Voyager

We had a rapid rise of 9 degrees in 15 minutes from 36 to 45 around noon time.

Sun is out here. Wind picking up. Temp 45.

Well, we managed to creep up to 36 degrees, but I'm not sure if we'll crack 40 or not. Either way, I'm not looking forward to the wind this afternoon. Last wind event had me all screwed up with trees and wires down, and a tight detour, before I was told to use the turnpike.

Still 33 here. Heard our parking lot and all the well locations are straight up slick ice. Gonna be another fun day...

Another day another mid day FROPA. Seems that once a pattern develops, most storms follow it. Nocturnal storms. Four AM start times. Dinner time endings, and so on. While there is some deviation, it seems like storm timing follows a seasonal routine once established. Or maybe I'm seeing something that isn't there...

Yup. I'm sitting at 30 on the nose right now. It hasn't been above freezing here since 7:20 pm on Christmas Day.

Man, things got quite a bit icy here. Our sidewalk, with residual salt from yesterday morning on it, is complete glare ice.

Seems like tomorrow is going to be a near repeat of last Friday. Mild morning, front blows through, temps crash and wind ramps up. I just hope there's not as many tree branch and powerline problems. I encountered a few road closures and subsequent detours on my last two water loads of the day.

Probably. The valleys climates were less harsh than in the elevations. Hazleton is a good example. While it was settled and became a city, it gets crazy windy up there and snows much more often and heavier than here. In reality, all things considered, in winter, Hazleton is, relatively speaking, quite a harsh climate in the winter.

Poking my nose in to comment on this. I read your forum a lot for analysis, but don't post, but this one got me thinking. There are new weather terms and phrases are annoying, but the one that gets me the most is "puking snow" when it's snowing heavily. It just sounds stupid...and gross.

Tamaqua says, "hold my beer"...lol While we sometimes get into the show, many times we don't. Summer storms generally miss, big coastal storms are a roll of the dice, etc. Last Friday's wind storm netted me a 16 mph gust when everyone else had 40mph and up. The inverted "V" shaped valley I sit in tempers most of the more interesting weather others experience.

It's just Tim's continuing harassment of Chesco in our sub-forum.

30 degrees here as well. This was one of the tougher ones to shovel. This stuff wasn't concrete. It was solid granite.

I might try throwing some salt to at least try to penetrate it and turn it to slush before I try scraping it off.

Had to poke my thumb through the ice to get to the sidewalk for a measurement with my tape measure. Unofficially, as best as I could tell, I had about 0.75" of sleet and ice.