What is a nor’easter?

IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. GOOD AFTERNOON. I’M SUSAN SHAPIRO. THAT BREAKING NEWS? A SMALL PLANE CRASHED EARLY THIS MORNING IN A SAN DIEGO NEIGHBORHOOD, SPARKING A FIRE THAT DAMAGED HOMES AND VEHICLES ON THE GROUND. MULTIPLE PEOPLE ON THE PLANE WERE KILLED. MILITARY HOUSING IN THE AREA WHERE THE PLANE CRASHED HAS GONE UP IN FLAMES. FIREFIGHTERS FOUND SEVERAL CARS ON FIRE AND DAMAGE TO MULTIPLE HOMES. I JUST WALKED IT MYSELF AND DOWN THE STREET ITSELF. IT LOOKS LIKE SOMETHING FROM A MOVIE, I’LL BE HONEST. BUT WE HAVE PROBABLY, I’D SAY, ON THAT BLOCK ITSELF, AT LEAST 15 HOMES THAT ARE AFFECTED. NO ONE ON THE GROUND WAS HURT. A DEADLY SHOOTING OVERNIGHT IN WASHINGTON APPEARS TO HAVE BEEN AN ATTACK TARGETING –. POLICE SAY TWO EMPLOYEES OF THE ISRAELI EMBASSY WERE SHOT AND KILLED. NEWS EIGHT’S AMY LU HAS MORE. THE FBI IS LOOKING INTO WHETHER THIS WAS A HATE CRIME. IT HAPPENED LAST NIGHT OUTSIDE THE CAPITAL JEWISH MUSEUM, WHERE POLICE SAY A GROUP OF FOUR WAS LEAVING AN EVENT. POLICE SAY 30 YEAR OLD ELIAS RODRIGUEZ FROM CHICAGO, APPROACHED AND SHOT AND KILLED TWO OF THEM. RODRIGUEZ THEN WALKED INTO THE MUSEUM, WHERE SECURITY DETAINED HIM, AND THAT IS WHEN HE STARTED CHANTING FREE, FREE PALESTINE, WHICH IS A PHRASE OFTEN USED BY ANTI-ISRAEL ACTIVISTS. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE THIS VIOLENCE OR HATE IN OUR CITY. WE WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY ACTS OF TERRORISM. WE WILL FOLLOW THE FACTS. WE WILL FOLLOW THE LAW. AND THIS DEFENDANT, IF CHARGED, WILL BE PROSECUTED TO THE FULLEST EXTENT OF THE LAW. PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP ALSO WEIGHING IN, SAYING, QUOTE, THESE HORRIBLE DC KILLINGS BASED OBVIOUSLY ON ANTI-SEMITISM MUST END NOW. HATRED AND RADICALISM HAVE NO PLACE IN THE USA. REPORTING IN WASHINGTON. I’M AMY LU. ISRAEL’S FOREIGN MINISTER IDENTIFIED THE VICTIMS AS YARON LASHINSKY AND SARAH LYNN. THE ISRAELI AMBASSADOR SAYS THEY WERE A COUPLE. LESCHINSKY BOUGHT AN ENGAGEMENT RING JUST THIS WEEK AND PLANNED TO PROPOSE TO HIS GIRLFRIEND NEXT WEEK. MILGRAM WAS AN AMERICAN AND LESCHINSKY WAS AN ISRAELI. PENNSYLVANIA U.S. SENATOR JOHN FETTERMAN REACTED TO THE SHOOTING. HE POSTED ON X, QUOTE, UNBELIEVABLE AND APPEARS TO BE A TARGETED ANTI-SEMITIC ATTACK. GOVERNOR SHAPIRO ALSO POSTED ON X THIS MORNING, SAYING, LORI AND I ARE HEARTBROKEN AND HORRIFIED THIS MORNING AT YET ANOTHER ACT OF VIOLENT ANTI-SEMITISM IN OUR NATION. WE’RE PRAYING FOR THE AMERICAN JEWISH COMMUNITY WHO ARE COMING TO GRIPS WITH YET ANOTHER TARGETED ATTACK. NEW. AT NOON, THE LEBANON COUNTY WOMAN, WHO SAYS SHE WAS RAPED AND IS NOW CHARGED FOR RECORDING THE ENCOUNTER, IS UNDER CROSS. VERONICA RODRIGUEZ TOOK THE STAND ONCE AGAIN THIS MORNING. SHE TESTIFIED THAT SHE DID NOT CONSENT TO SEX AND DID NOT LIE TO POLICE ABOUT THE ENCOUNTER. IN 2023. AT THE TIME OF THE RECORDING, RODRIGUEZ WAS A MEMBER OF THE PENNSYLVANIA AIR NATIONAL GUARD. SHE TOLD POLICE SHE WAS RAPED BY A MAJOR IN THE GUARD AFTER A FIRST DATE. NEW. AT NOON CARTER AND MCRAE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL IN LANCASTER WAS EVACUATED BRIEFLY THIS MORNING FOR AN INVESTIGATION OF SMOKE IN THE BUILDING. FIREFIGHTERS WERE CALLED THERE AROUND 1030 THIS MORNING BUT HAVE SINCE CLEARED THE SCENE. HAPPENING TODAY. THE PENN STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS SET TO VOTE ON RECOMMENDATIONS TO CLOSE SEVEN BRANCH CAMPUSES, INCLUDING TWO IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. NEWS EIGHT’S GABRIELLE THOMAS HAS MORE FROM PENN STATE. YORK. FACULTY AND STUDENTS ARE CONCERNED THAT THIS CAMPUS BEHIND ME COULD POTENTIALLY SHUT DOWN, INCLUDING SIX OTHER CAMPUSES ACROSS THE STATE. THE PENN STATE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS HOLDING A MEETING TONIGHT TO VOTE ON THE DECISION. NOW, KEEP IN MIND THAT MOUNT ALTO IN FRANKLIN COUNTY IS ALSO ON THE LIST. AND JUST LAST NIGHT, THE PENN STATE FACULTY ALLIANCE DELIVERED MORE THAN 500 PETITION SIGNATURES TO THE UNIVERSITY’S PRESIDENT TO PROTEST AGAINST THE POTENTIAL CLOSURES. THE UNION REPRESENTS ABOUT 100 FACULTY MEMBERS, AND THE MOUNT ALTO CAMPUS AND 70 FACULTY MEMBERS AT PENN STATE YORK. THE UNION MENTIONED THAT THE UNIVERSITY NEVER SPOKE WITH THEM ABOUT