CoolHandMike

22.8°F and light sleet. ~4" on the front steps, ~6" in the back yard (measured depth to ground). Wondering if we will get any colder or if we're bottoming out right now.

Anyone want to hazard a guess as to why all the models and predictions turned out to be so wrong with this storm? Two days ago we were supposed to get almost 2' of snow, then yesterday they backed it off to 13", and now I have barely 4" with sleet coming down much further north than predicted, with not much else seemingly incoming. I mean, I want to be happy for the first major snowfall in a long, long while, but why the huge bust this time?

I do believe I'm getting dry-slotted at the moment. Huh. Where's the rest of the storm?

Occasional sleet starting to mix in. It's really sporadic, but definitely there.

Only have ~3.5 inches of really fine, dry stuff here north of Reading. Temp down to 23.5°F and getting windy. Grass finally completely covered.

Temp dropped to 25.2°F and still light, steady snow here just north of Reading.

My wife bought me Radarscope as an early Xmas gift. How do I get to the "precipitation depiction" pane? Is this a mobile-only type thing? I'm using Windows 10...

I've got 26.8°F and steady light snow just north of Reading. Already coated the roads and sidewalks. I officially have snow on snow (some remnants of Monday's little event)!

Seconded. This is a place to celebrate and sympathize with fellow weather nerds.

So I got one of the snow blowers working. I had to kludge together a linkage for engaging the auger, which then immediately broke. The only thing I could find last minute was a lawnmower throttle cable, but the actual lever is made of the cheapest plastic known to man and almost immediately shattered under load. Oh well. Ordered some correct replacement parts, and with any luck they'll be here on Tuesday... We shall see. But I was really happy to get it running after sitting neglected for who know how long. It's a 1996 Craftsman, FWIW.

Truth. Planning on doing it today while smoking a pork shoulder.

Welp, one of my neighbors fired up his snowblower yesterday... I think I might have to see if I can get one of mine working since I won't have any free time between this evening and Wednesday. As much as I'd like to be superstitious and not jinx anything, it's looking like a pretty credible event is going to happen at this point. Not sure what I'm going to do about work though. I have a 1.5 hour commute to southern NJ all this week, for which I leave at 4AM. I know they're not gonna be happy if I call out Wednesday morning, but I don't want to get there and then be stuck down there on Wednesday. My wife certainly would not appreciate it.

Oh, I'm fairly comfortable with small engine repair. I just haven't had the time yet, what with all the other new house stuff that's been needing doing. I told my wife that if it does end up dumping on us, that's when I'll try to get one of them working.

I tell you guys what. My wife and I bought our first house this past October, and it came with not one, but TWO non-working snowblowers, one from the 80's and one of a much newer vintage. (Dunno why. The previous owners were a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.) I've been itching to get either or both of these bad boys up and running, but with the colder weather fast approaching, my wife recently turned to me and said "don't you dare". She's superstitious like that. So there they sit, in my shed, in all their un-working glory. It would be awesome if our first major storm dumps enough to warrant the operation of such a machine, and I would not complain one bit having to shovel it all out by hand. The first time, at least. So there you go. I'm doing my part, everyone.

Here we go again. :/ http://content.wdtinc.com/imap/imaplite/ is 404 again, probably for good this time as the host domain has a Redhat test page up. Sorry I didn't see this until a year later! I've known about the PSU E-wall for quite some time, but I miss the interactive nature of the old WU map, in which you could zoom in and pan around just like Google maps. I've been using https://www.windy.com/-Weather-radar-radar?radar,39.950,-75.784,8 lately, and while it has a lot of functionality, the radar imagery is not very well defined and you can't overlay weather warning boxes on top, for instance. Anyway, thanks for replying from "the before times". Cheers~

So when's this rain supposed to start? 1-2" that wunderground is calling for seems a little far-fetched imho...

I remember there was a massive, pitched snowball battle on main campus. I also remember all the cars being completely buried. It was epic.

I'm actually wiling to pursue looking into a subscription type deal or maybe some kind of stand-alone software since I can't seem to be able to get it for free anymore (lol). Might anyone have any recommendations?

So after wunderground's full-screen weather map went to absolute garbage several years ago, I found this site: http://weather.wdtinc.com/imap/imaplite/?MAPID=10937&CLIENTID=20485 While not a perfect replacement, it got the job done. Intuitive controls, handy mapping features, fast and stable. But now it's down as well, and I find myself without a decent alternative. I've got the NWS's full screen mosaic but there's no zoom and it's pretty unwieldy. I won't even discuss the dumpster fires that are TWC/wunderground's current map versions. They just don't work. And I'm not a real fan of Accuweather either as the way they present their radar returns seems way overblown, not to mention that the website controls are less than perfect. In fact, it seems I can't get anything from Mapbox to work properly, in both firefox and chrome... So what's everyone using these days? When I get into storm mode, I like to have up some local Doppler, some satellite imagery, a page for lightning, and a modern, full-screen weather page. I feel like I'm blind without it now, as the Doppler and satellite only get you so far. Thanks in advance.

turned out to be kind of a dud here. Mostly sleet, and it never really got below freezing at the surface. Saw very little in the way of actual snow.