Voyager

See if we drop one or two more, but so far this is my third coldest morning since moving to Tamaqua in 2001.

Been bouncing back and forth between -3 and -4 for the past hour.

We have hit the threshold. Zero degrees at 8:45 pm.

33 minutes ago, MAG5035 said:

Your probably good for -5 or so even with a decent breeze. A look at dew points on some of the meso ob sites show dews in the -10 to -20 range and a lot below -15ºF region wide. Meso ob site closest to Tamaqua in Tuscarora State Park showing 1 degree with a -18ºF dew point.

Yeah, Tuscarora is a couple miles from the house as the crow flies. The drop has slowed a bit, but we are down to +2 as I type this.

I'm at +4 right now. Winds were howling, but as has been mentioned, they have backed off considerably. I do believe, if winds stay light, we can make a run for -5 to -10 even here.

Just now, bubbler86 said:

I do not have an anemometer but I am guessing sustained is over 30mph here right now with gusts in the 50-60 range.  I just had to walk several yards down to get my trash can back.  It is not just a regular round can it is one of those ~100 gallon boys on wheels and the wind below it about an acre away.  

Wow!!!

I don't know about anyone else, but I'm down 14 degrees since FROPA. It was 24 before the squalls hit, and it's now down to 10 with some insane wind gusts.

11 minutes ago, pawatch said:

The wind and snow is really blowing here. 43mph gust here. Wind steady @ 23mph

That was the one bad glitch in an otherwise fairly decent weather station. My anemometer was never correct. Peak gust, even during Sandy, was a meager 26 mph, and the highest I've ever recorded was 29 mph, and that was a gust that I thought was going to rip the back wall off of our house. Everything else (rain, temp, etc) was close to spot on.

So far today, my station's highest gust was 19 mph.

I stand corrected. We actually had two squalls. The first one was moderate with fine flakes. It had just about stopped, and then round two came in like a wall of white with much bigger flakes. That one's winding down now, but between the two of them we picked up between a half and one inch.

10 minutes ago, canderson said:

Mountains really did a number on it in HBG - it was a nice squall but by no means a white out or anything. I am on Front St and could still see the capitol dome. 

Well, it certainly wasn't awe inspiring here either. I had similar rates and visibility the last two hours of yesterday's storm as I did with the squall. There wasn't even much wind with it until it tapered off.

10 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

Haha.  My phone just went off again with the snow squall warning.  On radar what's left of it is over me right now and all I have are a few flurries!  Looks like Voyager might be the only one who ends up with something.  South of there it's completely falling apart / drying up.  Oh well, another disappointment.  Maybe 2" for Friday?

That line does look a bit ragged right now. Might it do the infamous "summertime" Tamaqua Split?

Did anyone read this morning's AFD? Pretty interesting (and cool) stuff going on with this weather event.

Still mainly clear in the east, so some sunshine will help
destabilize things there. That will likely serve to make the
snow showers/squalls more intense there. Might even be a CG or
two with CAPE nearing 100J in the east between 10AM-1PM. Most
likely place for thundersnow is near wind turbines. CAPE will be
nearly nil for the western half of the CWA due to early
passage.

It's always darkest...err...coldest right before the dawn. Temp dropped to +3 degrees with excellent radiational cooling this morning.

If my temp sensor is correct we are down to 7 degrees this morning, which I don't think is too far off, since the old mercury thermometer close to the house is reading 10 degrees.

31 minutes ago, MAG5035 said:

Tamaqua has went from snow desert to snowtown. 

Haha...

We really finished off with a bang as the final 2 hours of the event featured 2 inch/hour rates. 

Snow has stopped. Final total, 7.3 inches.

I'll do a final measurement once the back edge swings through. It sure does look like it will stop abruptly once it does.

Eyeballing things, it looks almost as if I doubled my previous measurement. We've had good rates and big flakes for the past two hours.

The sidewalks were shoveled once, and the plow had gone down the street, but the vehicles are untouched.

Just measured and have 3.25" as of 4:15pm.

Moderate snow as well here that is NOT of the usual pixie dust variety so regularly seen up my way. Haven't measured yet, but eyeballing about 2 inches.

Actually, in perusing the nearby CWA's, they all bumped down totals in PA. The 6-8 range over the Poconos Mount Holly was showing has pretty much vanished in favor of a widespread 4-6, and even Binghamton lowered everything in most of NEPA and southern NY state.

I guess some last minute shifts in either qpf and/or position of the front and developing wave are the culprits.

Holy crap at CTP's probabilistic map. They bumped it down big time in some locations. Less than one inch for most areas west of US-15???

Very light dusting here.

31 minutes ago, pawatch said:

We just got bumped down.

Interesting. I got bumped back up to 6-8 from 4-6 on the previous map.

I am about 3 miles from being in a winter storm warning as the county line and the border between CTP and Mt Holly is just outside of town over in Coaldale/Nesquehoning...

19 minutes ago, pasnownut said:

Friggin RGEM suckin my @rse back in.....

lol

 

Same old same old. Model mayhem right up until "go" time...

Looks like the NAM suite wants to shift everything south and east. The Pocono jackpot appears now to be a Lehigh Valley jackpot.