CoralRed

Wunderground is predicting 1.57" of rain next Thursday for Williamsport. We got very little rain here for months on end. Much of this summer and fall was like a dream with day after day of blue skies (our frequently overcast skies magically gone) and no rain. I don't know when the last time was when we had such a period or when we will again. I figured there would be a time when we'd be getting the rain we didn't get for so long. But I didn't expect to get our biggest snow ever to be followed by warm temperatures and heavy rain that washed much of it away a week later to be followed a week later by another big rain accompanied by spring-like temperatures. A lot of extremes, as I have said before and someone pointed out was typical of 2020. I hope 2021 is more average, in every way.

I think one of the flood warnings said 1.5-2.5. We didn't have any for awhile there tonight so I think we ended up with less than predicted. I think of snow as absorbing a lot of rain but with the high amount of rain and warm temperatures the snow was kind of destroyed where it wasn't piled up high. It's strange because I felt kind of overwhelmed by it last week and now it has been overwhelmed by the above average temperatures and heavy rain. My fears of incredible ice everywhere to walk over after everything refreezes were for nothing, I guess.

Merry Christmas to you. I am so glad you will be able to see each other instead of just talking on the phone. It is not the same as being together but it's pretty amazing that we can do that now. Speaking of amazing, we have lost an amazing amount of snow here in Williamsport.

I know you are all thinking snow. I am here in Williamsport trying not to think of the mess we will get from 25" of snow that is mostly still here, temperatures in the 50s, several inches of rain and a Christmas Day refreeze. I can't think of the last time something like this happened. This is quite a collection of extremes.

I haven't been paying attention to the weather the last few days. Now I see Williamsport will be warming up and having 1.4" of rain Thursday into Friday. I don't like the icy surfaces we already have. The cycles of melting and refreezing plus 1.4" of rain on top of that will make for a truly God-awful mess when the day and night temperatures fall back to 32 and below starting on Christmas Day. The roads and sidewalks weren't icy much last year and I am out of practice balancing. I don't want to go down! But as always, there is nothing I can do about the weather.

Thanks for helping me out. I looked it up on yippy.com. The Washington Post used "jebwalk" and I have to wonder how many puzzled readers they had that day: "I went on another epic jebwalk today. It was hot. I had a t-shirt on. It was way too hot for a coat. Snow piles were melting really bad. I was not happy. While everyone around me was in a spring wonderland, I was really sad, because my beloved snow piles were melting furiously. But at the opposite extreme, here at CWG, poster ThinkSpring wrote ..." voices.washingtonpost.com/...r_opposite_positions_on_sn.html

I just checked the radar. Everything is green now, no more yellows. Almost everything is north of Williamsport. Weather Service says "Will likely be able to cancel winter storm warnings early." So that's it for my big storm. I enjoyed reading all the comments, my thanks to all.

What does "jebwalked" mean?

I see Wunderground is saying only another 5-8" for Williamsport. We were supposed to get a lot more than that. What happened to the rest of our snow?

About the big accident:. I see at Weather.com that there's a headline about it and some other accidents. "Pennsylvania State Police spokesman Cpl. Brent Miller said the incident happened around 3:05 p.m. on Interstate 80 westbound near mile marker 183 in Clinton County. “It involved 30 to 60 vehicles with multiple injuries and right now there are two fatalities," Miller told weather.com in a phone interview at around 7:30 p.m. EST. Rescuers were still on the scene and Miller said the number of casualties could rise." https://weather.com/news/news/2020-12-16-winter-storm-gail-snow-ice-schools-roads-new-york-pennsylvania-massachusetts?cm_ven=hp-slot-2