CarlislePaWx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Wow...I've got moderate to heavy freezing rain, mixed with sleet falling at the moment. Temp up to 25.4 degrees. Everything is icing over, including my rain gauge. Glad to see CTP finally saw the light and upgraded to WSW for ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizzard of 93 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Moderate freezing rain/sleet mix continues here in Marysville. Everything is covered in ice over top of our couple inches of earlier snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NortheastPAWx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 ZR and it's still only 24 here in the valley. Eek. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizz Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 33F and rain here in Hazleton Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Holding around 27/28 here NW of HGR. Ugly is the word with steady freezing rain. Everything is iced over and it's still accumulating good. Not expect any power outages with this, but wouldn't want to be out in this overnight tonight. Stay safe everyone Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 33F and rain here in Hazleton Yup. I'm here now. Started the truck and the snow just slid off the windshield. It was 27 in Tamaqua. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 I was looking at 511pa.com cameras and saw that some of the traffic going slow on 81 near wilkes-barre. Outside it is raining and there is a nice coat of ice on my grill. (is it too late to grill up a steak?) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Yeah stay safe. Wanna hear back from you tomorrow! Sent from my SM-G925V using Tapatalk I'll definitely let you guys know. Heading to Virginia this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Still mainly sleet here, in a lull attm so have snow grains flying around and maybe a touch of ZR. I guess the more frozen the better. Temps are still lurking around 23ºF. Kinda surprised CTP didn't upgrade another tier or two of central counties to WSW for ice as I just don't see things getting scoured out at the surface anytime soon. I definitely understand the tenacity of cold air damming in central PA with retreating arctic air masses but I would have never expected such a strong CAD signature at the surface with the arctic high well east out of position. Surface 32ºF line still dips into the NW tip of South Carolina with a healthy majority of MD and VA below freezing. You can also note on the mesoanalysis map that the wind barbs denote no real wind of significance.. there's no noteworthy push of southerly or SE winds at the surface. Different story at 925 and 850 as warm advection is occurring about as anticipated at those levels. That's the thing, timing of p-type changeover was on schedule this evening in the area.. but the surface temps were several degrees below where they were supposed to be.. and that's gonna be a problem. Still a solid core of below freezing 925 temps in the central counties, which should imply that sleet will continue to be a factor for awhile yet. Surface 925mb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Change of plans. Going to Springfield, MA instead of Virginia. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 Ob correction, now primarily ZR with some sleet mixed in at 24ºF. Already a quick glaze Change of plans. Going to Springfield, MA instead of Virginia. Oh boy even better haha. Safe travels. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Oh boy even better haha. Safe travels. Parked on I-84 due to an overturned set of doubles blocking the highway... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001kx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 CTP just issued WSWs for everyone. not here: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=114&y=122&site=ctp&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=114&map_y=122#.VsLlWOax37w Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 16, 2016 Author Share Posted February 16, 2016 not here: http://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?x=114&y=122&site=ctp&zmx=&zmy=&map_x=114&map_y=122#.VsLlWOax37w They did mention about considering expanding warnings north by 2-3 tiers of counties in their last discussion update an hour or two ago for pretty much the reasons I mentioned in my earlier post around 1230 this morning. I feel that would be a good move for our region with the bulk of precip beginning to push into the central counties and temps still mainly in the 20s. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Still sitting at 30 as if 430. Light ZR ongoing and it's officially unsafe to walk out my door of apartment. Wonder how long this will hold on for. I'm guessing sunrise will start to poke everyone above freezing below the Mason Dixon. You guys in the valley may be until late morning, so stay safe. Voyager, definitely take it easy on your trip. This is a pretty ugly situation up and down 81. Hope everything goes alright. God speed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizzard of 93 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 6 am temp report at MDT was 32. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 6 am temp report at MDT was 32. I think there are going to be a lot of last minute closings in area this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizzard of 93 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 The ABC weather guy just said things are warming up this morning right on schedule ! I thought was supposed to be near 40 by midnight last night? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
var126 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Stay safe, Voyager. On the lighter side, the dogs were pretty hilarious on the ice this morning - they decided that they liked the crunch. I am sure that campus physical plant cleaned off the snow before the ice came - not looking forward to trying to get to class. At least there's a break in the action here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 UGLY OUT... Everyone stay safe. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasnownut Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Just watched my neighbor take 10 min to get out of his driveway w/ a F150. SMOKED those tires.. I was giggling my butt off. Yes he finally made it, but at the expense of 1/4 tread on tires.....lol Sales meeting cancelled... headed in shortly Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 35 and rain. Gotta love it. :/ No state delay which seems like a big mistake. My street is solid ice still. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashtown_Coop Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Schools are closed down here. Still 31 with heavy freezing rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jns2183 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 35 and rain. Gotta love it. :/ No state delay which seems like a big mistake. My street is solid ice still. 2/16/16: 2 hour delay for Capitol Complex, Hbg area and Scranton, Reading and Phila Office Buildings Non-essential employees under the Governor's jurisdiction who work in the Capitol Complex and Harrisburg Area, Scranton State Office Building, Reading State Office Building and Philadelphia Office Buildings are authorized a two hour delay to their regularly starting work schedule today, February 16, 2016. This delay, and any field office delays or closings, are subject to the provisions of Management Directive 530.17, Partial and Full-Day Closings of State Offices. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 we just went to a 12:00 noon opening. we were on a 10:00 opening. waiting to hear about my wife's school. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Temps finally surged to 35 last 90 minutes. Pretty ugly out. Went out an hour ago and there was minimum 0.25" of ice all over the place. Not the worst I've ever seen, but still pretty nasty. Things will improve over next few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I-83 BLIZZARD Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 45 degrees here with moderate wind driven rain. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Well...it' a complete disaster outside this morning. All cars, sidewalks, everything is a sheet of ice, and it's pouring rain out there to boot. My temperature officially reached 32.1 degrees at 7:20am. At that point I mesaured my rain gauge and measured 0.68" of liquid. That's what fell mainly as freeing rain and some sleet after the snowfall ended last evening around 9:00pm. So, my total liquid of all frozen and freezing precipitation for the event up until 7:20am was 0.88". Now we'll see just how much more falls as pure rain. Looking at the radar the deluge is going to continue for a while. I'm not going into work today. Too dangerous and too much ice. We'll see how much warmer it gets before the rainfall starts to taper off. It's been one hour since I cracked freezing, and temp now is only up to 33.4. Also, just checked rain gauge and have had 0.20" of rain in the past hour. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 Pretty interesting ride into work this morning at 5. the main roads weren't to bad, side streets and our parking lot not so much. At 5 we still had light rain and i showed 30 degrees, at 6 it was 31 and then when the heavier rain moved in, the temps rose quickly. With so many people calling off or late, left all the snow/ice removal on me. I'm soaked and in need of a shot of something. Good call from those of you (days ago) said no way was the cold leaving so soon. All in all i think we dodged a bullet and could have been much, much worse. A nice little event to track and watch unfold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasnownut Posted February 16, 2016 Share Posted February 16, 2016 46 here in Lancaster. Etown definately held cold longer then Akron. Still nice ice covering everything here. Natsomuch at home. Just slop. 2/24-25 still looks tasty as per overnight runs... We track.... N...........E........X...T !!! I love my snow goggles!! Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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