Hurricane Agnes

Did bring the Stratus in to get a water equivalent from what was collected in it (sometimes I'll do a core sample but there wasn't much wind out there overnight). Planned to add warm water to melt it faster once I brought it in but it had almost melted after about 15 minutes inside (but I still added some to get the rest of it finished off) and came up with a 18:1 ratio which makes sense considering how dry it was doing the depth measurement and how fast it had disintegrated in the outer cylinder even before adding anything. Currently overcast again and up to 29 with dp 21.

First round of PNSes were posted -

Sun now clearly breaking through what is left of the cloud deck and the snow is done. Temp is 27 with dp now down to 25. Seems south central PA (York/Lancaster counties) and areas south and west of there really cashed in with their own blob of snow-producing moisture.

(sorry had to - old local Philly jazz group who made it big and is still big and did that song - a nod to the Moses Malone prediction of the '83 Sixers Championship playoffs sweep with a 4-4-4 that actually ended up being 4-5-4 ) Philadelphia's number (and yes the city had one) was never really mentioned but was still "officially" designated as "100" but they would just blanket say "All Philadelphia Public and Parochial Schools are closed" (lumping the Catholic schools in because they usually mirrored each other with the snow closures). Now that phrase has changed with the latter part using "Archdiocesan schools".

Odd set of accumulations and it's tricky to find the gradient although some of the areas that got under a band can be deduced.

Just measured a few places on my board and got 4.5". I have my Stratus out there (without the inner calibrated tube and top) so if I feel up to it, I may try to get a water equivalent of the snow - it seems pretty light and powdery). Currently clearing with some SN-- (can see some scattered cirrostratus through a lower deck of clouds that are breaking up in the east) and 27 with dp 26.

Down to SN- now and am ball-parking almost 4" (the last burst certainly helped) but will need to wait a bit until it's light out to measure it on the board. Currently still 28 w/27 dp.

I have a little nephew in 2nd grade who is off for a snow day too (they were doing virtual part of last school year so am guessing it would have been do-able). Hell here in Philly, we had to have a forecast of at least 6" to get a snow day.

Looks like I got under a more intense band right at 5 am. Still 28 with dp 27 and SN.

Ditto - just got under a heavier band and am at least SN and rising.

Exactly! There were days when they would take almost the whole 30 minutes on KYW reading off school numbers, county by county, in 3 states (including those who were closed or had delayed openings). Now it seems the suburban schools do robocalls/texts/email blasts and some of the local stations will have a list on their websites. Philly public and Archdiocesan schools do get the KYW closure mention that takes like 5 seconds. Currently 28 w/dp 27, somewhere between SN- and SN with some fog.

Mt. Holly giving a nod to the "earlier risers" (IOW the too excited to go to bedders ) - That far western part of the CWA and their cash-in didn't seemed to be progged but I did see where they got a WSW upgrade.

Woke up around 2 am to look out and saw SN+. Looks to be almost 2" now and SN, with temp 28 with dp 27.

La Nina winter, although we didn't do too badly last year with one (but this year's is a bit stronger). Once the pattern flips, we'll be like Denver (typically) with "spring snow".

I think as long as you have an Eagles avatar (Nick Foles I think), you know where you must go!

I defaulted to that being on and those are mPINGS - https://mping.nssl.noaa.gov/ Am guessing that Radarscope just grabs that data to include in their radar datasets.

Ahhh.... I figured there were some folks from out that way around lurking. This must be you -->

Mt. Holly is throwing some nods to the snowmisers -

I do have radarscope which is great on mobile but have also been using GR2Analyst to get the finer rez dopplers (in addition to the GRLevel3). I see a blob of something that has to be reaching the ground coming out of Lancaster and moving into Chesco.

Actually made it up to 39 today after a low of 33. It was variable with periods of overcast and sun during the daylight in any case. Am down to 34 but that dp depression is pretty significant from earlier today and is down to 18.

Okay. It looks to be thumping down in central/southwestern WV and eastern KY.

Maybe because there are some returns streaming up this way from the SW. I don't know if any of it is reaching the ground but Mike would be the best judge of that since a blob is sitting over that area. is it virga or the real thing yet?

WSW for Jersey - And WWA for PA & DE -

They all seem to be reflecting some variation of the hole which seems to suggest some kind of Miller B (or hybrid Miller B ) and we all know how that goes - 2 rounds where everything "stops" after round 1 and then it jumps to the coast and transfers to a new low and ramps up for round 2. And where it reforms will establish the screw zone before the wrap-around bands finally come into play as it pulls away.

CMC seems to show the same initial "snow hole" before speeding the thing along to give what appears to be some back end thumping as the storm bombs out on its way to NE.