THE POTENTIAL CLOSURE, AND THEY WERE FIRST INFORMED THROUGH A LEAKED REPORT. THE CONVERSATION SURROUNDING THE POTENTIAL CLOSURES HAS FACULTY AFRAID OF LOSING THEIR JOBS, AND EVEN A RELOCATION TO A DIFFERENT CAMPUS IS CONCERNING FOR SOME BECAUSE FACULTY SAY THEY WOULD HAVE TO UPROOT THEIR LIVES. SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT LOSING THEIR EMPLOYMENT. SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE POTENTIALLY LOOKING AT, YOU KNOW, TRANSFERRING POSSIBLY TO OTHER CAMPUSES. THAT MIGHT ENTAIL MOVING. REALLY, REALLY WILL REQUIRE SOME PEOPLE TO TOTALLY UPROOT THEIR THEIR LIFE FROM WHERE IT IS. AND THAT’S NOT EVEN TO TALK ABOUT THE IMPACT ON THE COMMUNITIES, YOU KNOW, AND THE STUDENTS THAT ARE CURRENTLY IN THOSE PROGRAMS. IF THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES GIVE THE GREEN LIGHT TONIGHT TO CLOSE THE CAMPUSES, A PENN STATE SPOKESPERSON TELLS NEWS EIGHT, WITH THE CURRENT TIMELINE, THEY WILL HAVE TO NOTIFY THE PENNSYLVANIA DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION BY JULY 1ST OF 2026. THE MIDDLE STATES COMMISSION ON HIGHER EDUCATION REQUIRES NOTIFICATION SIX MONTHS BEFORE THE OFFICIAL CLOSE DATE. THE CLOSURES ARE SET TO HAPPEN AT THE END OF THE 2026 2027 SCHOOL YEAR. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES IS SCHEDULED TO VOTE TONIGHT AS WE RECEIVE MORE INFORMATION ABOUT THE POTENTIAL CLOSURES. WE’LL KEEP YOU UPDATED. REPORTING HERE IN YORK COUNTY. I’M GABRIELLE THOMAS, WGAL, NEWS EIGHT. IT IS ANOTHER RAINY, DREARY DAY HERE IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. AS YOU CAN SEE, THE RAINDROPS ON THE CAMERA LENS THERE. IT CERTAINLY DOES NOT FEEL LIKE WE’RE HEADED INTO THE MEMORIAL DAY WEEKEND. MIKE NO, IT REALLY DOES NOT. IN FACT, THIS IS WHAT YOU WOULD EXPECT. MORE SO BACK IN APRIL AND THEN END OF MAY HERE. BECAUSE AS WE TAKE A LOOK OUT WITH THE STORM TRACK LIVE RADAR NETWORK, YOU CAN SEE IT’S STILL GRAY, STILL RAINY WITH THOSE RAIN SHOWERS, ESPECIALLY UP IN MIFFLIN AND JUNIATA COUNTY, WHERE WE’RE SEEING SOME OF THE MODERATE RAIN RIGHT NOW. LEWISTOWN, PORT ROYAL, BLAINE, RIGHT ALONG HIGHWAY 22 THERE AS YOU HEAD INTO MIFFLIN AND JUNIATA COUNTY. THIS WILL CONTINUE THROUGHOUT THE AFTERNOON AS THE STORM SYSTEM BEGINS TO PULL AWAY, BUT YOU CAN SEE JUST CLOUDY AND RAINY AS WE GO THROUGH THE REST OF YOUR THURSDAY, AND CHILLY TEMPERATURES WILL NOT GET OUT OF THE 50S TODAY AND FEWER SHOWERS TOMORROW, BUT STILL KIND OF GRAY OUT THERE AND GLOOMY LOOKING AS WE HEAD TOWARDS THE WEEKEND, AND DOES LOOK LIKE IT’S GOING TO BE MOSTLY DRY, BUT IT WILL BE BELOW AVERAGE FOR MEMORIAL DAY. YORK RIGHT NOW. YOU GOT THE CLOUDS IN PLACE AND CURRENT TEMPERATURE IS 56 DEGREES. AS THAT RAIN COMES DOWN AND TEMPERATURES ARE NOT GOING TO BE BUDGING MUCH FROM WHERE THEY ARE RIGHT NOW. THROUGHOUT THE DAY YOU CAN SEE WE STAY WITH THE RAIN SHOWERS THROUGH THE REST OF YOUR THURSDAY AND INTO TONIGHT. SUSAN, BEFORE THINGS FINALLY DRY OUT TOWARDS THE WEEKEND. ALL RIGHT. THANK YOU. NEW AT NOON. THE SUPREME COURT HAS EFFECTIVELY ENDED A PUBLICLY FUNDED CATHOLIC CHARTER SCHOOL IN OKLAHOMA. THE FOUR FOUR RULING KEEPS IN PLACE IN OKLAHOMA. COURT DECISION THAT INVALIDATED A VOTE BY A STATE CHARTER SCHOOL BOARD TO APPROVE THE SAINT ISIDORE OF SEVILLE CATHOLIC VIRTUAL SCHOOL. THE SCHOOL WOULD HAVE BEEN THE NATION’S FIRST CHARTER SCHOOL. JUSTICE AMY CONEY BARRETT DID NOT PARTICIPATE IN THE RULING. NEW. AT NOON, SECURITY OFFICERS WITH THE CIA SHOT AT A WOMAN THIS MORNING AFTER SHE APPROACHED THE AGENCY’S FRONT GATES IN VIRGINIA. A LAW ENFORCEMENT SOURCE SAID THE WOMAN WAS TAKEN INTO CUSTODY. NO WORD YET ON WHAT LED OFFICERS TO SHOOT. OFFICIALS SAY AT THIS TIME, THERE IS NO INDICATION THIS INCIDENT IS TIED TO THE FATAL SHOOTINGS LAST NIGHT OF THE TWO ISRAELI EMBASSY STAFF MEMBERS IN WASHINGTON. THE MAIN GATE AT THE CIA IS CLOSED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. HAPPENING THIS AFTERNOON, A POST OFFICE IN LEBANON WILL BE NAMED AFTER A POLICE OFFICER KILLED IN THE LINE OF DUTY. THE POST OFFICE AT 101 SOUTH EIGHTH STREET WILL BE KNOWN AS THE LIEUTENANT WILLIAM D LEBO POST OFFICE BUILDING. LIEUTENANT LEE BOWE WAS SHOT AND KILLED IN MARCH OF 2022, IN THE LINE OF DUTY. THEN PRESIDENT BIDEN SIGNED THE LEGISLATION LAST YEAR FOR THE NAME CHANG

