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I will, I did achieve double digits finally. Just call @2001kx and I the clean-up crew haha. Think he said over in the storm thread he had 4.8” new. I’m prob getting close to at least 3” but it’s blowing and drifting like crazy.

At this rate the deform bands might leave C-PA just in time for Friday’s event lol. At roughly 65 hrs off and on with this storm now, and I’m currently getting by far the worst conditions I’ve gotten the whole event.

Just got home after being out and about this evening. Best average I got is about 2” of new snow, but pretty variable as it’s wind driven and drifting. Took a drive to our camp in NW Huntingdon County before dark and roads are all a snow packed mess again after being clear this afternoon. Getting crushed right now. This stuff is very fluffy and the stiff breeze is blowing it around.

Lol some of the best rates of the whole event here and not even in the heaviest echoes yet.

Some climo stuff from the AFD this afternoon. Check out the excerpt about State College.

Moderate, wind driven snow now. The double digit total may be back in play now given the look of the radar.

Snow moving back in lol.

I think even if the southern wave doesn't work out there's a northern branch shortwave and likely arctic frontal passage to be watched for there... and it would probably be a pretty potent one too given the arctic air on the table. Euro's the only one with this bigger storm attm, but it's been keeping this solution plus enjoying solid support from it's ensembles.. so def more than a fluky run or something like that. We'll see how things progress. Did notice guidance isn't completely dumping the PV into the Great Lakes/NE today after whatever this system ends up being.. keeping the core of stupid cold -35 to -40ºC 850mb air just above over on the Canadian side of the North Central/Great Lakes. GFS drops it down more getting -20 to -25ºC 850mb air into the commonwealth. Euro cold but not quite as cold, which isn't too bad as that set up could be better in terms of getting a gradient pattern with some well tracked systems. Euro ran another system out around D8 or so.

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.