This afternoon Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf and Dr. Rachel Levine have announced new measures to help combat the spread of Covid 19 in the Commonwealth. Wolf who has recently been diagnosed with Covid-19 has placed new regulations into effect.
Gov. Tom Wolf has just announced that effective THIS Saturday Dec. 12 at 12:01am and expire Jan. 4, 2021 at 8am. These restrictions are for the next 3 weeks. This will include the Christmas and New Years Holidays. This is to help slow the spread of Covid 19.
NEW RESTRICTIONS: – No indoor dining – No indoor gym activity – No indoor gatherings over 10 ppl. – No outdoor gatherings over 50 ppl. – Retail capacity 50 % – No extra curricular activities , sports K -12
PA COVID-19 UPDATES: Visitors to PA must have a NEGETIVE Covid-19 test taken within 72 hours before entering PA. If unable to test, must quarantine for 14 days.
Masks must be worn whenever you are not with members of your household even if you are social-distancing
This afternoon at 1pm, Secretary of Health Dr. Rachel Levine is set to Announce Targeted Efforts to Control the Spread of COVID-19 in Pennsylvania.
To view live you can watch below. We are working with the State to stream the press conference live for our followers.
The Delaware Valley Regional Planning Commission has issued a code orange air quality alert Sunday for The Philadelphia Metro area.
A code orange air quality alert means that air pollution concentrations within the region may become unhealthy for sensitive groups. Sensitive groups include children…people suffering from asthma… heart disease or other lung diseases…and the elderly.
The effects of air pollution can be minimized by avoiding strenuous activity or exercise outdoors.
For more information on ground-level ozone and fine particles…visit http://www.phila.gov/health/units/ams/
The first widespread freeze of the season is likely Friday night into Saturday morning across inland central and south Jersey, the urban corridor of Southeast Pennsylvania, and northern Delmarva.
Tropical Storm Zeta was on the verge of strengthening into a hurricane on Monday as it swirled over the Caribbean Sea. While Zeta will make landfall along the gulf coast, Our area could see heavy rain as early as Thursday and continue into Friday night. At this point locations to our well north near the NY/PA border could see snow as this system moves north.
Our team will bring you the latest as the week goes on but Thursday and Friday will be washouts with the sun returning for Halloween this coming Saturday.
We are a GO for launch from Wallops tomorrow (Oct 1st).
NASA commercial cargo provider Northrop Grumman is targeting Thursday, Oct. 1, for the launch of its 14th resupply mission to the International Space Station. The five-minute launch window opens at 9:38 p.m. EDT.
Loaded with nearly 8,000 pounds of research, crew supplies, and hardware, Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus cargo spacecraft will launch on the company’s Antares rocket from Virginia Space’s Mid-Atlantic Regional Spaceport at NASA’s Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia.
The latest Wallops Launch Range forecast, issued this afternoon, remains at 70% probability for favorable weather. Cloud ceilings and cloud cover are the main concerns.
The launch may be visible, weather permitting and depending on other local conditions (such as elevation), to residents up and down the East Coast of the United States.
When accessed from a smartphone browser, the Wallops Mission Status Center website can provide specific viewing information based on location.
Due to restrictions associated with the COVID-19 pandemic, the NASA Visitor Center at Wallops will be CLOSED for this launch.
Live coverage of the launch will begin at 9 p.m. EDT and air on NASA Television and the agency’s website. Live coverage and countdown commentary also will stream on social media.
The Cygnus spacecraft, dubbed the SS Kalpana Chawla, will arrive at the space station Sunday, Oct. 4. Expedition 63 Commander Chris Cassidy of NASA will grapple Cygnus and Flight Engineer Ivan Vagner of Roscosmos will act as a backup. After Cygnus capture, mission control in Houston will send ground commands for the station’s robotic arm to rotate and install it on the bottom of the station’s Unity module. Cygnus is scheduled to remain at the space station until mid-December, when it will depart the station. Following departure, the Saffire-V experiment will be conducted prior to Cygnus deorbit and disposing of several tons of trash during a fiery re-entry into Earth’s atmosphere approximately two weeks later.
Happy Distanced New Year. The iconic ball drop celebration in New York’s Times Square will go virtual this year, organizers announced yesterday.
“More than ever in these divided and fear-filled times, the world desperately needs to come together symbolically and virtually to celebrate the people and things we love and to look forward with a sense of renewal and new beginnings,” said Tim Tompkins, president of the Times Square Alliance, co-producer of the event with Countdown Entertainment, in a statement.
“One thing that will never change is the ticking of time and the arrival of a New Year at midnight on December 31st,” said Tompkins. “But this year there will be significantly new and enhanced virtual, visual and digital offerings to complement whatever limited live entertainment or experiences – still in development – will take place in Times Square. And because any opportunity to be live in Times Square will be pre-determined and extremely limited due to Covid-19 restrictions, there will be the opportunity to participate virtually wherever you are.”
Early next week the United States could see TWO tropical systems along the Gulf of Mexico. In the event anything changes with this forecast we will bring you the latest information. As of this time the track is uncertain and we do expect some changes are possible. Folks along the Gulf should start to prepare for a Hurricane and Tropical Storm.
Tropical Depression 13 is expected to be upgraded to a Tropical Storm today. The forecast suggest that this storm will become a HURRICANE and is forecast to enter the Gulf of Mexico on Tuesday.
11:00 AM AST Thu Aug 20 Location: 16.0°N 52.0°W Moving: WNW at 21 mph Min pressure: 1008 mb Max sustained: 35 mph
Tropical Depression 14 has formed over the West/Central Caribbean Sea this morning. This storm is forecasted to hit the Tx/LA coast as early as Tuesday.
11:00 AM EDT Thu Aug 20 Location: 15.1°N 79.7°W Moving: W at 21 mph Min pressure: 1007 mb Max sustained: 35 mph
