Itstrainingtime

I think early next week looks pretty darn good for something wintry. Details are days away from being figured out.

Especially if you're south of the track.

I mentioned yesterday that Elliott seemed interested in Monday. He is, but he's also insisting that it will be a light to possibly moderate event. GFS snow maps are way overdone. We shall see!

Fortunately, NYC cashed in a bit and got an inch or two on top of the 2' they got on Monday.

As expected, no snow fell overnight. Low was 25 but it's already up to 34.

It took 18" of snow/sleet together to keep a solid snow cover for a full week after 3/13/1993. If it wasn't for all of that sleet it would have been gone in 2-3 days.

The "snow hater" met from a local university seems completely out for Thursday but does seem interested in early next week. Interesting.

High is in the perfect location for Monday's potential event. We'll need that look to hold to get what we want. Precarious situation with that but at least we're not worried about a redeveloper type of thing.

My Orioles and Phillies tickets were uploaded to my MLB Ballpark App last week. Let's go! We better enjoy this season...

Yep, and that was my point. Despite it being a dark, overcast day yesterday, there was enough solar radiation to do it's damage on my snow cover. When the sun angle is lowest the radiation is really mitigated. That's why I covet holiday snow...it coincides with the best staying power season.

My south-facing yard was 50% covered when I got home from work last evening, and what was covered was down to about 1-1.5". My more sheltered areas still had decent coverage. Just want to clarify that it didn't all disappear but it did take a beating.

This is very true. It's one thing to share thoughts with family and friends but when people's livelihoods are at stake it's an entirely different animal. So now, my forecast outlet is here. I'll be undercutting you a lot going forward, I'm quite sure of that.

I will "take" any snow we get, at the same time, I've now transitioned to bigger game hunting. Getting 2" of snow that is gone in 23 minutes doesn't excite me in late February and March. I'm investing in opportunities for storms that could deliver at least 6" or more. I think really it comes down to wanting to see snow on the ground for at least a day. You know, as far as sun angle goes, yesterday was exhibit A on how strong the sun is at this time of year...cloudy day, (shoot, snow was falling for a good part of it) temps in the mid 30s and yet my pack was decimated. Take the same conditions we had yesterday and move the calendar back to early January and our landscapes would have looked a lot different this morning.

Interesting going back to the threads from 2010-11, a lot of forgotten names along with a lot of us still here. It didn't take me long to find a Canderson post about winds.

How far back are you looking for? All of our threads since Eastern became Americanwx in 2010 are right here under the Upstate NY/Pennsylvania main subforum. If you're looking for older thread predating 2010 on Eastern, reach out to Randy (Stormtracker) and see if he can help.