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Nope...lol

I didn't measure, but a co-op observer over in Mahanoy City, about 12 miles from my house on the other side of I-81, recorded 7 inches from this event. Eyeballing my own backyard, it looked like maybe about 3-5 inches here.

It's all good. I think we'll get our 4, but insane rates are cool to watch. Even if just for an hour or two. I was in total awe back in 96 when it snowed so hard in the final deformation band that it looked like pea soup fog outside.

20+dbz rates have successfully danced south of Schuylkill County all night long. But, it had been modelled that way for a couple days now. Our heavy(er) rates have visibly backed off in the past hour though

Cool. If we're going to have snow, then I want to see good rates. Thanks!

Big question, though. Does that good forcing make it up here to Schuylkill County or does it stay down there in the southern tier counties? As you know, I'm a "go big or go home" kind of person when it comes to winter events, so if it's going to snow, especially in March, then I want to get my azz kicked with a good one, and not be "fringed".

And that's what I hate. There is more to weather than just snow. Try to start a discussion about thunderstorms and tropical systems, and it's mostly crickets in here...

Which storm is that? So many storms back to back I can't tell which one you guys are talking about...lol If it's the Sunday/Monday storm, what are the estimated start and end times? I'm supposed to do a Philly Flower Show trip on Monday, and I'm not looking forward to driving in that mess after spending a week here in Phoenix. I hope the trip cancels.

Nope. Tomorrow. I get back to PA about 7pm.

I wish I could stay in Phoenix another week...

I just hope it's enough to cancel my trip to the Philly Flower Show on Monday. The last thing I want to do is drive a 45 ft bus in a wintry mess immediately after arriving home from warm and sunny Phoenix.

Thanks! I'm not experiencing this one as I'm out west watching from the sidelines. It looks like gusts we're into 50's statewide, though. I expected to see the outage map intensify overnight. Was surprised it didn't.

Dude, you must have the same weather black cloud that hangs over me. Anomolous weather seems to skip over me. Even during Sandy, when it was hell on earth in many locations (90mph gust in Allentown) it was rather calm and benign in Tamaqua. So much so that while most of the region lost power and had major damage, our lights burned bright, and nary a tree branch fell... It was unbelievable. It was like someone put a plexiglass dome over the borough.

Looking at the power outage maps this morning, it appears that Eastern PA is in much better shape than Western PA. We're the winds stronger out that way, or is there another factor at play?

Just checked my forecast for Tamaqua and CTP boosted the gusts up five to 65mph during the overnight hours.

I must be getting punished for my earlier post. Delayed/late getting out of Allentown by an hour due to a mechanical issue which caused me to miss my connecting flight. That resulted in rebooking on a later flight which now has.......... wait for it...... mechanical issues. So now this flight out of Charlotte is going to be delayed by about an hour or so. All in all a lousy flight day and one that's going to end up 3 to 4 hours longer than expected.

There are times when that causes a short circuit though...

Since there's not much weather to talk about (except for the wind tomorrow) I'm going to go off topic a bit. Why do people procrastinate and push things off to the LAST POSSIBLE minute? My grandfather taught me that if you are "on time" you are late and if you are early you are "on-time". Well, my wife is the opposite of that theory. It's recommended that you be at the airport 2 hours before scheduled flight time nowadays because of security. Well, my flight leaves at 11:30am, so therefore I should be at the airport by 9:30am. But my wife, who MUST sleep in on weekends decides she's getting up at 7:00. Now she needs a shower, which will mean make-up and jewelry, and other crap before we actually roll. This will take AT LEAST an hour (I know her quite well) and we live an hour away from the airport. So instead of having a nice, relaxing ride to the airport, it will be a high stress, fast driving event. Not to mention that we are now in moods because I get wound up if I think I'm going to be late. Just a wonderful start to the day and trip...

At least they're waterproof. You know, just in case...

Actually, I'm going to Phoenix, but they had 3 inches in North Scottsdale, and the close-in Valley mountains (White Tanks, Estrellas, etc) got snow overnight into this morning as snow levels were down to around 2,000ft, which is pretty low for out there.

I'm not a spotter and I'm not going out to try and measure a tree limb, but I'd say we're close to 0.25" with actual icicles forming on the wires and trees around here. Just had a heavy burst of rain which took my backyard station up to 33, but I'm not sure if that's just latent heat from the rain on my sensor, or if we have indeed gone above freezing. Weather app still says it's 31 here.

Per my radar, it looks like dry slot #2 is approaching Schuylkill County...

Strange. Once the heavier precip came back in I shot up from 27 to 32 on my backyard station and 31 on my weather app. I can't see us holding on below freezing at the surface for much longer considering such a rapid rise.

We just went from advisory to warning here in Schuylkill County. Text mentions accretion of .25" or more of ice.

Freezing drizzle here now. Wires, snow pack, and exposed car surfaces are beginning to ice up. And it's only 27 degrees here as well. Gonna be another morning of thawing out the Jeep so I can go to work if surface temps are slow to warm...