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    1/19/25 Eagles Playoff Winter Storm obs

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    1 hour ago, hosj III said:

    This looks like additional snow? It's much too low to be total snow. 

    Yep, it's basically a "now-cast". I've had issues where it wasn't refreshing even though the time stamp on the image was up to date, and it had something to do with browser cache. It was super weird until I figured it out.

    Sunday 1/19 Eagles Game Snow and Stuff

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    3 minutes ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

    January 27, 2011 is one. I can't remember if there has been any since then.

    Yeah I definitely recall hearing some during those back-to-back snowy winters. '09/'10, '10/'11.

    Before that, it was around '07 when I heard some while traveling for work near Boise, Idaho. That was the first time I ever heard it and I was awestruck.

    Sunday 1/19 Eagles Game Snow and Stuff

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    Aaand now it's official: Winter Storm Warning just hoisted:

    Winter Storm Warning
    Issued: 2:50 PM Jan. 18, 2025 – National Weather Service 
    ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 7 AM SUNDAY TO 1 AM EST
MONDAY...

* WHAT...Heavy snow expected. Total snow accumulations between 4 and
7 inches.

* WHERE...Portions of east central and southeast Pennsylvania.

* WHEN...From 7 AM Sunday to 1 AM EST Monday.

* IMPACTS...Roads, and especially bridges and overpasses, will
likely become slick and hazardous. Travel could be very difficult.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Temperatures are expected to fall into the
teens Sunday night and remain below freezing for several days. As
a result, icy and slippery conditions may persist even after
precipitation has ended.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you must travel, keep an extra flashlight, food, and water in
your vehicle in case of an emergency. The latest road conditions for
the state you are calling from can be obtained by calling 5 1 1.

&&

    Sunday 1/19 Eagles Game Snow and Stuff

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    8 minutes ago, RedSky said:

    If winter remembers like in 1987 we get something like this one

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1987_nor'easter

    Hours of thundersnow overnight and I measured on the high end of a yardstick in the morning

    The best winter of the 80's

    I'd have been in 7th grade; I don't specifically recall that one, but it tracks with me remembering heavy snows out of nowhere. The 23rd would have been a Monday, so school might have been cancelled beforehand. I lived for those days, with thoughts of a possible snow day swirling in my head as I tried to go to sleep the night before. Waking up to heavy snow on Monday morning, I would have been elated.

    I found this article from the NYT that mentions some snow totals around SEPA:

    WET SNOW CLOGS ROADS IN THE EAST
    By JAMES BARRON
    Published: February 24, 1987


    A storm that churned its way up the East Coast early yesterday dumped 11 inches of thick snow on the nation's capital - shutting down the Federal Government for the third time in six weeks - and left New York slippery, slushy, wet and white.
    In Washington, where 300,000 Federal workers were told to stay home, the storm toppled utility poles, leaving live power lines sprawled across roads. More than 150,000 homes lost electricity, and malfunctions in a Maryland pumping station left some residents without water.

    The Philadelphia area was draped with up to 23 inches of snow, and drifts in some suburbs rose at the rate of 5 inches an hour. The city government shut down, and virtually nothing moved in the morning. Bus and commuter-rail services were all knocked out.
    It was the third major East Coast storm since the beginning of the year. Among the reported depths were 23 inches in Coatesville, Pa.; 18 in Valley Forge, Pa.; 13 in Martinsburg, W. Va.; 10 in New Brunswick, N.J., and 3 on Cape Cod. #100 Tractor-Trailers Stranded Before the storm swirled out to sea, at least one person had been killed, a 46-year-old woman from West Virginia who died in a traffic accident that officials attributed to icy roads.

    Limited states of emergency were declared in New Jersey and Delaware, where the National Guard helped move traffic. In Maryland, the state police reported that 100 tractor-trailers were stranded on a 15-mile stretch of Interstate 83 near Baltimore. A dispacher in Carroll County, Md., said, ''Everything's stuck -troopers, salt trucks, everybody.''

    In the New York metropolitan region, where the rough weather followed a warm weekend that made heavy coats seem superfluous, the storm covered streets and parks with 2 to 10 inches of snow, officials said.

    The snow began falling gently before dawn, intensifying through the morning but tapering off when temperatures rose and the sun came out. The National Weather Service predicted sun for today, with high temperatures around 40, which could be enough to melt leftover snow. $2 Million Over Budget Yesterday, the Sanitation Department loaded 320 salt spreaders and sent out 730 plows. Some 2,015 workers, many on overtime, were assigned to snow removal, according to a spokesman, Vito A. Turso. He said the storm had put the department $2 million over its $10 million snow budget for the season.

    Alternate-side-of-the-street parking was suspended, but the regulations went back into effect at 2 A.M. today, a spokesman for the Transportation Department, Victor Ross, said.

    The storm created a temporal beauty that sent photographers to parks armed with all kinds of lenses. An amateur photographer in Hackensack, N.J., said as he focused on a low-hanging branch, ''What's a couple of extra minutes when you know that everyone else is going to be late?''

    The storm stalled travelers up and down the East Coast, but did not stop a group of West Point cadets from going to the White House. President Reagan was to present them with the Commander in Chief's Award, an annual trophy that West Point won for defeating the Air Force and Naval Academy football teams last fall.

    When the cadets learned that their flight from La Guardia Airport had been delayed, the cadets drove to Pennsylvania Station. There, they were told Amtrak trains were not running, a West Point spokesman, Andrea Hamburger, said. Back they went to La Guardia. Eventually their flight took off, and the cadets made it to the Cabinet Room, confident, proud and on time.

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    Philly Area Banter

    in Philadelphia Region

    Posted

    42 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

    Wow, philly forum has a topic marked 'hot'!

    Wtg guys! We aren't a bunch of boring dead-asses after all. :hurrbear:

    Whatever you do, don't bother to venture down to the MA sub. 'Tis a silly place.

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