famartin

Gotta say, been kinda amusing to see how badly the models have done with P-type in the Trenton area today... 12 hours of sleet, 4.4" total on the ground.

That sounds vaguely familiar but honestly my memory isn't all that clear from back then anymore.

I'd call that an "asos ratio" since that was back when all ASOS was even worse at snow:liquid ratios than it is now... back when all they had was tipping buckets. Now some (including all that measure snow) have weighing gauges.

I've been concentrating on other things the last several years. I still keep close tabs and save materials, I just haven't assembled anything in quite a few years. I suspect that at some point, my focus will shift back towards it... I just can't say when, yet.

Noticed a few of you have seen my YouTube page Thanks for the compliments. With everything going on, I forgot that today is the 25th anniversary of the greatest snowstorm of my childhood. If you'd like to relive it with me, I put all the TV footage I recorded then on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9RwNUuaYM&list=PLsKEUOGm0GB4tDPkhigFpNa8pdH0BiZyg

With everything going on, I forgot that today is the 25th anniversary of the greatest snowstorm of my childhood. If you'd like to relive it with me, I put all the TV footage I recorded then on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p-9RwNUuaYM&list=PLsKEUOGm0GB4tDPkhigFpNa8pdH0BiZyg

Parents in Ewing are at 2.9" of snow for the season. Last time the season started off this poorly was 1993...

Hi all, Been a while since I posted. I know many of you probably hope I'll get around to the winter storm archive again some day, and its possible I will, but since that day is not today, I figured I'd share with you something I have finally gotten around to... putting all my old TV recordings up on YouTube. Its a lot of TWC and some old local news clips too (mostly WPVI at first, later branching to the other stations). So far I'm only thru early 1996, but since that did include the blizzard, I thought it was time to share. I'm linking to the "playlists" page since that's the most organized, but if you want to dig thru every single video, just skip over to the videos page. https://www.youtube.com/user/famartin1/playlists Hope you enjoy!

http://www.weather.gov/data/PHI/PNSPHI https://forecast.weather.gov/product.php?site=NWS&product=PNS&issuedby=PHI

An impressive 1.17” of water came out of that 2.6” of snow in Ewing... (some was rain and sleet of course, but still a lot)

After a while of sleet/rain, it went back to snow in Ewing, looks like the final will be 2.6"

2.0" in Ewing, now sleet/rain mix

Honestly I hardly post much, period... being back east means I'm more distracted by other interests more than ever, so something else had to give. It ended up being the forums (the lack of time had kinda already halted further development of the winter storm pages back around 2013). Not a lack of interest, just not enough time to post anything useful.

I am? LOL I haven't moderated anything here in years.

2.1" in Ewing

1" in Ewing, mostly sleet

Actually, you shouldn’t clear even if type changes if it hasn’t been 6 hours from the last clearing. So... if you clear the board at noon, it snows til 3 then changes to sleet, you still can’t clear the board until 6.

3:1 or 3.5:1 is about right. Model snow map output continues to have issues discriminating. In any mix scenario I would always look closely at thermals for myself.

I was looking for a foot plus storm, but never managed to find one. I did find a historic storm with the October 2011 snow, so that was worth it, even tho it wasn’t that much in total.

Kamu said I needed to provide some guidance on sleet here. Without reading the whole thread, can someone bring me up to speed?

I snow chased cross-country a couple times back when I lived in Elko

Something in central NJ has been running warm for the past few days...

Only reason there were more posts here is because of this topic. And those few people are way smarter than me.

And there it goes. LOLZ. Yeah there's really a problem with this place if it can't stand competition. I deleted this comment before, but really, I don't care what happens here. I don't spend any time here. I go to Tom's forum. Since I'm in the mid-atlantic now, I go there too, but my time spent in this sub-forum is near zero. Given that situation and the lack of posting in general, it would make sense to merge the forums and just have a Philly area thread for obs/disco/banter. They do that for other regions in NYC and in Mid-Atlantic already.

no its not. i go there mostly.