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I hope (and believe) you're right. CTP is seeing something different because they have me in the 50s on Christmas day.

I just had a house-shaking gust. Looks like a mid 50s gust down the road.

Oh my. That's High Wind Warning stuff. Edit: Confirmed gust of 64mph at 1:05pm and then a 68mph gust at 1:09pm.

My station is too protected to get anything close to accurate wind speeds. At the airport right down the road, a gust of 53mph was just recorded: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KPAMARIE28?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR1aUZn05v6EL1SCu83D6YWAz4KB0xPA7zBHapk7ZxcoZfWMxfMgsX9YEUY_aem_AatgGdtB3HDmy_lQiEQW3p1bDKQzlUbvSccn8VpHsQ_8zcjQ2DxBPNU21ROdUrVrozfMvldDScho9lY6LgyGK0dL

Holy cow, you're not kidding...heavy wind-driven rain here now. This is the official start of the "event."

51.3 when I left the house this morning. .48" of rain had fallen, the intense area of rain is encroaching now...

Okay - let's have some fun. I'll go 48 at THV, 51 at MDT and 55 at LNS.

Have to figure that JF was/is going in hard after him...

I got to meet him as a senior at Penn Manor while studying met in high school. It was a brief exchange but one that left a lasting impression on me. I consider Horst and Paul Knight (Weather World lore) to be the 2 greatest mets I've watched/listened to in my lifetime. Both were 100% objective and deadly accurate. The Blizzard of 1996 - as I recall, almost every model showed that storm missing us to the south pretty much the entire week leading up to the storm. It was only in the final 48 hours or so that they all suddenly adjusted north. Days before that on Weather World, Paul said in that night's extended forecast that the southern half of PA was going to get obliterated. He was the first to call it...and history shows he was spot on. That wasn't the only time he went against everyone/everything else and was right. Horst was uncanny at predicting events that featured snow mixing or changing over to ice and rain - he would harp on that for days leading up to the event when no other model or met would see it. Like Knight, he was right just about every. single. time.

You handled that a whole lot better than I would have. First, a "period" of hot/cold/warm weather is not a day. That's just silly. Second, it's kind of a weak-sauce torch to begin with. Temps much of the afternoon tomorrow are going to be very close to normal, falling below normal by sunset.

Pribula on the move again: https://www.ydr.com/story/sports/college/penn-state/football/2025/12/18/former-penn-state-football-qb-beau-pribula-to-transfer-from-missouri/87819340007/

I think (?) he's been getting a lot of negative comments to some of his posts recently. There's been a noticeable difference in his "tone" over the past couple of months. I've really pulled back on following and posting because of it. I'm pretty sure that this post is probably in response to people's comments. Regardless, I haven't been sharing as much from him lately for a variety of reasons. I'm not trying to poke the bear so to speak.

That'll be a fun rush hour event.

Low this morning of 22 which was far lower than I expected after the events of last evening. I had some sort of inversion that sent my temp from 30.2 at 8pm up to 36.8 at 9pm. Temp plateaued there and was still at 35.1 at midnight. Was able to shave off 13 degrees during the early morning hours.

Freezing fog tonight, thunderstorms in the forecast for tomorrow night.

Today's 12z Canadian run has snow moving in late Christmas evening through the first half of the day on the 26th in eastern PA.

My current temp is 31.6 and it will climb above freezing at any moment. This will end a nice little 79 hour streak of continuous sub-freezing temps going back to 2am on Sunday morning. The past 3 days have been wonderfully wintry.

Interesting snippet from CTP's forecast discussion this morning: ( @canderson) The biggest story on Friday will be the potential for strong to damaging wind gusts. Building high pressure in the southeast US will interact with the potent and deepening cyclone crossing the Great Lakes to produce wind gusts exceeding 40mph Friday afternoon in the wake of the cold front. Anomalously strong wind fields could result in fairly widespread gusts of 40-50mph across the northeast US Friday afternoon. Wind Advisories may be needed for at least a portion of the area.

Measured .6" of snow yesterday evening. Season total is 5.4". Low this morning was 9.1. One of winter's greatest treats is early morning sun after freshly fallen snow. We've been treated to some spectacular scenes the past 3 mornings.

Smiling very broadly seeing you here. Very happy that you are feeling okay. Many of us have been thinking of you since last winter.

I had a burst of big dendrites that added up quickly. I was watching the band diminish as it moved east and was fortunate to maximize it.

Yes indeed! It's tapering off here now, I just measured exactly .5".

It's beautiful out...although it could not have come at a worst time for rush hour traffic.

Wow, didn't expect this. Snow is falling and quickly accumulating on all surfaces. 22 degrees.

I REALLY miss you posting more. I also totally get it why you don't. I think about you every time I don't see/hear from you after several days. You're really good people, Jon.