The sun angle is doing work this week. There is a bare spot in my yard, first actual grass I’ve seen in about a month. Snowpack is now dwindling by about an inch or two per day.
I remember for the storm 3 weeks ago, when all the other models were trending north, the GFS had a couple of runs where it was a disjointed mess and stayed mostly south. This was just 4 days out. Obviously that didn’t verify.
The KDIX outage is a bit concerning. Went offline 11 days ago and the latest message says they were unable to troubleshoot. Thank god we have TPHL as a backup even if it’s lower resolution.
Why are we even talking about starting a thread for a storm chance a week away? There is nowhere near enough agreement with the models to warrant one. This could easily turn into an apps runner by tomorrow or Wednesday.
About an inch here? I think? Can't really tell because pavement measurements aren't super reliable with this type of storm, and every other surface is still covered in snow.
Still snowing lightly, I don't think we'll get to 2 inches.
I’m not sure I can remember a storm threat quite like this. It’s such an unusual setup, far from what we typically see. Just crazy how such a small change at H5 in the first 12-24 hours leads to huge differences only a day later.
Just when it looked like all hope was lost, the Euro comes in with a significant storm for Sunday night. Widespread 12-16” of snow north and west of Philly.
If this is it for prolonged cold and lots of snow chances, I’m glad we had a front loaded winter for once. I’m fine with an early spring with the kind of winter we had in December and January.
The Sun-Mon storm looks more like a thread the needle type setup to me. We need enough cold air that precip remains all or mostly snow, but too strong of a cold air press suppresses the storm to the south. It's certainly possible but I don't think the chances are super high. Better chance of something north of I-78 IMO.
This snowpack isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, even in sunnier areas. We got about a foot in Allentown last week and we still have the vast majority of it. Would really like some minor to moderate events in the next week or two to make sure we keep the snow on the ground for the rest of meteorological winter.