Mount Joy Snowman

It really is. All you can do is laugh. Luckily still some more time for things to "resolve".

Yes that is certainly one of the possible outcomes. Everything is on the table at this point.

@Itstrainingtime it just never ends out west this year......

Well well, things have trended in a more intriguing direction for tonight's snowfall. Boundary temps are an issue but it's possible I could wake up to some white on certain surfaces. Certainly I think once you get into northern Dauphin/Perry counties and beyond this should be a nice little event to wake up to. Kicks-off this upcoming period on the right foot. Of which there is still much to be settled, but man there is going to be storms and snow somewhere, and that's really all we can ask for. @canderson I feel bad for your little yellow rose, gonna be one heck of miserable March once we settle into this upcoming pattern. I suspect there will be a lot of unhappy flora in the weeks ahead.

All rain here now but fun while it lasted, actually came down moderate at times. My thoughts for all the upcoming fun are that the models are all over the map and will continue to be that way for a while yet; pay no mind. The big picture, as @Itstrainingtime has been harping on since seemingly the Orioles stopped playing, is that the pattern is loaded for bear. Regardless of whether we actually get hit with a big storm or not, is anyone else getting excited about one of those "stuck under an ULL for days with fantastically miserable winter-like conditions" type patterns? You know the type -- lots of gray, unseasonable chill, persistent northwest winds, and a consistent stream of on and off snow showers. My confidence is growing that sometime within the next couple of weeks we'll be in one of those patterns and finally it will look and feel like winter. Better late than never. Now let's go hook that big one!

There was quite a bit of dry air to overcome over here today, loads of virga. Well I'll be damned right as I post this if there isn't snow falling from the sky. I'm sure it won't last long but.....win.

You're not greedy; you're just an extreme weather hound, like the rest of us

They really are.....

Looks like about .02" of rain here. My official February totals were 1.52" liquid and .1" of sleet. By "official" I mean my interpolated values from the roughly 3,734 sources that I use for precipitation data, as I still don't have a gauge up at the new place ha. Luckily, I am surrounded on all sides by some pretty reliable WU stations in close proximity. National high of 105 at Falcon Lake, TX. Been a minute since I've seen anything over 100, so yeah, it's coming. Low was -19 at Seagull lake, MN. Tomorrow is a nothing burger down here. Hoping for one last miracle in that mid-March timeframe everyone is humming about. After that, let's get on with Spring. Bu-bye.

So, February officially ends up at 40.8 for MDT, second warmest ever. Friday looks lost. It's middle-March or bust for the winter it appears. Not that anything will save it from being a complete bust at this point. Onward.

Heavy sleet shower just rolled through here. Quite heavy. But the rest of you are probably just seeing plain rain since I basically live on a mountain now at 470’.

Pack a few extras in the cooler brotha', because I'm with ya on that train.

Howdy! Don't get me wrong, by front-end thump I mean more of a front-end whimper. Yes I've been keeping tabs on the happenings out west. Just astounding the year they are having. Setting up perfectly for you. So, for both tonight's event and the Friday storm, you know where I'd want to be in PA? As always......Laporte.

Mornin' all! I was on vacation all last week so I only loosely kept an eye on the board. By vacation, I don't mean actually going anywhere; rather, just no work while still being stuck at home with a one-year old, two-year old, two dogs, and a wife. Make of that statement what you will Thanks @Bubbler86 for the shoutout on the monthly temp prediction. I see we are at 40.8 heading into the last two days. I think we knock a couple tenths off and come in juuuuust ahead of 1998 for second place all time, only losing out to the impressive 41.3 average from 2017. March looks to be much more reasonable, perhaps even on the chilly side. As others have mentioned, I'm sure our April and May will be plenty miserable to make up for things haha. As for this weekend, I've been watching but consider me on the "meh" side of things. I expect, well, the expected ha. What I mean by that is probably our standard scenario of a brief front-end thump of snow, quickly changing to sleet and plain rain as the secondary development occurs too late, and then hoping for some back-side snow that never comes. This seems like a New England special. As always, I hope to be wrong. Good to be back, cheers mates!

That's been the pattern we can't escape. With the precip comes the warmth, and then brief bouts of cold but not arctic air. Everything of note scooting up to our west. Rinse and repeat. Sooooo frustrating. Raining at a pretty good clip here at the moment.

Better yet, I'm thinking tomorrow morning I may actually be able to get out that MU study I've been promising since the Reagan years ha.

Yep. Yesterday was 23 AN and by itself was enough to raise the month-to-date avg. by 1.3 degrees. I definitely think we can get around that 40 degree mark prior to any end of month cold that may or may not build. Today will be another big + departure, tomorrow's overnight high will lead to another solid + departure, saturday near normal, and then next week I see a string of like 5-10 AN type days. Just no let up. I see nothing overly meaningful in the way of tracking either. Hard to overstate how high my level of disappointment is for this winter. But I fully expect a miserable March/April when we least want it haha.

Is it still the same guy? Been a while since I've gone over there. I'm sure he'll be busy over lunch today ha.

Absolute horseshit of a call at the end of that game. I had no horse in the race but hate to see a great game end in that fashion. Felt very unsatisfying.

Yeah that's why I was saying about taking stock after next week, figured we'd be in better position to evaluate if we can make a run at any monthly records again. The only two February's to ever average over 40 degrees at MDT were in 2017 and 1998, with 1976 and 1954 not far behind. Hey, at least there has been something to track this winter, as sad as it may be haha. Hard to believe it was just 2015 when we had by far our coldest February on record. Good observation on the potential northern extent of the severe next week. Have a great weekend everyone. Three day weekend has arrived whew. I'm about to go make a big batch of orange crushes and margaritas for some friends coming over tonight. Cheers!

The 'ol midnight high is really gonna do a number on us today. For the month, we're already up to 2.5 AN through yesterday. It will be interesting to see where we're at come the end of next week. Outside of the southern Apps event this weekend, none of the global models show a lick of snow through the duration of their runs for the entirety of the MA. This was a winter for the west, simple as that. Onward.

Voyager, you really have stolen winter from us this year, you turkey you.

Soft record. Only fitting she went down in this "winter".

Tell him to stop stealing my thunder! I swear my synopsis is coming, once I'm not completely overrun by kids and work. Let's just say my study has more granular detail so it will still hold some value.

Damn, they really were. He still chimes in on the weather side occasionally, but very rarely.