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Some sleet mixing in with the rain in Swarthmore. Still mostly rain, though.

A- Swarthmore PA

Did they get it right for more people, or for more acres? And which one is more important?

Just brushed off my car -- not a completely futile effort, since it means there'll be somewhat less snow on it in the morning. It was about six inches deep, though probably an inch or two more fell on it, what with compaction. Not bad given that the snow only started sticking around five hours earlier!

Like fiipping a switch in the last ten minutes, from all fairly light rain to mostly medium-heavy snow. Still melting on contact, even on grass.

The Byrne Plaza webcam (in Wildwood NJ) is a pretty fun watch at the moment: https://wildwoodsnj.com/view-webcam/

What the grep was that?

Mt Holly's latest maps, released at 12:15am. The range from 10% to 90% is unreal.

There's a 10%, 90%, and best guess, along with many maps for % chance of getting more than a certain number of inches of snow, all at https://www.weather.gov/phi/winter

I am somewhat stunned to discover that, if the temperature goes up high enough, snow will actually turn into a liquid.

I give that analogy at least a nine, possibly a ten. Username checks out.

How hard were "the pros" hit by DOGE cuts last year?

That was as of 0700 AM. There was still another hour or two to go at that point, so maybe the final amount will be more like 3?

I just did the most I possibly could to ensure we get at least one more major snowstorm this season: I put my snow boots back into storage.

https://meteor.geol.iastate.edu/~ckarsten/cobb/cobb_help.pdf And here's a comparison of several methods. I found the colored charts about halfway through pretty eye-opening: https://repository.library.noaa.gov/view/noaa/55878/noaa_55878_DS1.pdf