Hurricane Agnes

Was just reading about Binghamton. I'll never forget 1996 and the record 2-day 30"+ dump around my birthday. The plows eventually made 5ft - 6ft walls of snow along the sidewalks.

I know there was some concern about whether anyone would have any jackpots that actually got anywhere near the early snow maps, so considering that there was some wrap-around overnight, it will be interesting to see the final numbers and if any did get close.

People were wondering where you went!

Getting very powdery light snow this morning plus some blowing and drifting. It dropped down to 23 earlier this morning but has crept up to 24 with dp 23 and fog.

Some wild dynamics going on. Looks like the warm nose has pushed back to the west, I guess as the low approaches from the S. At one point, the rain line had moved up over 3/4 of the city.... Eventually as the low moves to the NE, the bands should pivot back to the east again. Currently back to all SN, blowing and drifting, and 26 (26.2) with dp 26 (25.7).

Sounds like it's pouring sleet here again. Hearing the loud pings on the windows. A veritable club sandwich of p-types.

And I peeped out at a light and the snow is back. Cracked the door open and could hardly budge it due to the winds. Getting a snow/sleet mix at the moment that is really blowing around. Temp is still 27 w/dp 26.

There's a band of snow back around Harrisburg but am not sure if that will warm as it moves east or what. There is a little battle going on between the "relatively" warm rain line and the "cold" ZR/sleet line that caused some convective cells to briefly fire.

Well I doubled in one storm, what I had all last season.

I'm guessing that is including sleet (it's an ASOS reading) since they would have changed over way before the rest of us in the city.

I think most of the calls for the city was 3" - 6" so it fell within that (assuming the wrap-around is minor. I think the models depicted the rain/snow line pretty well but the devil was in the sleet details (although as we got closer to the event, it was evident that there would be a good amount of sleet). I got about 5.3" of snow in IMBY before the sleetfest. Will have to see if I can core some tomorrow to approximate the sleet amounts before the ZR came (assuming it didn't completely soak through). I was going to practice getting a ratio (bought a Stratus gauge over the summer to try out).

The 8:34 pm PNS lists 5.7 at PHL - https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?new&prod=XXXPNSPHI&wfo=phi ETA - am guessing that is including IP.

I noticed the fog was back (vis. about 1/2 mile) and checked outside and am now getting ZR. Will have a crust of ice over the sleet over the snow - a real snow cone.. Temp is 27/dp 26.

There's a big hole right over Philly.

I popped open RadarScope and it is really show the incoming dry slot.

Since you posted this awhile ago, I don't know if you finally figured it out but I think by default it comes up in "Base Reflectivity" mode and if you click on the block in the upper left corner that says that, it will activate a drop-down menu where you can select other views including "Precipitation Depiction". I just have the basic version on the phone and om windoze 10 without any subs to other data services.

Based on Mt. Holly's climatology report if they get no wrap-around, it would be a couple inches short of the record for the date (other locales probably broke theirs like Allentown definitely and possibly Wilmington, depending on any other reports) -

It'll be like a cement mountain.

Snow and ice sandwich!

Looks like the blob of sleet is up to Lebanon County and ZR is cutting across Wilmington (haven't seen any of our Delaware folks check in yet).

I have a couple humidifiers and an air purifier going and I can hear the pingers over all that. It's literally pouring sleet. It has compacted my snowpack down almost an inch already. Temp creeping down again and down to 27 (27.3) with dp 27 (26.8). Looks like the r/s line is almost right along the Delaware river.

Glad I had checked. The r/s line is still hanging in Jersey. I can really hear the pingers against the window.

5.3" and I noticed the fog disappeared along with the SN+ and has now officially been replaced with.... SLEET. ETA - temp still 28 w/dp 27.

I opened my back door to peep out and almost got knocked out by the dinnerplate flakes. Have officially surpassed my 2019/2020 season totals and am at 4.5" and rising. The temp is still holding at 28 with dp now 28 (28.0/27.5), with vis still < 1/4 mile and SN+ with fog. The pink blob continues to move to the NE.