CranberryWX

Lol....typical.

Snowing in Canonsburg. I'm calling an early out.

I can remember several times in the 70's having school cancelled and going out in the morning to shovel 8" of snow with rain falling. This was in central Armstrong county. A couple of back-to-back 12" plus storms the same week in January 1978 were all snow where I was and the north hills area. That would be something to look at to see how far south the snow line was and how those storms developed.

PIT updated AFD long term says "it appears this low may track farther south allowing less warmer air to get pulled into the region and keeping more precipitation as snow".

Lows don't run up the spine of the Apps. This doesn't look right to my untrained eye. There is no transfer of energy to the coast.

It's a given for this area. It's just the way storms track through here and the topography. Rarely do we get the perfect scenario depicted on the early model runs. I feel it has to be a pretty wrapped up low to keep the low level warmth at bay, and a really good supply of cold air in place before the low approaches.

With the parade of storms in the models, I hope this ends like another January 1978.

Perfeçt time of the day to maximize snow accumulations if the timing holds true.

Was that you who reported 2.5" of rain/melted snow....rookie mistake lol. Remember the total includes the melted equivalent. The actual physical snow measurement goes down below in the new snow box. I know it's confusing at first. Thanks for signing up.

2.6" - 0.14" melted equivalent. Most of the snow fell between 5 and 9 PM. This was a perfect evening snowfall watching it fall outside the restaurant windows while eating and driving home on snow covered streets. A few folks still had their Christmas lights on too adding to the glow.

Any farther north and we would probably have been mixing in rain, lol.

Weekend after next is a teaser too. Plenty of Time for it to shift south.

Steady light snow at the house when I left this morning right at freezing. Deck and grass are coated, side roads were covered in Cranberry, 79 was just wet. Nothing in Canonsburg.

That is really cool. I like the way your data is displayed on their interface. It looks like you push out to WU also. Good job! You should setup a CWOP station ID. I think NOAA/NWS uses this data more so than WU. I've seen PIT mention my CWOP data in their local reports along with my CoCoRAHS reports. While on the subject of data, all you guys should try to signup with CoCoRAHS, if you already are not. I've been sending in daily reports since 2009. It's become part of my daily morning routine and it provides a valuable service for the NWS.

My Davis VP2 showed a peak gust of 17 at 7:37pm. I don't have it mounted very high and close to the house. I have a remote transmitter for detaching it from the main unit. I intend to mount it on a pole farther away from the house this Spring. My deck furniture flipped over so I know it was higher than that. What station did you get?

My brother over by Kittanning reported several inches of hail when the first batch came through.

Looks like Virginia gets it again....and no really cold air in sight. Next week looks to be average or slightly above.

Agree with all the above comments..there was a lot of chatter in early/mid December from the "cold" folks, JB one of them, that the cold was coming around the end of the year. Well here we are and nothing appears to be on the horizon. What's not good is they have gone a little quiet. GFS keeps teasing us 2 weeks out.

My backyard has been mushy and wet most of the year. My CoCoRAHS observations total for 2018 was 58.37".

8-14 Day temperature outlook doesn't look promising for below normal cold and it's getting into the time frame where we should get our best chance. GFS shows a cold plunge at the end of its run, but it's far out.

Interesting contrast because there is lot of chatter today about a much below normal temp run developing at the end of this month extending into January for the eastern half of US. Weatherbell says coldest extreme period will be Jan 15 to Feb 15th. Washington Post has an article today about the "looming" Polar Vortex for January.

It continues to be there after several more runs...just in time for Santa's sleigh ride too. Believe!

12z GFS has a Christmas Day snow storm, yay! Lol.

I ended up with 2.5" of snow. This snow was very juicy with melted equivalent of 0.31", that's about an 8 to 1 ratio. Total precip including melted snow was 1.05". Temperature ranged 33 to 32 in the 24 hour period. Now our electric is going off and on occasionally with the light wind picking up.

1.0" of snow and still coming down pretty hard. Wife said local roads were covered when she came home 30 minutes ago.