CarlislePaWx

I missed out on any "excitement" with the storms yesterday.  There was almost no wind which was strange.  It did rain heavily for a short period of time, but nothing out of the ordinary despite being under a warning twice.  I received 0.48" through midnight and then another 0.02" overnight for a storm total of 0.50".  After a little bit of sun an hour ago it has become overcast again.  Winds are stronger now than during the storms, averaging around 10 mph.  Temp dropped to 44.4 earlier and has been rather steady ever since with a current reading of 45.3.

Temp down to 64.8.  Dew Point 56 as the air becomes drier.  Dark skies now overhead but the winds have dropped off to the lowest they've been all day.  Under 10mph.  I'm under a warning until 6:30.  We'll see what happens.

Yet another day with sub 1000 millibar pressures.  Currently down to 996 (29.41") and still falling.

Skies darkening significantly to my northwest as the line of nearly severe thunderstorms approaches.  Temp here 71.4.  Dew point 60.  Winds occasionally gusting easily to and above 30mph.  No warning yet here as of 5:26.  Just under a special weather statement.

After peaking at 76.1 about an hour ago, the clouds have rolled in and the very gusty winds have pushed the temp back down to 71.8.  Dew point is 62 which actually feels a bit humid.  Can't believe SPC bumped us from slight straight up to enhanced.  We don't get enhanced around these parts very often.  

Just now, paweather said:

I have basically the same forecast as Harrisburg what the heck and no WWA. Calling State College right now. 

Aren't you in Dauphin county?

Just cracked 40, at 40.6 now.  Winds are so much less/lighter this afternoon, only around 5 mph.

I'm surprised no one has mentioned the Winter Weather Advisory issued for late overnight and all the way through to 2:00pm.  It's for freezing rain and sleet, but no snow.  Covers most of the LSV except York & Lanco counties.  I'll definitely be curious as to how long I stay below 32.0 tomorrow morning.  With such cold temps the past few days I would think there could be an impactful period of ZR for a few hours in the morning, including some roads even.

>>Edit, temp just hit 41.5 and winds are a tad more upwards to 10mph occasionally.

Had a low of 21.6 degrees this morning.  Yesterday's high was 32.9.  It was absolutely ridiculous outside when I took the dog out around 10:30.  I was saying to myself I'm ready to say goodbye to these temps until later this fall.  Even at 11:00am the temp still has not broken freezing with 31.5 degrees in the sun.  I don't think we're going to get as warm as NWS thinks later today.  Maybe stay below 40?

Got down to 23.5 just after sunrise this morning.  Now at 10:00am it's only up to 28.8.  The gusty winds have returned pushing the wind chill down into the upper teens.  Yesterday I had several brief rounds of snow showers that amounted to nothing more than a trace.  I'm surprised no one mentioned the radar during yesterday afternoon.  Those snow showers were all from lake erie with a pretty hefty lake effect going on.  The radar really looked like a classic January day with just about the entire state experiencing those snow showers.  After the 70's from last week it feels brutal out there.  I think our bodies acclimate much quicker from cold to warm versus a more gradual warm to cold in the fall.

5 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Oh my goodness no. In the grand scheme of life, this isn't that big a deal...but yet it kind of is. It's very nostalgic - you know when it's dark before 5pm that it's likely between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Definitely adds something special to the season. 

Wow.  You and @anothermanhave echoed my sentiments exactly.  As soon as the sun sets before 5:00 (which occurs a few days after returning to standard time) there is that mental connection that Thanksgiving and the Holiday season are just around the corner.  And it kind of marks the beginning of snow opportunities as well.  And with each passing day those chances increase.  I could go on and on.  I'm sure it's connected to my age (now) in some way.  For most of us we've never not had the return to standard time.  And now we must face the fact that there will only be one more chance to "fall back" later this year. 

18 minutes ago, canderson said:

Trick or treating in daylight will suck. 

Was that a joke?  Trick or treating already takes place while on Daylight Saving Time.  Standard does not kick in until the first Sunday in November.

