Voyager

4 hours ago, canderson said:

Sunday afternoon we have to drive across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge - I should buy a GoPro for prosperity. 

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

1 hour ago, canderson said:

Yesterday Flagstaff, Arizona, had 35.9” snow!

@Voyager aren’t you headed there this weekend? Lol

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.

27 minutes ago, Ruin said:

Oh wow the radar really broke apart.

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

1 hour ago, sauss06 said:

And we look to stay below freezing for a couple hours yet 

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...

6 minutes ago, penndotguy said:

I figured it was gonna go all day into this evening I have the same 2.5 with flurries 

My wife watches WNEP in the morning before work, so I happened to catch Joe Snedeker's forecast this morning, and after the initial show of snow, he said the precipitation would be "showery" the rest of the day. So far, he seems to have barked up the right tree...

1.75" as of 1:00pm

11 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

welcome back 

I'm still here. I don't leave until Saturday. It's too bad it's not a pleasure trip. I'm going out to help my mom (per her request) to sort through things to sell, donate, and/or trash.

14 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

Since I'm enjoying today...I hope were not done yet....how do we lock this bomb in?

Now why does it have to wait until the 4th to do that? I'll be in Phoenix until the 2nd. Why can't that happen during the week of the 25th to the 1st?

Heavy, but fine snow here in Tamaqua. Started snowing about 45 minutes to an hour ago, and we may have a half inch already. Intensity is good, but the flakes size at the moment isn't.

3 hours ago, bubbler86 said:

LOL, had to help you out but I like the name Milltown. 

LOL...I was sitting waiting for my basketball team to come out from their game down at PSU Brandywine. Quick glance at small text on my phone and I saw Milltown instead of Millville. Probably because my 51 year old eyes are getting tired...

3 hours ago, MillvilleWx said:

Hey Voyager! Your area is is the Central PA north of Turnpike to 99! Big area, but I felt it would be pretty uniform there. Hope that helps and hope you're doing well!

Thanks! Sorry about getting your name wrong, but I was reading on the quick.

55 minutes ago, 2001kx said:

started at 2" now up to 4" for me on those maps..

Looks like they LOWERED eastern Schuylkill County down a couple of inches.

Milltown, you didn't really mention I-81 north into Schuylkill County.

20 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

I will be in the south western side at 3-5 for that event while voyager in Wspt are digging out once again. This wouldn’t be the first year events have danced around Lanco. I’m rather used to it but will take whatever we can get. I know my climo well. 

I won't be digging. I'll be in Phoenix watching from afar...lol

7 minutes ago, MAG5035 said:

I'm gonna end up with a double ice layer snowpack. You can walk on top of the 4-5" pack that's already on the ground without breaking through. 

Toughest ice pack I can ever remember was one back in January 2008. I drove a Mack Granite tri-axle dump truck with a steel dump body back then. The thing weighed 28,000 lbs empty, and when I drove into the quarry where I was supposed to pick up a load, I rode on top of the unplowed ice pack. It was amazing. Needless to say, the quarry folks sent all the trucks back home that morning...

Well, at least I'm scheduled off on Wednesday. Thursday morning may be a different story. Run from Hazleton down through Jim Thorpe to Palmerton, then down to Sands Casino in Bethlehem. The first part from Hazleton to Palmerton is going to be (d)icy...lol

Didn't leave State College until 5:15pm. By that time the precip had started. It was a mix until I got up to I-80, then it was all snow. The interstate completely caved by the time I got to the Lock Haven exit, and it was snow covered all the way to Milton. Fun times...

17 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Dew points are in the teens, so temps should drop when precip begins. Precip type will probably depend on rates.

I'm just hoping the group is ready to load, and we can roll out before the flakes fly.

Just now, Blizzard of 93 said:

I think the answer is in between the 2 maps. Either way, even a minor amount of mixed precip can cause trouble on the roads.

Yup. And I have to be in State College at 3:45pm this afternoon.

3 hours ago, crypt88 said:

Sp,

I agree, the daffodils are beginning their early emergence as it was only a matter of time with the warm and wet conditions that have set in this winter...

Seriously???

Up here, the ground is still frozen pretty good and most garden areas are under at least some patchy areas of snow.

I have to go out to State College tomorrow to pick up local students who attended Thon at PSU and bring them back to Hazleton. Have to be at the Bryce Jordan Center for 3:45pm, so I'm "hoping" the onset of snow is somewhat delayed and I can get in and out and headed back east before the flakes fly...

46 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Dr No headed the wrong way with everything possible the next 10 days. Dont shoot the messenger. Wave 1 south and sheared. Wave 2 sheared south. Wave 3 amped cutter and losing the cold air.....sort of resembles yesterday storm. Thereafter beach weather for the foreseeable future. If it wasnt the Euro I would say meh whatever but this is a few runs in a row now where it essentially tries to put a nail in the coffin of winter 18-19. Again just relaying guidance data. Dr No just took that unicorn, sacrificed it, ripped off it's horn and shoved it where the sun doesnt shine.

Don't fret. I'm going to Phoenix from 2/23 to 3/2. That means it'll be warm here and cold there. Winter will return on 3/3 once I'm back here. Lately, cold weather seems to follow me around like a black cloud.

That cold better get OUT of Arizona before I get there on the 23rd. Nothing worse for me than heading somewhere warm and ending up in a cold pattern while I'm there...

I certainly hope so.