CarlislePaWx

Boy, what an unexpected snow show! 25 minutes of snow with almost 20 mins continuous heavy and large flakes! It's winding down now and the sky is brightening. Temp bottomed out at 32.7. Mulch was maybe about 50% covered in white. No official measurement other than a trace. But still...I had no idea this was even possible. I thought tomorrow morning was the snow possibility. Historically speaking, this reminds me of a day in late April, 1986, in Philadelphia. I was finishing up my last month of Optometry school and was living on campus. It was around the 25th of April. It ended up snowing nearly the entire day, non-stop. It didn't accumulate during the daytime. But, after sunset it continued throughout the evening and we ended up with 2" of snow on the grass when it ended later that evening. So, it can snow in late April and accumulate. But, it's pretty rare.

Started snowing here about 15 mins ago and is getting progressively heavier...quite the surprise to see. Vsby continues to drop...easily under a mile now. Temp down to 36. Edit>>2 mins later down to 35. No accum anywhere...(yet). Edit again>>5 mins later (9:23) down to 34. Waiting to see signs of white on mulch. Would love to get 0.1" to add to record books. Hasn't snowed this hard since January! lol Edit (9:26)>>Heavy snow...large flakes...temp 33.6 and mulch starting to turn white! Edit (9:31)>>Heavy snow continues. What a show out there. Temp down to 33.1. Mulch looking whiter and a few tiny spots of white on grass too. Vsby < 0.5 mi.

Making progress. Still sunny. Temp up to 70.7. Just had a wind gust WSW to 33. So, it's going up.

Sun shining brightly here now with large patch of blue sky overhead. Chance to try and warm back up a bit, although only 69.4, so haven't broken 70 yet. When that storm came through I had 0.03" of rain and a wind gust to 5 mph...LOL. Interestingly, the winds have now picked up substantially, out of the WSW 15 gusting to 25. Pressure holding steady at 29.40".

The northern part of that severe storm (that was headed for central cumberland) is losing its severity rapidly so I'm not expecting more than some heavy rain and brief winds (for now). Looks like severe part is holding together south of me heading through Adams on towards York. Another sub-1000 pressure day here, down to 995mb. Temp 69.6 after hitting 70.0 about half hour ago (1:00pm).

Rain came in just like a snow squall. Winds gusted to 28 and torrential rain with low visibility. Picked up 0.16" in less than 10 minutes. Just as fast as it came in, it left and there are breaks in the clouds. But, radar shows a second line of storms coming in about 30 minutes. That second line is probably the front since my pressure is just steady at 29.30".

And once again we have dropped below 1000mb for pressure as the strong cold front approaches. As of this writing at 10:30am I'm down to 992mb or 29.29". Get ready for the winds that will flood into here following the frontal passage. It will definitely feel like early March instead of early April.

@Jns2183 My wife just found the archives for the daily tables I had been looking at for my local info. This link will take you to the archived data which is all lumped together by daily report, in descending order, starting with yesterday's report. One quick peak shows that Cumberland county's first cases showed up on March 13th with 3 positive cases. Here is the link: https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/disease/coronavirus/Pages/Archives.aspx

I've looked but I can't find a site that contains all the historical data (so far). Let me know if you find something as I'd be interested also.

Yeah, Giant here is one week out. Walmart had only been 1 to 2 days out, but that is starting to stretch out too. Walmart will only let you schedule out to 2 days, so you have to wait until they open up the next day which happens some time during the middle of the night. I think my wife may have to set an alarm for 3:30am to find an available delivery slot...lol.

With the noon update today, all 67 counties for the first time now have at least one positive case. Yesterday's new cases was fewer than the day before. Unfortunately, with today's new total of 1,597 positive cases the slope has re-steepened as the westward penetration through the state continues. The number of deaths has increased substantially. 2 days ago there were 150, today there are 240 reported; a dramatic increase. Gov. Wolf was wearing a mask as he approached the podium to deliver an update a short time ago. I've heard that Walmart is turning its aisles into one-way only to reduce overall volume. We've been doing our shopping online at both Walmart and Giant which helps tremendously with not having to enter the stores.

The stats for PA 2 days ago (on 4/2) were 7,016 positive cases and 90 deaths. 48 hours later, we're at 10,017 positive cases with 136 deaths...an increase of over 40% for both stats in just 2 days! Scary. The upward slope continues to steepen with each passing day.

So far for today I've recorded 0.63" of rain. I had 0.30" on Wednesday and 0.30" on Monday for a weekly total so far of 1.23". That also included a trace of snow from Wednesday. Blizz' snow map resurrecting memories of April 1982. Meteorologically, it CAN happen...but of course most likely won't...lol.

It's been snowing here mixed in with the rain, on and off, for the past 2 hours. About 15 minutes ago it was pure snow coming down as my temp drops to 36.5 degrees. What a surprise! Had absolutely no snow on Monday's event. So far, 0.23" of liquid for this event. Only had 0.30" for the event on Monday.

Rapid shoot up in temp here along with winds. 77.2 now after hitting 78.1 about 15 minutes ago. Sustained WSW winds 15 to 20, gusting to 25. Hard to imagine snow could be in the air early Monday morning.