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The treatment process doesn't remove chlorides, etc. Your best source of water is from underground aquifers, in which the soils, rocks and minerals work as a natural filtration system. Unless of course a toxic waste site has leached into it, or somebody's septic system leaked...

I have seen a lot of chatter across social media on how it doesn’t snow as much as it used to and if we don’t see significant snow by the end of December it is winter snow potential over! I have framed up some stats on some recent winters that may be why some of these folks may being influenced by some recency bias based on winters here during the past 20 years. Keep in mind it is only December 7th and some spots including East Nantmeal in Chester County have already exceeded 1 inch of snow for the season – to date most spots in our area average near 2 inches of snow to today's date in a typical season. Assuming we see no more snow this month below are some snow stats for years with 1 inch or less of accumulated snow by New Year’s Eve and the final seasonal snow totals. There is for certain a correlation but enough outliers to allow for Team Snow folks to dream! 30 years with 1” or less of snow by December 31st · 5 seasons ended up with above normal snowfall at +35” · 8 seasons ended up between 60% to 85% of normal snowfall at +20” · 7 seasons ended up between10” to 15” of snow · 6 seasons ended with no snow to 10% · The greatest snow season with little pre 12/31 snow was 1977-78 when 59.8” of snow fell · The least amount of seasonal snow was 1972-1973 when no snow at all accumulated that season at Coatesville. To put the above in greater perspective at the NWS and trained spotter locations at Coatesville 1W/2SW and East Nantmeal there have been 47 winters with greater than 35 inches of snow. In 3 decades 1900-1909 / 1910-1919 and just recently in 2010-2019 we experienced 6 winters seasons with snowfall greater than 35”. The longest stretch of no season with over 35” was the 23 straight snow seasons from 1934-35 through 1956-57 that all failed to exceed 35 inches of snow for the winter season. So far here in the 2020’s only 2020-2021 with 52.2” of snow has exceeded the 35” mark. So, if you think it doesn’t snow as much as it used to…just imagine growing up in Chester County in the 1930’s thru 1950’s! It is important to remember our last complete decade from 2010-2019 was our 3rd snowiest decade since the 1890’s with only the 1890’s and 1900-1910 averaging more snow then that last decade we just completed.

Seeing how the snows are beginning to show up in VA and NC, it won't be long until the gulf coast gets their storm again....Same pattern, just a different year. We sure can't seem to do marginal anymore and now the somewhat newly added, too cold to snow around here. Clearly something is going on....Other snowless periods were just too dry, now we deal with warm/wet, cold/dry pattern

I have seen a lot of chatter across social media on how it doesn’t snow as much as it used to and if we don’t see significant snow by the end of December it is winter snow potential over! I have framed up some stats on some recent winters that may be why some of these folks may being influenced by some recency bias based on winters here during the past 20 years. Keep in mind it is only December 7th and some spots including East Nantmeal in Chester County have already exceeded 1 inch of snow for the season – to date most spots in our area average near 2 inches of snow to today's date in a typical season. Assuming we see no more snow this month below are some snow stats for years with 1 inch or less of accumulated snow by New Year’s Eve and the final seasonal snow totals. There is for certain a correlation but enough outliers to allow for Team Snow folks to dream! 30 years with 1” or less of snow by December 31st · 5 seasons ended up with above normal snowfall at +35” · 8 seasons ended up between 60% to 85% of normal snowfall at +20” · 7 seasons ended up between10” to 15” of snow · 6 seasons ended with no snow to 10% · The greatest snow season with little pre 12/31 snow was 1977-78 when 59.8” of snow fell · The least amount of seasonal snow was 1972-1973 when no snow at all accumulated that season at Coatesville. To put the above in greater perspective at the NWS and trained spotter locations at Coatesville 1W/2SW and East Nantmeal there have been 47 winters with greater than 35 inches of snow. In 3 decades 1900-1909 / 1910-1919 and just recently in 2010-2019 we experienced 6 winters seasons with snowfall greater than 35”. The longest stretch of no season with over 35” was the 23 straight snow seasons from 1934-35 through 1956-57 that all failed to exceed 35 inches of snow for the winter season. So far here in the 2020’s only 2020-2021 with 52.2” of snow has exceeded the 35” mark. So, if you think it doesn’t snow as much as it used to…just imagine growing up in Chester County in the 1930’s thru 1950’s! It is important to remember our last complete decade from 2010-2019 was our 3rd snowiest decade since the 1890’s with only the 1890’s and 1900-1910 averaging more snow then that last decade we just completed.

then what explains the salty taste other folks are talking about if its treated ?

I'll be driving down to Florida on the 15th, coming back the 20th, as long as there's no weather impediments on my travels I'll be happy.

Thought that was The High Bridge. Fun place to walk and ride bikes. My daughter just bought a house in Town.

Storm drains here in central Union County leads to streams, which lead to the Rahway River, where United Water Rahway treats the water for potable H2O...

Right now its nothing but we continue to watch.

As a member of The Appalachian American Delegation, I’m really enjoying these trends lolol. Like ol Jebman says, I hope for Barney cold and snow for all. I want us ALL to have more white powder on the ground than Rick James’ mansion in 1987.

he was repeating what I said previously in reply Sacrus... BTW how is your storm doing for next weekend ?

I love how the Dc to Boston snow hole shows up everyday like someone drew it in…

Awful

Bingo

I think we all need to move to the lakes. Coastal storms are a thing of the past.

The Canadian is a parade of weak clippers generally traversing north of us, with shredded precip fields. And then it’s gearing up for the massive cutter at the end of the run. Ugly 12z so far

It’s sad that it’s come to this to find fantasy snow, but posting a 300+ hour map is crazy. The evolution of this will be completely different run to run for the next week.

My gut says someone in the northern mountains is going to get absolutely thumped. Like prediction of 2” with a verification of 7 or 8” thumped.

Low this morning of 25.7. Currently at 42.1 just shy of noon-time Sunday.

If we can get some cross polar flow that may help to sharpen that western ridging and amplify downstream trough.

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$20 says if this were El Nino it would juice up enough to hit DC

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More and more signs have been pointing towards the long duration +ao/nao phase breaking down and flipping back towards what we saw in the 1996-2011 period. Doesn't mean every winter will be blocky of course just that we will have more periods of blocking than we've seen and possibly some long duration blocks over the coming years. Time will tell as always

24 here but I shot up into the 40s