Well...when I shared the Daylight Saving Time news with my wife she immediately said to me, "doesn't it now have to pass through the house?"  I got temporarily excited, thinking that right now it wasn't a done deal.  However, then I proceeded to think that probably pretty easily a majority, which will be comprised of both sides, will be in favor of this.  So, I guess I can pray for a miracle now?

And, for us in this forum, it means we'll never see the GFS run before 11:30pm and the Euro before 2.30am ever again.

8 minutes ago, canderson said:

Speaking of the time change, it actually might finally be killed for good!!! If this passes the house, we'll never go back to DST (well after 2023 it appears since people need to time for contract times like airlines and all). 

@SenateCloakroom

Passed by Unanimous Consent, S.623: Sunshine Protection Act, as amended (to make Daylight Saving Time permanent)@SenRubioPress/@SenWhitehouse/ others

 

Do you mean we'll never go back to Eastern Standard Time?  DST=Daylight Saving Time which above states that this S.623 makes DST permanent.  If so, I will be so incredibly disappointed.  That means the earliest the sun can ever set is 5:43pm around here in perpetuity.  As I said yesterday, it also means that the sun won't rise until 8:30am for nearly 5 weeks after the winter solstice.  That means it will be totally dark until 8:00am.  YUCK!

High yesterday was 60.4 and the low yesterday was 20.1.  That produced another 40-degree diurnal for the season.  My snow (which was only 2.3" max) and was located in a no-sun area close to my house, managed to survive until yesterday evening when the extended warmth of the day finally took it out.

Low this morning was 29.7 right after sunrise.  Temp now has rebounded up to 53, headed for the 60's this afternoon.

Beware the Ides of March...

The clipper appears to be making its way across our state.  The first piece of it just passed over me but nothing falling from the sky yet.  If Blue Mountain doesn't screw things up like it often time does, the pretty solid batch of snow showers may make it to me.  If I see anything I'm only expecting flurries or maybe a period of showers.

My max temp today was only 33.4 degrees with the sun out just before the clouds rolled in.  I'm at 32.5 at the moment.  Shaded areas of my yard lost almost nothing today.  Sunny spots lost some, but not all snow cover.  It feels like midwinter out there with the wind.

32 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Temp is slower to climb than I would have thought. Currently it's 23.5 here. @Bubbler86 I think you mentioned last evening that a model was showing highs today staying at or below freezing?

That might verify.

At close to noon I'm only up to 24.8 from my low of 16.9.  I guess the strength of this arctic blast is stronger now than the models first projected...at least as far as limiting today's max temps.  If I had to guess I'd say my high is going to turn out to be close to 32.

45 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I've never had a problem with the time changes twice a year. It wasn't until the past few years that I realized how passionate some people are over this. It's just never been a thing for me.

Having said that - I look forward to going back an hour. I love extra long nights. 

Haha...I was also thinking of you when I wrote that since I know we both feel the same way about this topic.  To be honest, I wouldn't mind doing the switching if the timeframe went back to being equal with six months of both.  

Also, I need to correct what I said to @mahantango#1above...he was closer to being right than I was.  Here's a history clip from the web about the temporary expansion of DST...

Following the 1973 oil embargo, the US Congress extended the DST period to 10 months in 1974 and 8 months in 1975, in an effort to save energy. After the energy crisis was over in 1976, the DST schedule in the US was revised several times. From 1987 to 2006, the country observed DST for about 7 months each year.

Apparently my memory isn't quite a good as I thought it was...lol.

2 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

We went through this back in the 1970s with the oil embargo in the winter. congress I think it was made DST year round.. Who likes it getting dark at 4:40pm anyway?

You remember that also?  Actually, it was only done once, around New Year's 1973 when President Nixon took the country back to daylight saving.  I'll never forget that because suddenly it was still dark at 8:00am as I was getting ready for school.  I'm fine with it getting dark early because it is a reminder that winter is coming and we have the most protection from the sun for any snowpack.

