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My brother in Lititz last night got smoked with nearly 6" of rain. More on the way today

Confirmed/observed tornado just 6-7 miles east of Laramie today, crazy storm. Went and picked up some golf balls once the storm passed. Probably 2-3 inches of accumulated hail in the hardest hit areas

16/7/3

Photos I took of the Akron, CO tornado yesterday. Edited slightly to make the tornado pop a bit more, the dust made the visibility super low!

Things look stormy and active from Wednesday through the weekend across the front range and plains. A pretty potent shortwave trough and -PNA will result in quite a few disturbances rotating through the region. The orientation and strength of the PNA will determine where the bulk of the precip goes and whether the front range gets in on a favorable moisture advection regime. Currently a marginal risk from the SPC for Wednesday

I'm not sure we even picked up 1 inch here in Laramie, under a WWA for 3-6"

Gotcha, was just going off the MesoWest site https://mesowest.utah.edu/cgi-bin/droman/meso_base_dyn.cgi?stn=KRDG&unit=0&timetype=GMT

My folk in Fleetwood had a big tree go down in the backyard this afternoon. Looks like peak gust at KRDG was 57 mph this afternoon. More shallow convection moving through right now

From my folk just in Fleetwood... Over an inch of snow on cold surfaces this morning before things started to melt. Certainly didn't expect accumulating snow to get as far south as Berks, let alone over an inch

12z Euro is pretty much bone dry for the next 10 days across the Lehigh Valley. GFS keeps temps in lower 50s while Euro gets into mid-upper 50s. Quite possible this final stretch of February gets some climate stations back closer to normal for the month after a cold start

To be honest, the coastal storm itself is probably long gone at this point for much of the SE PA region. The ULL snows though are very much a plausible possibility with a C-1"

Did the 12k NAM just give Philly like 8 inches? Lol. Even the 3k NAM, which skunks Philly, shifted quite a bit NW and gives ACY like 4-6. Don't believe it

Quite the h5 look, so close to something big but it'll probably be too little too late. If at this point the ULL/trough was neutral and not slightly positive, you'd be able to scoop up enough PVA to swing it into at least the Philly area. Some very intense curvature vorticity being advected towards the downstream flank of the trough, but that pesky confluence streak in northern Maine is helping to slow how quickly this turns neutral (as well as the fast flow in general). If a long range smoothed ensemble picked up on this exact h5 look, I'd be screaming KU too. But when it came down to it, we were about 12-18 hours off in timing.

Quick glance seems like H5 is improved on almost all models, if the trend continues I'd expect some ticks back NW. However even with improvement still dealing with a lack of PVA getting into the region with the ULL turning neutral just too late

Currently the tally in Fleetwood for the season is ~19.5-20 inches or so. There's been a whopping 12 "events" this winter with measurable snowfall... 11 of those events were 2 inches or less. Only 1 storm, the one on January 19th, dropped appreciable snow with 7.9 inches. Talk about a nickel and dime winter, or maybe more appropriately penny and nickel