ChescoWx

Steve great post!! The main point for folks if they like winter weather is that this has been a much different winter season then we have seen for many years. While no one knows if all this cold and pretty consistent below normal temps for the last many months ends in a lot of snow is unknown. So if you measure great winters by snow totals you could be disapointed as snow take a lot of timing in any spots outside of the lakes or mountains of New England here in the Northeast.

We ended up with 4.5" here in East Nantmeal with our 9th winter event of the season. Total snow fall this month is 5.6" which is 2.4" above normal for the 2025-26 season we have received 17.3" which is exactly 7.0" above normal through today.

4.5" here in East Nantmeal as of 12noon with another 1.0" since 11am

4.5" here in East Nantmeal as of 12noon with another 1.0" since 11am

Still heavy snow here in NW Chester County approaching 4" of snow temp at 30.3 degrees

Heavy Snow continues approaching 4" here in NW Chesco...certainly an overperformer!

As of 9:15 am up to 1.5" of snow...that is 1.0" of snow in last 45 minutes temp at 29.9

Heavy snow continues we have already exceeded our forecast of up to 1 inch here in NW Chesco. Temp down to 30.0. All surfaces covered.

Moderate to near heavy snow here in EN all surfaces covered on our way to our current NWS forecast of up to 1 inch. Temp 30.9

Moderate to near heavy snow here in EN all surfaces covered on our way to our current NWS forecast of up to 1 inch. Temp 30.9

Simply cyclical climate swings again nothing to see here....

Because as the chart clearly shows they are of course not warming at the same rate....PHL is exceeding as you would expect the warming at what we would expect at a non-UHI site.

Uh global warming uh climate change rearing it's ugly head again!

Actually here in the Chesco only 1.5 AN....we appear heading for our 4th straight below normal temperature month and 5th out of the last 6 months - that is impressive in our current warm cycle...suspect we may be trending to our next cooling cycle.

It looks like those are the adjusted altered figures....slope is wrong on the above

So my climate pair....one of these things is not warming like the other....wonder why?

It’s sunny and cold today with high temperatures close to freezing. Light snow should begin tomorrow morning and last for a few hours from late morning through early afternoon. Roads should be mainly wet with temperatures just above freezing in most spots. There could be some minor accumulations of up to 1" in some higher spots of NW Chesco. We turn even colder with temperatures remaining below freezing from tomorrow afternoon through at least Thursday morning. We will moderate a bit by next weekend before the coldest weather of the season so far arrives to close out the final week of January.

It’s sunny and cold today with high temperatures close to freezing. Light snow should begin tomorrow morning and last for a few hours from late morning through early afternoon. Roads should be mainly wet with temperatures just above freezing in most spots. There could be some minor accumulations of up to 1" in some higher spots of NW Chesco. We turn even colder with temperatures remaining below freezing from tomorrow afternoon through at least Thursday morning. We will moderate a bit by next weekend before the coldest weather of the season so far arrives to close out the final week of January.

Kind of wild but that 12z European model has assuming snow cover a day next Monday with a day that the high may struggle to get above zero. A day below zero has only occurred 1 time in Chester County since 1894!

might want to peek at the latest Euro...

Quite the next 12 days IF you choose to believe the European

Let's call upon the ghost of the famous unforecasted January 2000 storm that was forecast right up till the day of the storm to slide off the coast.....but as the radar hallucinations began to get the weenies yelling - look it's coming straight north - this one actually did. Here in Chester County we ended up with 11" of snow. Could it happen again? Who remembers that one?

For those 3 days with 19 below zero across Chester County - at Coatesville 1SW in 1914 there was 6.0" of snow on the ground / At Phoenixville 1E on 1/22/1961 there was 12.0" of snow OTG / at Octoraro Lake on 1/22/1984 there was 5.5" of snow OTG

Breezy and cold today with temperatures remaining below freezing this morning and then slowly falling through the 20's this afternoon. We will stay below freezing for much of the next week with the one exception being Saturday where we should moderate into the mid to upper 30's. There will also be a couple chances of some light snow both Saturday and Sunday. Our coldest weather of the season will arrive next week with high temperatures by Tuesday, remaining in the teens with nighttime lows in the single digits above zero.