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Just waking up to the bathroom at 4 am and along City ave in Overbrook Park powerlines and fences are still iced over for now (my patio is also elevated though, but I’m surprised to be hovering at freezing still

Finally getting the tiniest of flurries here on City Ave. Good sign I suppose that the column is moist enough for precip…radar echoes are creeping northward into Philly and Delco ever so…

the HRRR still has SE PA in a small snowband through early afternoon so I’m crossing my weenie fingers lol

3 minutes ago, BBasile said:

A friend just sent this to me.  Mullica Hill.  

Wait is this forreal? The other footage was incredible but, (to quote Twister), “mother of God…”

Getting deluged here on City Ave…some of the heaviest rain I’ve seen all summer.

3 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

And... my power just went out.

My lights are flickering!

3 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Big gust front just came through here with some loud winds.  Temp is down to 75 with dp 63.

Was coming here to post the same. Prob 40-50 mph gusts here with that outflow boundary. 
 

I probably won’t see any thunderstorms now bc of it though lol

Wow that was probably some of the closest lightning strikes/ loudest thunder I’ve experienced in a long time. About a dozen or so extremely close CG bolts, all less than a half mile away or so. I live next to Morris Park so there’s a lot of trees/ open ground to catch lightning. Cars up and down the street had their alarms set off several times. 
 

Great show! Had me taking cover afar back from the windows haha!  

Pouring rain with lots of lightning and thunder.

my rain buckets are filling up! Thank ye rain gods 

feeling like I’m at a casino playing roulette hoping for a good drenching today! I hear thunder from that popcorn storm in Delco near Drexel Hill…

Do I feel lucky?

I’m gonna try to ignore that pop up storm by West Chester that fizzled out on its way to me here at the 3-way juncture of Philly, Delco, and Montco 

11 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

LOL  I put clean buckets out and will collect rain water and store it in old milk/water jugs.  I have a couple sensitive houseplants that hate the fluoride but seem to appreciate the rain water (I had been initially giving those distilled water but that can get burdensome purchasing after awhile).

So I’m not the only houseplant parent that spoils the kiddies! If only they knew how much angst I put myself through when we go stretches without heavy rain! Lol

Ok so here we go again…HRRR says there should be a thunderstorm sitting atop my head here on City Ave around 8 tonight. 
 

Don’t want flash floods but my rain cistern is almost empty! (I hate using tap water for my houseplants lol) I just need a good 10-15 min downpour! 

14 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

I'm getting some rain here, enough to wet the ground so far, and it looks like you should get some too, even if not a downpour.

Dissipated again! Just a quick spritz and distant thunder here to mock me lol. Never thought I’d turn into a summertime weenie lol 

I guess I should be relieved to not have flash floods, but here in Overbrook Park we got maybe 5 raindrops total, same as it’s been all weekend as every thunderstorm complex has dissipated somewhere in central Delco or the mainline on its way here. 
 

my garden needed some of these storms today ugh

SN big fat lazy flakes on City Ave, these multiple-day, multiple waves of low pressure systems this winter have definitely come through in the clutch. 

26 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Welcome!  There are a couple of us city-proper posters here. Seems we have issues beyond the snow/sleet line that have to do with what is going on in the upper atmosphere with warm noses and whatnot!  I think this was pretty much expected - a "front end thump" followed by mixing and then when the coastal takes over, some possible additional, although it remains to be seen if more rain happens with that.  If anything, it is interesting to see where the band of heaviest snow had/had set up and it's a pretty narrow gradient for that at the moment.

Yup another city proper lurker here, though I’m off city ave about 2 min from Wynnewood/Ardmore. 
 

still getting a SN/IP mix, + at times...though I’m envious of those with a fully cold column and pure snow ☃️

18 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

I'm posting my observations. How can observations have a clue or no clue? It's been light freezing rain all afternoon and there is zero accretion on any surfaces. Sorry that hurts your feelings. Some people get worked up over no reason... Par the course for that user.

I think all of this can be true. There’s so much residual salt on walkways and roads. I’m in Overbrook Park on a 2nd floor duplex and my metal patio is completely iced over, as are the metal cars below, but the gravel cement asphalt surfaces aren’t as icy *yet* cus they can absorb some liquid first- even if it’s sub freezing air temp. Metal surfaces and elevated surfaces, even just by one story level, accrete ice so much quicker.

but your rule of thumb is always air temp- if your at 27 and ANYTHING is falling from the sky, assume it’s either super frozen or will freeze on surfaces *eventually* - it’s literally impossible for H2O to remain liquid at 27 degrees if it isn’t already a solution of saline or some other chemical... 

2 hours ago, Birds~69 said:

He/She was more concerned/pissed the news outlets were wrong than anything else...not MT Holly who said 1pm..

And this was when they made the fatal mistake lol

50 minutes ago, hurricane1091 said:

Uhh I care? What kind of question is that. I don't need to go anywhere but the news was saying and people were asking here if the daytime would be OK. The consensus was yes. Can't even predict the weather a day in advance LOL

Mt. Holly’s WWA went into effect at 1 pm EST fwiw

cant believe we might pick up another coating or so today, this little enhanced area of snow showers over the Philly metro is really something now that we’re 72 hours after the first WAA 

3 minutes ago, LVblizzard said:

Still some flakes in the air in Allentown...over 55 hours after the first flakes! Unbelievable duration with this storm.

Same here in West Philly, snowing again sufficiently enough to re-coat the cars and sidewalks. 

SN/ maybe SN+ on the Main Line/City Ave -- the band over Philly and sort of paralleling the Schuylkill is really starting to blossom, seeing some 30-35 dBZ returns on the NWS radar. 

The jury is still out for me on the new NWS radar, but I do have to say the super hi resolution is...useful...on a day like today, or whatever...lol

the banded look to the returns in NE MD coming into Chesco / Delco are starting to proliferate it’s nice to see this happening at noon already 

light snow and blowing snow again, I'm quite pleased that the backend changeover really came through at the end here...not a bad storm to inaugurate the season!  

Ripping sleet here, my skylights are ping ping pinging. I suppose it's nice to see the column getting colder again to support IP > ZR in WNW Philly. 

1 hour ago, CoolHandMike said:

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why all the models and predictions turned out to be so wrong with this storm? Two days ago we were supposed to get almost 2' of snow, then yesterday they backed it off to 13", and now I have barely 4" with sleet coming down much further north than predicted, with not much else seemingly incoming. I mean, I want to be happy for the first major snowfall in a long, long while, but why the huge bust this time?

Perhaps someone else can better describe this, but I think a main problem was some of the models were keeping the low fragmented at 700 mb and 500 mb and not quite closed off at all levels of the atmosphere, so that it was more just an 850 mb low level circulation with a progressive ripple trough higher up that would gently slide east off the coast. But the low closed off --I don't think it's fully stacked ? (someone better can say for sure)...but the trough tilted more negative, and this sort of yanked back on the surface low to hug into the coast close, taking the track over the Chesapeake and Delaware Bays we see tonight. 

Again, someone probably knows a better website (?) but you can see the different upper air maps here from Norman, OK --  all of them have a low plotted generally over the Delmarva (though I don't think the low is quite that far NW attm fwiw).