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Oh wow thats cool, yea I'm walking distance from the campus where I'm at. Sinking Valley can def get some interesting weather.. especially on the mountain end. The wind's really kicked up this afternoon so there's likely to be some nice drifts over there.

The initial WAA phase of the storm with the primary is where I came up pretty short as better precip kind of split this area (going southern tier and up around UNV and N from there). I had under 2 inches all the way until later Sunday Evening. A few more inches from that and would've pretty much been on target with what I expected here. Otherwise, the 8-14" call with the imbedded area of heavier amounts ended up working out pretty good.

9" storm total is what I'm sending in (4.7" from 9am-9am Sun/Mon and 4.3" in the past 24 hrs with most of that falling last night). May have been a little bit more with compaction but the way this storm had mostly slow accumulation for the most part I just did two 24 hour clears of my one snowboard. Depth on the untouched board measuring a bit over 8" so the 9" should be a pretty accurate number.

Nah I bought a house a few years ago. I'm in Altoona now by the campus, only about 4 miles down the road.

Light to moderate snow, 8.4” now.

Yea that's a thing here at least. I'm glad I have a driveway and don't have to worry about any street parking.

I saw an article about that this afternoon from one of the local news stations here. DA quoted as saying there was some long running dispute between them but sounds like whatever they disagreed about with the snow was the tipping point. Still insane either way. https://wjactv.com/news/nation-world/police-3-dead-in-pennsylvania-shooting-in-fight-over-snow-removal

Up to 7.5" total now with about 1.5" of that coming in the last couple hours. Moderate to heavy snow and nice flakes.

Yea it took 36hrs but finally getting the best snows of the storm. Nice @Wmsptwx effect band.

How much do you have so far?

Your having quite a winter. That much snow easily gets you above average for the whole season on Feb 1st lol.

Finally getting some decent snow. Not out to do new measurements yet but eyeballing between 6-7" on my uncleared board now (storm total).

The D7 storm that generated the majority of the snow in that crazy Kuchera map was a very cold storm (850 temps -8 to -10ºC and colder all storm) and no doubt the Kuchera method was cranking out some really big ratios (probably not realistic for a widespread synoptic system). 10:1 cut the 10 day totals more than in half in the central counties . Either way, it's a very active looking period coming up with significant arctic air in the fold and what appears to be an active storm track. Plus that "cutter" at the end of this week now has more frozen than liquid with it. That's why I started a new discussion thread to talk about all this separate from this long duration storm thread lol.

The best forcing and deepest moisture is a bit NW right now, so your still left with the low level easterly flow still bringing in moisture and snowfall even though crystal growth is limited. This is in the lowest several thousand feet so can't really see it in the LSV from CCX or LWX radar. Looking at KDIX (Philly) radar you can see the radar is filled in with echoes and that continues into the LSV.

Tryin to push... c’mon lol

I've had 1.2" today since I cleared my one board at 9am this morning for a running total of 5.9" so far... in the 33 hrs since this started. Brutal. This has been such a slow event here that my non cleared board is about 5.7" (very little extra compaction).

For AFTER this storm wraps up tomorrow. I just looked at the model guidance out beyond today and figured I'd get this rolling for discussion.. cuz there's going to be plenty to talk about after this storm's over.

Getting this started for after the current storm, the opening two weeks of February are looking slightly active.

Wow that's nuts, and that band looks like it's going to deliver a good bit more if that's the kind of rates your getting.

Steady snow finally restarted back this way, moderate.

State College is looking pretty decent at the moment. Hoping that heavier area between here and Harrisburg is able to get back to the I-99 corridor, it's making a good press so far.

You can see the expansion of the comma head into eastern PA on the IR and WV imagery. https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=regional-northeast-14-48-1-25-1&checked=map-glm_flash&colorbar=undefined

How much have you had? Looked like several 7-8" reports up around State College.

I might end up being the only one that doesn't lol. Eyeing up that band between you and me trying to pinwheel down this way.

You look like your going to be in great shape for awhile.