Burghblizz

March still has more snow on average than December, even with the most recent 30 year average. So winters ending with a dud isn’t a long term trend just yet. I’ll be out of town late next week, so I’ve had that targeted for awhile for a big storm.

It’s a rain storm. So not really wasted since it was never in the cards. Beautiful day today. Hopefully something pops up after this system.

I’m not watching every run this week if the GFS is in its own. (I say that now)

Yeah, we gusted close to 50 with whiteout conditions. 1” or so in 30 min

Would love for it to lock in with the mix line in northern WV so we have some wiggle room

Yeah I was thinking the same - ground blizzard at times with sun in between. Pretty cool. Second batch has arrived with heavy snow. Looks to be shorter lived. Also, the sun has been peaking through at times, despite snowing pretty heavily.

The sun is going to be out in like 15 minutes there too — But it’s going to be OK.

Only our area can get the “hot” designation in the complaint thread, on a morning with a free micro-blizzard, with no tracking needed

Dropped about 1” or so 30 minutes. The last 5 minutes was straight white out. Some pretty high gusts behind the squall. Getting occasional low vis with blowing snow now.

Whiteout here too, weenie. Right thread

And it’s glorious.

Then it’s confirmed. You are a troll that lives in Philly pissed off about your shitty area. If you are in the north hills, you do not have “flurries” right now.

40 MPH gust. Whiteout. But weenie on guys

Every weenie thinks that. Look at the snow hole in South central PA this year. Try a Philly or DC 2” winter. Anyway - ripping 2” per hour right now. Not sure if it last for an hour, but approaching a fresh inch. Nice last 30 days as I’m around 25”.

Wouldn’t be shocked to add a sneaky inch or two to that over the course of the day. I’ve had some squalls on and off so far.

I’m just here for the comic relief.

Yeah - it’s not going to snow a foot Sunday. Just relaying the imagination of the Canadians at this point.

This shot has a thin weenie band that gets north of the city 12” all told - but the frames before this have good widespread snows

If you want a decent reference site for local forecasts, this is it. Honestly, I think they are making the same mistake you are by using that brief moment where the 12” point and click contour made it down to Moon Twp. Also, Intellicast goes off of that I believe. The NWS statement was 6-12” and 6-11” at various times. So throw that in this bunch: But you’ll see this was the landscape of local forecasts. To pretty decent for a 9” storm. It’s the highest model and weenie dreams that didn’t verify. The forecasts did.

The map did, but they aggregate reports from earlier. So like I said, you can cross reference the report times in the PIS and LSR’s Not sure why you are so obsessed to show that 7” fell instead of 9” in a storm that was forcasted to get 6 to 11”. Anyway, take this to banter.

Little batch of snow showers about to roll in. Won’t amount to much, but look nice falling into the snow pack.

You brought it up. Linking a map. A map that includes early and mid event totals. Cross reference that with the PIS and the times of those reports. Sorry the storm underformed your expectations. It snowed 9.1”. Probably a little more here. Forecasts were fine. Every local, accuweather, and the NWS statement validated. Literally 30 posts because some dude at NWS briefly pulled the 12” contour down west of the city.

It was a solid foot in the city, but it was an epic storm 50 miles east.

That 37 months from Dec 92 to Jan 96 had a LOT of snow. It was more than a few big storms. That’s my favorite extended period. Best month was 2.10. https://www.weather.gov/media/pbz/records/hissnow.pdf

Your “model runs” were the Weather Channel 5 day business planner. If those hit a couple times in a row, then I started watching locals. If they started mentioning it, I’d wait for the orange screen on TWC for the Winter Storm Watch. I mean, I wouldn’t trade today’s direct access to models, message boards, internet, etc. But still very nostalgic about those times.