January 31 – February 2, 2011 North American blizzard fell as freezing rain in the Philadelphia suburbs, a mixture of sleet and freezing rain in Berks County and the Lehigh Valley and mainly a snow and sleet mixture in the Poconos. Overnight colder air moved in aloft in over the Poconos and precipitation changed back to all snow for a few hours. Toward sunrise on the 2nd, this process started to reverse at both the surface and aloft. Warmer air was moving north again and the freezing rain changed to plain rain across the Philadelphia suburbs and Berks County around 8 a.m. EST and the Lehigh Valley around 9
What Have They Done to the Rain What Have They Done to the Rain "What Have They Done to the Rain" is a song by Malvina Reynolds. Composed in 1962 and first entitled "Rain Song", it was written as part of a campaign to stop nuclear testing in the atmosphere, which was producing fall-out. The song was recorded by The Searchers, reaching number 29 on the U.S. charts and number 13 in the UK in 1965. It has been recorded by many other artists including Esther & Abi Ofarim (1965), who also recorded a version in French 'Tout est étrange sous la pluie' the same year. The