Blizzard of 93

The best weather news of the day was the latest Euro seasonal forecast that was issued today. It shows a great winter pattern throughout the season. It features a ridge in the western US & a trough in the east, with signs of an active subtropical jet developing underneath.

Yes, later this week & next week should bring well below normal temps to most of the eastern half of the country. The GEFS & EPS at 12z today suggest that we get on the snow board early this year!

I’m dreaming of having this current radar show up again in December! & January, February & March !

The CTP afternoon discussion today gave a good summary of the potential coastal storm this weekend. The models of course are portraying a wide variety of storm tracks. It will be interesting to watch this storm develop over the next few days. The 18z GFS today says that a good portion of CTP gets some snow this weekend!

Let the games begin indeed! The latest Euro weeklies look fantastic from now through the end of the run through the first week of December. The trough is in the east, with a ridge in the west & higher heights up top near the pole.This run features temps below normal for the eastern half of the US for the next 6 weeks. The 46 day snow map, for what it’s worth, shows all of CTP getting on the board by the end of this run on December 3rd. It has near 3 inches of snow in the southern part of CTP & closer to 6 inches north of I-80 & near I-99. By the way, there is a chance of an interesting coastal storm the last few days of October that we need to watch !

Yes, welcome Fall !!! It sounds like the cooler weather is here to stay for the next few weeks. The step down towards winter is finally underway!

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.