Voyager

Sorry. My lack of work has been playing on my mind lately and making me a bit ornery... When one is not productive, one gets depressed. Hopefully it changes VERY soon, because I can't take the boredom much longer...

I generally stay away from that forum, so I didn't see it, but the depression level was elevating here as well. The models and indecies looked bad, and then, all of a sudden, band, decent pattern. Thing is, what's to say they don't flip back to bad again?

And to think, a couple of days ago, a lot of you were ready to call the coroner, funeral home, and cemetery to put to rest and bury what was left of calendar winter...lol

Made it to 58 here in Tamaqua today. Was supposed to only be 50.

A birthday snowstorm (Feb 8) for me. Not sure to be happy or sad. The plan was to go out to dinner with wife, not shovel and/or dig out...

Well then, Larry Cosgrove is my new friend!!!

Yeah, I saw that temps may only get into the low 50's up here.

What's with all this light snow in what's "supposed" to be an epic warm pattern this week? We had a round while we were out at dinner last night, and now one (or possibly two more) today?

Here's the Monday through Wednesday forecast... Monday A 20 percent chance of rain. Mostly sunny, with a high near 59. Breezy, with a west southwest wind 10 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Monday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 33. Breezy, with a west wind 5 to 15 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Tuesday Sunny, with a high near 55. North wind around 5 mph becoming east in the morning. Tuesday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 34. Northwest wind 5 to 10 mph becoming north northeast in the evening. Wednesday Sunny, with a high near 58. Calm wind becoming west southwest around 5 mph in the afternoon. For my mom's backyard in Sun City (Phoenix) AZ. https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lon=-112.27134705428033&lat=33.60212878453751#.XjRHSCNOlPZ

Wouldn't the right side of a boundary layer be the warm side?

Now this is funny stuff right here... https://wnep.com/2020/01/29/peta-calls-for-punxsutawney-phil-to-be-replaced-with-an-ai-groundhog/

Look at Alberta and Saskatchewan north of the border...

We have some ice on our smaller ponds and lakes up here, but nothing I'd dare to step foot on, that's for sure...

Well, I guess it might be a bit torchy down there, but up here it doesn't feel like it. It's obvious by the lack of snow cover and frozen ground that we've been above normal, but it just didn't like it was that much above.

Correct. Save for a few days here and there, it hasn't been a torch.

And then there's me. The person who has worn a t-shirt under a sweatshirt, covered by a winter coat, most days since November...lol Since my thyroid issues developed, the cold has been much more difficult to tolerate.

I think it was the Christmas Day storm, ironically to close out 2010, where NYC got pummelled, and guess what? We were on the edge of the storm near another sharp cut-off and got, yup, another whopping 2-4 inches. That one was particularly painful because we had a WSW for 12-18 inches, but the storm tracked farther east (and again the confluence) than expected.

I think it was the Christmas Day storm, ironically to close out 2010, where NYC got pummelled, and guess what? We were on the edge of the storm near another sharp cut-off and got, yup, another whopping 2-4 inches. That one was particularly painful because we had a WSW for 12-18 inches, but the storm tracked farther east (and again the confluence) than expected.

I wish I could truly remember the actual totals for the back-to-back 2010 storms up here, but the confluence was so bad that I don't think we saw 6 inches combined for both storms. It's where I developed my incredible disdain for 1-3/2-4 type events. One of those storms the confluence was so bad, and the cut off so dramatic, that while watching the radar (for hours) the heavy snow would literally dry up at the Blue Mountain. Most of the day featured "pixie dust" falling from the sky.

Looks like 1.68" might just do it for this event, unless that band to the west makes it through here. How much did everyone else see? Over in the Philly thread, some have gotten over the 2 inch mark.

Did you see the snow maps from 318 to 342? Gives the coastal plain from Savannah to Virginia Beach a solid 6-12 inches...lol

If it hits like here, it is pretty good. It's probably been raining for about 2-3 hours, and already I have .36" in the gauge.

It's 38 with moderate to occasionally heavy rain and wind here. Already 0.36" in the gauge. I know the synoptic answer to this, but I'll ask it anyway. Where is this kind of start off when it's cold enough to snow? We'd be pushing 4 inches already with some drifting taking place.

I should have known by the lack of posts that the 0z GFS for next weekend was crap tonight...lol But the wind finally got here. Really starting to rattle the windows and clang the annoying wind chimes now.

All calm here, for now anyway.