Mount Joy Snowman

Well, I learned something new today -- that you can find yourself on a NWS LSR just by tweeting your total to them ha. My first ever LSR, big day! It seems they just used generic coordinates for Mount Joy since they don't know my exact location. Also, I know @Cashtown_Coop is a an observer for NWS but saw a report from Rouzerville last night and was wondering if that was @Bubbler86? PRELIMINARY LOCAL STORM REPORT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE STATE COLLEGE PA 717 AM EST FRI JAN 7 2022 ..TIME... ...EVENT... ...CITY LOCATION... ...LAT.LON... ..DATE... ....MAG.... ..COUNTY LOCATION..ST.. ...SOURCE.... ..REMARKS.. 0717 AM SNOW MOUNT JOY 40.11N 76.50W 01/07/2022 E4.3 INCH LANCASTER PA PUBLIC

A final tally of 4.3" here. Currently sitting at 25 degrees, will convert snow to liquid a bit later on. Looking more and more like we should have a decent shot at a glaze to perhaps a tenth of an inch of ice on sunday morning, before reestablishing and locking in some cold for next week. Nothing crazy on the horizon but winter has arrived and I'm here for it.

Just took my first measurement before heading off to bed, a hair shy of one inch. Temp at 28 and light to moderate snow falling. Hope to wake up to a beautiful scene. Night all.

Heck yeah. Plus we’ll get our real fun out this way later, likely around 2/3am-ish if I had to guess.

Liking the look of this….

The finest most scattered of flurries have commenced here in western Lancaster County. Here we go.

I’m sitting pretty for some nice wet bulbing at 32/19. Now I wait.

Daddy likes. Let's do the damn thang.

3.2" off of .25 liquid.

I am in for 3.2" at MDT. This is why I love BWI, have made it in 1:10 before. Anything beats flying out of Philly ha.

Yep depends where the best overrunning breaks out from the WAA, which often times leads to some odd configurations, at least initially.

Very solid GFS run. Say it with me, consensus.

Another reasonable depiction from the RGEM. Again, we are honing in on consensus.

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Agreed, noise. My 2-4" outlook still stands and we're still looking at a cold column with solid ratios. One of the lesser variable events around these parts if we're being honest. Like you said, snow is coming. I will always sign up for that.

Agreed. One consistent theme that's starting to develop for the Lancaster area is that we may be waiting a while to see our snow down here. Left watching as the WAA moisture flies just to our north and west for hours on end, before finally getting into the goods around the midnight hour, at which point we should see a couple hours of heavy snow. Every storm throws a few surprises. At this point the only guarantee I see is West Virginia getting pounded ha.

HRW.....nice....

12z HRRR throws out a different look, pushing main moisture for our area to the north. Probably not to be trusted, although it certainly wouldn't be the first time we've seen a last second change where things jump north. NAM starting now.

And perhaps most importantly, no temp issues throughout the column. No panicking about sneaky warm layers aloft and multiple hours of sleet or changeovers to rain. Just good old fashioned snow. Dendrites baby.

I think most see 12-14:1 ratios with this event. Looking forward to the nice CAD sunday morning and then some more sustained cold. Winter is finally here.

Yes, the one and only thing.

Williamsport for the win! Thanks, and agreed.

Euro stays in line with the "couple to perhaps a few" inch theme for our area. Actually is slightly better than previous runs. I think we know what we're in for at this point folks. Nothing wrong with a widespread couple inches to whiten things up.

Hmmmmm wonder why it would be struggling to convert the precip to snow, since there aren't any temp issues throughout the column?? Is it just me or has the Ukie been struggling more than what it used to in the past? Always thought it was a pretty good model, at least for SLP locations and path and whatnot, perhaps not as much on the precip side?

The Ukie, for whatever it's worth, remains wildly unimpressed.