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Light rain at the moment. Up to 33.4F

3 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Oh wow...why? Accident?

Yea, sleet mixing in now.

4 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Yep! Dumping here at the bottom of the hill. Right now the hill itself is wet on this side at least. 

If you are heading home anytime soon they are closing 743 at least south of Maytown.

And back to heavy again 31.1F

2 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Between 1/2 - 1" in Columbia...definitely shy of 1" though. Snow is light to moderate but doesn't seem to be accumulating much. Roads are improving quickly. 

Yep went from heavy to mod snow here. 441 over Chickies always is bad at the onset of heavy snow burst like we had.

Light snow started 33.3F

And just like that my 3/4 of an inch of paste is melted.

Going to mod-heavy snow now

45 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Snow is flying through the air here in Lancaster. Yes, you heard that correctly. 

Yep, Mod snow here with a good paste coating. May ink out an inch or two. 31.8F

1 minute ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Down to 11.5 - exactly 43 degrees down from the daily high at 2:37am.

You have me beat several miles away. I have 11.7

It's been 33 up from 32 for the last hour. The ice is melting fairly fast. 

32 and laying on roads.no wind at all though.

40 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

At 2:50pm I am happy to report that the white drizzle has become heavy enough to cross over into light snow.  The temp has risen back up to 34.0, so no accumulations yet.  Rest assured, I'll be back later to update everyone when my board officially records 0.1".

I call it Snizzle. 

3 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Trying to read and interpret this - what forecasters have been way off? The only one that I've posted discussion from has clearly said since last weekend that this was NOT going to be storm for us. The chances of getting snow from the coastal were always low...for reasons that many on here talked about. Also, given how many moving pieces there are flying around, models aren't going to lock into a set outcome days and days in advance. I won't speak for anyone but me, but at no point did I "expect" to get anything from the coastal storm. 

I haven't heard or read any met (worth their salt) predict a significant snowstorm in our area. Not saying it hasn't happened, but the ones I follow have been downplaying this from day #1 and haven't wavered one bit. 

Agree

4 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Looks like sleet is pretty imminent - sitting at 3.3" here. Doubt I'll reach 4"  but it's more than 2"  

Yea haven't been out but it looks like a mix of light snow and sleet. At 25 degrees now from 21. 

Finally started here. 

22 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

From your place north there's notably more snow cover than south...along the river between Columbia and Conestoga it's obliterated. Still a fair amount of snow up this way in protected places. 

Yea the field in front of me and as far a can see south to up to Klinesville Rd still snow. The southern exposure always melts my yard faster in full sun. 

The hill behind me and most of my yard that has southern exposure is bare. Was 53 now 51. 

2 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

My wife measured well, thanks for the confirmation! I could SEE the difference between Columbia (less snow) and home. (more snow) Sort of surprised you didn't have bit more on top of the hill though. 

It may have been more.  I measured when I realized it was sleeting so it may have compacted some. 

Had 4.3" before the brief change over to Sleet. Really compacting now. 

Ever since I have been here some go nuts 4 days out or more. It is more like the day before models get it down. Thought by now that would have got better but that is weather. 

13 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Ice storm warning for me now. My entire run from Hazleton to Allentown. It's going to be an interesting night hauling water unless the customer cuts loads, or I call it off myself if it gets bad... 

Just curious but if you are loaded and then canceled say power out at destination on last load  do you have to dump the water.  I assume you would if below freezing or a certain temp. 

Had a high of 36 for a while now,  down to 33. Hope the ZR is limited until the warm up. At least the temps today warmed some objects up a little and it is foggy here also. 

1 hour ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Howdy gents (and ladies if there are any out there), I'm a long time lurker of various weather forums but decided to finally take the plunge and join.  Been keeping fairly detailed weather data going on ten years now for my location here just south of Mount Joy in Lancaster County.  I live at the base of Chickies Ridge (Chiques if ya like), on the north side, at a low elevation of only ~360 ft.  I'm prone to some pretty decent inversions on calm clear winter nights where I'll often be 5-10 degrees colder than up on the ridge.  Of course, the opposite is true in all other scenarios, which is the vast majority of the time ha.  Anyway, now that I told you a bit about myself, let's get to tracking.  Too many impulses coming through in the next week to not cash the goods on something.  Seemed like the perfect time to join, cheers! 

Your really close to me. I am at the top of Chickies hill  back a lane off Klinesville Rd. 

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Sun has been in and out here for at least 3 hours. Snowpack is down to nearly 9" already.  

That is odd I have not seen a peak of sun yet.