Voyager

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.

I have a lightning detector on my station, and so far it hasn't recorded any up my way.

You talking Valentine's 2007? My street WAS literally a slot car track. I live on a single lane one way street, and the two tire ruts in the frozen slush were 2-3 inches deep. If you could get out of your parking space, you didn't need to hold the wheel to go down the street. The car just tracked straight down the street.

For me, I wasn't expecting much snow, even before the models trended the wrong direction. I know that we almost always flip as mid level warmth is under modeled. You seemed to be sitting pretty up that way, though.

Two degree temp drop since my last post. Down to 23 now.

Actually, it's mixed sleet/ freezing rain as there's already a slight ice accretion on my chain link fence rails. Temp is 25 degrees.

Started here about 15 minutes ago. Straight to heavy pingers. No snow.

Nope. Luckily I've never jackknifed. I have had the trailer slide left or right though when I hit the brakes. Even that's quite a bit unnerving.

Thanks for the reply... Hopefully you're enjoying retirement. I can't wait until I can do so. As for my travels, I don't know yet where I'm going today, but I most certainly want to be off the roads before the flakes and/or pellets fly. As long as those restrictions hold, I can drop loads accordingly and shut it down. Legally, I suppose, I'm protected from any harsh repercussion from my employer.

Depends on one's view of low impact. For me, as a tractor trailer driver pulling a bulk liquid tanker, a sleet and ice mess isn't quite low impact. Now, since you're a Penndot guy, do you see the Tier 3 restrictions holding, or do you think they might be downgraded? As of right now, legally, I should be off the roads by 2pm, loaded or empty. That to me is a blessing as it gives me leverage to park the truck without (hopefully) any repercussions from my employer as it'll technically be illegal for me to be out on the highway. I may be an experienced, professional driver, but I really don't want to play in sleet and ice in the mountainous region in which I run.

I'm hoping Penndot leaves the level 3 restrictions in place. That gives me a legitimate excuse to tell the boss I'm parking the big truck before things get bad. This is one storm I don't want to be out in in a tractor trailer.

Unlike those who work in an office or other enclosed building, and have a short commute to work and home, I work outside for a good portion of my day and drive 10-12 hours in whatever winter throws at us. Cold and snow makes what I do for a living exponentially more difficult (and dangerous sometimes) than on warm days. That being said, even though it's imperative that I know how the weather is going to affect my day, perhaps it's time for a break from this forum until spring. My apologies...

I do, but I can't. I'm stuck...

To say I am not amused at the continuing weather pattern is an understatement. Does anybody see a break on the horizon, or are we locked in? If something doesn't change after the new year, I might end up in a really bad place...