Hurricane Agnes

Dynamic cooling continuing. Down to 34 with SN now (clumped flakes) but laying down a chilled coating on the colder surfaces (mostly the cars for the moment) to form a base. Still melting on treated surfaces including streets/walks.

Dynamic cooling starting. Temp has dropped to 35 and wet flakes are flying now.

Temp had gone up to 37 but bopping between 36/37 and currently light drizzle.

Well didn't quite expect the temps to stay up this "high" overnight but it's currently 36 here and overcast. Precip seems to be closing in. Mt. Holly downgraded to 3" - 6" due to the track shift. Current snow map this morning -

Looks like it's done, sky is clearing, and sun is trying to come out. Temp is up to 39.

Now raining. Had 0.2" of pancake flake coating on the cold surfaces just as the rain was starting. Temp 34.

Was surprised the temps rose overnight and shot up to 37 just after 6 am and now it's SN with wet flakes (and they're sticking on cold surfaces) and temp is back down to 34.

I think a number or reports also come from members of CoCoRaHS - https://www.cocorahs.org/ They have a series of "how-to" videos for measuring various types of precipitation including snow, that follows the standard protocols - I expect that the more serious dedicated ones will then go on and attend the NWS Spotter training course (when available).

You are one of the few who try to "keep it real" here.

Wow. Not just the one "classic" pile but a second?? The snow seems to have stopped here for the moment but it looks like something out west in Lancaster has spontaneously developed. Not sure if that will survive the trip east but we shall see. Temp is currently up to 35 with melting going on.

Now getting SN. lol Temp down to 32.

Temp is starting to rise at a good clip and now bopping between 33 and 34 here but still flakes are flying!

Finally checked my board and I actually got another 1/4" overnight and this morning with the mini-bands that have been swinging through. Sun is trying to show through the clouds but it is still flurrying and 31.

There's this firehose of flow just rolling around the complex and throwing stuff in from the NW.

The light bands kept swinging through all night. I'm not sure yet how much they added to the accumulation but this thing is still rolling! Currently 31 and mostly cloudy but it looks like something might be incoming if it holds together! ETA - just looked out and the flakes are flying!

Since you mentioned that, here is the latest PNS (as of 6:47 pm) -

Holy crap! I just looked out and yes, some more pieces of the bands have wrapped back around over here too and people who had cleared off their cars have them completely sugar-coated again. And it's currently snow here - SN- but definitely there and pretty steady. Looks like a heavier snow blob developed over here between 6:30pm - 7:30pm. The storm that keeps on giving. There's a broad circulation wrapping bands around PA that is pretty fascinating and the coastal continues to meander due east. Currently light snow and 30.

You are about 4 or 5 miles from me as a note (I bought my current car at a dealer on the Fairway) and since you recently moved here, then you missed 1996 (which was a multi-day event but one that bulls-eyed this area like this storm did further north of here). After I had cleared off a chunk of my board, despite the somewhat marginal temps, I did get about 1/10" of a dusting that survived and the on and off flakes have pretty much ended (outside of possible flurries that might pop up here and there), so will call the event 10.1". Temp still sitting at 34 with dp 30, and mostly cloudy.

Snow picked up again and went from mood flakes back to varying between SN- and SN. Temp is up to 34 so some melting going, plus the sun is trying to break through the clouds but not quite there yet. There have been undulating breaks in radar-indicated precip but stuff still continues to generally fly from the sky. The little band over the area has shifted from a N --> S orientation to a NNW --> SSE flow as it slowly pivots.

Did see the sun attempt to show a few times the past hour but it has also been quickly clouding over, so it never full came out and was behind hazy clouds. Finally got out to measure on the board (and a few other flat spots) and got 10" (compacted underneath) almost on the nose. I carved out a portion of snow from the board to look at layers and found a 1/2" layer of sleet pellets with a semi-solid thin layer above that of what I expect is compacted snow from the FZRA that was part of the "mix" (at one point, all FZRA) before the snow came back in earnest and smooshed it. So on top of the initial 4.5" on Sunday, I literally picked up at least 5.5" from about 2 pm yesterday (Monday) afternoon when the snow started up again after a 14 hour sleet fest, where the snow continued through Monday night (which was probably the heaviest) and into early this morning. I forget to take the funnel and inner tube out of the Stratus so I can do a water content from it and don't feel like trying to traipse through the snow to get to it to do a "core" sample for water content, but I know the last "significant" (if you can call it that) snow we had back in December, I had calculated an approx. 6:1 ratio IIRC, and am noticing this is a bit "wetter" than even that snow. Currently have some on and off mood flakes and 33.

You are welcome They think the low might get cut off and then start drifting further out to sea and then eventually get absorbed into another low on its way towards New England and the maritimes. So there may be on and off bandlettes (my term) of precip today) Temp here ticked up another degree and am at 33.

Still SN-. Temp has actually hit 32 here so there is a small amount of melting going on. Low is out there off the coast spinning! Looks like the diffuse band has pivoted from a NE --> SW orientation to a N --> S orientation.

Almost every plant in your yard is also a potential "deer feeder".

Need an electric fence around that (but then it would become its own "snow fence" at that point)!

Still going here with with upped intensity to fine-flaked SN. Temp is down to 29 with fog. Still sitting under an undulating "flow" of various snow intensities. My back faces NE and the snow drifted up against the door (there is 1 step before getting to the ground level) so pushing the storm door was required to push aside about 4" that drifted on top of the 8" from the doorway to the ground. Mt. Holly mentioned "nickled and dimed" 1" - 2" additional accumulation today in their AFD and I believe that if this continues.