As far as snow measurements go I guess I  am just compensating for something too small to measure . I was known as the Mighty Millimeter on my high school football team.  I should have listened to my mother and brought home shorter Pom Pom girls.

3 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

This fella near Middletown on Cocorahs says to hang on a dang minute, reporting a big 1.5". 

 

1/9/2023

8:00 AM

PA-DP-14

Middletown 2.9 NW

0.14

1.5 NA NA

1.5 NA NA

PA

Dauphin

Actually seems accurate to me. the only guy that was undoubtedly up and out in it ,although By 8:00 am my 1.4 was down to .4" so that's pretty weird. After going back over my video from this morning and taking a early morning drive through downtown Harrisburg tells me people are using 2 -3 hour late to the party and emotional measuring sticks, not the gozinya kind. Thats ok I guess its the effort that counts.

Just wanted to post this to show how quickly it can compact. Stay safe fellow snow lovers.

Yep sure was good old Pennsyltucky Dong Dunker.  Better than nothing Says Nanny.

A quick 1.4" here. Was down to dust by 3:15AM and hoping for some back side fill in , but the back side is waning atm 3:45am .

still on off light/mod sleet here in New Cumberland for around a half hour with no echo directly over head. Blue is very close.  I expect It will change over as the echos arrive.  

Deeper echos forming Atm from Nyesville to around Cashtown, although Cashtown is all rain atm if the r/s line is being depicted properly.  Looking like a good quick hit incoming for All Harrisburg Area in the next half hour.  Good and quick as a Inch or two that may be gone by sunrise lol . lucky for me A inch or two is all I need to submerge my full on .

At 12:50am we have light sleet falling  here in New Cumberland with no Echos on radar over head.

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/

https://climate.nasa.gov/news/2948/milankovitch-orbital-cycles-and-their-role-in-earths-climate/

3 hours ago, Jns2183 said:

Memories

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Good memories indeed

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-brightest-gamma-ray-burst-ever-recorded-rattled-earths-atmosphere/

In early October 2022 a wave of high-energy radiation swept over Earth from a gamma-ray burst, one of the most singularly catastrophic and violent events the cosmos has to offer. Astronomers quickly determined its distance and found it was the closest such burst ever seen: a mere two billion light-years from Earth. Or, if you prefer, 20 billion trillion kilometers away from us, a decent fraction of the size of the observable universe.

To astronomers, “close” means something different. This one was so close, cosmically speaking, that it was detected by a fleet of observatories both on and above Earth, and it is already yielding a trove of scientific treasure. But even from this immense distance in human terms, it was the brightest such event ever seen in x-rays and gamma rays, bright enough for people to spot its visible-light emission in smaller amateur telescopes, and was even able to physically affect our upper atmosphere. Despite that, this gamma-ray burst poses no danger to us. Either way, I’m glad they keep their distance.

Gamma-ray bursts, or GRBs, are intense blasts of gamma rays—the highest-energy form of light—that typically last from a fraction of a second to a few minutes in length. Gamma-ray bursts have been a puzzle to astronomers since the cold war, when the first one was discovered in the 1960s by orbiting detectors looking for nuclear weapons tested on or above Earth. More than 1,700 have been observed since then. Still, it took decades to pin any of them down well enough in the sky to observe them with more conventional telescopes and to understand better what they were. Even then it was difficult, as each GRB has idiosyncrasies, making them complicated to understand as a group.

A tweet by astrophysicist Rami Mandow pointed out that lightning detectors in India and Germany showed that the way pulses of electromagnetic radiation from lightning propagated changed suddenly at the same time the GRB energy hit our planet. These pulses indicate conditions in Earth’s upper atmosphere changed, with electrons suddenly stripped from their host atoms. Gamma rays ionize atoms in this way, so it seems very likely that this blast physically affected our planet’s atmosphere, though only mildly and briefly. Still, from two billion light-years away, that’s an extraordinary phenomenon.

A GRB this close means that astronomers can analyze the light they see from it in more ways than usual. Typically a burst’s light isn’t bright enough to clearly reveal details about the event that caused it. This specimen could help scientists better understand the central black hole engine that forms during a burst and the extraordinarily complex nature of the physics surrounding it.

