jm1220

Too high up here but it's impossible to predict in advance where the best banding sets up. The RGEM maybe showed it best with the western snow max then second one over eastern LI. You have the western band with high ratios then the second max with the highest QPF and semi-shaft zone in between in most storms like these.

It's that and also that the Miler B's develop too late for them and there's been a big increase in SWFEs that do not redevelop in time-so there's a sleet/ice mess for most of central PA instead of snow. Clippers there are usually OK but those have largely gone extinct too. Stray lake effect streamers usually add a few inches per winter but it's normally just a series of coatings to an inch. The real lake effect dries up coming over the Allegheny Ridge. It's just been a combination of factors that have totally screwed them over and it's way past the point where we can say it's temporary. This year Williamsport just has 19" when they used to average 40" or so in a winter. State College I think has about 25". When I went to PSU they were just done with the big 02-03 and 03-04 winters when they had plenty of those storm types that were good there-a couple coast huggers and storms like 12/5/03 that redeveloped in time to keep it snow. When I was there was when the big downturn really started (you can see the big slump starting in the mid 2000s)-it was quite frustrating. Many misses/busts/disappointments. Central PA is the absolute last place I would move if you want exciting winters. Would rather watch paint dry.

Looks like there'll be a death band somewhere in MN that gets 20"+. Outside maybe a foot. Tough call for MSP.

It can snow there in May.

This is the time of year when those places and the Rockies can play big time catchup

Getting icy-slush freezing over on my deck.

Time to start the thread?

Final little burst here. Few tenths of an inch on my deck table.

Coating on the grass/deck/cars, nice winter send off.

Nice burst of snow here. Not accumulating however.

Rain/sleet mix.

That storm is the first I really remember as a kid. Floating snow piles in the streets in Long Beach when the high tide came in. Crazy.

Yep, don’t want a trough east of here in the 50-50 low position.

Yep. Maybe in 2018 the sun was covered in eleven trillion sunspots and that’s why that March and April were go great snow wise.

60 here.