Mike Pontrelli wrote: > Speaking of April snows... it appears that the snow level was about 1500 > feet in the southern Poconos.. and in east central pa the ground was > whitened with hail from a thunderstorm. > > And... April 23 1986.. 15-30 inches of snow blanketed Northeastern PA!!! > (I wil remind everyone on that date as well.. it was a wonderful day). > > And those of you from down south.. shoudl remember the early May snow in > the Mountains in 1992. 60 inches on Mt Pisgah? Meanwhile it was in the > 50s here as the upper level low remained in the southern Appalachians. So > being up north isnt so bad after all, is it? :) > > -Ponte I do indeed remember it! I was going to school at UNCA (about 30 miles away) at the time. We received rain and snow at school, I remember walking through falling snow to my final exams. That low just sit and spun over the area for several days. I was working at NCDC at the time and my boss Grant Goodge had some amazing photographs from the event. Intellicast says: "In 1992, a vigorous upper level low pressure system stalled over the western Carolinas for 3 days from the 5th to the 8th dropping 60 inches of snow at Mt. Pisgah. " Mike Pontrelli wrote: > Speaking of fire danger.. we just had three pretty big fires here in the > Poconos and NW NJ. One was near Milford, the other Pt Jervis NY, and > another in the Delaware Water Gap. Each burned about 500 acres. If the > storm last Friday didnt blow the fire back on itself and dump an inch of > rain, the firefighters might still be chasing the blaze! (It is still > smoldering)., The chief firefighter said it was a very close call to > having a blaze several thousand acres big, and it was the storm that > stopped it because it was out of control. > > some pictures from the Milford Blaze: > > www.ems.psu.edu/~pontrell/IrvinPics/MoreIrvinPics/Fire1.JPG > www.ems.psu.edu/~pontrell/IrvinPics/MoreIrvinPics/Fire2.JPG > > The Delaware Water Gap fire was actually worse but i have no pictures. Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 19:19:08 -0400 (EDT) From: Mike Pontrelli <ponte{at}essc.psu.edu> To: CASI Mailing List Recipients <casilist{at}weatherwatchers.org> I was drving on Rt 611 through the Delaware Water Gap, and I spotted several old piles of snow from snow slides last January!!! Mind you, the elevation there is 300 feet and there was probably less than 25 inches of snow that fell this winter, along with many days of +15 degrees above normal!!! Given the mild and snowless winter, you can bet I was very surprised to still see snow on thr ground there! --