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A bunch come to mind:

"It's Raining, It's Pouring"

"A year without rain"- Selena Gomez

"Let it snow, Let it Snow, Let it Snow"

"In the Bleak midwinter"- Gustav Holst! 

1 hour ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

I ended up with 1.87" of rain on Saturday and yesterday I discovered that my Snowdrops had emerged and are blooming, so there's that!

Also had to swerve around groundhog roadkill yesterday, so they are apparently awake and moving above ground instead of sleeping.  The Punxsutawney handlers may end up trying to pull Phil out of his burrow next weekend and discover he is long gone foraging elsewhere.

Squirells are out in full force to

18 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

 

I had a picture somewhere of me and one of my sisters (the other wasn't born yet) after the "blizzard of '66", standing in front of our garage door with the snowsuits and shovels and Yogi Bear boots.   Actually it was a slide pic because that was my dad's hobby and shooting on slide film allowed him to have color "photos" back in the '50s & '60s when regular consumer pics were generally only B&W (he had boxes and boxes of slides and we had been slowly converting them).

Mt. Holly described it here (the hot links don't work so have to scroll down) - https://www.weather.gov/phi/hist_phi

Article about that nor'easter - https://weatherworksinc.com/news/1966-christmas-snowstorm

The snows before that year back to when I was born in the early '60s, were mostly the usual nickel & dimes.

Your  father was a smart man. My grandfather only shot in Kodachrome slides for years and years. The film those slides are made out of high quality materials and hold up better than average. A well composed photograph using that material can have superior resolution than today's digital photography.    

I'd call this one a bust

15 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Dont need no stinking computer generated map to tell me this is some serious HP settling in. It is cold, breeze out of the N, and the sky has that classic deep blue look to it with nary a cloud in sight.  Radiational cooling tonight and the stage is set for tomorrow. Doubt it will be the last frozen of the season but certainly the biggest so far. Savor it like we wont see it again until next season.

It would be a blue bird day out on the slopes .... IF WE HAD SOME SNOW!!! 

36 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

NAM doing its thing. Mesos getting in range. Maybe better pickup of cad? Almost entirely a frozen event here on NAM with lots of pingers:

Yeah this is going to be an ugly storm, worst part is this wont even get bear creek reopened as progged. the lamentations of a ski instructor. Ever hear of the ides of January?

Just now, Ralph Wiggum said:

I'm guilty of looking ahead at times but in this pattern with a fast NS with transient HL ridging we will benefit from focusing on 240 and under (180 and under better) and taking one wave / system at a time. Surprises tend to pop up with these looks next 5 day to a week.

in truth, aren't we all

29 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Focusing medium range. Clipper-type disturbance at 138-144. Not sure if it will keep showing up or even stay together in the fast NS flow but basically all we have in the medium range.

At this point we will take it, even if it isn't our best look. Hopefully that one doesn't upset the apple cart on the 276 hr Big Dog. 

On 1/9/2020 at 3:26 PM, Ralph Wiggum said:

Why are we in banter talking actual weather? 

Because the weather sucks lately! 

Model Mayhem... friends picture from Mechanicsburg shows two inches of the white stuff... rude awakening for them it was a nice sunny day down in Naples, FL earlier this morning. Looking forward to teaching at Bear Creek for the Tues. night youth series tonight. 

8 hours ago, Albedoman said:

Nearly an inch of snow now. Moderate snow- ground covered completely in Macungie 

 

 

Bear Creek needs every inch it can get. As an instructor it was getting hard to teach on such limited terrain.

1 minute ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

7 snow events so far this season for a grand total of 2.4"

We do nickel and dime very well around these parts.

penny and hay penny

the Jan 4 signal is something to track. These blockbuster miller A's tend to show up on modeling a lot earlier. Looks like it needs a little more block to work out. 

NWS didn't show much on the forecast for this last night. These trough events have a tendency to over perform. Tend to come in fast and furious. 

all it takes is one Miller A to set us over the average... look up folks still plenty of golf left to play. Not even solar winter yet. 

still gathering power is going out any minute

10 minutes ago, J.P. said:

Is anybody planning on recalibrating their thermometer based off their observations from last night? I observed  zr at 32.4. Maybe the surface temps were a bit cooler than 2m? 

no, observed ice acurral is probably not a great way to calibrate an air temperature thermometer. If the surface is residually cold (meaning colder than the air temperature), the rain will freeze when lands on the colder than air surface. There are better ways to calibrate.   

33 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Temp dropped to 31 here. Ice accumulating on cars, trees, and almost broke my neck on our new deck which is now ice covered. I would call it a 'glaze'. Not fit for man nor beast....dogs took one look and turned around back inside.

Good thing Bumbles Bounce!! Still liquid here in Pottstown. Lots of salt on the roads which was probably a fine call. 

saw some flurries in green lane this morning. Any chance we get some CAD help

I think this is a catskills storm. Will see a few flakes. Church will be empty for the first week of advent. I'm sing a solo for the occasion!

3 hours ago, Newman said:

16 years ago was the Northeast Blackout of 2003. Was anyone here affected by that?

Yes, I was down at the Delaware shore at the time and we lost power for a few hours. Part of my extended family was from NYC so their house was effected too. I remember the weather was cool and quite foggy down at the shore that day, strange because no one in my family remembered it ever being like that in August after spending a week there each year for three decades.

I hope I don't bullseye again. I bring my cat home from an extended stay at the vet. I would rather him just not worry about a thunderstorm while trying to move him. Short range has a variety of solutions on the table. My guess is that this will be a more classical isolated t storm event

Just now, ChescoPaWxman said:

Rain so far today here in NW Chesco with the multiple evening showers and t-storms now up to 0.76" with more on the way - MTD rain now up to 5.38" which is 2.25" above normal for July through today.

10.28" MTD here, amazing what a difference 5 miles can make.

Come ye all one, come ye all plenty! 

10 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Not that far PA mountains probably

 

 

 

If Vail doesn't buy it all up first!