mahk_webstah

Philly Philly

It wasn't a total surprise, but it did overperform. The year before we had The Blizzard of '78 with 16 inches...for Dover DE those were the 2 biggest storms of my childhood. In 1983 I was at the University of Florida. But when I came back to Philly I got to experience the all time biggie in 96, which shut down Center City like no other storm. 2003 was great with 18" and then a lot of sleet (they switched the forecast for up to 28" in the city and then the sleet started lol). Other goodies: around a foot in Jan 1987 in a storm that was forecasted 1-3 but then on the early morning accuweather update (with Elliot Abrams) he said that the low was now going insider of Hatteras so we would get 8-12. 2005 had a very good one that was epic up in New England. Oh, and the winter of 93-94 was unparalled with ice. Constant ice storms, and snows that would change to ice. Never saw ice buildup like that in a city. BTW the pic in my profile is my car, on 12th near Pine St in Jan 96. I stuck my glove to look like it was coming out of the window. That night that the big blizzard ended, it cleared out and every st. in CC was clogged with cars. The only traffic was on Broad and then down Market. The streets were filled with people walking in almost 3 ft of snow and no cars anywhere. I had my dog off the leash just walking through the city. It was kinda magical tbh, what with the glistening clean snow and really bright startlit skies.

Don’t tell Jerry

I think it wasn’t forecasted too well in advance. But I remember distinctly an article in the Washington post or maybe the Philadelphia Inquirer from the forecaster he said he had seen the storm six days out because of the set up. I was in Dover Delaware in the jackpot zone with 25 inches. My favorite storm of childhood by far. It was a very cold storm down in Delaware so probably there was a strong west base block that was very suppressive. That was a cold cold February in Delaware

right to the elbow

last minute east trend as usual, Cape under a big threat if it goes in east of providence? However, looks like it slows down at around 39 north which will probably help in terms of lowering intensity. Won't be sailing along at 40 mph straight into the coast with little time to weaken and wind speed enhancement. Just a shiteload of rain.

good starting point...still room to raise 'em

I e bump in qpf, I don’t care what form it’s in

WPC has dropped the heavier qpf south from including us up here to having SNE in the bullseye.

Very happy to see this from WPC for mid-late week. My problem in the garden in early-mid April is that isn't isn't fully thawed or is thick glop. It is June level dry now so bring the rain. Of course it is nice to see the spinach, lettuce, kale pac choi, etc all growing nicely so early.: "Farther north, guidance has noticeably trended upward with respect to rainfall across parts of the East Coast/Northeast Thursday-Friday. Some models suggest moderate to locally heavy rainfall to accompany the cold front/surface low as it traverses the region. Coastal low genesis may also present some maritime/coastal threats across New England late week/next weekend."

Will was on my laptop as the models were coming in.

precipitation in any form, with the exception of large hail stones, would be greatly appreciated.

Oy. If it happens I'm sure I'd love it. But, I'm enjoying the melt out and the warm sunny days.

what is that

Simmuh down now

SPING IS SPINGING!

Bald Silver Daddy?

Bring it! (not the trough)

I have been thinking storm around the ides.

imagine 1500 ft of that

There must be a big storm over the Mediterranean that could get a hankerin for some Portuguese Kale Soup and then before you know it, its sucked out into the Atlantic into a ginormous negatively titled trough covering the entire North Atlantic. I know this sounds crazy, but what if it then feels the gulf stream? Then what? Does it get pulled even further west towards the benchmark? And it brings a quadruple phasing of Mediterranean, Adriatic, Gulf, and Atlantic moisture. I think there's a record of something similar happening on Pangea, before it all split apart, only there was less moisture involved so this would be a bigger record setting storm of multiple feet every day

It ain't happening Ant?

Snowing very very heavily, at least 2 in./h rate but radar says it doesn’t last. Check out the High DBZ band up here

I was surprised to see 2-4 of snow in my forecast for tomorrow. I hadn't been on here much very good Maybe it'll be 1 of those things that they say it's gonna change to rain but it doesn't really do that till the end and we end up with a nice snw. Ends up being a pretty snowy February.

I love when they meditate like that. They're just soaking it in. When I take my girl out at night sometimes when there's a bright moon reflecting off the snow she just sits and stares at the moon.