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Yes I would love it to be a little weaker as well, let it find that baroclinic zone over the ocean. Seems unlikely at this point but we'll see. I mean even the GFS has it just west of Cape Hatteras before it shows it heading due north.

On the other hand, or perhaps at the same time, if it shows what we want it to show, it could be shown to be quite a show when it is eventually shown, per se.

Nice! Is that your remote camera/webcam? Though if it was and it was snowing I'd have mixed feelings about not being up there!

Wind makes it tough, the worst is cold rain. And don't let your feet get wet/cold lol. I worked outside in construction when I was younger and there were only about 5 days a winter that were rough, and it usually involved cold wind or wet feet.

I can see the pics now, thanks. Nice hawk! And your large squirrel looks suspiciously like a raccoon, lol.

Cool but I don't see a pic, not sure if it's just me. Don't forget to click <insert> on the image preview if you're not already doing that. (I used to skip that step and I could see the pics but others couldn't).

Wound up with 0.45" of rain yesterday, most of it in the evening with all those yellows on the radar. My estimation of snow cover retention has as a result been revised downward to 4%, along with some piles of course. Had a midnight high of 37F, currently 29F with DP at 12.

Got to 39F here and that with the rain was enough to erase about 70% of the snow cover here, especially the "heavier" rain over the last 3 hours or so. Should be some left though.

@LakeEffectKing @DeltaT13 @TugHillMatt @Blue Moon here's hoping you guys get a boatload of snow the next couple of days!

I will second that - just about all of us do.

Happy birthday to you!!!

Likewise here, temp up to 34F.

Here it's kind of oppositeville, rain looks to be practically on the doorstep, unless it's virga, but temp is all the way up to 33. Last night it appeared it might hold off till noon at least (down here), so it looks early to me. On the temp side it's warmed up pretty well, although dp is 24 so there could be some wet-bulbing, and no doubt the ground is still cold.

The interview referenced in the article was the day before it was published, so actually 2 days before the storm. Here is a link to a post storm analysis done by the NWS which is pretty interesting and informative: https://web.archive.org/web/20160826045414/http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/assessments/pdfs/bz-mrg.pdf

Thanks Ralph! Lol

I don't remember it at all, of course I wasn't reading the Morning Call. I remember being up at 2 am Sunday morning and seeing it starting to snow, and well before that the forecast amounts had been reupped. Forecasts evolve with changing data but you know that.

Coatesville particularly?

Lol...he probably stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night. Nuts, caramels, cremes, or mixed? I had a box the other day, lol.

The word is out, man.

I know it's not the same but I gave you one to tide you over for now.

Here's hoping! Funny you mention 1978, that's probably the first year I made a big snow pile, mostly because we had 2 big snows 2 weeks apart and didn't have a lot of room. So the pile got high, and I carved an armchair into it. Didn't use it a whole lot however, lol.

Thanks! Yeah, too windy and cold for a kettle fire tonight, even though it's Friday night! We had one last night, sort of becoming a pre-snow tradition for the time being. Finally came inside around midnight after an hour or so of virga, but it wasn't too long afterwards that we got flakes.

Thanks, lol. I think it will survive this coming week, Sunday will shrink it a little, but doesn't look like a whole lot of rain, nor too much of a warm up. Maybe we'll get some more snow to build on it with!?!

I'm inside (for a change, lol) so I didn't see anything. There's sites for those kind of observations where you can make a report or just check to see if any similar sightings have occurred in your area/region. I used it a few years ago for a fireball, didn't actually see it but we were on our front porch late in the evening and something lit the ground up like full moonlight, and besides the fact that there was minimal moonlight, we saw the shadow of our chimney and roof moving across the lawn, lol. I checked and that's what it was, a fireball. Here's a link to one site: https://www.amsmeteors.org/

If I may interject some belated observations etc. from last night's snowfall... Wound up with 4.1" here, within the forecast range, but exceeded my expectations due to the middle finger (subsidence zone) showing up on most of the mesoscale model runs. I totally enjoyed the snow. What a change from recent weather. Looks and feels like winter! Here is the baby snow pile, not very big but it does cast a shadow: