Pretty sure around SE Pennsylvania it was like 6-8 degrees and heavy snow. Meanwhile it was like 2-4f in Trenton NJ with filtered sun through thick high clouds like serious cut off of 50 to 60 miles. Think we got like 20” fun times.
This: “Also, plenty of jet energy and a ton of baroclinic zone contrasts next week. >>> This is how we get our stronger dynamic fun storms that are sometimes written about in past history!
Looking at incoming pattern that’s coming north pretty confident not really caring about what the models show until 0z Thursday. I think Euro too extreme with NW push comes southeast and gfs comes NW to meet in the middle and hit for us.
That will definitely pop the southeast ridge and a storm track right up the Eastern Seaboard just hope not too close and even west of us changes afoot!
My take a ways from the 0z and now 6z runs is the models are and have continued to show a potential snowstorm for the period January 19th-21st and more to follow I’m totally fine with that at this lead. Like psuhoffman and others have said good luck with the exact details beyond even day 4 because it will change often. I think we are in a buckle up phase of model watching and it seems likely to me that our cold dry pattern that we havd been enjoying (crap snow totals) up here in Southeastern Pennsylvania is about to change even if we dance a bit with the baroclinic zone or amplification to allow a northern shift or warm air to intrude it’s how we roll but the forementioned details we will not know until the earliest Thursday or do this week especially in a shifting pattern.
looks like we are entering that South to southwesterly flow aloft regime gotta keep the cold air nearby and hope the southeast ridge directs the storms here and overwhelm us with warmth.
Sun making an appearance 27f low was 25f
Total Snow: 0.30” (What happened to our 30” oh I see GFS needs another lesson on decimal place value must have missed the lesson on last Monday’s snow day)
Total Snow Year: 5.18”
The pure definition of nickle and dime winter totally normal for this time of year patience ….wait for it wait for it!!! Here it comes!
Umm I think that sinkhole there in the middle of the street was from a broken water main undermining the ground under the street level this is not drought related I believe.
But to your conversation up top here I too am very concerned about water levels they are still dangerously low Springton Reservoir remains 20 feet below or so.