CoolHandMike

Rain/snow at 37.9°/28.4°F here.

2009. A swath of ice-cube-sized hail swept through Oxford, PA. I remember watching it smashing up all the cars in the Redner's parking lot from inside the grocery store's entryway, ours included. Luckily none of our glass was broken, but the first estimate for repairs actually totaled the car until the shop readjusted the estimate slightly. Was something like ~$5k worth of damage.

That was my first winter back in PA after leaving for the service in '95. I brought back my wife, who was born and raised in SoCal. I recall telling her something along the lines of: "No worries babe, it doesn't snow all that much, maybe once every few years we get something meaningful, but usually winters are completely manageable." So that was her first taste of PA winter weather, ha! Also worthy of note, after we moved back in May '09, her car was nearly totaled by hail, she caught poison ivy so bad that both of her arms were in bandages for weeks, she fell on the ice and nearly broke her butt in December, and then we got those back-to-back snowstorms in January and February. It felt almost as if PA was actively trying to maim/kill her. She's since grown to love the climate here though. Turned into a total weenie.

Had a low of 29.3°F this morning, but already up to 45. Might be nice to open some windows a crack for some fresh air later on today.

Yeah it's 43.1 here. My snow looks like it has dimples.

It'll be interesting to see how much ours melts. We've still got over 18" of snow in parts of the yard and the snow-bergs on my street are upwards of 4' high in places. On the plus side, maybe it'll help with the huge-mongous ice dam situation I've got going on. The front of my house only gets maybe a few hours of afternoon sun.

I think it sleeted for a few minutes but now appears to be clearing up. Measured just over 4.5" on the front porch.

Snow just switched to being very sparse with tiny flakes.

Kinda doubt it; just from experience, we hardly ever get the back end, wrap-around precip to hold together on these types of events. But I'm no expert.

I think this will put me over 45" for the winter, with 38" of that in February alone. Couldn't have asked for a better, snowy winter especially after last year.

Very nearly 4.5" on my front porch. Temp up to 31.2°F and moderate snow. small to medium-sized flakes.

Back edge of the precip shield is already approaching Harrisburg. Might get another two hours out of this at the most where I'm at. Nice little event, this.

Whoah. Now at 3.5" on the front porch. Must have been snowing at ~2"/hr rates for the past half hour or so! 30.2°F and visibility around 2/10 of a mile if I had to guess. It's been really small flakes most of the morning but now some bigger ones are starting to mix in. Already hearing one snowblower going.

30.3°F and heavy snow. Measured about 2.25" on the front porch.

Dang. Now that the driveway is coated, I'm hoping for another couple of inches to justify wheeling out the snowblower one more time. I'd much prefer using that than shoveling.

30.5°F now and blacktop starting to whiten with moderate to heavy fine snow.

Ok now down to 31.6°F with the sidewalk juuust starting to turn white. Snowing moderately now. Loving this winter.

32.3°F and light, fine snow in Reading. Temp has lowly risen from 30 at 6 am, hoping it gets back under freezing soon. Nothing sticking to roads/sidewalk yet.

Light snow and 28.2° F. A nice coating of fluff. Debating shoveling the driveway and front walk. Ran out of rock salt last night though so I need to get to the hardware store at some point today. The blacktop on my street is covered though so maybe I'll wait a little while longer.

I guess I'm struggling to see how "the coastal" is going to bring much more precipitation to our region. Is the predicted precip tonight going to be from that? To my untrained eye it looks like the center of low pressure will be far offshore by then as opposed to the last storm where it was much deeper and hugged the shore quite a bit longer.

HRRR says more development later in the day though. Maybe some snow TV to close out the day?

Yeah this thing looks like it's moving out. Not bad though, roughly 5" on the driveway. Started to pelt me with sleet and graupel while I was snowblowing but now it's not doing anything. Really pretty out though.

Lol dunno, just moved here and really enjoying it so far. Snow on snow on snow on snow I think we're up to. Can't remember the last time that's happened. Also I think I might have just heard some light pings on the window...

Looks like a momentary lull. Some juicy returns coming in just to our west.

Checking in from Reading with about 3" of fresh stuff on the deck. What's falling now looks almost graupel-ish; just small, nuggetty "flakes". Falling pretty moderately as well. 22.8°F.