Itstrainingtime

100% correct- the vast majority of precip will last about 6 hours in any given location. Freezing drizzle will follow. Merry Christmas everyone!

Well said. Merry Christmas to all, and to all, a snowy winter!

FWIW - MU is also on team sleet. Coating to 2" for most.

One interesting thing I noticed in my forecast from CTP - hardly any mention of sleet. It's snow, then snow/freezing rain, followed by freezing rain possibly mixed with snow and sleet at times.

@MUweather I know these are operational models in the long range, but yikes! Any run-to-run consistency is, well, non-existent. Ensembles haven't been much better. We're at a crossroads in the numerical modeling world. Just pathetic!

Oh, very serious. I think the most recent word used to describe models is "Pathetic."

CTP is already playing up the wind threat for next Monday. Not often I see them talking about that 5 days out.

He is still in full-on meltdown mode over models. He's posting completely out of character. And probably because it's changing so drastically in the direction he doesn't want it to go.

Yes! That was exactly how I felt as well, and I'm never ready for a warm up. But after days and days of driving on ice holes (gotta be careful that didn't autocorrect) I was ready for a reset and dry roads again.

Nooner GFS is...wintry for Friday. Warning level snowfall in eastern PA.

1994 there were ruts in the streets for what seemed like a couple of weeks. There was an obscene amount of ice that winter.

I honestly don't know. I was up late last night picking up our son in Philly and slept in this morning. When I woke up (8:30ish) it was a light rain/sleet mix with just a coating on grassy surfaces. If we did get that burst of snow that you mentioned it would have had to been exceptionally brief.

Rain mixed with a few pingers here at home. Slant-sticked my way to .1" of snowy slushy stuff earlier. Season total is 5.6".

Not bad - CTP dropped my projected high for Friday from 58 to 37 in about 12 hour's time. Depending on the strength of the high, it might go even lower.

@Mount Joy Snowman fun fact: as of this morning, here are two seasonal snowfall totals that I find interesting: Itstrainingtime's house: 5.5" Mammoth Lakes, CA: 4" It has been an historically awful start to the ski/winter season in CA. There are bare spots on Mammoth right now...that's just ludicrous in late December. Good news for them, things are changing in a big way this week. Snow arrives in town tomorrow and by the weekend there should be at least 3-4' in town with at least double that on the mountain.