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1 hour ago, Superstorm said:

Nothing beats hometown snow.

I saw 7 feet of snow in the Nov 2014 Buffalo Lake Effect event. Very cool to see, but it can’t beat 2 feet on my own turf.

However, if you have not witnessed lake effect like that, it is worth the trip.


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I have not, so maybe one day I'll do it. I have a lifted Jeep, so it certainly wouldn't be a problem getting around.

5 minutes ago, DDweatherman said:

It doesn't matter, people enjoy the 4-6 hour rush. There's nothing like snow in our backyards. We wouldn't treasure it the way we do if we averaged 180" a year, it's all a part of the mentality. Having to drive 8 hours for it and then back after is definitely the worst part. The chases are awesome for sure, but that's why a chase like DCL on MLK a few years ago for 20+" 2 hrs from home is epic but easier. 

This (the bolded part)

I was at a trucking job orientation and while I was there we got a 2 ft snowstorm. It was cool, but nowhere near as enjoyable as it would have been in my own town and my own home and property.

8 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Um we don't need to know what your plans are tonight...TMI.

Now here's some real TMI. We have no plans to welcome in 2026 with a bang...lol

11 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Timing of the squalls could line up perfectly for ringing in the New Year. Someone might have a whiteout at exactly 12 midnight.

Would love to have seen the radar when this puppy hit Hazleton. Photo doesn't do it justice. It was nearly a whiteout at times on the Niagara Water lot while I was dropping and hooking my trailer 

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.

19 minutes ago, mahantango#1 said:

Didn't get as warm as they said overnight they said it would be in the 40's till 5 am. It was only 37 at that time. 41 now.

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... 

4 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

It never got above freezing up there. I see temps 29-30. Forcast here was 38-40. We got up to 33

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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.

1 hour ago, Jns2183 said:

Wasn't that one the main reasons after access to water that valleys were settled instead of the plateau 10 miles away?

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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.

36 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Oh please god no with the buckle up comments. I fucking hate social media types. They’ve ruined weather 

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.

21 minutes ago, WmsptWx said:

I swear to god, the area I am currently staying in is a precip hole. I drove to State College yesterday and along my journey, there was ice everywhere I went from Mount Union to Port Matilda to State College. 

Here? Nothing. I've always joked that the area from Bedford, McConnellsburg up through Lewistown and Sunbury is the most boring weather area in the state, but holy hell, I was amazed at how little signs of an ice storm there were even yesterday while the temperature never got above 34-35.

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.

1 hour ago, Jns2183 said:

What is that even for? We are sitting at more than a 5 degree departure for the month and probably will end up closer to negative 6.

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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.

3 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

I'd wait till it goes above freezing for a few hours

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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.

40 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

No where near (or same universe) as the slot car ice event. Will never see that again in my lifetime...

28F/FZR

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. 

14 minutes ago, Summit Snow said:

Have over achieved so far this year and have a had a great start to winter so was do for an under. Precipitation came in as a wall of sleet and snow and is 80/20 sleet which wasn't even mentioned in the higher elevations this far NE until this AM and even then it was to be a gradual mix.

Current temp is 18 with heavy sleet currently. 

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.