TheDreamTraveler

We have to remember that the 2010's were an oddity. Normally we don't see that many big snowstorms repeatedly. Which makes it even odder because our average temps keep rising at the same time. The average in Harrisburg is now 40 in January. Before 2010 I believe the average high temp was 36 degrees. When you take the 30 year average it keeps going up 2 degrees every 10 years. It really makes me wonder what's going to happen with smaller scale snowstorms in the future. I think we'll still see monster storms once in a while because part of the reason why we've seen so many in the 2010's is due to extreme dips in the jet stream related to warming. Obviously it's not that simple since weather and the earth itself are extremely complicated and there's also many patterns that naturally occur that can last years or decades on top of the man made ones. I just think all the snowstorms spoiled us and made us forget that our general climate is getting harder to produce snow. Pennsylvania is right on that boundary of rain and snow for a lot of storms, so the warmer it gets on average the harder it's going to be for us sadly. Not trying to bring you or anyone down. Just saying things how they are.

Not sure if you're still into games or fighting games but I'm really excited for Street Fighter 6 coming out in June lol. Though I think a lot of you are way older than me. By the time I was old enough to play arcade machines they were already dying out around here

Yep same. I'm still very skeptical we get very much around here.

This image has basically been the story for the whole season around the Harrisburg area. We've constantly been right on that line between rain and snow so we've hardly had any accumulate yet so far.

Yep the system is just becoming more and more brutal as time progresses. The fact corporations and companies do this to their employees is just vile. Because at the end of the day they don't care about you. I had one job in the past at a small business around here that didn't mind AT ALL if you had to come in late or not come in at all if it snowed badly. They would never hold it against you. They're a small business and could handle it so why can these mega corporations not handle it?

Well the next week is looking pretty fun. Chances of 2 snowstorms back to back? I actually like those odds. Makes it more likely that at least one of them will happen. We'll still have to see if either will materialize but considering we're within 5 days with one of those storms it definitely has me interested

This fall was not cold at all. At least not in south central PA. Almost half of October was above average and remember just how hot it was the first 2 weeks of November? The only time it got really cold was around Christmas for a few days. Another thing that seems forgotten is averages increased 2 degrees all over the state because we're now using averages from 1990-2020. The old averages we used were 1980-2010 which were 2 degrees cooler on average than they are now

I saw and heard that too. Had the lightning shine through my closed blinds lol

It only really snowed here for little over an hour and ended way faster than I was expecting. We got the grass slightly covered but that was about it

Snowing here already. Like Mag said pretty much no Virga here either

True. There's some people who see warmth as a positive thing. As much as I love big winter storms I do love it when we get really warm days like the past few we've had. I'm a big fan of both lol

California's been in a mega drought since 2000 so this is desperately needed to try and put a dent in that thing. I think the last time the west went through a mega drought was back in the 1500's

I'm guessing the nighttime lows have to be close to a record tonight. Low 50's for a lot of areas. Considering my towns record daytime high was 60 and the low tonight here is 53 I'd imagine it's gotta be close

January 4th is looking incredibly warm with low to mid 60's for a lot of us

I definitely had a feeling that's what happened. That seemed way too cold for a daytime high lol

Some black ice on the roads but it wasn't too bad thankfully around here. Was expecting it to be worse

6 with a wind chill of -13. Absolutely brutal out

Parts of the roads around here are already starting to get slippery with the water freezing. Tonight and tomorrow morning is probably going to be dangerous in some spots

I'm seeing it getting down to 13 degrees around the Harrisburg area around 5 pm. That seems insanely low for a daytime temp especially for right before the sun is completely set. That has to be close to a record for a daytime temp, right? We are supposed to have some 0 to -15 degree wind chills as well which is something you don't see very often especially during the daytime Also earlier in the morning power flickered 3 times within 30 seconds. Then another flicker happened a bit later. Luckily no power outage. My area almost never loses power no matter how bad things get but it's definitely weird seeing flickering like this.

Sucks that snow chances kinda evaporated for the 23rd. I was excited about potentially having a white christmas. :< i guess i'll just be happy about it being warm at least so that's nice for me imo

Hopefully not :/ Euro is showing us torching the beginning of January

I'm feeling kind of optimistic about it. It's looking more likely that the cold will be there. All we need is a storm

I'm practically right on that cutoff line from almost 0 inches to 10 minutes to my north having almost 10 inches of snow lol. Should be interesting tomorrow I think

I had to drive in the fog around 4 am and it was actually raining at the same time which is rare. I can barely remember having a super thick fog where it also started raining at the same time

This happened a ton last year and we all know how that entire winter went for a lot of us. All it serves is to drive up hype and then disappointment and as soon as we get through one disappointment it's onto the next week rinse and repeat. There's definitely a way to use models to drive hype and excitement if they're closer in time and not 200+ hours out or if there's a consistent pattern/modeling appearing. I wanted to say something yesterday about this but decided not to. Should add I don't think there's anything wrong with showing long range models as long as the way it's talked about is realistic and helps keep everyone's expectations in check