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Tamaqua backyard low this morning was +0.1 degree. This morning has not been fun. Got delayed at my first delivery by a frozen valve and pipe coming from the silo we unload into. Had to get with corporate to see what to do. Ended up putting it in the silo the other company uses. Then, loading the second load, I dropped the trailer inlet cap and it hit a plastic air line that's used to dump the air suspension on the trailer. Well, at zero degrees, that plastic is brittle and it broke. So now, no air bags and a massive air leak. So now I'm waiting for our mechanic to come and fix it. What a day...

Awesome! That's enough to give me a snow day at work. I haul permitted, overweight loads, and we can't legally run if there's snow on the roads.

As I figured, it would be colder at our shop. -1 degree...

1:30am 4 degrees (3.9 actually). I'm thinking that with about 4-5 more hours of cooling, even Tamaqua proper may get to zero for the low.

11 (10.8) here at 7:30. Might be zero or below at my normally cold work location tomorrow morning.

The big one is always 300+ hours out...

If I would have stayed in AZ... Today Sunny, with a high near 77. East wind around 5 mph becoming calm.

Once again, I have no good way of measuring when the grass is the place where the snow accumulated best as I don't have a snow board. My best eyeball guess is that we got somewhere between 2 and 3 inches.

I'm baffled. It's snowing, albeit lightly, the temp is 31, and we're close to 3 hours post sunset. Why is the snow having a hard time sticking to paved surfaces?

You should see how much coal the train pulls out of Lehigh Anthracite here in Tamaqua. Most, if not all, of it goes overseas. The trucks (ours included) haul the domestic, as well as some of the port loads.

I don't know of too many who cook with coal anymore, but coal heat is still quite popular up where I live. Getting some flurries/light snow already as I type.

I'd say probably a third of the houses in Tamaqua are still burning coal. Even at my work, our shop is heated with coal. You should see the monstrosity of a furnace we have.

Maybe depending on location, but CTP dropped my Monday low from 6 to 2 per my forecast.

NWS early morning updated forecast... Friday Snow, mainly after 11am. High near 34. East wind 3 to 5 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New snow accumulation of less than one inch possible. Friday Night Snow. Low around 24. Calm wind becoming north 5 to 8 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible.

Yup. Probably need at the minimum, three inches for it to last until Christmas Day

So when is the snow supposed to start tomorrow? The past few days, my forecast was saying after 1pm. Now the new forecast this morning just says snow, but no start time. Friday Snow. High near 34. Light east wind.

I think you misread his post...

You should rise on one of those ramps in a big truck. Being able to see over the retaining walls gives an even greater illusion to the height than just being in a car.

Thanks. Hauling water is one of the easiest trucking jobs I've had. Winter cold tries one's patience though. Hoses turn into PVC pipes, caps freeze on, valves freeze shut. Then there's the ever present fear that the vent froze shut. If that happens, especially when we're unloading, a good tank trailer ends up in the scrap yard.

Way too cold actually. I've loaded water at -8 up in Hazleton in the past. It sucks, though. Everything freezes almost instantly.

Sunday night keep getting colder... Sunday Night Clear, with a low around 6.

I guess I've got a pretty good eye (despite the beginnings of macular degeneration) because earlier I said it looked like we got about 2 inches and that graphic shows Tamaqua at 1.9 inch.

Flipped to rain/freezing rain now.

Still snowing here. Eyeballing perhaps 2 inches on the ground. Temp is 33.