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[Thursday,
April 19, 2001 ] Today's
University Park forecast
A milder and sunny day is in store for Happy Valley today as a high pressure drifts eastward, settling off the coast of the Carolinas. The sunshine will be short lived however, as a low pressure system approaches from the Midwest, providing plenty of clouds and scattered showers for beginning of the Blue-White weekend. Warmer temperatures will dominate the rest of the weekend.
--Prepared by the Campus Weather Service
Five-day
forecast
Today: Brilliant sunshine; seasonable High 54.
Tonight: Clouds moving in. Low 40.
Tomorrow: Mostly cloudy and breezy; a shower. High
58.
Tomorrow night: Cloudy with showers possible. Low
50.
Saturday: Partly sunny with the chance for
showers. High 66, low 54.
Sunday: Clouds and some sunshine. High 64, low 54.
Monday: A mix of clouds and sunshine. High 66, low
52.
Regional
temperature map
Legend: SU
(Sunny), MS (Mostly sunny), PS( Partly sunny), MC (Mostly
cloudy), CY (Cloudy), HZ (Haze), FG (Fog), RN (Rain), DZ
(Drizzle), RS (Rain and snow), SH (Rain shower), SN
(Snow), SF (Snow flurries), FZ (Freezing rain and sleet),
TS (Thunderstorm); WY (Windy).
Pennsylvania
Cities Forecast
| City | Today's
High/Low Weather |
Tomorrow's
High/Low Weather |
| Allentown | 59/39 SU | 65/49 PS |
| Altoona | 55/40 MS | 62/50 SH |
| Bradford | 52/37 MS | 60/47 SH |
| Erie | 54/44 MS | 64/54 SH |
| Harrisburg | 59/43 SU | 68/53 MC |
| Johnstown | 54/ 43 MS | 60/53 SH |
| Philadelphia | 59/45 SU | 69/55 PS |
| Pittsburgh | 57/44 PS | 66/54 SH |
| Scranton | 55/37 SU | 67/47 PS |
| Williamsport | 58/37 SU | 66/47 MC |
Big Ten
Universities Forecast
| University | High/Low | Weather |
| Illinois | 70/54 | Partly Sunny |
| Indiana | 67/53 | Partly Sunny |
| Iowa | 65/53 | Partly Sunny |
| Michigan | 59/48 | Mostly Sunny |
| Michigan St | 61/48 | Mostly Sunny |
| Minnesota | 63/49 | Partly Sunny |
| Northwestern | 65/53 | Partly Sunny |
| Ohio State | 64/50 | Partly Sunny |
| Purdue | 68/55 | Partly Sunny |
| Wisconsin | 65/52 | Partly Sunny |
Weather
Highlight
Residents of the Upper Midwest continue to use
thousands of sandbags to keep the Missippi River from
flooding even more, with water pumps being used to remove
any water that has risen into their homes. While the
river is slowly receding, it can take as much as two
weeks for a river to drop below flood stage, and more
rain showers are predicted for the already-saturated
region in the coming days. More than 200 homes have
already been damaged from the flooding..
Weather
Fact
Floods and flash floods have caused billions of
dollars of damage each year and kill more people than any
other weather-related event. A flood is an overflow of
water from a river or similar body of water that occurs
for a long period of time. A flash flood occurs when
water quickly rises as a result of heavy rain in a short
period of time.
Almanac
Today
Normal high: 62 °F
Record high: 94 °F in 1976
Normal low: 39 °F
Record low: 21 °F in 1926
Monthly
Climate Summary
(Data valid through 8
a.m. yesterday)
April precipitation: 2.38 inches
Normal April precip: 3.30 inches
April temperature departure: + 2.48 F°
Sun
Data
Sunset today: 7:55 p.m.
Sunrise tomorrow: 6:25 a.m.
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