Voyager

That Christmas 1966 storm was the storm that I heard the most stories about from my parents and grandparents when I was growing up. My parents were relative newlyweds that Christmas, and had gone over to my dad's parents house on Christmas Eve. They ended up spending the night because the snow was so heavy and the roads were so bad. My mom's father, not ever giving in, and being determined that he was not going to miss a Christmas with his new family, dug his car out, and made the drive across town on nearly unplowed and impassable roads to pick them up to bring him to his house. It took quite awhile, but he succeeded in his mission.

Snowing again...

All done here for the most part. Total frozen was 2.1" of which 1.7" was snow and 0.4" was sleet. I shoveled the snow just as it switched over, and now just finished shoveling the sleet. It's consistancy was like scooping sugar.

Still 100% sleet , or perhaps snow grains, (and very light at that) here in Tamaqua.

Well, we've been sleet for about 2 hours now, do I suppose were done with any quick accumulations at this point. Surface temps haven't really budged all afternoon (20 to now 24), but upstairs must have warmed quite a bit. One thing we didn't see is the "sleet bomb" that some others did. It's been mostly light to where it was more like a misty freezing drizzle. Even now, I have to really look at the streetlight to see if it's doing anything.

I know it's nice to reminisce about 1993, but can we please talk more about THIS event? I'm trying to get upstream obs and info so I can follow and anticipate what's coming next. Right now, it has almost stopped "precipitating" here. When I measured we had nice moderate snow, then it turned into almost like a light sleet mist, and now has almost stopped entirely. Not sure what to make of it.

Precip lightened up dramatically, and is now is the tiniest ice pellets I've ever seen.

1.75" and snowing good again...

We have 1.25" of new snow from round one which is still ongoing here, but is now more of a snow grain variety than the big dendrites we had earlier. Currently 22 degrees outside.

The St. John's, Newfoundland "bomb cyclone" aftermath...

Wow...once it started, it pretty much hit like a wall of white! From nothing, to flurries, to light snow, and now moderate!

Flurries/light snow has commenced in Tamaqua.

I see the Williamsport snow hole is still showing up. What's the deal with the consistency of that feature?

Per radar it looks like it's right on the doorstep here. Dark lead gray skies and very cold out. How much is initially virga when the echos get overhead?

We did in January 1996. If I remember correctly, it was +7 when it started snowing in Allentown.

Sounds good, thanks! Perhaps this is one of those nice little overachievers...

As expected, the very first wave out ahead of the 25-30dbz band was virga. Time to run to the store before the 1st actual band gets here. What do you think, MAG, for my far eastern area of CTP? All snow, or does that warm nose make it here as well?

I have to admit, when the models were backing off on the totals Tue/Wed, I got skeptical that we'd see anything substantial out of this event. It seemed like is was going in the direction of our many 2" events from the past. The past few days have surprised me though, as we've come back to respectable amounts. My only worry now is that my wife, daughter, and grandkids are going to Wilkes-Barre tomorrow to see Disney on Ice. Hope they don't run into problems.

Point and click at this time is fairly aggressive. CTP not expecting (at this time anyway) any changeover until after sunset here... Saturday Snow, mainly after 9am. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 29. South wind 6 to 14 mph, with gusts as high as 24 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 5 inches possible. Saturday Night Snow and freezing drizzle likely before 11pm, then rain showers likely between 11pm and 4am, then a slight chance of snow after 4am. Cloudy, with a low around 27. South wind around 14 mph, with gusts as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New precipitation amounts of less than a tenth of an inch possible.

Because you guys are gonna get f.............oh never mind...lol Seriously though, I kind of thought the wind would die down overnight, but it's still ripping and rattling windows and stuff here.

Not you. Indeed!

This thread is getting difficult to read at the moment with the BS interspersed with the storm posts and analysis...

So do I, but in reality, I should have sent this one back 8 years ago after I bought it. The anemometer has never worked right. There is no way, with the window rattling, house shaking wind I had yesterday, that the highest gust was only 16 mph. Even back during Sandy, I couldn't get a gust higher than 24 mph.

Can't believe we're going down the "my snow is bigger than your snow" stuff tonight. Sheesh.