Voyager

I know it's nice to reminisce about 1993, but can we please talk more about THIS event? I'm trying to get upstream obs and info so I can follow and anticipate what's coming next. Right now, it has almost stopped "precipitating" here. When I measured we had nice moderate snow, then it turned into almost like a light sleet mist, and now has almost stopped entirely. Not sure what to make of it.

Precip lightened up dramatically, and is now is the tiniest ice pellets I've ever seen.

1.75" and snowing good again...

We have 1.25" of new snow from round one which is still ongoing here, but is now more of a snow grain variety than the big dendrites we had earlier. Currently 22 degrees outside.

The St. John's, Newfoundland "bomb cyclone" aftermath...

Wow...once it started, it pretty much hit like a wall of white! From nothing, to flurries, to light snow, and now moderate!

Flurries/light snow has commenced in Tamaqua.

I see the Williamsport snow hole is still showing up. What's the deal with the consistency of that feature?

Per radar it looks like it's right on the doorstep here. Dark lead gray skies and very cold out. How much is initially virga when the echos get overhead?

We did in January 1996. If I remember correctly, it was +7 when it started snowing in Allentown.

Sounds good, thanks! Perhaps this is one of those nice little overachievers...

As expected, the very first wave out ahead of the 25-30dbz band was virga. Time to run to the store before the 1st actual band gets here. What do you think, MAG, for my far eastern area of CTP? All snow, or does that warm nose make it here as well?

I have to admit, when the models were backing off on the totals Tue/Wed, I got skeptical that we'd see anything substantial out of this event. It seemed like is was going in the direction of our many 2" events from the past. The past few days have surprised me though, as we've come back to respectable amounts. My only worry now is that my wife, daughter, and grandkids are going to Wilkes-Barre tomorrow to see Disney on Ice. Hope they don't run into problems.

Point and click at this time is fairly aggressive. CTP not expecting (at this time anyway) any changeover until after sunset here... Saturday Snow, mainly after 9am. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 29. South wind 6 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Saturday Night Snow and freezing drizzle likely before 11pm, then rain showers likely between 11pm and 4am, then a slight chance of snow after 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 27. South wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Because you guys are gonna get f.............oh never mind...lol Seriously though, I kind of thought the wind would die down overnight, but it's still ripping and rattling windows and stuff here.

Not you. Indeed!

This thread is getting difficult to read at the moment with the BS interspersed with the storm posts and analysis...

So do I, but in reality, I should have sent this one back 8 years ago after I bought it. The anemometer has never worked right. There is no way, with the window rattling, house shaking wind I had yesterday, that the highest gust was only 16 mph. Even back during Sandy, I couldn't get a gust higher than 24 mph.

Can't believe we're going down the "my snow is bigger than your snow" stuff tonight. Sheesh.

This is exactly what I used to go through a few years ago. There would always be a significant dip to the south right over eastern Schuylkill County in the contours where points to both my west and east would be modeled to get like 3-6 inches more than I would.

lol!!! Not long after I posted it, the winds picked up. It was almost like a gust front the way it hit. All was quiet, then the back bedroom (where my office is) started creaking, and the all the neighborhood wind chimes (I hate those things) started clanging.

Still kind of calm here on the eastern side. 45 with a 5-10 mph wind.

I'm not wishing it away. I actually want this one, which is why it's upsetting to see the numbers go down. Earlier, I was told that those 10:1 maps that include sleet were wrong, and I should be looking at positive snowfall change, which is what I did. Pivotal's maps are much lower than what that TT map is showing.

And as I expected. The 0z NAM has whittled it down to a barely plowable 2 inch event.