Atomixwx Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Looks like folks south of I-80 are going to remain pretty dry until this evening. Still beats a 6 degree day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clarks green snow Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Have been in the right place and at the right elevation so far this winter. Yesterday we got a quick 1.5" inches which puts me close to 10" so far this winter with 4 different "events" so far. Waited until mid-March last year to get close to a foot of snow total. Winter was late March and early April up here last year! Looking at 3-6" today with current lite snow and flurries at 11:30AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 My MDT prediction: .2" snow/sleet trade zr lots of rain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 1 hour ago, Atomixwx said: Looks like folks south of I-80 are going to remain pretty dry until this evening. Still beats a 96 degree day. Fixed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 2 hours ago, pasnownut said: Well im just getting ripped off. Very light snow now falling, but at this rate, and by the looks of the radar, mood flakes is all I get till whatever the main show has in store for tonight. Happy to be trackin, but wish that damn NAO would show up. We'd be rockin this week. I'll enjoy all the same as it beats the heck outta last years oven. Enjoy. Nut Yea it seems like at least in the early going so far this winter that we may be more dependent on a traditional -NAO than we were with the last couple winters (talking 13/14 and 14/15)... at least from a storm standpoint. You can see that in the pattern alignment and corresponding storm track. The negative EPO/WPO are providing access to some of the very cold air that spent most of November in Asia, and that will pay us a visit in the latter half of this coming week. At the same time we have a -PNA regime that results in a colder than average and unsettled western US. Without downstream blocking from a well established -NAO in this Pac/Western US alignment, we are vulnerable to cutting storms. We in fact have one with today's event and likely next weekend with the more significant system showing up on the models. In between though, the PV takes a swing at the northeastern US and it is going to be a very impressive arctic shot, with 850 temps showing -20 to -25ºC in the 12z GFS. That's impressive for mid-late Jan standards and hard to get in mid December. I would look for an arctic frontal passage Wed/Thur this week and the usual trouble those things cause. Western PA gets a favorable LES/upslope alignment in the wake of it and with sub -20ºC 850 air coming over the lakes in mid-Dec the LES could be pretty prolific. Pretty likely the next progged major system will cut to the lakes next weekend but given the antecedent cold it will need to boot out, it would likely be quite a mess.. especially for the central counties. A little farther beyond that today's teleconnection forecast show a reversal of the EPO/WPO to positive after about the 16/17th.. that would imply eventual moderation of temps in the US with more of a Pacific influenced jet. We shall see, but in the meantime the next 6-10 days are shaping up to be pretty active and quite cold. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 11, 2016 Author Share Posted December 11, 2016 Snow has tapered a bit for now, right at the 2" mark for the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiier04 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 Doubt we'll even hit our 1" here now Just a flizzard all morning. Only measuring .3" so far. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 More junky flakes over the past few hours as temperatures warm aloft. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizzard of 93 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 I'm anxiously waiting to see if MDT recorded a couple of tenths of snow today. If it didn't happen this morning, maybe it will happen tonight before the changeover. The 18z RGEM is still insisting MDT gets a few inches tonight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blizzard of 93 Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 MDT is officially on the board with .1 of snow as of the 5 pm update. Williamsport recordred 1 inch. Let's see what the rest of this system can bring? It's not much, but these tenths can put you over the top at the end of the season if you are sitting at say 39.9, the 40 just sounds better! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anduril Posted December 11, 2016 Share Posted December 11, 2016 For as little snow as we had this morning some of the side/back roads were pretty ****ty in Lower Allen township; dont think they did any salting. Once I hit the main roads they were of course fine but it was still rather suprising Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 7 minutes ago, Anduril said: For as little snow as we had this morning some of the side/back roads were pretty ****ty in Lower Allen township; dont think they did any salting. Once I hit the main roads they were of course fine but it was still rather suprising They and Camp Hill have the worst roads in the region every tiny storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Got 1.3" of snow here today. Interested to see what round 2 brings. Hoping at least the same amount. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Wizard Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Mesoscale discussion is up with 30-40 dBZ returns headed towards Centre County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 Moderate-heavy snow falling here so far with this second batch. Temp steady around 27F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiier04 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Best snow of the day falling here now too... might hit that 1" after all Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiier04 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Legit moderate snow here now. Think we doubled our total for the whole event just in the past 30 minutes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Wizard Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Moderate snow in State College, definitely the best rates of the day so far. Changeover line is moving rapidly to the NE per CC. Altoona just flipped to sleet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skiier04 Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 8 minutes ago, Winter Wizard said: Moderate snow in State College, definitely the best rates of the day so far. Changeover line is moving rapidly to the NE per CC. Altoona just flipped to sleet. Really piling up nicely IMBY now. Grass completely covered... Hope we can stay snow for the next couple hours. Gonna be the difference between one inch and three. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 Was outside for a little bit, precip lightened up and changed over to sleet and maybe a touch of freezing rain. Cleared my measuring areas since it started mixing.. had about a new half inch on top of the 2.0" received from about 6a-2p today. Heavier precip moving back in and things have turned back to snow again (big fluffies) for now. Also, obligatory snow pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Wizard Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Closing in on 2 inches in downtown State College, still moderate snow. Changeover line just passed Lewistown so we probably flip in the next hour or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 3 minutes ago, Winter Wizard said: Closing in on 2 inches in downtown State College, still moderate snow. Changeover line just passed Lewistown so we probably flip in the next hour or two. It's alternating between snow and sleet down here (I'm about 30 miles down I-99 from UNV). It seems like it will hold up there for awhile but you can also see the mixing line working into Clearfield county from the west and southwest. The CC dual pol is really showing the line pretty well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winter Wizard Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 Sleet mixing in now...CC dual pol is doing an excellent job showing the changeover line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 12, 2016 Author Share Posted December 12, 2016 Light freezing rain now, glaze on everything. 29ºF Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I didn't even bother to measure as the number would be highly inaccurate, but it appears that I got about 2 inches total from round one and two before the sometime during the night changeover which severely compacted the snow on the ground... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001kx Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I would guess we had 4-6 inches on ground before the sleet / rain came. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pasnownut Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 33 minutes ago, 2001kx said: I would guess we had 4-6 inches on ground before the sleet / rain came. I had 0.0" before the sleet/rain came........... All good. Glad your getting into some action this year. Nut Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001kx Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 5 minutes ago, pasnownut said: I had 0.0" before the sleet/rain came........... All good. Glad your getting into some action this year. Nut Yeah last year was rough! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I ended up with 3.5" of snow here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted December 12, 2016 Share Posted December 12, 2016 I didn't look in the gauge yet but it doesn't appear like we even got that much of anything. This will be one of those weeks when there will be some people talking on Thursday night about how cold it is, and "no way can it warm up that much and rain by Saturday." And then they'll watch their thermometer reach 40 Saturday afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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