LVLion77

0.49” in that round. Hope to get more tonight. I am mentally converted to full spring weather with showers and thunderstorms, but unfortunately winter is making a comeback.

Heavy rain and rumbles of thunder. Pretty neat for March.

Think I will be scraped by the line but no direct hit. .

The million dollar question is if that line of showers in central PA makes it here. [emoji3]

Nice soaking heavy rain this evening. Happy to see all the salt and snow wash away. Ready for spring and gardening. Wish I could report on a precipitation total, but my station is a little wonky tonight. Guessing I’m between a half to 3/4 of an inch of rain today.

That has to be some sort of record! I think we all know the late season sun angles are brutal on snowpack, but I feel like they’re more brutal this year! If we could all choose a date to have a major winter storm, it would probably be December 21. [emoji3]

It is so rare and fascinating to see something like this happen without orographic lift, lake effect, etc.

Wow! There must be widespread roof collapse issues up there. It is winding down but that will end up being around 40” of wet snow. Unbelievable.

It’s still snowing in Providence!! 33” thus far. Damn New Englanders have too much of the winter fun.

The late February sun is brutal. It will all be gone by late tomorrow.

Weird question, but I would consider area to be the criteria for sure.

They did, but they got more right than wrong versus NWS.

And furthermore, I think AccuWeather handled the storm much better than NWS. And don’t get me wrong, I’ve seen it go the other way plenty of times as well. NWS stubbornly held onto bad predictions in a huge swath of this region when we amateurs could see it was never going to verify. Earlier in the event, you could see where the banding was setting up. I believe it was the 11 PM update last night that NWS posted an additional 4 to 12 inches for the Lehigh Valley, which was just pure bullheaded stubbornness.

Thank you. Yes, if you look at the geographical territory of the NWS office and compare versus the final forecast map you posted, a relatively small percentage of the area verified. I still believe at least 75% of the forecast area was significantly lower than predictions. Sometimes on forums like this, the what happened in my backyard mantra, clouds people’s assessment of forecast accuracy, both under and over.

I’m not salty at all. It was an added bonus on an above average year. But factual reality is that likely 3/4 of their geographical area under performed their forecast to a very significant degree.