Hurricane Agnes

The ocean is a laggard for seasonal change in temps and doesn't chill completely until like February, which is why our springs can get strung out into May and sometimes June, with a number of bouts of March snow (the kind of snow people wanted the December before )!

Surface map is showing the front has crossed the area and my dp dropped down to 6F within the past hour. Am currently at 30 after getting up to 37 as a high with 18 dp.

it's that "line". Have been listening to Accuwx this afternoon as they slowly drop the totals.

19z NBM still bullish.

18z Canadian.

3k NAMs. All Philly schools closed. City has a "snow emergency". Gov. of NJ declared "state of emergency" (her presser is going on right now).

Randy might have found it during that Tug Hill blizzard fest.

AmWx WAS EasternWx until 2010 when they re-did the site. I remember the years of the routine of "changing the snow tires" in spring and fall (on 2 different station wagons over the years in the '60s - late-'70s) and keeping a set of chains in the back of the station wagon. Except for the '66 storm, none of that was really needed. The snow drought literally "broke" the year my mom bought a brand new Mercury Zephyr after getting rid of the old station wagon and then a few months later, having some cop car doing a chase on the snowy street, and T-boneing it while it was parked in front of the house. Thank goodness for "all-weather tires" (at least around these parts - the snow zones in the northern U.S. still have those snow tires as I understand).

I think the blizzard criteria is for sustained 35 mph or greater. Traction! It was also the days of chains and spiked tires.

I don't think "transfer" is in terms of "energy" but in terms of movement. I sometimes say "jumped to the coast" and restrengthened (mainly because when that process is happening, there is that "dry slot" that forms" and what ends up off the coast may be like a remnant of some kind and not a brand new low).

I think they use the brine so that the frozen stuff won't stick to the road as much and it makes it easier to plow it away down to the asphalt. The salt usually comes after the stuff is plowed. I know they have some newer mixes of salt that can go lower but with the kind of cold they are talking about, back in the day you probably remember when they went on and put sand out.

You probably haven't driven downtown when there was a bare coating of packed down rutted snow with a layer of ice and water on top on the major streets, where buses start spinning or slide around when turning a corner! Don't ask me why I would know the issues.

Fairmount is near the Art Museum downtown so there is a warmer microclimate due to the building density down there. I still think this will definitely be a "warning criteria" storm, i.e., >6".

Not so much for ice (sleet/ZR) versus snow though.... Although I remember going on a senior class trip to Tamiment in the Poconos back in '79 in January and there was ZR that weekend with the slopes too slick to ski on and then the temps hit 40, so it was either ice skating in their indoor rink or board games.

I saw your comment. The whole "transfer to the coast" thing always catches my attention. I had never heard of a "Miller C" but apparently it is a "thing" with La Nina ENSO. The 13z NBM doesn't look good (ice wise).

Apparently just ZR accumulation.

WSW -

Even though it's not a strict "Miller B", the whole setup feels like a hybrid one with a low riding up a cold front as the front moves east, and then transferring out to the coast. Anything that even hints at "Miller B" seems to always be hard to nail down.

EC 12z Kuchera -

The AI one doesn't have that option (unless it's just a Pivotal Weather thing). The regular EC is still running.

The AI one looks conservative compared to everything else.

Some other 6zs - ICON, Canadian & Ukie.

6z 12k NAMs still wants to put other frozen in there.

7z NBM.

6z AI EC.