It can also tell us about the Milky Way. The Swift observatory saw expanding rings of x-ray light centered on the GRB’s location, caused by dust clouds in the Milky Way located roughly 600 to 12,000 light-years from Earth. These “light echoes” happen when light hits dust clouds just off our line of sight to the GRB—so we see them to the side, next to the bright point in the sky. Because of the short amount of extra time it takes light from the blast to reach those dust clouds and be scattered toward us, we see rings of light moving outward from the center, their expansion rate related to their distance from us. Measuring these rings allowed astronomers to determine the distances to the clouds.

Although great strides have been made, especially since the 1990s when the first bursts were seen by optical telescopes and their distances were determined to be literally cosmic, there is much about them we have yet to understand. GRB 221009A is still being observed by telescopes around the world, and it may prove to be a Rosetta stone for these wildly diverse, bizarre and powerful events.”

Nanny always taught me a wager against Nina is a torched wager.  Its kinda funny hearing words like fantasy land and weenie on this forum coming from a bunch of weenies also living in  a fantasy land of there own.

The first “triple-dip” La Niña (three consecutive years) of the 21st century will continue to affect temperature and precipitation patterns and exacerbate drought and flooding in different parts of the world, according to the World Meteorological Organization

On 12/22/2022 at 6:42 AM, Yardstickgozinya said:

If you lay in cold bathwater and take a piss it will eventually warm your feet even if you don't move, mixing to equalize

I apologize @Ruin , Some nights I tend to over indulge in Grams old fashioned Nug top Cake . I'm sure there are more ways this could happen than I am aware of. All I am saying is there can be  air aloft of a different temperature that can get mixed in , or warmer/cooler air nearby that can work its way in/out , expanding ,shrinking or simply just moving in slowly. These guys here are incredibly cold shouldered  to nubes around here that don't kiss the back side , and my humor can certainly be offensively confusing when it's even humor lol . There are plenty of guys here that could have given you a great answer quickly, but because you question the computer and media gods that can't get a single synoptic detail correct a majority of the time inside 48 for a huge chunk of the US unless the pattern is locked , so you have very few friends around here  . I suggest you look up mesoscale  analysis on YouTube,  and you will find your answers there in time. 

2°F here in Fairview township.

  Tested out my new Tobe v3 and Tobe  base layers in the snow Thursday, and cold early this morning. This morning was 7.3 miles hiked and 3.3 hours out in the dark ,cold, shitty wind. Awesome Mono suit, great  morning hike to the summit, though snowless. 

 All 3" of snow here gone. Slight breeze just scoured out the fog in a hurry in Fairview Towinship  . Fronts influence is being felt here.

    As some one else mentioned a week or so ago, I found the  night and day late mass goose migration that occurred a week ago very interesting.

    Just stating things on my mind, I don't like your social media mob mentality here or anywhere for that matter, I don't need feed back form a bunch of people I don't like so none is necessary.

Around 3-3.5" in New Cumberland

59 minutes ago, Ruin said:

I do have a question tho last night got down to 26 when I was on my second break from work 1030pm then my last break at 1230am warmed up to 31 no cloud cover no winds? at surface lvl how can that happen?

If you lay in cold bathwater and take a piss it will eventually warm your feet even if you don't move, mixing to equalize

3 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

How's Nanny?

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Loose as a Christmas fkn goose and ready for your steamy hot stuffing

1 hour ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Winter Weather Advisory

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service State College PA
318 AM EST Thu Dec 22 2022

PAZ063-064-221800-
/O.EXB.KCTP.WW.Y.0027.221222T1000Z-221222T1800Z/
Cumberland-Adams-
Including the cities of Carlisle and Gettysburg
318 AM EST Thu Dec 22 2022

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 1 PM EST THIS
AFTERNOON...

* WHAT...Wet snow expected. Total snow accumulations of up to
  two inches.

* WHERE...Cumberland and Adams Counties.

* WHEN...Until 1 PM EST this afternoon.

* IMPACTS...Plan on slippery road conditions and some travel
  disruptions.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Snow will change to rain from late morning
  into the early afternoon. The snow to rain transition will
  occur first in the valleys and then at higher elevations.

 

You that man Blizz  !!! Old Willy always had faith in you and your super duper magic maps . I'm a heading out to get me some of them Moose Biscuits and white mood gravy bearing down on us.