CoralRed

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?

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