Mount Joy Snowman

Horrible news from the sky ugh. Enough is enough. In more positive news, PSU hammered Iowa in wrestling!

It’s amazing how often those heavy returns just don’t equate to on the ground production in the winter. I was right in the heart of all those pretty colors that went through earlier and only got .15” from it.

I totally agree about some people not wanting to wade through tons of non-weather posts on the weather board, and for that reason I support your efforts. Like I said, I just hope it doesn't devolve into nastiness. I'm cautiously optimistic that with this crew it will not. In other news, I heard some stat the other day, and I could be a little off here so apologies, that Embiid has missed over half the games in his entire career?? Just found that astounding but I guess it shouldn't be all that surprising.

Thanks mate! I will say, if it's just going to be an "Orange Man bad" thread, I'll likely check out. Would just be so exhausting and I can get that so many other places ha. I would actually suggest we keep it to everything other than politics, only because I fear it could turn the board ugly and alter the dynamic of what has been, up until this point, a friendly little community. I would just hate to see our board lose what it has built over nonsense like that. Personally, I have always tried to refrain from talking politics and have only done so when others have initiated, like my comment the other day in the weather thread when I thought some stuff was being said that just went too far. But even then, I have no desire to argue about it on the daily and would prefer to continue seeing everyone as simply the weather weirdos I already do ha. Just one man's opinion. Also, as @Bubbler86 has said, I'm not really keen on the idea of two separate threads but am willing to give it a shot if it's what others want. We shall see. Here's to happy sledding! *hopefully*

This is the truest statement ever uttered on this board haha. FAR too much bureaucracy and red tape for government to do anything close to what people think it can. Now, as for some of these clandestine national security agencies, weeeelllll they get away with a good bit more shady biz ha.

Wait, there's a banter thread?? News to me haha.

20% of my backyard still has a 2" snowpack. Come tomorrow she'll likely be bare.

Haha true but you know what's funny, the last few months MDT has consistently been coming in colder than forecasted. Traditionally, when I do my monthly calculation, I nudge things up a bit to account for the MDT warm bias, but it's been the opposite lately (river ice and other factors?), with the obvious exception of these last few days ha.

I kind of had my doubts about the magnitude of this event because many of the models had been showing things really breaking up over us and being rather sparse. With that said, I still think we end up close to a half inch when it's all said and done, with the better stuff set to move through later this afternoon or this evening. I'll tell you what was really misforecasted (made up word?), and that was the temps for the last couple days of this month. Back when I did my end of month calculation the forecasted NWS temps were MUCH cooler than they've actually turned out to be. The final mean temp for the month is going to end up a few tenths higher than I predicted. I should be fired from my job.

Low of 36 with .05" of rain. Some interesting opportunities in the weeks ahead with a tight boundary. In any case, hopefully (likely?) some drought-busting activity in our future. Penn State - Iowa wrestling tonight in Happy Valley, #1 vs #2, let's go!

Low of 27. Just a horrible tragedy over the Potomac last night. Basically everyone's worst nightmare when they get on a plane. My heart goes out to all the families involved. This world can be such a cruel place. So awful.

It appears this image automatically updates to the latest image, so for those viewing it at a later time just trust that it was a whiteout when I first posted it ha.

Whiteout at my buddy's cabin with another squall right behind......

Low of 35. Quite the tight gradient setting up for the next week or so, should be interesting. What's the crux of that joke that always flies around in here about the carpet and tile guys? I only ask because I have the Carpet Mart guys coming today ha.

I see the liberals are out in full force this morning rabble rousing again. Always throwing the subtle little digs in there. I read a lot on his forum and just roll my eyes and move along but we have people thinking Eli gave a legitimate nazi salute or that random US citizens are being rounded up and deported. Enough already. We get it, lots of people hate Trump and lots of people love him. Everybody gets it. But there’s no question that much of what he is doing is very popular with the electorate at large and that it’s exactly what he said he would do, which is why his approval rating is much higher than it was at any point during his first term. Some policies will work, some won’t, some will be shot down by courts, but it will all play out and everything will be fine. At least there’s some excitement after years of a corpse in there. Carry on.

Low of 35. I imagine these next couple of days will decimate the pack pretty good.

We should end the month ~5 degrees BN. In fact, my pen, notepad, and TI-84 Plus tell me we'll end January with a mean temp of 25.7 degrees. This would tie 1895 and 2003 for 21st coldest January all-time. Book it.

Low of 21. That Saquon run on the Eagle's first play was just.......wow. Congrats to the Birds fans out there. Should be a great Superbowl. National high of 85 near La Puerta, TX and low of -36 at none other than Peter Sinks, UT.

Low of 21. Great day for football.

I dropped one more degree to 11 but single digits will escape me.

Low of 12 here. Appears to be a big-time inversion night and my current house is just a wee bit too high to take advantage of it.

Aaaahhhh rats I should have known haha. Too focused on watching Penn State wrestling. Brain too distracted.

This one went right over my head. Apologies haha.

I went out right before sundown to check our propane tank and couldn’t believe the depth of the snow in shaded spots. Seems like it’s barely lost an inch. Love it. #PackRetention

Flurries have broken out here. Plows down.