Low pressure tracking through the Great Lakes brought precipitation to the mid-Atlantic. This precipitation fell primarily as rain, some heavy, but there was enough lingering cold air for some snow and freezing rain to fall over portions of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
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The episode as NWS PHI wrote it up.
Low pressure tracking through the Great Lakes brought precipitation to the mid-Atlantic. This precipitation fell primarily as rain, some heavy, but there was enough lingering cold air for some snow and freezing rain to fall over portions of northern New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania.
The national radar mosaic for the moment the first event began.
3 winter weather. Local standard time, as filed.
Trace amounts of sleet were observed in Palmerton. Nearby reports and radar data combined with temperature observations suggest light sleet, snow, and freezing rain likely occurred throughout the county.
The ASOS at Mount Pocono reported 0.17 inches radial ice accumulation. Radar data combined with temperature observations suggest wintry mixed precipitation fell elsewhere in the county.
Radar data combined with surface temperature observations suggest at least trace amounts of freezing rain and sleet likely fell.
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