Hurricane Agnes

Arctic air is starting to pour in now... My high ended up being 33 just after midnight and am currently at 22 (my low so far), with dp 16.

11 am in NW Philly - 5.75", There's a blob just to the west but I don't think it will produce much. Temp is down to 26 and falling with dp 22.

Back edge is approaching and I noticed the wind picking up again. Temp has dropped to 29 (and is slowly falling) with dp 28 and am back to SN for now.

8:30 am measurement IMBY in NW Philly was 5.5". I don't think you could have a better snow consistency for scooping it up and throwing a good snowball or using it to make a good snowman. Temp has been holding steady at 30 for the past couple hours and am down to SN- with fog, and dp 30. Looks like a couple narrow bands are to my west that might be productive so shall see!

Winter wonderland with the initial wet snow plastered on every surface. 6 am measurement was 3" with temp 32. Currently SN and fog, with temp now below freezing at 31 and dp 31.

Could have been some kind of pre-frontal thing, although if it is a front, it hasn't passed through here yet with any colder air - my temp is still 37 in NW Philly & dp 29. Also looks like we're in a dry slot before the main action begins.

Saw ya'lls reports and was skeptical for here given the radar is green over the city and looked out front and flakes! Temp is currently 37 with dp 28.

Thar she blows! Some run that I saw yesterday showed what looked like this clipper zooming right off the coast like a Miller B and running on up toward New England.

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Here is the 18z (for snow by 20z Sunday) -

I bottomed out at 15 this morning right around sunrise and that was the lowest since my Janury 21 - 23 triple single-digit temps of 8F, 6F, and 8F, where the dp bottomed out at 1. Currently sunny and 30 with dp up to 8. I just saw a news blip that since the state of NJ declared a Drought Warning, they are asking folks to conserve water. Looks like it's drying up quick in western NJ and eastern PA.

A few years ago, I *finally* sat down and watched "White Christmas" with Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye and the running theme was that when the pair fled Miami by train with a pair of performing sisters to go help out a former WW2 C.O. with his ski lodge in Vermont, when they arrived, they thought they got off at the wrong stop - guessing North Carolina - because there was no snow! And it was just a few weeks before Christmas. The money shot scene was when Bing's character saunters up to the lodge's hotel clerk and asked "What did you do with the snow?" and the response "Oh we take it in for the night". The movie released in 1954. I have my snowfall obs from MBY going back to around when I joined Eastern Wx in 2006/2007, and through when they changed to the current American Wx, and there were 4 IMBY (and 5 if you count 2018 - 2019) - Snow/sleetfall 2024 - 2025 season = 12.56" | Snow/sleetfall 2023 - 2024 season = 14.04" | Snow/sleetfall 2022 - 2023 season = 1.20" | Snow/sleetfall 2021 - 2022 season = 15.62" | Snow/sleetfall 2020 - 2021 season = 31.31" | Snow/sleetfall 2019 - 2020 season = 2.47" | Snow/sleetfall 2018 - 2019 season = 19.26" I used to watch Emergency! And I did used to religiously watch the Carol Burnett show and even remember seeing that famous "Went with the Wind" skit when it first aired. One show that only aired a season back then, was "The Magician" with Bill Bixby (was a fan of his). And of course stuff like "Welcome Back Kotter" and a bunch of the CBS shows like "All in the Family", etc. And every Labor Day, I used to try to stay up late to watch the various acts on the Jerry Lewis telethon. Those were the days. I actually hit my "high" for the day of 35 around 3:30 am this morning. Had been up and could tell from my weather station console, when the arctic front came through, and where the dewpoint crashed to as low as "0F" sometime today. My 2020 - 2021 seasonal was 31", and that was probably from a series of storms (all the threads are still here for those storms by the way). Am currently at my "low" for the day of 25 with dp a somewhat better "1.9F".

OMG this thread has gone down memory lane. Don Polec was like the Weird Al of local TV news and was always hilarious to watch. Fun fact but KYW's (channel 3 was NBC back then) Trudy Haynes originally reported the weather on WXYZ-TV in Detroit back in the early '60s before she came here to Philly in the mid-'60s as a beat reporter - She just passed away a couple years ago at age 95.

That big warm blob near Alaska is nuts. And AK has had a swarm of earthquakes the past week. That may kill the Iditarod if they can't build up enough snowpack by March! Looks like a huge lake-effect thing going on by Erie, the rest of NW PA & SW NY! Bottomed out at 26 this morning but it did get up to 42 as a high, where it later clouded up. Currently 34 with 29 dp.

And sure enough... My little IP cams had clips of some cars driving nearby at around 10 pm and nada, and then another clip around 12:35 am and there was the dusting on the car, after which a pickup with a salt spreader came through my parking lot around 2 am. Ended up with a 0.1" surprise on my car and colder surfaces like the mulch and some grass. Bottomed out at 27 this morning and am currently at my high (so far) of 39. I did have some white rain and ZR at around 10 am this morning, where the sun did pop out about 30 minutes later but has since retreated behind some clouds at post time.

Had some very fine flakes (was more than flurries but that cold dry fine stuff) just after 11 am. Didn't stick but it's my first "Trace" of the season so far. Currently 28 with dp 17.

We are morphing into Colorado, where there is a lot of "spring snow". 'Soon as the daffodils start blooming, in comes the phasing. I ended up bottoming out at 22 but what was more notable and a sign of arctic cold, was the single digit dp of 9 IMBY that I bottomed out to as well. It's currently 24 with dp 12.

Looks like the latest MJO is showing Phase 8 and the NAO is negative with that PV dump headed here this weekend and into next, but then it retreats after that. Ended up hitting 40 for a high today and it's currently 35 with dp 24.

Is that because they weren't mixed in with any flying cows? That cold high may produce some of the coldest temps of the season so far. Mt. Holly even threw up a little Climo section about that - As a quick obs - I bottomed out at 30 this morning and it's currently mostly sunny and 39 with dp 24.

Finished up with a nice slow soaking of 1.09" of rain (had planted the last of my bulbs yesterday so they got rained in). Made it up to 40 as a high this afternoon once the precip. was over, after a low of 30 that happened just after midnight, after which the temp started slowly rising. Currently 34 with dp 33.

Still have light rain with temp and dp up to 37. Have had a good soaking today with 1.06" in the bucket at post time (which could have been upwards of 10" of snow if it were 10:1 ratio ).

Back edge in sight. Still have light rain, a temp and dp of 36, and 0.88" in the bucket.

Now up to 35, with dp 35 and a steady light rain. Have 0.23" in the bucket at post time. Adding CC to the BR on the radar upload.

Now have light rain and 0.03" in the bucket. Temp has dropped a degree to 34 edit - now 33 and dp is now up to 30 as the air saturates. The area airports - KPHL, KRDG & KTTN, reported trace snow earlier.

Checking in with temp IMBY currently at 35 and dp 27 with some earlier drizzle but mostly overcast skies as the air is still dry (the walks have some splats on them but peeping out, I wasn't getting anything at that moment). The temp and dp have been non-diurnal as they have slowly crept up overnight since my last posting here about last evening.