3 minutes ago, canderson said:

Why would the time change lead to an increase in health issues? Aside from the anger, that is. BECAUSE TIME CHANGE IS POINTLESS END THIS CHARADE NOW 

So whose side are you on?  Mine where we return to standard time permanently?  Or @Festus' who wants perpetual daylight saving?  By the way, Festus, I had heard a few years back that congress was entertaining the idea of taking the country back to standard time permanently.  I think there are 3 states that don't observe daylight saving...Arizona, parts of Indiana, and Hawaii.  They would be the most upset about being forced to daylight saving.  The one interesting thing that people wouldn't think about is that if we were on daylight saving time at the end of December around the solstice, the sun wouldn't rise until 8:30am for nearly the next 3 weeks!

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Over the past 5.5 hours, my temp has only dropped 1.9 degrees. Sitting at 20.1 currently. 

Actually this is not surprising.  When there are very windy conditions following an arctic blast, the surface temp is dictated by what's going on aloft.  The 500mb thickness level bottomed out close to 504dm around 10:00pm.  For the rest of the night it will begin to rise.  Temps at the 850 level also play a role.  The temperature at that level also reached its bottom at -18 degrees C around the same time.  It also begins a slow rise higher throughout the night reaching -12 at 12z.  Therefore as long as the wind remains substantial it is not likely that our overnight temp drops more than a degree or two lower by morning.  Only if the winds diminished to less than 5mph would the snowpack then contribute to radiational cooling.  As I type this it is now midnight and my temp is sitting at 20.3 degrees and has only fluctuated a few tenths over the past 4 hours.  It actually bottomed at 19.9 at 10:38pm and has risen slightly.  It's quite possible our temps don't drop at all from whatever level they're presently sitting at.  In this case elevation dictates how cold it is...more or less...referring to constant winds > 10mph.

@ItstrainingtimeI'm surprised you didn't think of all days in weather history...the Superstorm!  Tomorrow is the 29th anniversary.  You were mentioning low temps for today, late this afternoon in the low 20's.  Well, back on 3/13/93 I was 17 degrees with heavy sleet in the middle of the afternoon.  Today's weather had tidbits of weather elements that came with the superstorm...but definitely not the barometric pressure, which was 30 millibars lower than today's minimum pressure of 1001.

I can't get over how @Blizzard of 93 has had double the snowfall and conditions that I've almost never had during this storm.  About a half hour ago I had several wind gusts into the 30's with wildly blowing snow...but that only lasted a few minutes.  It's been snowing mainly lightly since 1:00 but not enough to accumulate further.  The winds which had been pretty breezy have backed off a bit, although I'm getting a good gust as I write this.  Back at 1:00 I recorded no additional accumulation with a storm total of 2.3".  Temp continues to drop, now down to 23.5 which is the low of the day.  The max, at midnight was 46.7.

At 12:00 noon it continues to snow lightly and there is some blowing snow taking place now.  Since my report 30 minutes ago only an additional 0.1" of new snow has fallen.  Since 11:00am an additional 0.3" has fallen bringing the storm total to 2.3".  The temp is beginning to fall again and after rising to 28 it has fallen back to 27.0.  The pressure has leveled off at 1001 millibars and has been steady for the past several hours.  Wind continue to ramp up, sustained between 10-15mph, gusting occasionally to 25mph.  Judging by the radar it looks like the snow portion of this storm is about to rapidly wind down for me, meaning that my storm total will likely be just under 2.5".

>>Yes, my NWS feed is also screwed up.  It says that I am still in a winter storm watch (the one from yesterday) as well as a winter storm warning.  Interesting.

Here's an intermediate update as of 11:30am, the heavy snow has ended and it's back to light to occasionally moderate.  The heavy burst, which lasted less than 20 minutes, deposited only another 0.2" giving a storm total of 2.2".  I think there's partial melting or compacting going on even though the temp, which dropped to 27.3, has risen back up to 27.9.  The winds are definitely beginning to pick up, now easily gusting over 20mph and sustained around 10mph.  Not much in the way of blowing snow so far.

According to Blizz, just 20 miles east of me, it is a whole different world with the heavy snow and blowing snow.