Hurricane Agnes

I bottomed out at 4 (4.3) and it's currently a sunny and breezy 8 with dp -4.

Some on and off brief snow showers brought me up to a total of 0.25" coating, but the breezes blew most of that off my car. Looks like I reached my likely high for today of 28 just before 4 am and the arctic front has been coming through now, with a 10 degree drop of the dewpoint and 7 degree drop of the temp. Currently breezy and down to 21 with dp 12

After hours of virga, finally got a 0.1" dusting so far on colder/untreated surfaces. Walks and streets are still bare except for the "white dusting of salt". Currently mostly cloudy and 26 with dp 23.

Was waiting for AI Euro to get to the matching number of panels and finally got there. Ya'll be the judge!

The past couple years, the PV has been unloading on the other side of the world into Siberia (northern Russia & northernChina). For example back in Jan. 2023 where we seemed to completely miss the snow (I had just over an inch for the 2022 - 2023 season), where there the PV unloaded over Siberia - Siberia sees coldest air in two decades as temperature dips to minus-80 Siberia sees coldest air in two decades as temperature dips to minus-80January 11, 2023 We were probably overdue!

Finally hit 32 around 10:30 am this morning. First time since January 23 when I had a high of 37 (10 days). The leftover glaciers on the edges of streets are treacherous though, as well as the huge plowed mounds on the street corners. Currently sunny and 35 after a low of 21, with dp 20. I did see the full moon early this morning through some "snow clouds", so that cloud deck did keep it from bottoming out.

I just fell short of 32 today and only reached 31 for a high after a 16 low. But the sun is doing its job slowly evaporating the snow away, although the huge plowed and shoveled mounds ain't going nowhere anytime soon. Currently 27 with dp 14.

Every Sunday, I listen to the recordings (they dub them podcasts but they just record their radio shows) of Andre Viette's "In the Garden" radio show and am usually a couple weeks behind their broadcasts, but still go through them in order and listening to one of the hours this morning, one of the callers was asking about those Cooper Hawks and whether there were more around nowadays versus in the past. And the response was that they are always generally around but the Cooper's are particularly active in December/January/February. When I used to live in a hi-rise on an upper floor, I had a visit by one who perched right on the balcony rail scoping the area for probably an hour or so. Then it suddenly dive-bombed right off the balcony and probably snagged a rabbit that I had earlier seen hopping around on the grass at the front of the building 18 stories down! Am currently at 23 (my weather station says "Feels like 15.3"), which is the warmest "high" here since January 26. The dp is still an arctic 10.

I had 7F for a low yesterday morning and a 10 this morning. The reason? The winds never decoupled here. Literally had gentle breezes going all Friday night into Saturday morning, from ~1-2 mph with "gusts" of 4 mph. Kept it from radiating. Had the same (with higher winds) overnight this past night. Am currently up to 20 with dp 9. I noticed that some of snowpack on the southwest side of my house is eroding, am guessing from insolation because it certainly isn't from melting!

That's because you are this guy - I definitely could use a break too. The glaciers out there right now are right outta the 1977 winter handbook! I bottomed out at 8F this morning and will see if it really does go completely calm tonight (still a few breezes kicking up every once in awhile). Made it up to 17 as a high this afternoon. Currently 15 with dp thankfully above 0 again at 2.

We have been coming into 12k NAM range and the 6z out to 84 (its cutoff) was a complete fish storm for this area.

The 18z AIGFS tries to tuck it in before it boots it OTS.

Back during the '96 storm, Philly was dumping so much snow in the Schuylkill that it got blocked up, so they had to dump in the Delaware. There are a few "infamous" pics of that still around. Then a week or two later, the temps went up into the 60s with overruning rain and the Schuykill flood pretty badly. I remember when the water finally went down and I was driving to work along it and you could see the water lines high up on the plowed snow mounds... plus there was a huge tree trunk that got wedged near the top of an arch of one of the stone railroad bridges that goes over the river! That tree trunk was there for months and they eventually did remove it. They have now been using huge "snow melter" trucks to melt the snow - at least downtown. They are doing that today around City Hall. I remember seeing one after I think, the 2010 or 2014 snow.

I was out around that time finishing up getting the snow off the roof of the car (a SUV) and just as I was about to come in, there were some flurries. Currently overcast and 22 with dp 10. Had a low of 11 and high of 23. (have avoided the midrange model freakout but will try to start checking the runs tomorrow )

This is the method I used a few years ago. I like these little videos from a series made for CoCoRaHS observers (they go in order for what you need to know and do) - They have some of the series here - https://www.youtube.com/@cocorahs

It took forever to get out back because of the drifted crust up against the back door. Crust BECAUSE this thing came to an end with either ZR and/or FZDZ. Trying to chunk some snow/sleet/ice off the step was a bear... Earlier, the sleet just pushed aside with my "SnoBrum" like the powdery snow but not this time. Confirmed the ZR/FZDZ after seeing accretion of about 0.1" on the bare car surfaces (snow blew off much of anything that was on the car sides) and metal surfaces like metal rails. Ended up with an additional 1.5" of sleet on top of the earlier 1.75" for 3.25" of sleet. That formed a layer on top of the earlier (compacted with some loss from wind) 4.0" of snow for 7.25". Currently a balmy 21 with dp 19.

See that in central PA moving this way and agree about any travel. This will be a bear to clear.

Still sleeting here and it is piling up. I had to get the shovel to push it away from the door (we have a service that does the lots and walks, etc here but they abandoned ship for now ). Currently 17, which is actually my high for the day so far (after an 11 low), with a dp that has been gradually increasing and now up to 15.

Blowing and drifting. I have over 1 ft drifts and I know that snow blew off the top of accumulation where my board is. When I stepped out on the patio for my 5 pm measurement, I really sunk in and I did do some ruler measurements at other locations on the patio at that time, and was getting anywhere from 7' - 11" at 5 pm (patio is poured concrete but I have a bunch of containers out there too so I really don't have a good flat surface for the board except up on a table. The 4" measurement was done at around 11 am before the switch to sleet that happened just before noon.

The other models weren't showing ip until Sunday and were overdoing the snow thump in the I-95 corridor/city. Paul had posted a NAM sleet map back last Thursday and it was persistent with it. It was just the past day or two when the weather services had to scale back the city numbers. The other models were also discounting the ZR and now you have ZR in south Jersey and moving in to PA.

Did a 5pm measurement and got another 0.75" of sleet and now have a snow/sleet total of 5.75" Still had heavy sleet going at the time but it is like course sand - easy to push and it was easy to clear the board. It keeps drifting up to my back door and now my front door. ZR line looks to be approaching just below the city. Gonna say it again - NAM nailed it.

Have about 80% snow/sleet mix now with temp at 15 and dp 13. Still wondering about that firehose headed this way.

Just measured the board. Currently puking sleet again and measured 1" of it. That would bring my snow/sleet total to 5". Temp now "up to" 16 with dp 14.

That may have been what I have been seeing. It was coming down like white rain and not as pingers but apparently didn't last long enough for accretion (so far) and am back to mostly pingers/snow.

Checked and am back to about 50/50 snow/sleet (can definitely hear the pingers again). Not seeing accretion so if there was rain mixed it, it may have been FRDZ. Currently 15 with dp 13.