Voyager

Help me out. I'm trying to figure out when we last had a major storm with temps as "wall to wall" cold as this one's going to be. I'm thinking either 93 or 96. Most of the ones lately have been in the 20s to low 30s and as such most plowed roads melted off rather quickly. This one's not going to be so easy for the road crews nor the motoring public.

1 7-11 2-4 In Coalcrackerville.

And for areas that don't see sleet, some blowing and drifting will be problems with wind gusts up to 25mph after the storm passes.

Some of the roads we use on our routes are going to be problematic if that occurs. PA895 west of New Ringgold has a deep cut and will probably blow shut if Pendot doesn't stay on top of things. The road to our one well (the "well in the woods" that I show in my videos) traverses an open field that is township maintained and will probably blow shut as well. It may not be until Wednesday that we won't have major problems to deal with.

Ah. Gotcha. I don't have Wx Bell.

That's some serious heavy snow right there.

You know. I think we all need to slow down on posting here (and in other forums as well) because every storm thread is listed as "HOT". No wonder there's going to be mixing issues. We're heating things up and messing with the thermal profiles...

Up to I-80 where? With 6 hour increments, I don't see mixing anywhere near I-80 except perhaps in New Jersey.

Best I've ever seen personally was two hours worth of 5" per hour rates during the height of the February 1983 blizzard in Bethlehem.

I know I got 17" total out of that one when I lived in Bethlehem. How much of it was sleet, I can't remember, but it was a decent amount. Nope. Anything under 20 is a bust as far as I'm concerned...

Man, I hope it's not done that early. As of right now, we have no scheduled loads for Monday because of the snow. If it stops that early, if the roads are in any way passable, we'll be expected to go out. As I pointed out in a previous post, I'm a one man show when it comes to snow removal for two properties and three vehicles. I'll need most of Monday to clean this stuff up.

Hopefully it's wrong. Don't need that extra weight in the pack. I'm a one man shoveling show since my wife is handicapped, my mother in-law is elderly, and my father in-law is passed. I have two properties to clear, and three cars.

Just looked at my forecast. CTP has sleet mixing possible Sunday afternoon, and even included freezing rain/sleet combo mix for Sunday night. I thought I was safe up here...

Oops. My bad.

Cutting back on totals I see?

Yup. Right or wrong, we're getting to the time where I pay more attention to the mesos over the globals.

Good question. Maybe they're a bit unsure of when accumulating snow ends. If they took that map to 1am, it would probably be 4-6 inches higher.

To answer my question, I just had to wait until this morning's update. Thy added in Sunday overnight accumulations, which gives me a range of 12-22 inches. Still mum on Monday's possible accumulations if it snows late into the morning. Saturday Night Snow likely after 1am. Cloudy, with a low around 8. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Sunday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 18. East wind 5 to 7 mph, with gusts as high as 22 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 8 to 12 inches possible. Sunday Night Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 15. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 3 to 7 inches possible. Monday A chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 22. Chance of precipitation is 50%.

So this is what I have for a forecast. Question is, how much more Sunday night and Monday morning? They only show 8-14 through Sunday late afternoon/evening. Saturday Night Snow, mainly after 1am. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 8. Calm wind. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 3 inches possible. Sunday Snow. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 17. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New snow accumulation of 7 to 11 inches possible. Sunday Night Snow. Low around 13. Chance of precipitation is 90%. Monday A chance of snow before 1pm. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 22. Chance of precipitation is 40%.

Yikes. Too close for comfort for me. Wow... What did Aerosmith say, Livin' on the Edge...

I'm not sure I want a trend so much as for it to hold serve just as it is. Everyone gets close to, or even above 20" as depicted. I'd kind of hate to lose what I (or we) have gained the past few runs.

I'm guessing taint makes it to the Blue Mountain on that run? I'm at work so I can't really dig into the models on my phone.

With my schedule, I can't shop until Saturday. It'll probably be a madhouse with the usual items sold out.

Region-wide 20+ inches on the 6z GFS...

Just looked at radar. Looks like it's going snow soon here. I wasn't expecting that...