Voyager

I'm at my favorite Harrisburg hiding place, the shopping center at 7th and Division Sts, so if anyone wants to stop and say hi (or shoot me for wishing winter away...lol) I'll be here until about 1pm...

Son of a biotch...

3 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Congrats...I know you're enjoying it!

Maybe a little...lol

All snow, light and steady now. Not going to accumulate at 39 degrees, but it's flakeage and not pingers, which is a bit of a surprise. I thought we'd be all rain by this point in the day.

Getting some big, fat flurries at the moment in Tamaqua after a bit of a lull...

3 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

We just need one of these waves to go under us, give us a plowable snow, and make the lack of spring worth it.  FV3 showed 6-12" on the 6Z model (for early next week-southern half of PA) so the synoptic weather chance is there just need the actual results to happen. 

2 hours ago, Atomixwx said:

We haven't had "spring" in a few years. It seems like once April rolls around, we experience a couple of warm days followed by a week of cold and wet, and this doesn't change until after Memorial Day. This has seemed to cost us spring thunderstorms and warmth. 

 

While I'm fine with it not being 100°F in May, I'd like this nonsense of second fall and false spring to stop.

Agree 100%.

9 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

I really do think that is the new weather pattern establishing itself. We won't live to see it's completion, but I wouldn't be shocked if I were to go forward several hundred (thousand) years that the seasons have staggered a few months and April-May-June is late winter-early spring.

It sure does seem like we are headed in that general direction. But it raises the question of how something like that could happen if Earth's axis of rotation and/or orbit doesn't change. 

1 hour ago, Bubbler86 said:

Too bad we could not time these temps with some qpf....before we move on to worrying about spf.

 

 

lol...that's pretty good!

59 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

38 here at 1PM with full sunshine...on April 1.  That is an impressive stat.

 

 

I'm up in Freeland in the higher elevations of Luzerne County, and it's only 36 with full sun at 2pm.

1 hour ago, canderson said:

A warm 76 today. We’ll be around 50 degrees colder tomorrow night lol.

11 hours ago, Bubbler86 said:

The low is there on every piece of guidance I just looked at including the EC.  Just wide right on all the op's with nothing to block or capture it.  FV3 advertises some downright bone chilling temps in mid April.  Lows around 20. 

Hope that BS is WRONG....

Story of my life in one song... 

1 hour ago, Rtd208 said:

Looks like the GFS is showing a wet start to April with plenty of precipitation possible.

1 hour ago, RedSky said:

Shocking 

Disgusting actually. I don't know about anyone else, but I am sick and tired of precipitation (in any form) right now. Have we strung 5 straight sunny days in row together since last July? I'm not sure, but it doesn't seem like we did.

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Officially, 2.83" for Lancaster. I however measured nearly 3.5" at my house. 

Wow! Here in Tamaqua I got 2.00" right on the nose. Not to often the numbers come up even like that. Well, in reality, it might be 1.99999999967" due to the 10 or 12 ice pellets I had right before I left for work...lol

46 minutes ago, pawatch said:

A lot of weather going on in the northeast this morning. We're suppose to get snow flurries this afternoon.

Northeast Pa. could see 2-3" of snow I see. Upstate New York a major snow storm.

We fringed the rain last night, missed the real heavy stuff.

And some areas got it. I was supposed to do a Hazleton Area High School field trip today, but they got enough snow for a 3 hour delay which automatically cancelled out the trip. So now I'm back at home and lost a day of pay. Here in Tamaqua, we had a few pingers but for all intents, it was all rain and no accumulation, but once I got up the hill a mile from the house it was snowing. Then, when I got up the next hill to McAdoo, that's where the roads caved and I saw 1-3 inches the rest of the way to our bus garage in Hazleton.

This was at the Valero gas station in McAdoo this morning just 6 miles from my house...

Hearing a few pingers on my window awnings this morning. Snowing I believe in Hazleton, and ground is white at a friends house (per a photo) in Lake Harmony. Have 1.87" in the gauge.

Up to 1.87" as of 4am...

1.04" in Tamaqua.

0.84" here and coming down steady. Quite a well defined system, but yes, inland a bit from what was progged.

Flood watch all the way back here to the coal region. So far 0.02" in the gauge, but much more to come. A nice event to finally wash the salt from earlier in the month off the roads...as long as we don't get any back end snow to make PennDot put it back again...lol

1 hour ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

If the FV3 is right, you will be shoveling later this week !

Oh boy, I'd better have a look...lol

22 hours ago, Atomixwx said:

It was damn near 80°F yesterday. Winter can fack off.

Sitting in the Newark Airport Terminal A bus parking lot and there's quite the impressive light show going on to my west.

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

60 at 4:30am when I left for work. I seriously debated turning on the AC last night. Gross...

How long until winter? 

1 hour ago, pasnownut said:

Nice.  I'm actually ready for next autumn.  Older i get, it is a season that i really look forward to.  Love the freshness of the first crisp air masses, the smell and colors, and being in the outdoors.  Likely the anticipation of what is to follow as well.

And the older I get, fall and winter are the seasons I least look forward to.

Part of that reason, beyond my commercial driving, is that I had my thyroid removed last fall, and as a result, my tolerance for cold has decreased exponentially. This was not a cold winter as far as stats are concerned, but yet for me, it was the worst one since I moved back here in 2001 as far as how it felt to my body.

13 minutes ago, Wmsptwx said:

To play devil's advocate, severe weather is much more fascinating than a weak clipper blowing through. The intricacies of helicity, shear, VBV, instability make or break a system, and the incredible process of huge towers going up and all coming together into crazy weather. Maybe I'm wrong, but mid level snow storms are kinda just run of the mill disturbances with frozen liquid instead of rain. Im expecting this to be unpopular, but I enjoy both.

As you could guess, I love severe much more than snow. You mention towers in your post. Well, you haven't seen anything until you see towers rising all around you from the mountain ranges during an Arizona monsoon while it's clear on the valley floor. It's kind of like a ring of fire, and you watch the sky and the radar wondering which ones will build into a super cell, and which ones will drift down out of the mountains and into the valley. Unlike here in PA where they mostly roll in from the west or northwest, a cell can come from any direction at anytime, and occasionally drift from multiple directions and come together into one immense storm.

One of those happened when I lived out there as a storm came north from Pinal County and Gila Bend, one drifted south from Lake Pleasant, and the other came in from the east out of Mesa. They hit West Phoenix and Avondale (where I lived at the time) with such a vengeance as I'd never seen before. Lightning that wasn't CTG stretched from one end of the sky to the other in a near strobe light effect for nearly an hour.

Then there's the outflow induced haboobs, or duststorms, which can be incredibly amazing in their own right.