Mikeymac5306

As a former road crew guy, I used to count on bad winters to pay the Christmas bills, and such. I know those guys are scrimping right now to pay their Summer rental deposits. 

Was it three years ago we were pushing mid 70's at the end of February, and then we got hit with three snowstorms in March? 

Also, we mention 2002 as a low to no snowfall year then it was all blowtorch from March to October that year.  I'm all about warm weather just not 90 degrees for 6 months straight! 

 Those "bumps" are cars I had to plow around. 

Worked for 34 hours straight plowing snow (all overtime) Got home at 9AM that Sunday to find my driveway still in about 2 feet of snow. Wife didn't want me to buy a snowblower that year.  So to say my not funny alarm was going off when I got home.

Now I bought one two years ago and I think I used it twice lol!  

Weather Sentry hinting at "something" around the 20th. FWIW. Probably fantasy land right now. 

Couple of fat flakes smacking the windshield on the way to work this morning. Was 37, up to 40 now.

1 hour ago, Birds~69 said:

I'm thinking about discussing if the Phils will sign Harper to make it a well rounded threat...may as well make it screwed up much like this winter.

Phils sign Harper... blizzard within the next 5 days. Book it.

I remember last year getting a suntan on February 27th. it was 74 degrees.  Then March happened, and the weather has been bi polar ever since.

I normally check out after President's Day. So, yeah I'll wait till what next Wednesday does, then I am finished with Winter. Come on Spring!  

Same here. 13 degrees. 

1 at my house, but it did warm up to 2 when I got to work in West Chester.

Got a slushy inch that was easy to clean off last night. Road crew in my area didn't do much to scrape the slush now it has frozen to the road. Main roads are great though!

I remember this fairly well. We ran a few water rescues on the Brandywine River. One case, a UPS truck drove through the water on top of the bridge on Rt 926 and couldn't turn around. He was stuck there all night.  

7 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

I'll take a march like last year anytime. I'll never forget have 6+ hours of thundersnow. Unlike anything I've ever experienced. Unfortunately it does not look like a pattern similar to that is anywhere close to happening. If next week fails, and the pattern breaks down like the gfs and euro ensembles show, I'm throwing in the towel.

By March, more than half of the streets departments have checked out. As much as the overtime is nice, they are done with winter.  They want the warm weather.

I guess the next thing to keep an eye on is the 28th?  DTN (Weather Sentry) is showing a good snow, and cold to support it. 

Of course this will change 65 times....

36 here and a slight dusting of sleet on my car this morning. Roads were wet.

13 hours ago, Voyager said:

I'm the opposite. I'm not a snow person per se, but I am a go big or go home guy. That is, if it's going to snow, I want a big hit, not a nickel and dime event. That being said, I'd rather be warm and be on the rainy side than be cold enough and fringed to my south and east. It's less painful.

I am in the same boat. The only way I am picking up overtime this winter is if it is a big storm. 

1 hour ago, KamuSnow said:

That might be a little harsh, imo. More of a group responsibility - there are probably people out there who shouldn't drive in snow, which doesn't help. The snow came down hard and with the latent ground heat melting the bottom layer with all that compression on top, you get effectively a sheet of ice. December 8th 2013 was a lot like this storm - 1st snow of the season, came down hard, forecast was underdone, and people in general were unprepared. With all the cars on the road and gridlocked it's hard for plows and salt trucks to make a difference. If you read people like HM on Twitter you might have been aware of the potential for heavy snow in the mid day to afternoon, but even with that, it's just potential, it's the weather. So I can imagine PennDOT might have been under prepared, but so were many others, and even then I'm not sure how you overcome 2" an hour rates with roads packed with traffic in the middle of the day. Glad you made it home okay!

This 100%! You have 8 times the cars and population you had in this area 25 years ago and the same infrastructure. Not to mention people who simply cannot drive in the snow. We are so dependable on the road crews and 99% of the time they are giving it pure hell on the streets in the storm that there is rarely an issue to go out simply to get "bread and milk" in a storm. If you are stuck in the snow in a massive traffic jam, where do you think the plow trucks are? That's right stuck in the same mess as well. Everyone was being sent home from school and work (if they weren't essential) at exactly the same time. What did anyone expect?

We can have this exact same storm one or two months from now and you will have the exact same results.

How did Brett Adair and his crew make out after things calmed down? All I heard was that he was OK from something that was put out on Twitter.

Amazing the feed is still going.

14 hours ago, ChescoPaWxman said:

Not much rain here with only .03" of rain so far today more possible tonight - our 7th straight day with measurable rain with 3.60" during that stretch. We are now up to 56.82" of rain for the year (+21.11" above normal) - this is already the 9th wettest year (125 years of local Chester County records) - wettest year was 1996 when 75.12" fell

I remember a lot of that fell over the Winter with the blizzard then I believe 2 heavy rain storms right afterward.

At this point I would be shocked if we got anything more than a few showers Saturday Night/Sunday.  

Saw a tweet (Northeast Weather HQ?) put out showing the 12z ICON taking Flo right up the Chesapeake and over top of us Saturday Night. 

Of course not sure exactly how reliable that model is,  nor how reliable Northeast Weather is, but I will trust the NHC forecast than one model. 

49 minutes ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Go ahead and start one.  I guess maybe try to direct it so that we focus on potential local impacts so the mods don't tell us to move the discussion to the Tropical Weather forum.  It might be somewhat slow to get going initially until a track is better modeled but I expect by mid-week, it will be abuzz if Florence is still on track to impact the east coast.

As an obs - since my last report, I got an additional 0.21" of rain for a total of 0.58" for the day, and a 3-day event total of 3.44".   Current temp is 57 with light rain.  It's been breezy the past 2 days so it feels a bit raw out.

Yeah I got one eyeball on it now, but I think come Tuesday/Wednesday people few people round here will be in full storm prep mode once we know how much it could stall or drift north this way.