Blizzard of 93

We have had just occasional light rain down here near the Harrisburg area today. i don’t think we have seen the sun since last Thursday or Friday.

I thought that you never got any precip up there ?!?!

It’s great to see the Fall thread underway! The cool temperatures this weekend are a welcome relief from the 90’s that we had to endure this past week. The rain this weekend from Gordon’s remnants, followed possibly from the impacts of Florence later next week could be a massive problem for Central PA.

Yes! I was just thinking the same thing when I saw the posts of the weather models from earlier today. I wonder if it will ever be possible to top that 30 inch storm snow total at MDT ?

I’m dreaming of this radar taking place in about 4 or 5 months....

MDT had .73 of rain overnight. It seems like we will get a few more tenths of rain the next few hours. It is only 60 degrees & it feels like October out right now.

We finally got some rain in the Harrisburg area last night. It poured for a few hours overnight. It now breezy & a little chilly out for early June.

Yes, I agree the Harrisburg area had 60 to 80 % pops for rain most of the week, but has received little rain to show for it. Thank goodness this is not winter because many of us from around the turnpike on north would need talked off of the ledge !

I have had enough of the rain this week! However, I just found myself looking at the radar, wishing that a snowstorm was incoming with the precip that is currently developing to our South that is crawling up the coast. It would be awesome to get a week of precip like this in the winter. We would be buried in snow. Ok, back to reality now ! I am looking forward to a week of sunny & dry weather with temps in the 70’s. That should not be too much to ask for in May!

It sounds like you guys got hit hard by that storm. We had a few small branches come down, but nothing too bad despite the strong wind.

Tornado warning for Harrisburg area ! I can’t remember last warning for my back yard?

The CTP warning says up to ping pong ball sized Hail ! This could be crazy here shortly for the Harrisburg area.

Minneapolis & Green Bay got hammered with historic snow. Their radar & Blizzard Warnings were entertaining to watch as the storm crushed them with snow.

Another wintry April day ! I saw at least 3 rounds of snow showers today in Harrisburg & Marysville. We should have actually had more April snow if the storm on the 7th had hit us. A couple of days before it looked likely that we would get 3-6 inches of snow, but it ended up missing because of too much cold air that pushed the front to our south. This late winter/early spring has been memorable & has become one that we will mention for years to come.

Does anyone think that the snow showers in WV, OH & IN will make it all the way through CTP, including the LSV tonight?

What a crazy swing in temps from yesterday to this am ! I spent most of the day in the yard yesterday in what felt like mid summer, & now it feels like early winter. CTP even added the chance of this heavy rain storm possibly mixing with snow showers at the end of the event !

Light snow is ongoing in Marysville. Some flakes are trying to stick to the cartops now. The radar continues to fill to the west in CTP. I’m hoping for a covering on the grass & a car topper. I’m going to enjoy it this evening. It could be our last flakes until next fall!

The 18z GEFS says that we might not be done yet with cold & perhaps a little more snow. After the warmup at the end of this week, we should go back to below normal temps.

Tomorrow into Tuesday am could be the last chance to see snow flakes for many of us until next Fall. CTP has a 70 % chance of a rain/snow mix changing to all snow tomorrow night, but not amounting to much for anyone. The radar looks interesting out in the Midwest & it should be just cold enough for some flakes. Maybe MDT will squeeze out a few more tenths of an inch to pad the stats.

It’s hard to believe that with this radar & the cold air coming back in tonight that something would not work out to deliver snow to us this weekend. Maybe we will get a last second miracle ?

Joe Bastardi & Bernie Rayno are not writing the storm off & think there is a chance this still comes back north for Saturday. I think we will know by the 12z runs tomorrow am. All of the pieces should be onshore & in a better area for the models to handle. We have 3 chances in the next 5 days to get MDT 2 more inches of snow to reach the 40 inch mark for the season !

Yes, I just looked it up & here it is :

Crazy swing south by all the models overnight. Usually we see shifts within 3 days of 50 miles or so per run, but the NAM for example shifted a couple hundred miles south in 1 run ! Still 48 hours to go, let’s see what today brings.

For those of us with short term memory issues...here is how well the GFS did with our snowstorm 2 days ago. Please see this map below from 12z 4/1, Less than 24 hours before the event, it had the jackpot along the PA- MD line, & fringed areas near I-80. We all know how that turned out, with next to nothing near the MD border, to 5-6 inches near I-80 when all was said & done. The NAM & Euro will lead the way again with our Saturday storm.

Nice start to the 0z runs with the NAM!