hosj III

trees down blocking roads here

Intense storm here. Very strong (guessing 58+ mph wind) and hail nearly quarter sized. Best storm of the year. Pouring right now still. Everyone overdoes winds but hard to see how that wasn't severe. I got soaked standing under a covered porch.

Just saw some frozen precip mixing in in that shower 30 mins ago in W philly. Guessing it was graupel? Broke apart easily. Pretty neat. The low level lapse rates are crazy.

I think its some combination of rosy retrospection and improvements in model accuracy being met with immediate attempts to extend forecasts further. I haven't been watching them nearly as long or nearly as well as you have, but in my view the improvements since 2010 are obvious and enormous.

This will forever be remembered for me as the winter of two storms, one that wasn't a blizzard but felt like one and the other that was a blizzard but didn't feel like one.

Super low impact storm in the city. Sidewalks and roads 100% clear.

I wonder what total precipitation amounts were, roughly 10% of snowfall?

going to sleep a couple hours before waking up to catch the daylight remains of the storm... maybe 3 or 4.5 hours....

I've been saying 17" since friday.... i think i'm gonna nail it

what do you have? ~11" here

I'll go grab some measurements in a few minutes but I'm guessing around 11-12" "

How much do you think the city can get? 15"?

Snowing in cape may per friend. Starting to regret not driving down there for this one.

Cold, dark winter mornings Fog The "pre snowstorm" weather of a sense of "descending stillness" Howling winds that make the building your in shake Walking around after a strong thunderstorm that brings down branches/debris Lightning illuminating a distant cumulonimbus on an otherwise mostly clear summer night

in a technical sense you're right, because a newcomer that acted like Ji would probably get banned