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"The Morning Call Inc., Copyright 2002" Date: THURSDAY, March 15, 1984 IT'LL BE WARMER IN WAKE OF 22-HOUR STORM The Morning Call The late winter storm that belted the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton area with nearly 22 solid hours of snow, rain, freezing rain and sleet Tuesday, kept a tenacious grip on the Valley as residents woke to still more icy roads and delayed school openings yesterday. The low pressure system that brought in .78 of an inch of precipitation, including 1.3 inches of snow, moved further out off the Atlantic coast Wednesday morning, according to Charles Giannetta of the National Weather Service at the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton Airport. Rains that had been expected to continue through the night stopped at about 12:30 a.m., but temperatures remained in the low 30s, causing roads and power lines to ice over. A spokesman for Pennsylvania Power & Light Co. said ice-covered trees and power lines worked together to cause several power interruptions, the worst hitting the Center Valley, Limeport and Coopersburg area, where nearly 1,358 consumers were without power between 3:40 and 5:30 p.m. A number of intermittent outages were reported throughout the night. Local students had their unscheduled day off Tuesday extended briefly yesterday as many school districts delayed classes for several hours. While Allentown police termed the situation ''not too bad despite conditions,'' and state police at Bethlehem considered the construction work on Route 22 more of a problem than the weather, Coopersburg police reported a traffic tie-up in the southbound lane of Route 309 on an icy hill near the Valley Manor Nursing Home. A few minor traffic accidents were reported in the Bethlehem area. Giannetta said by noon yesterday, temperatures reached 39, the high for the day, thanks to a high pressure area that slipped southeast from Canada. Behind it is warmer air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico which will bring temperatures in mid-50s to low 60s over the next few days. A system now in the Rocky Mountain area should reach the Lehigh Valley by tomorrow night, bringing with it chance of showers.

"This Weather By Giannetta" Web Site: © 1998 - 2002 Charles A. Giannetta

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