Mount Joy Snowman

The sun is kind of unique to us southern folk today…. https://x.com/muweather/status/1740786509970821145?s=46&t=yE0m3aiFgMNKsTcNdUT1uw

.85” of glorious H2O here.

Looks like about .9” here. Official measurement in the morning.

I’m sure @Itstrainingtime is just fine, and is relaxing and enjoying the holidays like most of us, while avoiding this sh$t storm of a thread. No, I cannot verify any of that but I think it’s a safe bet ha.

44 here with .19” of rain thus far.

You called? Well, I’m on vacation all next week and like any good desk jockey this is the type of thing I would do during work time haha. But I just did some top of the head mathing for ya and there’s no doubt MDT ends up well above 2.5 AN. Average temp will probably end up comfortably north of 41. I’ll say we end up somewhere between 4th and 6th place for warmest December all time. Caveat being that I haven’t done my normal hard calculations on this. Now, back to the nog. Merry Christmas all and enough with all the infighting!

Haha I was thinking that same thing just a little while ago. The rare daily double!

You're a man after my own heart Bubbs. Great little statistical lesson here, in that whenever the mean greatly veers from the median you will have a skewed distribution. The income example you gave is the most classic example of a skew-right distribution. A classic skew-left distribution would be age of death. Not everything is a normal bell curve, as lovely as that would be ha. I'm surprised the ensembles don't drop the extreme outliers, to avoid such undue influence, which is something that is often done in real world statistics. That, or use something like the interquartile range as a baseline from which to draw the mean. Go ahead and add this to my list of mathematical weather gripes, to go along with how we calculate the daily average temp. Busted pretty high here overnight, with a low of only 33.

Hmmmmm I dropped to 28 and most of the WU stations immediately around me went even lower. Interesting. Just checking out the satellite loop and it looks like a wee bit of cloud cover may have snuck over your area when peak radiational cooling would have been occurring early this morning. Could be the culprit??

National high of only 79 near Glamis, CA. National low in West Virginia of all places (-3 at Canaan Valley, WV).

24 when I left the house. Beautiful view from the train this morning, with a salmon sky hovering over a swollen Susquehanna.

Some nice flurries a bit ago in Harrisburg. At one point approaching flizzard status, albeit brief. Looks like 8 inches near Edinboro was the big winner. Onward.

I am confident you will be as well haha. Low of 33 here with some radar snow showers overnight. No evidence of anything. Seasonable week ahead, it seems.

God bless the GFS at 300+ hours. There's no greater entertainment on the planet.

You forgot MJS, or shall I say KMJS, checking in at 2.85". I am now sitting at 37.36" for the year, only a few inches below average.

Low of 27 here. Sunday's system is a doozy with another widespread ~2" for the forum, although folks southeast should have the best chance at big totals. The bulk of the heavy stuff looks to arrive overnight, and then I wouldn't be surprised if many of us see some snow showers drift through on monday night. Fun little system. Happy Friday fellas!

Yeah pretty big inversion night, with some of the local ridgetop stations having lows ten degrees higher than the valley spots down below. As for me, low of 24 under a big 1040 High.

Same as yesterday, 28 when I left the house and 23 through the rurals. Onward.

Low of 28 but hit 23 on the car thermo through the rurals. Pretty typical week ahead it looks like.

Total QPF here of 1.81".

I think I'm going to be in that range as well, just waiting for the snow to melt in the gauge. Brought it inside to speed up the process ha. I'll tell you what, I may have actually had more than an inch here. Wish I would have been able to snag an accurate timely measurement.

You know it's funny, I have a weeeeee bit of elevation on my side here. I'm about halfway up the little ridge here and the back yard is pushing 500'. I know it doesn't sound like much but relative to my immediate surroundings it's something ha, and I think it may have played a small role. As you know, I'm still getting used to this new location.

Yeah I think we got under a nice little band here. Measurement taken off my patio table and that's at least a good hour after the precip shut off so some melting was already underway. I was pleasantly surprised.

An inch of paste on everything non-paved here but melting quickly. Looks beautiful. Low of 32 and current temp of 34. Will get a full QPF reading in a little bit.

Nooner 55 and approaching .4” of rain. Was stuck at 49 most of the morning but temp spiking now.