Hurricane Agnes

Yeah literally within a minute after posting that, the "skies opened up" (like a thunderstorm squall). The powdery stuff is blowing around the streets and walks and already have a dusting on the colder surfaces. Temp is down to 24 and dp up to 12.

And just like that, the faucet has opened! From 0 to SN. Temp 25/dp 9.

Am under the lavenders but still not seeing any flakes here in NW Philly yet. Temp still at 25 with dp now up to 10.

Leading edge blues are over top of me right now. Temp is at 25 and dp is up to 9. Not seeing anything yet.

I would think based on the past that obs could be posted in event threads like this along with the model analysis (to distinguish from the general "non-event" obs thread). EDIT - see that Ralph started a separate obs thread.

Literally like a squall line. Starting to see some dark skies to my west. The line is getting close to being on my doorstep. Temp has been steadily rising and is up to 25.

The sun was looking like it was trying to bust out to the east here but I know that is an illusion. Temp is up to 24 so... Dp is still single digits at 8. That line has been moving relatively quickly and part of it should be over Paul by now so am wondering if anything is falling there.

Here is a zoomed out view of it. It still feels to me that it may dry up some on the front, but we'll see. It has held together so far...

Damn - AND the rolling blackouts. Forgot about that.

Currently 23 here and overcast with dp of 8. This incoming band looks interesting. Will have to see if it erodes as it moves east due to this dry air.

It looks almost like it's trying to predict a low running up east central PA with a warm front that gets "hung up" near SE PA/N. DE. I don't recall seeing hung-up fronts that far east - usually they do that further south and west over the apps and eventually "snap up" and move northeast relatively quickly.

"Glacier" is the perfect word for it Not since the winters of '76 & '77 with their frigid temps (and their glaciers), did we have so much ice here. I remember back in '77 where I lived (lots of hills like where I am now) where the buses could not get up the hills due to the ice (with water on top), so they made people (like me) get off the bus and walk up to the top of the hill and get back on again. Those were the years when long johns became really popular again down here. It was a big change from the early '70s with the snow drought (not unlike we are seeing now). And like '76/'77 eventually heralded the blizzard of '78, so too did '94 eventually herald what happened in '96.

That song was a riot and done by a local Philly singer too. Philly area has become the "new Colorado" with "spring snow". My "high" yesterday was at midnight and was 33... and after that it dropped and never rose above 30 the rest of the day, with the "low" of 21 happening at midnight on the other end of the day. It bottomed out this morning (so far) at 21 (closer to 20 @ 20.5, than to 21), but has nudged up a bit to 22 and overcast. The dp of 7 at the moment, is truly arctic.

Not here in Philly. That period was the nightmare of the "ice storms". I think I literally counted around 17 individual events IMBY that I was white-knuckle commuting through to/from work, starting some time in December (and there had been a "rain every couple days" thing going on antecedent to that so it seemed inevitable). It was to the point where the tristate area had run out of salt and there were caravans of trucks that eventually came down from NY state to help with the shortage/unavailability of both road salt and consumer ice melt products. People were left with throwing sand, kitty litter, and table salt out on their walks. I remember the worst one that first week of January (the 7th I believe), when I had to go on a work-related trip down to Baltimore (by Amtrak) where I had planned to drive to 30th St. station early morning and park there to get on the train. And on my way down, I intended to go on I-76 (that I generally avoid) figuring it would have been better treated as a "primary (interstate) route", than my normal downtown route (the river drives). But literally, just as I approached the entrance ramp to I-76, the traffic report indicated that PennDot was about to close 76 because of the ice build-up, with cars/trucks getting stuck on the ramps, unable to go up or down them. So I was able to bypass that and continue on downtown along one of the river drives, and ease on into the station parking lots. Meanwhile I-76 was eventually completely closed with hundreds of cars and people trapped there for over 8 hours. While in Baltimore, I managed to find and bring home 3, 5lb bags of Halite in my suitcase that I handed off to my mom for her sidewalks. She ended up having the only portion of sidewalk on her block that was "clear and dry" to the cement. What was interesting too about the '94 ice storms was that many of the residents of the western suburbs learned the hard way that Rte 202 was considered a "secondary" route, meaning "delays" in road treatment while the "primaries" (interstates) were worked on as a priority... and the outrage was fierce. Forget if you live in the city proper, where the "main thoroughfare" streets were considered "tertiary", so good luck... So here in Philly in '94, it wasn't the snow depths that upstate/Lehigh Valley may have had, it was the nightmare of the ice. It was enough to uproot and pull down an old cedar tree between my mother's house and her neighbor's house, and when it went down, it extended some 50ft across the front yard abutting the house, and halfway into the street, just missing the neighbor's car. And as a historic note not mentioned for Philly - that 1994 winter was the last time that Philly recorded a below 0 temperature (recorded as a -5F at KPHL January 9, 1994). It's gotten close a few times with 1s and 2s and 3s but so far all above 0.

Looks like I may have maxed at 65 just as the rain was coming in (got 0.06" from that broken line and already had 0.07" earlier overnight between 2 - 3:30 am for a total of 0.13" so far today). Currently 63 and overcast.

64 here at post time with dp in the upper 50s. A convective line is on my doorstep.

Just smashed a stink bug. Currently 66 and overcast here. Have been able to open the windows and back door to air out the house.

Had a "low" of 48 this morning and it's currently 65 here and getting mostly cloudy. Dps are in the (somewhat) juicy low 50s.

Bottomed out at 22 here this morning - even with the puffs of wind that kept up overnight... so that was some serious arctic air (the low dp of 8 seems to confirm that). Currently 24 and clear.

And another squall coming through. This time with big flakes! Sun out with it too. Temp had gone back up to 36 after the last round.

Sun is back out and tht thing was moving fast. It did drop the temps down to 34 though. Nothing really stuck (mostly bounced off, blew around, and melted although there is about 0.1" on the coldest spots) but pretty cool.

Here we go! Getting that EAS squall warning! The graupel is kinda cool though. Temp is still 38.

Getting a flizzard of snow and graupel and the stuff is bouncing and blowing around on the street with the wind.

Looks like a blob of one is headed my way. Will see what happens when it hits these hills. Sun is obscured again. Only thing is the temp is @38 so not sure how it will manifest. ETA - am getting flakes this time!

South and west cashed in on it down in MD.