Lehigh Valley weather: Why is the snowstorm so severe? And it could have been worse? The anatomy of a storm.
Lehigh Valley weather: Why it could snow 2 feet and why it could have been worse Updated Feb 01, 2021; Something to hold dear during the next 12 hours of the truly nasty part of the snowstorm: It could have been worse. While discussing Monday morning how the three-day storm developed and how it set up nearly perfectly for a dramatic hit on the Lehigh Valley and northwest New Jersey, EPAWA Weather Consulting meteorologist Bobby Martrich noticed the current pressure of the low, which was about 75 miles southeast of Cape May. It was 990 millibars -- which is a metric measurement of air pressure...