Power Outage in Conneaut Lake, PA

Winter Storm. An Arctic cold front swept through the area around 4 AM December 23rd. Low pressure along this front tracked over Lake Erie early in the morning on December 23rd and rapidly intensified through the day while slowly lifting northeast across Ontario. With the frontal passage rain changed to snow with temperatures dropping from the upper 30s and lower 40s to sub-zero in about 8 hours. A period of moderate to heavy snow, with snow rates up to 1��� per hour observed, occurring during the morning and midday hours December 23rd. The period of snow and rapidly falling temperatures led to a flash freeze and icy conditions on area roadways. While the falling snow became lighter through the afternoon hours of December 23rd, winds began increasing during the pre-dawn hours and gusted over 35 MPH through the day. A peak gust of 46 MPH was measured at 1:50 PM December 23rd in Richmond Township. Meadville Airport reported a peak gust of 44 MPH at 7:12 AM. Sporadic tree damage and power outages resulted. Wind gusts very gradually subsided into December 24th, though gusts didn���t drop below 30 MPH until that evening. This led to a prolonged period of widespread blowing and drifting snow beginning early in the morning December 23rd and continuing through the afternoon and evening, with some patchy blowing and drifting snow continuing all the way through Christmas Eve. The greatest impact from this storm was to travel due to the flash freeze and extensive blowing and drifting snow, to go along with low visibility. Numerous minor accidents, slide-offs and disabled vehicles were reported throughout the area on December 23rd and 24th. Wind chills plunged below 0 around 8 AM December 23rd and did not warm above 0 until midday December 26th. A minimum wind chill of -32 degrees was reported at 5:01 PM at Meadville Airport. Weather stations reported minimum wind chills of -32 in Richmond Township and -31 outside of Saegertown. A number of burst pipes were reported across northwestern Pennsylvania due to this cold, with temperatures remaining in the single digits until Christmas morning. The highest reported snowfall with this storm was 4.2���, measured by a trained spotter in Atlantic and by a Co-Op Observer in Springboro. Trained spotters also measured 3.5��� in Meadville and 2.1��� in Townville. A CoCoRaHS observer measured 2.4��� in Conneaut Lake.

December 23, 2022

Thunderstorm Wind. Several trees and power lines downed about three-miles north of Cochranton.

October 15, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Numerous trees and power lines down in Conneaut Lake.

August 11, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Numerous trees and power lines downed in Vernon Township, about four-miles WSW of Meadville.

August 11, 2021

Thunderstorm Wind. Tree and power pole down at PA-198 and South Beaver Road, about five-miles west of Conneautville. Another tree was downed in Conneautville.

July 15, 2021

Meadville, PA (11:40 PM) Grid Power Outage Event >> The Ting Network detected an Electric Utility Grid Power Outage… https://t.co/n0gSxPItjE

@grid_events - February 10, 2023 05:00