Mount Joy Snowman

Just picked up my daughter from preschool and I have some breaking news. It is cold out; like really F'ing cold. I don't care how bright the sun is. I don't know what the temp is and don't want to know. I just know this: winter is in full swing.

Low of 17 here. Man, I'm loving this winter so far. We had deep cold around Thanksgiving, a below normal December, a below normal January in the works with plenty of cold ahead, and numerous instances of flakes flying (particularly for our friends in the northern and western parts of the state). Also looks like I should see some snow on snow again tomorrow night, as my meager pack is hanging on incredibly well. I'm not going to let any near misses get me down after the way some previous winters have gone. Bottom line, it looks and feels like winter thus far. Most importantly, Go State!

He’s stealing your thunder! Now you’ve just got to steal some of his forecasting thunder ha.

He really does. Hey, I saw some flurries here in Harrisburg over lunch. Small victories.

It's not just the negativity; it's that I oftentimes need my decoder ring to decipher what he's saying haha.

24 when I left the house. Winds are just brutal. Ruh-roh nobody posted 0z’s. Hope it doesn’t mean what I think it does.

They are unknowingly related. Interpret that how you'd like

Not many noticeable changes on the 12z GFS, with the LSV still on the western periphery. Storm development and track pretty similar to prior runs.

Let's just say my boss knows not to bother me too much Friday morning haha.

Yeah, you guys did better than us Lancaster folk with that one. I only had 2.3", as the snow switched to sleet and then copious rain, totaling 1.2" QPF.

Low of 17. I received 2.2” of total snowfall off of .19” liquid. This week is just straight winter.

I have to round up to get to that over here. Kept waiting for legitimate flakeage to get here but it was just hours and hours of the type of stuff that barely makes for a coating. All good though, wasn’t expecting this batch to impact us much. Happy for those getting a little refresher.

Nothing I love more than a good Huron connection. Speaking of the Lakes, I don’t think we mentioned in here at all the 60+ inches some places north of Syracuse received this past week. Impressive. I know I mentioned way back liking the southern Tug region but wasn’t sure if we circled back to any actual totals. Also, yes I am aware this is the central PA forum haha.

Looks like MDT reported 2.0" at their 12:56 update. If I'm looking at stuff correctly, they did so off of .14" qpf.

I hope you're right!

I would be thrilled with that. The 18z HRRR still keeps the bulk of what's moving through this evening to our south and west.

Total here is 2.1" as flurries have stopped and skies are brightening a bit. We'll see if we can add anything further this evening.

I have multiple buddies flying into West Palm Beach and then driving down to Miami for the Orange Bowl on Thursday. I reckon they won't have the same issues with snow ha. I decided not to push it with my wife and instead will be watching from the confines of my living room.

Yes, hope indeed. I'm still leaning towards that 500 passage giving the goods to our south. Perhaps some peeps like Bubbler and the gang out there get some extra fluff. I hope to be wrong but I'm thinking we're just going to catch the northern fringe of whatever that brings. These things can have a mind of their own though so we'll see. Hey, I'm happy to see white.

Man, the radar has really collapsed for the LSV, even earlier than I thought it would. Certainly looking like the under is going to easily hit on my 3.5" estimate.

10am Obs: 24/22 with light snow falling and 1.9" of accumulation.

Damn you. Is it coming down good?

I mean, if you would have told me THIS would be the radar this morning, with the northern half of the state absolutely crushing it. Sometimes all you can do is laugh.

You see these two wicked bands juuuuust to our north and south right now? I can't quite snag one of those. Still snowing decent.

Saw that. Looks like some better stuff moving in from York County shortly though. I think it's going to be too far south for most of us but hope to be wrong.