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A fairly typical late February weather pattern with most days this week running a little below average but rising to above average by Thursday. Out next chance of rain looks to be Thursday night. Chester County Records for today: High 74 Phoenixville (1948) / Low 4 below West Chester (1979) / Precipitation 1.86" Devault (1979) / Snow Devault 18.0" (1979)

A fairly typical late February weather pattern with most days this week running a little below average but rising to above average by Thursday. Out next chance of rain looks to be Thursday night. Chester County Records for today: High 74 Phoenixville (1948) / Low 4 below West Chester (1979) / Precipitation 1.86" Devault (1979) / Snow Devault 18.0" (1979)

Chilliest morning since January 20th across most of Chester County this AM. With the solid snow cover across most of the County lows were in the teens in most areas (see attached). A little below normal temperatures for today through mid-week then some warming before our next chance of rain by Thursday night. Records for today: High 72 Phoenixville (2011) / Low Phoenixville 11 below (1979) / Precipitation 1.59" KMQS Airport (2008) / Snow 10" Coatesville (1979)

Chilliest morning since January 20th across most of Chester County this AM. With the solid snow cover across most of the County lows were in the teens in most areas (see attached). A little below normal temperatures for today through mid-week then some warming before our next chance of rain by Thursday night. Records for today: High 72 Phoenixville (2011) / Low Phoenixville 11 below (1979) / Precipitation 1.59" KMQS Airport (2008) / Snow 10" Coatesville (1979)

We ended up with 2.8" of snow here in East Nantmeal which makes 13.3" of snow this week! That is more than our normal February snow of 11.9". Season to date we are at 24.5" which is only 0.8" below our normal seasonal snow to date. The storm delivered an unexpected dump of snow as a narrow band of heavy snow formed just 18 to 30 miles north of Chester County. For example in Fleetwood 9.0" of snow fell just 19 miles north of EN. Another example is just south of Allentown a spotter reported 12.1" while only 2 miles north of there another spotter recorded almost 4.5" - impossible to forecast those kind of snow bands!

2.5" here in East Nantmeal Twp. as of 4am

Only heavy snow I can find on obs is at Hagerstown and Camp David Maryland....the returns to the north look more impressive than obs

No real surprises so far....snow blossoming along mason dixon line across N MD and SC PA

In the professionals we should trust!

Here in East Nantmeal snow picked up pretty quickly after first couple flakes temp also falling quickly down a degree since snow started and now at 32.3 degrees

32.8 DP 23 heavy virga here in East Nantmeal

NAM looks not that far from the NWS forecast 3" to 5" I am not stunned!

If you follow these short term models....

Steve models are not real useful at this point....they will waver back and forth - time for radar and station obs

Never a big fan of the short term rapid refresh type models....need to watch obs and radars for reality at this point

Never saw him before.....then again I never watch TV weather folks - just happened to pass by as my wife was watching

Just saw a forecaster on Fox29 say it will be a heavy wet snow to shovel in the morning.....

ya think? he had no zip zero snow for SE PA.....that said he is usually pretty solid in his views

Bernie Rayno's circled view of where area of "heaviest" snow could be...

Interesting you can see the difference where State College has updated and increased their snow totals...

I will be up early need to clear drive and get down to SIC in time for 5k run at noon