Bubbler86

Euro drops 1-2" of snow Thursday night and Friday. Surface temps are again not good though.

I always thought he was a big thunderstorm person and loved when they trained over one area. :-).

Euro shows some mixed precip in the LSV tomorrow evening. Edit-And then another small area Sunday evening. This one is a mixed blessing though as it appears to be the warm front ushering in one of the warmest starts to February on record at MDT.

Close call on the icon

Yea, if you start sweating while dancing to the Pennsylvania Polka do you really need the groundhogs opinion on winter?

I went back to 1980 and did not see any months where 3 of the first 5 days of February had highs near 60 and lows in the 40's and 50's. Euro has wavered back on forth on how warm it will actually get but potential for a fairly rare warm spell considering the warm night time lows.1990 and 1991 were also fairly warm but lows were in the 20's and 30's.

Pic posted in the Carlisle Newspaper showing a man standing on the recently cleared trolley tracks after the early February "Blizzard of 1920". The article includes a veiled complaint that the American Model at that time (Groundhog) misled them. Hit X to close nag box that comes up and article is still available to read. https://cumberlink.com/news/local/history/tour_through_time/tour-through-time-blizzard-a-century-ago-buried-carlisle-and/article_85a50d8e-3593-5b5f-951a-77b64cf52293.html#utm_source=cumberlink.com&utm_campaign=%2Fnewsletter-templates%2Fnews-alert&utm_medium=PostUp&utm_content=76d55c3450cb85adbb30161eeb9e70e4f90e8d7d

Abner Doubleday invented both baseball and global warming.

We have actually had a couple daffodils come up already and then freeze but not ready to give up on winter yet. Most of next week is pretty much a punt at this point but still 3-4 weeks of decent climo left. It seems like a good chance MDT will set one or two daily high records between Mon and Thur. On the point of whether the weather is warmer now that in the past the record high for Wednesday is 74 in 1890.

I just stopped over there and the discussion is about plants and flowering too early. LOL. I saw a long post from the war reenactor at the top but it was too long for me to want to read it right now.

Good thing it is real snow otherwise we might not count it (LOL). If you need help with snow maps let me know! The most interesting, in a sad way, about the Euro is that it does not go below freezing in the LSV for a full week starting this coming Sunday.

Funny...the Euro muted Sun, Tue and Wed to only 50's with possibly some upper 40's but now suggests 70's is a real possibility in the southern part of the LSV on Monday.

I only poke into Banter once in a while. Maybe I saw it but a lot of stuff in banter is just people trying to engage others into posts that lead to fights so I sometimes shut it out.

Is that someone posting in the MA? I had not noticed him.

Thank you Jackie Chiles

LOL, no doubt. But the fake snow discussion has always been a fun one for me as it has come and gone on here (and other boards) for decades now so I always jump at a chance to speak to it. LOL

I have always fallen on the fake side of it because I based my thought on precip being formed through interaction of pressures and rising air vs. cold air blowing over a warm lake and it dropping off the after effect on the other side. I consider LEK a phenomenon vs. an actual precipitation event though I fully understand both sides of the argument.

Hope you get some fake snow.

M y long range Polar Vortex in the news was not good enough I guess? :-)

It was one of the more cold looks I have seen in a while but we are going to need something like that to get Feb BN after the first 5-6 days end up average 30-40 AN.

We are going to be so far AN in February by this time next Thursday that will take an arctic plunge to make the month end BN. Lows in the 50's early next week. Yuck.

Yes I should have specified Harrisburg and South.

I think we can hit 60 3 days next week with Tue making a run for 70.