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Decided to walk down to the creek and take some pictures while there still ice on the creek. That was the easy part. What wasn't easy was walking through that snowpack. Cardio workout for sure was not anticipated. I wonder just how thick the ice is? Questions remain. How long will the ice stay with warmer temperatures forecast? Will the ice slowly melt away? Will we get more snow adding to more water content to the snowpack? Or will we get a big sudden thaw with a huge rain storm? And then will we get the ice breaking up and producing ice jams and flooding? These questions will be answered in the coming weeks.

I have now lowered my confidence in them as they have increased confidence in lowering confidence.

Some tv mets. are writing the storm off.

Oh great!

I guess we'll know in over a month what that looks like.

Only -5 here might drop a degree till sunrise.

Only -5 here might drop a degree till sunrise.

Winds calmed down here, but you living near the river, I understand wind speed there will be higher.

Gonna be a very cold night tonight.

When is our next storm threat?

3.2 was my low. Looking forward to temperatures reaching the 30s this week. Seems like we have been in this ice box like forever.

Sounds like road up here in upper Dauphin county in the open field areas, where the wind has a unobstructed shot for drifting aren't in good shape this morning. Some are down to one lane with several inches of snow on the road.

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overnight low was 5.

Everyday we are getting closer! How Many Days Until Spring? Time Remaining Until Spring: March 20, 2026 42 days 1 month 14 days 6 weeks 1,008 hours

I hope not.

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Now NWS has wind gusts of 49 for my location on Saturday. Going to be brutal i hope and pray the power doesn't go out.

Looks like the high temp. will be in the early morning hours on Saturday. Both the Euro and GFS have temps. near 10 or single digits during the rest of the day. Don't know why NWS is downplaying the winds either as euro and gfs have gusts over 40mph.

-7 this morning.

Did you check Tractor Supply they might have what you looking for.

Sounds like this upcoming clipper means business on Friday. Euro has highs on Saturday in the single digit's, GFS mid teens.

Let's do this!