Mount Joy Snowman

You are a damn polar bear! A nice little snow shower just rolled through here that dropped the temp to 28, got the treetops moving, and had some heavy flurry action. Fun.

Actual low here last night was 28 and some residual snow and ice melt brings my total tally to 1.7”, which I believe puts me amongst the highest totals in the state for yesterday. Neat.

Obligatory cabin pic this morning from the upper terrain of the Tioga/Potter line.

A lot of coworkers mentioning how surprised they were to find their cars encrusted in sleet and snow thi smorning. I told them I stayed up to watch it haha.

29 when I left the house. 1.63” of total liquid but still waiting for some encrusted sleet/snow to melt off the funnel of the gauge, will report back later. Probably going with .2” of snow/sleet as things were decently covered when I went to bed last night and it was still snowing. Nice little event and today should be a heck of a winter day. Curious to see how far east some squalls can make it later today. March, always a trip.

Temp down to 33 with borderline heavy snow but the fun appears to be over soon. Still cool to see.

Had a period of steady sleet with a temp of 37 and now it appears I’m transitioning to snow as the temp has dropped to 35. Glorious. I need to go to bed but…..snow.

Well this is a first for me, someone on mPing has reported a mudslide down near the border just west of Shrewsbury. Also looks like snow has already moved into Cumberland Co.

The front is moving through here with some pretty impressive gusts. Nothing too crazy but we did briefly lose power. Temp plummeting as expected.

Haha I thought the opposite. I didn’t think you were THAT far behind me but there were times throughout the day when i was getting trained pretty good and it looked like you were just missing out on it. I don’t love the way that last sentence reads haha.

That gust front is moving its way across the mid state. Would love any reports from those to my west about how the winds are when it comes through. That’s the feature that’s always had my eye for this event.

Wow that’s crazy. I am way over an inch here.

Is anyone staying up to see the changeover to snow? I have to be up very early so doubt I make it but wouldn’t mind getting some reports from those that do.

I only received .02" that day but have in my notes that there were heavy storms all around that just missed, with four tornados confirmed in central PA.

Round one in the books here, quite garden variety but I was positioned well with the orientation of the line to squeeze what looks to be about a half inch out of it. No signs of sun out this way today.

Again, I don't get this at all. Also, aren't these buildings (i.e. schools, government buildings, etc.) supposed to be the safest places to be during events like this?? Kids are going to be exiting busses in the middle of this potentially. They could have just let the day play out and it's likely there will be a nice little gap in the action later this afternoon.

Yeah, I'm not quite sure what the logic is there, and the main gust front isn't until much later in the evening. It's all pretty random as to timing/location of discrete cells this afternoon so just run the school day as normal. I'm also a bit of a hardliner with school closings/dismissals and think we've gotten way too liberal with how often they are handed out. The virtual learning days are an absolute joke as well. Just one man's opinion.

Low of 49 with .09” of rainfall. Good morning to all, on what should be a very busy weather day. Some people in here may see some of their heaviest snowfall rates of the season later tonight, albeit brief. Beginning to think things won’t be too too dramatic up this way with regard to severe potential but we’ll see what mother nature stirs up. Timing of the main line looks to be pretty late in the day for those of us here in the east, not sure how much pops off out ahead of that, as there seems to be some conflicting forecasts there. In any case, batten down the hatches!

Low of 36. All eyes on tomorrow for what should be an exciting, but hopefully not too destructive, weather day.

Low of 34. Monday is really starting to get my attention. Going to alert some family later today after the 12z runs. Curious to see how the Mesos handle things over the next 24-36 hours.

Low of 27. Classic March days ahead.

Total qpf here of .48”.

Today is a classic example of how deceiving the record books can be. Everyone who is experiencing today thinks it's a brutal day -- daytime temps stuck in the 30s, overcast, biting winds, rain/sleet/snow, etc........and yet, because it was 60 degrees at midnight it will go in the books as a way above average temperature day ha. This effect is even more pronounced as you head south through the mid-atlantic, as @Itstrainingtime alluded to.

Yeah I made sure to time my trip to Ironville Park atop the hill earlier so that it coincided with a nice band moving through, so that I got the benefit of rates and elevation. Here at my house, just a few scattered flakes or flurries throughout the late morning.

Yeah I thought the max min record of 49 might be broken too but it fell one degree short.