Phil Vida

Former weatherman and hockey fan livin in the lesser side of PA. No mystical energy field controls my destiny. It's all a lot of simple tricks and nonsense.

[NWS Anchorage @NWSAnchorage]

A funnel cloud was observed south of Alpine Creek Lodge along the Denali Highway on July 4, 2026, at approximately 5:00 PM AKDT. The sighting occurred in a remote area, about 80 miles northeast of Talkeetna and 70 miles northwest of Glennallen. Post 1 of 5. #akwx

[NWS Pittsburgh @NWSPittsburgh]

Clear skies today provided our first good satellite view of the area since our snowfall and deep freeze. Sentinel-2 imagery shows a mostly iced-over Allegheny, but still open channel on the Mon and Ohio Rivers.

[Sickos Committee @SickosCommittee]

BEVEL THOSE @RiverhoundsSC

[x - Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC @RiverhoundsSC]

WE DID IT 🏆

[x - Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC @RiverhoundsSC]

YOUR HOUNDS HAVE WON THE @USLChampionship TITLE!

We're bringing the trophy back to Pittsburgh! 🏆

#TULvPIT #Grittsburgh #USLPlayoffs

[x - Pittsburgh Riverhounds SC @RiverhoundsSC]

BETO! BETO! BETO! WE'VE DONE IT!

PIT - 🟢🟢🟢🟢🟢
TUL - 🟢🔴🟢🟢

#TULvPIT #Grittsburgh #USLPlayoffs

[Phil Vida @phellaini]

😍😍😍

[NWS Mount Holly @NWS_MountHolly]

🥶 A big pattern change is on the way starting late Monday. The coldest airmass so far this season will bring wind chills in the teens & 20s by Tuesday morning. Temps Tuesday will struggle to climb into the 40s, along with winds gusting 30-40 mph possible. #PAwx #NJwx #DEwx #MDwx

[Tomer Burg @burgwx]

Multi-panel view of the last few days of Hurricane Melissa:
↖️ GOES-19 infrared brightness temp
↗️ GOES-19 visible satellite
↙️ Hurricane hunter planes & flight paths
↘️ Recon-derived flight level wind swath
⬇️ Estimated minimum pressure from recon dropsondes

[Dakota Smith @weatherdak]

Alrighty, ready to see something really cool?

The evolution of Hurricane Melissa's mesovortices at peak strength.

[Tropical Cowboy of Danger @FlynonymousWX]

A thread of videos from today’s flight into Hurricane Melissa

In this first one we are entering from the southeast just after sunrise and the bright arc on the far northwest eye wall is the light just beginning to make it over the top from behind us.

[Dave DiCello @DaveDiCello]

If you told me five years ago that I would capture a rocket launch on 35mm film over #Pittsburgh, I would have said that you were crazy. But here it is, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, over the Steel City from a few days ago, captured on CineStill 800 film. Absolutely wild.

[NWS Mount Holly @NWS_MountHolly]

✍️🌡️💧 August 2025 went down as the coolest August in decades for some areas, with mean temps roughly 2°-5° below normal. It was the 2nd coolest August on record at Georgetown, DE. The AC Airport failed to reach 90° for the first time in August since 2014. #PAwx #NJwx #DEwx #MDwx

[Hotham @_hotham]

SNOWED IN at Hotham! 77cm storm total with the base now at 165cm! Wow!❄️🫶

[National Hurricane Center @NHC_Atlantic]

Aug 16: Images from @NOAA_HurrHunter and the @NOAASatellites Ocean Winds team show an intense eyewall in Hurricane #Erin This photo shows the ocean surface calm in the eye and roaring in the eyewall. For the latest forecast visit https://t.co/tW4KeGdBFb

[College Football Campus Tour @cfbcampustour]

5 minute tour of Cathy Parker Field

📍 Utqiagvik, Alaska

[NWS Anchorage @NWSAnchorage]

Tsunami Warning/Advisory/Watch has been UPDATED as of 4:28PM on 7/29/2025.

Tsunami Warning/Advisory is now in effect for Aleutian and Pribilof Islands, and part of Alaska Peninsula. Much of coastal Alaska is in a Tsunami Watch. Here are the new headlines (1/4):

[NWS Fairbanks @NWSFairbanks]

Heat Advisory in effect for Western North Slope, until Saturday night, with max temperatures of 80 to 90 degrees. The hottest temperatures will in the plains near Umiat. Hot temperatures may continue through the end of the weekend. #akwx

[NWS Pittsburgh @NWSPittsburgh]

PIT's high of 91°F Thursday marks the 5th day in a row with temps at or above 90°F. While this happens every few years in Jul/Aug/Sep, it's fairly rare for June. The last time PIT had 5 or more 90° days in June was 1994.

Will we make it 6? The forecast for Friday is 89°F.

[NWS Eastern Region @NWSEastern]

There's no doubt about it many were feeling hot, hot, hot today in the Eastern United States! Many daily records were set. By the way, if you want to cool off you had better luck in Las Vegas, NV today which only reached 94 for a high!

[NWS Mount Holly @NWS_MountHolly]

🌡️ Official high temperatures today (* indicates record tied or broken):
*Allentown: 98°
*Atlantic City Airport: 102°
*Atlantic City Marina: 95°
*Georgetown: 100°
*Mount Pocono: 92°
*Philadelphia: 101°
*Reading: 100°
*Trenton: 98°
Wilmington: 101°

#PAwx #NJwx #DEwx #MDwx