spread into Pennsylvania on Monday but a stronger storm system brings the potential for some heavier rain late Tuesday into Wednesday. Temperatures during this time…

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  • Taking a Look at Seasonal Forecasts for Winter 2011-2012

    Taking a Look at Seasonal Forecasts for Winter 2011-2012

    Last weekend, the weather played quite a trick on the Northeast, including the Bloomsburg area. Snow of varying amounts fell across Pennsylvania, as shown in a National Weather Service State College Office public information report. Amounts ranged from an inch up to just over a foot, an impressive snowstorm for January, much less October. Halloween decorations in a Christmas-y natural scene made for quite an unusual sight last Saturday night.However, we are back to more normal early November weather, giving us a chance to take a look at what may happen when winter finally arrives. There are a variety of…

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  • The View From Here: Day After First Snow

    The View From Here: Day After First Snow

    The Bloomsburg Daily photographer, Bob Rush set out on an early morning excursion to share images of the first snowfall in the region for this year. Bob’s photographs are an amazing view into the beauty of our area. According to Bob, “They were taken at sunrise on my mother-in-laws farm across from my house at the bottom of Mystic Mountain just South of Numidia.” A huge thank you goes out to Bob for navigating the snow, the cold, and the early morning hour to bring us these wonderful pictures.

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  • First Snow 2011

    First Snow 2011

    The Bloomsburg Daily Photographer, Bob Rush, set out to capture images of the first snow of the season. While not even Halloween, the area is experiencing a relatively significant snowfall. Enjoy Bob’s pictures.

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  • Potentially Historic Snowstorm a Possibility for Bloomsburg Saturday

    The National Weather Service in State College has issued a Winter Storm Warning for all of Columbia County from 2 am-10 pm Saturday due to expected snowfall of 4-8 inches. The snow should start late tonight/early tomorrow morning, and may be mixed with a bit of rain at the onset. The snow should pick up and possibly become heavy at times tomorrow afternoon. Temperatures during the snow will be right near freezing, so the snow will be the heavy, wet variety. This raises two fairly serious hazards. First, many trees still have their leaves, and heavy, wet snow will weigh them down…

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  • Rainfall Brings a Chance of Localized Flooding

    It had to end sooner or later – our fantastic run of weather over the last week is ending with a storm system moving north from the Florida panhandle and up just inside the East Coast. A few months from now, we would be talking snow, but this will be a classic October rainstorm. Lately, folks in Columbia County hear rain and immediately wonder if that means flooding. As it appears now, it seems the storm track would focus the heaviest rain to Bloomburg’s west, back into the spine of the Appalachians and western Pennsylvania. This would mean that there…

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  • Fantastic Run of Weather Ends with Rainstorm Next Week

    It goes without saying that everyone in Pennsylvania, especially flood-ravaged Columbia County, is sick of rain. Fortunately, Bloomsburg is in the midst of the longest run of rain-free weather since July. Along with the dry weather, there’s also going to be warmer-than-average temperatures. Highs through early next week are going to be in the upper 70s to around 80, which is 10-15 degrees warmer than the average highs. That includes Bloomsburg University and Bloomsburg High School’s Homecoming. During a normal weather year, this would be fantastic enough, but this year, it feels like a blessing. With so many people still…

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