Blizzard of 93

The 18z GFS was indeed a Happy Hour run. It has a major coastal storm late next week that produces warning level snow for many of us. I would be happy with just one more heavy coating of snow to hold me over until November.

Come on , you just broke a rule on here... Thou shalt not mention JB ! I personally love the man & watch his videos every day. But on here, everyone seems to think it is outrageous if you mention him, despite him being a long time professional meteorologist that is a published author & appears on national radio & network television.

The latest Canadian & GFS have a winter storm for us on April 16th ! I am all in on this .0000000001 % chance of verifying! At the very least, some winter storm tracking of another failed event would be a little distraction from everything that is going on now.

Here is some fake digital snow to cheer up those of us that love winter weather, even in the Spring ! The 18z GFS has a one-two punch on the 15th & 16th ! The MJO is going through phase 1 & 2 & most models do have a turn to below normal temps starting by the end of this week. Snow is 99.9999 % percent unlikely for most of us, but in this day & age that we are living through, who knows what will happen?! It might as well snow in Mid-April!

As a poster in the forum just to your north & a long time lurker here, I thought that you guys would enjoy the 0z Canadian for the Wednesday coastal storm. We are less than 100 hours out, but unfortunately the Canadian doesn’t have much support from the other models at this time.

The 0z Canadian is currently the only model that gets some snow to the LSV & MD with the coastal on Wednesday morning. The other models currently bring the low to the NC coast & then take it wide right.

We would need to move our forum snow chase to home of @Itstrainingtime if the miracle Canadian run verified!

I just had some rumbles of Thunder here in Marysville. @Wmsptwx I am trying to get more into thunderstorms!

The 0z Canadian was very interesting to say the least for the mid week coastal storm chance.

Thanks! We will have around 7 months to give up starting soon ! Until then, I’ll track until it becomes impossible around here.

Well done sir ! That gave me a good laugh.

Thanks man. In times like these, we all need ways to cheer ourselves up. Tracking digital snow always brings me a smile. Now if we only get some real snow...

The 12z Euro & EPS still are advertising a great looking pattern for an east coast storm next week. I would love to see the 12z EPS Control run verify, although the Harrisburg area would be in a low snow spot. If we were in a different time without social distancing, I would suggest that we take a forum group trip to the home of @Voyager ! He is in the jackpot show for our area this run. The pattern supports the chance at a strong coastal, but absolutely everything would need to go right to get a warning level snow event in CTP in early April. At the least, it gives us 1 more to track.

Sorry to hear that ! I hope that she gets well soon!

There is strong support for a coastal storm from the 0z EPS, especially for this time range. Check out the 500mb Heights look ! In mid winter, we would be drooling over this pattern. At the beginning of April, it could still give some of us a chance if everything develops & tracks just right.

Here are the telleconnections from the 0z EPS. We haven’t seen the AO & PNA near neutral in a long time. The NAO is also finally going Negative!

The 0z Euro & EPS victory continued to provide a very interesting look for the perhaps final winter season act this year. A strong coastal develops & the pattern finally looks to support this chance. Here is the 0z Euro Op.

Yes, this would have been a good snow week in mid to late true winter. Today, I saw on the local LSV news that South Mountain had 2.5 inches of snow. Here in Marysville there were a few random flakes mixed in, but we never got under the best rates to give a decent short period of wet snow. Congrats to those that were lucky enough to see it snow today ! Also, we might have 1 more threat to track later next week as the NAO finally goes negative & a strong storm looks to form in the east. It we get the right track & intensity, we could have a fun end to the snow tracking season.

The unlikely combination of the Euro, EPS & HRDPS all bring some snow to mainly higher elevations of CTP tomorrow.

The 18z EPS continued the trend of a further south & east track for the Wednesday storm system. It would be something if the LSV & south central PA ended up seeing more wet snow from this storm than today’s failure.

Don’t look now, but the 18z Euro is trending further south with the Wednesday storm. It is now getting snow ever so close to the home of @Bubbler86 & @MAG5035 If only we had this storm track even a few weeks ago...

This was a great call by @MAG5035 from Friday evening. Unfortunately, we didn’t get that solid wave of heavier precip in the early am. Many of us would have been just cold enough to get some decent wet snow at least on the grass & car tops. The precip remained relatively scattered & light until that afternoon line rolled through. The precip from the Midwest & then from the developing coastal just did not get its act together in time for us. The solid precip shield did however come together for most of New England. Many folks there are getting a good event despite surface temps above freezing.

A little bit of sleet mixed in this morning in Marysville when the precip rates picked up. Unfortunately the heavier precip band this afternoon was just some heavy rain. I was squinting really hard just to try to conjure some snow flakes to mix in, but it just would not flip even in the best rates. It looks like State College got a decent period of snow with that heavier afternoon band.

Well said ! We do have good thing going here. I enjoy this place & it is a large part of the winter fun for me each season. Sometimes, I let my eternal optimism get the best of me. I thought that we had a legit chance this time of a decent light to moderate event. I also think that I realized that the end of snow chances is very near. This latest & maybe final disappointment of the season got to me. There is way too much going on in the world now to get upset by the lack of snow. My best wishes to you & your family. Also, I hope that all of us make it through this difficult time as best as possible. -Mike (there are lots of us Mikes out there!)

Thanks, maybe I’ll get more into the other seasons this year. I have a lot to learn about this fascinating weather hobby. I am starting to appreciate all of seasons more each year, but winter storm tracking will always be my favorite.