This is not meant as a tour guide or any such thing, which you can also find on the WWW. It is a simple description of my location for meteorological purposes. I am near a local trough at 1600 feet elevation near the top of a steep largely-forested slope facing downward ESE. Local topography is generally 50-290 feet higher to every direction except NE-ESE - quite steeply directly WNW, where it is 341 feet higher less than ½ mile away. This can be seen on a map at TopoZone. The 1946 foot peak is left & slightly up of center, and my location is ESE of it as marked on the map. The locale is called Deer Run, because deer often come down the slope and along the trof.

I pieced together a map of these sections surrounding Mount Pocono covering a much larger area, but uploading it would probably be violating copyright My coordinates are 41.132 °N, 75.347 °W, using which you can see the large scale topography of the surrounding region on a Color Landform Altas map from a site from Ray Sterner at Johns Hopkins University. The NJ map actually shows much more detail, though nothing much W of here. Climate reports and weather observations are available from MPO (Pocono Mountains Municipal Airport) at approximately 1896 feet, AVP (Avoca Airport) 28 miles WNW at 961 feet, and ABE (Allentown Airport) 33 miles SSE at 387 feet. The ASOS instrumentation at MPO is W of the runway & seems to be slightly SW of the 1900 foot contour as marked on this map. Using the coordinates, the airport is 2.38 miles away at 290° and 296 feet higher.

A fine description of our climate is provided at The Pennsylvania State Climatologist site.

Precipitation is evidently locally augmented because of flow over mountains. Most precipitation tends to be deposited slightly on the downslope side of a mountain ridge. The upslope flow augments cloudiness & drop/crystal formation most at the ridge, but precipitation requires awhile to form in the clouds & fall. Storms which pass our region - especially cold fronts from the W - seemingly deposit most rain here after developing to their maximum extent at the ridge to our W. Though one of the earlier books _Climate and Weather_ from 1911 calls this a "rain shadow", I understand that most modern references call the rain shadow the area of minimum precipitation in a valley well downwind of a ridge. Thus I removed the term to avoid confusion.

Please be aware though that because of proximity to the Atlantic Ocean, locations E of the Appalachians receive similar annual precipitation amounts (i.e., because of more moisture & storm systems over sea). Data for PA (main site) does illustrate this, though note that amounts are similar with those of E PA in much of NJ, though it is generally lower.