Hurricane Agnes

Have radar returns showing up overhead but nothing but virga here as well. DP is 12 so doesn't seem like enough to wring anything out. Temp is 27.

Should have used chains instead! They would have made a cool sound on the sidewalk. Boy do I remember the "snow tire" ritual every year (we had a station wagon back then so the tires were huge - we kept them in a basement closet off-season).

Finished up with 1.56" rain. Currently 38 degrees after a high of 59 right around noon.

Cold front has come through right behind the band of showers. Temp here is now down to 55 and falling. Currently up to 1.37" with moderate rain.

Thar she blows. Am under the line and getting a gully washer. Am getting > 1"/hr rates. Total for the day up to 1.28" at post time.

Up to 59 and 1.04" of rain so far. Line is incoming but I expect it will just be heavier rates (assuming it holds together as it approaches the city). I think that is the warm front.

Currently 57 and breezy with light - moderate rain since about 3 am depositing 0.61" at post time. My sis texted about 30 minutes ago that their huge trampoline tipped over. We have had way worse winds since they got that thing (they've had it for a couple years) and it has never toppled. Am guess that the ground may still be frozen where it was sitting and the variable SE/SW wind gusts hit it at the right angle.

Sandy soil! I expect the Pine Barrens are even colder.

The 8 ended up being my lowest for today. The -7 lowest dp (so far) has been a killer to the humidity indoors (even with humidifiers going). Currently 9, mostly sunny, and breezy as heck.

Currently partly cloudy and temp is 8 with the full moon still out. I did get to see the "super blood wolf moon" (full eclipse) overnight when the temp was a balmy 15 here. It was a bit more cloudy at that time but there were more than enough breaks in the clouds to see it.

There be flakes flying here. Have been watching a rogue band come across and it held together enough to pop a snow shower. Temp is currently 36 and continuing to fall.

The latest batch of rain gave me 0.07" more for a total of 0.67" rain for the day (1.33" for the event). Temp hit a high here of 44 around 10 am and it's on it's way down. Sun popped out briefly after the rain was done but am back to overcast. Currently 42 and poised for the arctic front to come soon.

Dense fog has moved in here. Current temp is 42.

From here - https://www.weather.gov/gsp/snow Rain for this morning was up to 0.60" (total 1.26" for the 2-day event). Currently overcast and 42. Looks like a pause before a potential final batch comes with the front.

Ended up with 0.66" rain yesterday and am up to 0.57" at post time this morning (total 1.23" for the 2 days so far). Temp is 39 with light rain. As I was looking at the radar yesterday, I was noting where the rain/snow line was before it got to me in NW Philly and at one point (see pic from ~8:30ish pm), it looked like there may have been heavier returns over the Pottstown area, so it's possible by the time you got past there, it was mostly gone -

Had some rimmed flakes for a few minutes, then white rain, and now have all rain. Temp is 33. Ended up with about 0.25" coating of snow before the switchover.

Snow rate has picked up and now @ SN with some fog. Has coated the colder surfaces and slowly accumulating on the asphalt (but nothing on treated surfaces yet). Temp is down to 34 w/dp at 31. Radar showing green over me but it hasn't changed over to rain yet.

Getting some snizzle.... enough to wet the ground. Can barely see any flakes mixing in. Temp is 35 & dp 29.

Governor Wolf just declared a state of emergency here in PA. A number of restrictions have been imposed for the weekend - https://6abc.com/weather/gov-tom-wolf-declares-state-of-emergency-for-pa/5095938/

Pile looks good! Then it'll be saturated with rain but if it is large enough, it'll become a solid glacial mound when the flash freeze time comes.

Currently SN- with about 1" out there. Temp is 29.

Currently overcast but I can see the moon peeping through. Radar is showing some light stuff overhead but apparently virga. Temp has been fluctuating a bit and is currently 31, dp 17. Had been watching the radar earlier today and saw returns getting sheared away around Lancaster as the storm crept east.

Ugh I remember the 1994 ice storms. During the infamous early January ones, when the tri-state area was completely out of salt (both road salt and consumer ice melt). I had to go on a work-related trip to Baltimore on Amtrak. So decided to drive in and leave the car at 30th Street station and on my way downtown, was considering going up on the expressway (I-76) figuring it would be cleared since it's considered a "primary". But as I approached the ramp to City Line which would go to 76, KYW traffic was announcing that they were closing it, so I kept right on past and went to the station via the Kelly Drive. Ended up that people were trapped on the Schuylkill expressway for like 8 hours. Luckily I got down to Baltimore and back just fine a few days later and was able to buy a couple bags of Halite rock salt down there to bring back in my suitcase! Our house ended up being the only one on the block with a sidewalk that was clear and dry!

I think I found that thread here - Growing up, my dad liked to use slide film to take pics so I have a box of slides somewhere (a few that we had converted to print) that are in color with me and one of my sisters (the youngest wasn't born yet) after the 1966 12" storm here in Philly, complete with shovels, snowsuits and Yogi Bear boots standing in front of our garage door (I was 4). Other than that, the snow was really stingy although I recall maybe one or two times where there was enough in the backyard to attempt to make a snow fort - and it may have been during the February 1973 time period. Of course the 1978 storm was epic in terms of ending the snow drought, with snow the consistency of which was perfect to make a good-sized snowman on our front lawn, but by then I was in high school.

Wow. The 2019 winter season has officially commenced! As an obs, it's currently mostly cloudy and breezy here and 30 degrees. The dews have dropped and am down in the 14/15 range.