Ruin

it be really nice if they told us just once why models waffle from 1 run to the next

gonna enjoy a nice weekend sat high 52 sun 44 doubt even if we got precip we would see snow. They are opening up the deck at a local bar sat night think ill head out with my friends.

13 hours ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

@Ruin it's one thing if you're just simply saying you've never seen it. It's another one if you're trying to say it doesn't happen. .  Every single spring and fall  we have no shortage of air quality alerts on  windy days, it's not a rare thing by any means.  Air quality alerts in the winter is a little more rare but it's not unheard of either.

 Air quality alerts are frequently issued during windy conditions. While wind often disperses pollution, it can also transport smoke from distant wildfires or stir up dust, sand, and ash, causing AQI levels to spike into dangerous orange, red, or purple zones. High winds can transport pollutants across large distances, worsening air quality far from the source. 

  Pollution and particulate matter (PM) generally travel, persist, and accumulate more in cold, dry air. Cold air is denser and sits closer to the ground, trapping pollutants, while low humidity prevents moisture from washing particles out of the atmosphere. Thermal inversions often occur, acting as a lid that keeps pollutants trapped. 

 Humidity can help hold down pollen particles, but the overall effect on allergy symptoms is complex and often negative. While moisture can weigh down pollen grains and stop them from traveling far, high humidity often leads to increased mold and dust mite populations, which can exacerbate allergies. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning–Kruger_effect

 

its very hard for pollution particles in a cold dry area to actually form any type of air pollution can it happen? yes but highly doubtful it happens as many times as it has happened this winter given how dry and cold and windy it has been 

and todays storm is all rain lol 

1 hour ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

It's not fog brother. Wind can often be what's transporting pollution and particulate to you. It's all relative to where the pollution, particulate, pollen radiation, etc, source region,and you are located.  It also appears to me that there is an excess amount of particulate in the air for this time of year. What you're seeing in the pictures below is not moisture or mist. I'm outside every night with a headlamp. My eyes are well, trained to tell the difference between solid particles and water droples. It's not the larger particles that actually cause the respiratory issues, It's the smaller particles making the picture look grainy, and the ones you can't see, that are responsible for the  majority of respiratory and analergy issues.. Cpa is also subject to what are known as oreographic pollen and or pollution showers later in the day and night as the atmosphere cools ,due to our eastern proximitie to the Appalachian mountains .  Cpa can dbe a rough place for people with allergies and health problems due to air quality ,especially when the atmosphere starts to cool after those hot and warm days in the spring and fall, when the pollen and mold counts are elevated.

I never seen a bad air quaility alert in windy weather why? cause it blows stigmatic air 2 I rarely ever see it in cold weather why? the particles have a way harder time in lower humidity to bond and cause smog and or other pollution you often see in muggy very humid conditions int he summer. Myself besides from getting sick this winter I had no problems breathing at all.  

14 minutes ago, TheDreamTraveler said:

Does anyone know why we've been having so many air quality alerts recently? I don't remember getting so many so often the past few months. Not a fan honestly.

yeah I even had them when its windy its total bs 

2 hours ago, canderson said:

50 my the high at the house today. The snow on the west-facing garden is about 80% gone. And really no signs or hope of a winter storm in the next week and a half. Time is starting to tick quickly. 

yep I lost 3 plus inches in my front yard today 

1 hour ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

I am so ready to be done tracking this system!

2 weeks ago, many of us started watching this weekend period. It went from potential major storm to no storm to late yesterday looking like a potential recovery to an Advisory event to now who the bleep knows!

 

notice how every system is a big one then as the event gets closer it just gets weaker 90% of the time 

3 hours ago, canderson said:

CTP now has Harrisburg with snow accumulation Sunday evening - less than .5” current forecast. 

little to no accumulation is what they love the best fav phrase lol

up to 50 forecast 41? yeah how can it be this inaccurate lol 

LOL I feel its over for snow this year it was nice to have a nice blanket of white on the ground for this long. 

4 hours ago, TSSN+ said:

I mean not like it’s precipitated much at all the last 3+ months. 

what im saying most of the cold we had was a waste 

2 months of cold 1 real snow storm lol

Good, 2 months of really, really cold weather. And we can only mustard one snowstorm.It's pretty sad.I really hope we get something else.Before the cold weather leaves 

8 minutes ago, Chris78 said:

And neither gives us any snow lol

remember always hearing where ever it comes into the west coast is normally where it exits in the east. Ill tell you this what wasted cold season we had only getting 1 real storm

9 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Interesting, yet MDT didn’t get it right.

they hardly ever get it right 

8 hours ago, Jns2183 said:

It isn't even totally frozen in the picture! I think we would need below zero weather, highs as well as lows for a week solid in order for it to freeze enough for any kind of an attempt

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We had highs in the mid teens.And we had lows at zero or negative for a week

how many days has it been now we havent hit the freezing mark. We are very well below normal for this winter in temps so far. I think the long range winter models showed cold early on but warming end of jan into feb that doesnt look accurate at all any more. 

This has to be one of the longest cold snaps in the last 20 years. while it may not be the coldest we ever had its pretty long lived. I havent seen snow stick around and hardly melt for a week like this last storm in a long time.

sadly we often dont get a second snow storm after we just had a big one. so this long lived lie snow breeds snow I never bought. so many times the next storm misses or never forms. I think I only remember 2 times of back to back snow storms. one of them were back to back blizzards after the first one the meteorologist even said the chances of a second blizzard is nothing because it just doesnt happen. I mean we got the second storm but it rarely happens. 

Yesterday it got to twenty three.When the forecast was twenty today, we were at twenty six when the forecast was at nineteen severe surprise.At temperatures got that high.Considering, we were supposed to only be in the team

so no chances at all this moves enough north west or the precip shield goes back enough to get any snow in central PA?

3 hours ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

I'm looking forward to it. 

mother of god 

about 13 inchs before the sleet started then changed back over we hit just over 13 again then more sleet i ddint measure again after that