Nor’easters explained: They’re not just winter storms

Updated: 4:11 PM EDT May 22, 2025

When you hear the word “nor’easter,” you probably think of snow and blizzards.But believe it or not, the Susquehanna Valley can get nor’easters in the month of May. In fact, we can get them every month of the year.Video above: Headlines from News 8A nor’easter itself has nothing to do with snow or winter weather at all. They are just coastal storms that develop off the East Coast and get their name from the northeasterly winds accompanying them.Generally, nor’easters are strongest during the late fall into early spring. This is because the temperature contrast between land and the Atlantic Ocean is the highest. The difference in temperature allows the center of low pressure to strengthen and create a stronger storm.While the storm system bringing us the rain and cooler temperatures this week isn’t a “perfect nor’easter” due to the winds not being exactly out of the northeast, it will be close.The secondary low and occluded front (purple line) are preventing us from getting the northeast wind in the Susquehanna Valley. They will get it in parts of New England though.Regardless, we will continue to be stuck in clouds and rain on Thursday as this storm system slowly progresses through the area.

When you hear the word “nor’easter,” you probably think of snow and blizzards.

But believe it or not, the Susquehanna Valley can get nor’easters in the month of May. In fact, we can get them every month of the year.

Video above: Headlines from News 8

A nor’easter itself has nothing to do with snow or winter weather at all. They are just coastal storms that develop off the East Coast and get their name from the northeasterly winds accompanying them.

Generally, nor’easters are strongest during the late fall into early spring. This is because the temperature contrast between land and the Atlantic Ocean is the highest. The difference in temperature allows the center of low pressure to strengthen and create a stronger storm.

While the storm system bringing us the rain and cooler temperatures this week isn’t a “perfect nor’easter” due to the winds not being exactly out of the northeast, it will be close.

The secondary low and occluded front (purple line) are preventing us from getting the northeast wind in the Susquehanna Valley. They will get it in parts of New England though.

Regardless, we will continue to be stuck in clouds and rain on Thursday as this storm system slowly progresses through the area.