Hurricane Agnes

I have missed out on the little bandlettes and cells and what little I got has mostly blown away - with hardly anything on the SW-facing front at all. The sun has been in and out all through the [banned word] "Event" [/banned word]. Currently overcast with breaks in the cloud deck, down to 24, after a high of 27 and low of 16, with dp 16.

Have a powdered sugar dusting and actually decided to try a measurement on the board and the stuff is like micro-graupel but only have 0.1" so far. The sun has been in and out with the flurries flying. Temp is 25 with dp 18.

Getting a little flizzard. Should have no trouble sticking with current temp 25/dp 18 but the flakes are fine and blowing around so...

As a note, I have never seen any red-winged blackbirds here in Philly but when I took a trip up to Niagara Falls during the summer about 10 years ago (Canadian side), there were a billion of them there. I was like OOOOOHHHHH... THAT is what they look like in person! Have been battling the dry air much of today. Got down to a low of 15 this morning and a dp of 1. Am currently at 27 after reaching a high for the day if 28. The dp has at least made it into the double digits at 11. Humidifiers have been having a rough time (have central air here). Will have to see if anything south of here manages to break through that dry air to deposit anything up here. My snowdrops are coming up so...

Lots of 50 - 60 mph gusts reported. And cold front has raced through with my temp down to 46 and dp to 42.

Gust front has been coming through. Round 1 today was 0.79" and it's currently at 0.83" (with 0.04" from round 2). Had 0.42" yesterday for a 2-day total (at post time) of 1.25". Low this morning was 34 at midnight and my high was 55 in the past half hour before the front started coming through. Currently light rain and 52 with temp dropping and dp 50.

All rain here now. Made it to 0.5" before the switchover. Temp is down to 33 with dp 33, so am close to borderline for ZR before any warm surge.

It took some time but the grassy areas and colder, untreated surfaces finally caved over the past hour. Currently have SN and temp 34, with a 0.25" coating so far, and with dp of 32.

Started off with virga and dews in the teens and then the moisture commenced and have flakes. Temp just dropped from 36 to 35 with dp 27 and SN-.

My Upper Darby sis had texted just before 7 pm to say she was getting sleet. I checked where I am here in NW Philly and only had mist and drizzle and dripping (even with radar returns over me). It did make it up to 34 here today after a 28 low and it's currently misty and 33 with dp 32.

Did a 4:00 am measure and have 2.75" of relatively fluffy stuff. Looks to be good snowball-making snow. I know that round 2 will probably be incoming to add a crust before it all eventually gets rained away. Currently an overcast 28, with some low stratus and dp 28. ETA - this brings my totals just over a foot of frozen for the season!

Did an 8:30 pm measurement and am up to 0.75" of snow so far. It has generally been fine stuff and SN- although it has picked up with some bigger flakes now and there looks to be a "heavier" stripe across my area (and just north). Currently SN- and some fog, with temp 30 and dp 28.

Finally started getting some very light flakes here about 45 minutes ago. The dews had been in the teens the past day or so and finally started creeping up within the past hour to break the virga. Currently 32 with dp 24.

His famous words the last time - "An underdog is a hungry dog". I kept yelling that through the whole game!

I think it was progged to start getting windy later today too so if you still have frozen branches (and the temps have been really slow to rise), I can imagine lots of snapped branches.

Seems everything on the 6z GFS is either southern-sliding, apps-running or lakes-cutting. Temp here continues to rise and am currently at 33 with dp 32. Dripping has been really slow however.

I was looking at your chart and was wondering why that last entry of Easton Rd & W. Moreland Ave. (which is an intersection for the Willow Grove Mall, the mall actually being in Willow Grove) is listed by Horsham vs Abington (where Willow Grove is in Abington Twp vs Horsham Twp, the latter being down the road a piece). Checked the accretion early this morning from some branches and had 0.2". This would be on top of the earlier 0.25" of sleet. Temp is slowly rising and am now overcast and at 32 now, with dp 31. The earlier freezing fog/mist has been lifting. The low of 29 today so far, was at midnight.

Temp here is down to 29 (dp 26) and have finally been getting a mix - mostly rain but finally got sleet alternating in enough to deposit a 0.25" coating at post time. Accretion is building with the rain in any event. Bucket at 0.05" at post time.

Started at 32 and rain and now am at 30 and light rain = ZR. Didn't get any ip or snow preceding or during. The dp did shoot up from 18 to 25.

I have noticed the LR models DO tend to "sniff out" something (whether it pans out "positive" or not), but then it all gets muddled and garbled in the midrange. Looks like the 18z GFS has the Wed. storm do a slide to the south and the Friday one is a thump to rain. As an obs, it's currently overcast and 33 with dp 14.

BG confirmed to play! https://apnews.com/article/super-bowl-2025-eagles-graham-fb61a5abd427e84b0c79c45b67e752d3 Hope he will help make a difference as a SB winner vet.

Am looking out the window right now to the east and see your namesake in all its glory! Made it up to 44 yesterday and am currently at my low of 26 for today with dp 12. Some stuff outta the 6z GFS at the end of the run.

Then the Vermeil years would be but a twinkle!

Or better - the last lyric - Know when to RUN!!!!