Mount Joy Snowman

So sure enough, as soon as I got on the train in Mount Joy this morning some light mix started falling. Can any of my Lancaster peeps confirm that there was a period of very light wintry precip this morning?

Low of 26 and nothing reaching the ground, despite some light snowfall returns and a nearly saturated atmosphere. Also, yesterday morning my low actually dropped to 10. Have a good one, everyone.

Sure does. Can’t remember many years riding the train when I’ve spotted it this widespread this early.

12 when I left the house, may go lower.

Low of 27. What a dry airmass out there.

Low of 29. Taking the kids to see Santa today up in Elizabeth Farms above Brickerville, never been before. Should be a solid winter day. Then a big game between the Packers and Bears. Go Pack!

Low of 26. Chilly days ahead.

Hearing the same, wow would that be best case scenario!

Yes, next season will likely be rough but that was probably always going to be the case. Question about Tony, are you implying that he is the guy suspected of recording the audio? Because I didn't really hear anything damning about him while listening to it. Pat mentioned about the defense falling apart after he got hurt and the AD guys were kind of razzing him about getting offers from other teams, specifically naming Miami, but I didn't hear much beyond that.

You are probably right that his career is damaged because of the things he said about other schools and people, but I actually came across kind of liking him more haha. Fascinating to listen to, just hashing everything out with real talk. Sounded like totally normal stuff people would say when having what they think is a private conversation. Speaking of which, the bigger issue here is whoever released that (likely a player) committed a serious crime (I believe a felony?). Pennsylvania has very strict two-party consent laws about releasing private conversations. That's despicable behavior by whoever did it and will likely scuttle what was left of whatever chance they had to hire someone decent. I felt almost dirty listening to it, knowing it was meant to be between only the people in that room. A total violation of trust, and again, criminal behavior.

You certainly had the right idea of things falling well short of expectations. Wind and clouds just never cooperated. Low of only 22 here. Looks like 21 at MDT.

Honestly, if Campbell ended up being the consolation prize in all this mess I would be okay with that.

Low of 26. We'll see how quickly the winds and clouds can clear tonight to go record chasing. Looks like some of our chances over the next ten days have diminished quite a bit. Still think we'll see flakes in the air at some point with all that cold hovering around. National high of 89 at Rio Grande Village, TX and low of -21 at Skibo, MN. Carry on.

Low of 27. Well, I'm a little more aggravated this morning after letting my gauge meltdown overnight. Turns out I got a robust .65" of total qpf that I could only turn into .3" of slop haha. Aye, thems the breaks sometimes. I see that, despite showing missing data for snowfall yesterday, MDT did show a snow depth of 2" at their 1pm report. They better get that snowfall report fixed, you know, being our climate station of record and all ha.

I saw they had a 1.0" snow depth listed for their 7am report but beyond that not sure.

I was going to bring this up as well. Multiple things to track, including a nice little Euro/NAM combo for us southern tier folk this Friday. Also on record watch for Friday, with MDT's record low for 12/5 being 12 degrees set in 1926. Exciting times!

Hmmm, I think what some schools did was have a two-hour delay in place but then decide to close after kids were already there or on their way. In my mind, this is the dumbest possible move. If it's too late to upgrade the delay to a closing then just keep them there for a whole day and let things clear up even more. Why would you send them home almost immediately when things are still questionable. Whatever haha.

Wait, did Donegal have school? My wife is telling me they are closed.

The last burst here is a mix of sleet and what is borderline freezing rain or plain rain. Always tough forecasting around here. My wife just went to drop our daughter off at preschool only to find out they were closed once she arrived. They went against Penn Manor's guidance, who only had a delay. Hempfield also only has a delay, although most schools decided to close. People of course are complaining about all decisions blah blah blah. My wife did say the roads were surprisingly bad.

Yeah who knows, I just kind of figured he meant anyone in our general latitudinal zone, and that a changeover back to a final thump of snow was on its way. We'll see, I'm in a steady mix here.

He also just backtracked a bit by putting out a post saying how dynamic cooling was causing the mix line to drop back south and we should all end up with an inch or so now.

31 degrees here and the warm nose has entered the conversation, as I’ve transitioned fully to sleet after a very brief period of snow. CC radar shows the line perfectly. Maybe .2” but happy for those that are making out. Hopefully not a harbinger of what’s to come down this way this winter ha.

29/21 as I get ready to hit the hay here. Good luck everyone!

I think Sitake is a fantastic coach but agree the “fit” would seem strange, to put it mildly.

Found this part amusing. As I’m fond of saying, plop me in Laporte and I’ll take my chances! *Sullivan County has the highest probability (50-70%) of localized snowfall >6"