The Iceman

Yeah be careful, the powdery snow combined with the little bit of graupel and temps in the low 20s... Things are slippery for sure but luckily I have a jeep. Safe travels man.

Drove to Trenton to grab something from the office I forgot yesterday Route 31 was mostly wet, little bit of slush, but overall very manageable. Once you get into trenton though... What a disaster. Looks to be about 4-5" here. Heavy snow. Next stop Lower Makefield.

Sounds like bensalem/langhorne/bristol area are the early winners right now. Maybe an outside shot at a foot if things continue as they are?

The fatties have begun flying in Hopewell. Very picturesque. 22F.

Crazy gradient so far, I'm about 10 miles north and have half of that. That band to the south is really producing! Also, appears people are seeing higher than 10:1 ratios.

CC shows the sleet line being beaten back south down towards the pa/de border the last few frames. Interesting.

Wow!! May have to take a trip down to lower bucks. My brother in lower makefield said he's getting raked and has over 3" so far. Best banding has been south of me so far in Hopewell, only about an inch here.

Wow!! May have to take a trip down to lower bucks. My brother in lower makefield said he's getting raked and has over 3" so far. Best banding has been south of me so far in Hopewell, only about an inch here.

Finding it difficult to sleep tonight, I guess it's the pre-storm jitters anyway down to 20 degrees in my backyard. Starting to cloud up now from what I could tell when I stepped outside for a smoke.

Man looking at the national radar, that moisture flow out of the gulf is serious... We may have an overperformer if thermals hold imo really like the look though

I know it's the HRRR but it has the mix line way south of PHL, down at the jersey shore at 18z and still snowing hard. Very interesting! Edit: Like @hazwoper and I were discussing above, changeover to sleet along 95 doesn't occur until rates lighten.

Down to the forecasted low of 21 already. Are temps supposed to rise overnight? Seems like it's a bit colder than anticipated.

We were on the same page, appreciate you explaining what I meant when I posted the 18z nam map earlier. I don't see an early flip though either unless like you said rates let up. I think we snow HARD from 9 am - noon. I'm thinking this one will be a pleasant surprise for most and the thump will out do any changeover woes.

Yeah between the pack I have remaining (roughly 5" rock solid after today) and the layer of sleet/freezing rain we should get towards the end of tomorrow after another 5-6", I'm feeling pretty good about having snow cover the entire month of Feb. Would have never predicted that going into this winter. In fact, has there been any long range forecaster that nailed this winter? Just goes to show how far we need to still go in that area. There were a lot of well respected mets and amateurs that pooped the bed this year in the long range. But it's a good bust down this way so no one cares

Latest HRRR has the sleet line well south of PHL at 17z... Just saying

Are we using this thread for OBS or should someone start a new thread for that? Anyway we have clear skies here in Hopewell and temps are dropping like a rock. Temp is already down to 24 here and the forecasted low is 22. Seems like we are going to get down into the teens unless we cloud up soon. Anyone else radiating down temp wise this evening?

TT clown map... This is all pre changeover

When does the RPM generally change the city/95 over to sleet/frz? Also it seems like you think freezing rain will end up being a bigger deal than what's being currently talked about. .1-.25" of freezing rain on top of 3-4" of snow would be more impactful than an all snow 6-8" event imo. Do you think we will see a deeper warm layer than forecasted? Most guidance I've seen, it looks fairly shallow and leans more towards it falling as sleet with the low level cold in place but I definitely would like to hear your thoughts on that.

Yeah looks like we go over to light precip after that but should still linger another 12 hours or so.

Looks 10:1 to me, maybe a little under to include mixing

Euro says all systems go, should be fun from 7 am - 1 pm tomorrow. Not much mixing at all along 95.

12z IBM GRAF

12z HREF, this model has done really well this year.. pretty much mirrors my thoughts

Paul, is the wxsim usually pretty good at picking up the sneaky warm layers? That seems like a really low forecast based on the models and usually when you post it, it's on the high end of guidance. Do you think it's a red flag that it's showing mostly sleet?

I'm not too concerned about turning over too quickly, we have a really good airmass in place. I think we will thump hard from 12z to 18z and most places will see their 3-6" the before the pinging begins. I don't see this being a storm where we flip to sleet after only an inch or two but I've been wrong many times in the past