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1 minute ago, anotherman said:

He was joking since they can be combative about people sharing snow totals.

No joke.  They just repeated before going to commercial: three people dead and snow.  Story coming up.  Amazing they didn't start with the deaths but with weather stories around the area. 

It was a murder-suicide involving a couple and their neighbor.  It happened about 9:00 this morning.  The couple had a 15 year old special needs child.  They mentioned shovelling but were not more specific.

3 minutes ago, Rd9108 said:

Mid Atlantic forum??

Channel 16 is the ABC station in Scranton-Wilkes-Barre.

I am not making this up: Channel 16 news commercial just said 3 dead over a dispute -- about snow.  I cannot believe I just typed this.  I wish I heard it wrong.  

I just looked out the door in Williamsport.  Little to nothing going on.  Is that band going to come our way or will it stay right to our south?  

Remembering a drop in temperatures was coming up, I looked at the hourlies for next Sunday and Monday.  The high on Monday won't come out of the teens here in Williamsport and winds will be in the teens too.  The idea of being out shoveling in those conditions is not appealing.  Wunderground is calling for just 3.3" but who knows how much we will end up getting?  Life was better and easier when I wasn't the official shoveler.

Channel 16 just called for another 3-6 in Central PA tonight.

Channel 16 just said another 6-12" for Central Pennsylvania.

I am surprised here in Williamsport.  There's considerably more snow out there now than I expected on the one hand.  Wmsptwx says he has 10" in Montgomery so we can't be much different.  On the other hand Wunderground says only 1" more today and 1"-3" more tonight.  I thought today and tonight was supposed to be the heaviest.  

2 hours ago, canderson said:

This will be a fluffy snow right? 

As the official shoveler I was wondering the same thing, especially as the totals have gone up.  What does everyone think?

Thanks.

WNEP Channel 16 isn't optimistic.  They just had a map up of low and medium risk areas -- of getting 3-4"!  Williamsport falls in the low risk area.  

I just checked Williamsport on weather.gov.  Now they are mentioning freezing drizzle for Tuesday for the first time.  Nobody wants that. 

Voyager,

Good luck with the new job. I hope there's some back unemployment coming your way and that next week's snow holds off until after you've left the area.

I have been checking for days and it seems nothing much is going on and nothing much is predicted to happen.  I don't want to shovel more snow so I guess I should be happy.  It used to be that a quiet 10 day forecast would change and we would end up getting some precipitation until this summer.  Then we got week after week of mostly blue skies (instead of frequent gray skies) and no rain.  It was weird but wonderful.  Now we have gotten a lot of precipitation recently and now just plain nothing.  It really makes me wonder about the future.  Our weather patterns seem to be very disrupted.  We got 25 inches of snow here in Williamsport less than a month ago so I am not complaining.  But I am wondering.

Big flakes coming down beautifully in Williamsport.

Happy New Year to All. 

I guess sometimes there are more important things than snow and celebrating New Years Eve is one of those things. I see the maps for Sunday.  I am not ready to shovel more snow yet.  That 25" is still in my mind.  

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.  

29 minutes ago, kerplunk said:

For sure, every time I FaceTime for an hour or more I’m thinking to myself not only how incredible the technology is these days but how great it is not having to worry about how much it’s costing!

At least you were able to experience a great snowstorm even if it didn’t stick around for very long. How much rain have you gotten?

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.

2 minutes ago, kerplunk said:

Ended up with 1.58” of rain for the storm and just a light dusting of snow so far — probably about as much as I’ll get. Currently 31º at 3:50am. Am FaceTiming with one of my sons and grandson in Tokyo in about 5 minutes and was hoping to show them it snowing. And it just stopped. Bummer.

Merry Christmas to everyone!

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.

6 hours ago, MN Transplant said:

Popping into from the mid-Atlantic board out of pure jealousy.

There is a poster named Jeb who used to live in the DC area.  He was an eccentric sort and would talk about his obsession for snow and going out in it.  Jebwalking in the snow became a common saying on our board and it filtered around.

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 ..."

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?