Blizzard of 93

@MAG5035 What are your thoughts for any chance for CTP snow tomorrow night & Saturday?

The 0z NAM, along with most model runs today were not very promising for snow, especially near the LSV. Hopefully, we will have a rally tomorrow morning. I will consider it a victory if I see Any snow flakes in the air tomorrow night or Saturday.

The 6z NAM is still on board for snow!

The 0z NAM held serve & delivers snow for Friday evening to most of CTP! Hopefully the rest of the 0z models agree!

Lol, same here, all in good fun! You are right, There has to be a cutoff sometime in the summer.

@paweather We should name this storm after you if this event actually ends up happening! No one else but you called for May snow!

The 3k Hi-Res NAM was on board for snow as well at the end of its 18z run.

The 850 temps on the NAM look to be plenty cold enough to support snow on Friday evening. Surface temps look to be falling through the low to mid 30’s by early evening on Friday.

I almost forgot the precious snow map from the 18z NAM!

This chance at history deserves all of the snow maps that are available over the next few days! Here is the 18z NAM in all of its glory!

Very interesting, thanks for looking up all of the historical info today!

Yes, me neither in my 43 years have I seen May snow anywhere that I have lived in the LSV. I have been following the Weather rather closely for nearly 30 of my years. I don’t remember May snow ever being a forecast possibility in all of that time.

Lol...here we go again...! Once again, this is not my “thought process”. The National Weather Service counts any & all snow that falls from October to May as the “Seasonal” total for that particular year, for example October of 2019 to May 2020. So yes, if the miracle May snow takes place on Friday & Saturday, it will indeed count for the 19-20 “season”. I think that it would be awesome if we got bailed out of the worst snow season on record at MDT by some historic once every hundred year May snow!

Congrats!

The 0z & 6z GFS continued to push the best snow south of CTP on Friday night. The 0z Canadian & Euro keep the snow confined to northern & western PA. However, the good old 6z NAM continued to deliver snow to most of CTP, including the LSV! The NAM is still a compromise solution between the major global models.

Sign me up for some CTP snow history, especially in the LSV ! Wow! I would be thrilled just to see some snow in the air over the next few days, but this would be incredible. This 0z NAM run was the best way for me to end my birthday!

The 18z GFS manages to keep the Friday evening storm under us. It keeps the best snow in MD & VA. At this point, my trusty handbook says to take the compromise solution run of the 18z NAM! Here is the 18z GFS just for entertainment.

Yes! I would pay to see the next 12 hours of the NAM if it existed!

Good morning, the 0z Euro & GFS continue to show the chance of some snow by Saturday for most of CTP. This a a great birthday present today for me to be still tracking snow on May 5th ! I don’t recall ever having this chance for even snow showers in May in the LSV.

The 18z GFS brings snow to northern & western sections of CTP on Wednesday. The rest of us need to wait until Saturday to see our May snow as @MAG5035 discussed earlier. This could be a historic few days of CTP weather coming up!

Well, the 18z GEFS is on board for CTP snow next weekend.10 of the individual ensemble members even get snow into the LSV. A couple of them would be very nice snow hits. I just had to double check the calendar... unbelievable that this is even on the table!

I think that I am turning over a new leaf ! I just commented on current conditions and didn’t mention the “s” word!

There’s a breeze here & I don’t feel any humidity outside right now. We will be begging for a day like this in July!

I used to watch Weather World every day back when I was growing up, especially in the Fall & Winter. Fred, Paul, Elliott & many others that ended up at Accuweather were forecasters that I looked forward to watching every day. Also, my good old weather radio would update the CTP forecast in the early evening. Then, during the 6 pm news, I would flip around the 3 local TV channels to try to catch the weather on each station. The Weather Channel “local on the 8’s” and their long range 7 day forecast once an hour were something to look forward to as well. Before the internet was around, these were the things that weather fans needed to do to get the weather.

It’s just remarkable that snow keeps even showing up on several model runs this late for our region. I don’t recall ever tracking a even a remote chance in May!