CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Hah! The squall is literally collapsing over Cumberland county as I speak and as it is about to arrive. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Cold and snowy this morning. 13 degrees currently Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Temps spiking here as the "squall line" nears. Up 3 degrees in the last 30 min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Had a morning low of +5.0F from radiational cooling over fresh snowpack. Shot up to 23.0 before sun got blocked by incoming clouds form "squall". Expecting it to begin snowing here at least a little any minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MillvilleWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, bubbler86 said: Temps spiking here as the "squall line" nears. Up 3 degrees in the last 30 min. Bit of compression warming as the front approaches. As it passes, you'll see the max temp right before the crash 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Haha. My phone just went off again with the snow squall warning. On radar what's left of it is over me right now and all I have are a few flurries! Looks like Voyager might be the only one who ends up with something. South of there it's completely falling apart / drying up. Oh well, another disappointment. Maybe 2" for Friday? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, CarlislePaWx said: Haha. My phone just went off again with the snow squall warning. On radar what's left of it is over me right now and all I have are a few flurries! Looks like Voyager might be the only one who ends up with something. South of there it's completely falling apart / drying up. Oh well, another disappointment. Maybe 2" for Friday? my daughter sent me a picture from Shipp and it just looked like flurries Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 White out here. Can just see the neighbors house....a few hundred feet at the most. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said: Haha. My phone just went off again with the snow squall warning. On radar what's left of it is over me right now and all I have are a few flurries! Looks like Voyager might be the only one who ends up with something. South of there it's completely falling apart / drying up. Oh well, another disappointment. Maybe 2" for Friday? That line does look a bit ragged right now. Might it do the infamous "summertime" Tamaqua Split? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Ok, spoke a little too soon. Flurries increased to wind-blown light to moderate snow with a solid dusting now and fairly reduced visibilities (half mile?). Radar faking me out. Temp starting to drop, down to 21.2 and pressure rising rapidly along with winds shifting to NW. I'd say the arctic front has passed me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I can certainly see how this would cause accidents. Road is already covered. Just took min's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JTrout Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 7 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said: Ok, spoke a little too soon. Flurries increased to wind-blown light to moderate snow with a solid dusting now and fairly reduced visibilities (half mile?). Radar faking me out. Temp starting to drop, down to 21.2 and pressure rising rapidly along with winds shifting to NW. I'd say the arctic front has passed me. NWS State CollegeVerified account @NWSStateCollege FollowingFollowing @NWSStateCollege More #Snowsquall appears to be weakening - but that is largely due to distance (farther away) from radar. IR satellite data confirms squall has maintained intensity. Expect brief burst of heavy snow & strong wind gusts shifting east of US-15 through 12PM. #pawx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashtown_Coop Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 That line means business. True whiteout here for 15 min. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Tapering off here. Impossible to measure especially with blowing snow but roofs are covered again so somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2" in a matter of 15 min. Most impressive thing was the temp...dropped from 26 to 16 in less than 20 min. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 in Harrisburg now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cashtown_Coop Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 2 minutes ago, bubbler86 said: Tapering off here. Impossible to measure especially with blowing snow but roofs are covered again so somewhere between 1/4 and 1/2" in a matter of 15 min. Most impressive thing was the temp...dropped from 26 to 16 in less than 20 min. About the same here. I went from 23 to 17. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Ok, well, my squall ended up depositing 0.2" of new snow, which is 0.2" more than I was expecting. Would have been nice to have witnessed the whiteouts reported by Cash and bubbler to my south. It never got heavier here than moderate. Temp continues to drop, now down to 19.6. Temps out in western PA are about 10-15 degrees colder at the moment. Looks like the PIT area is around +5. That stuff is headed right for us. My point n click is one degree colder for tonight, now down to -2. We'll see. The Friday storm is going to ruin our shot at radiational cooling for lows Friday morning, or we'd all probably reach -5 or lower. I think we still get opportunities for even lower temps during February after the warm spell ends. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 15 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said: Ok, well, my squall ended up depositing 0.2" of new snow, which is 0.2" more than I was expecting. Would have been nice to have witnessed the whiteouts reported by Cash and bubbler to my south. It never got heavier here than moderate. Temp continues to drop, now down to 19.6. Temps out in western PA are about 10-15 degrees colder at the moment. Looks like the PIT area is around +5. That stuff is headed right for us. My point n click is one degree colder for tonight, now down to -2. We'll see. The Friday storm is going to ruin our shot at radiational cooling for lows Friday morning, or we'd all probably reach -5 or lower. I think we still get opportunities for even lower temps during February after the warm spell ends. It really seemed to blossom as it came through Central Franklin and Adams county. The 20 dBz blob has doubled in size as it continued south and I suspect we see some accident reports out of Frederick and they get a full inch out of this. I suspect the higher temps here had a role in it. Here is Frederick right now. https://chart.maryland.gov/video/video.php?feed=ccffd39d00a000e90056fa36c4235c0a Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paweather Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 White out here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Mountains really did a number on it in HBG - it was a nice squall but by no means a white out or anything. I am on Front St and could still see the capitol dome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 FV3 keeps trying to bring back that Feb 7th and 8th storm. GFS will have none of it with temps in the 50's and 60's. These totals include this coming Friday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, canderson said: Mountains really did a number on it in HBG - it was a nice squall but by no means a white out or anything. I am on Front St and could still see the capitol dome. Well, it certainly wasn't awe inspiring here either. I had similar rates and visibility the last two hours of yesterday's storm as I did with the squall. There wasn't even much wind with it until it tapered off. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hazwoper Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, CarlislePaWx said: Ok, spoke a little too soon. Flurries increased to wind-blown light to moderate snow with a solid dusting now and fairly reduced visibilities (half mile?). Radar faking me out. Temp starting to drop, down to 21.2 and pressure rising rapidly along with winds shifting to NW. I'd say the arctic front has passed me. The radar bean was over the snow squall.. the squall was in between radar sites.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 10 minutes ago, bubbler86 said: FV3 keeps trying to bring back that Feb 7th and 8th storm. GFS will have none of it with temps in the 50's and 60's. These totals include this coming Friday. FV3 most bullish of NAM/GFS models for Friday with 2-3" in our area. Other 3 are 1" or less. Wonder how long it will hold on to this 2/8 storm? After the Euro comes out maybe someone with access can tell us if that storm is showing up on it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 minute ago, hazwoper said: The radar bean was over the snow squall.. the squall was in between radar sites.... Thx for the tip. Will note that for future events. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 I stand corrected. We actually had two squalls. The first one was moderate with fine flakes. It had just about stopped, and then round two came in like a wall of white with much bigger flakes. That one's winding down now, but between the two of them we picked up between a half and one inch. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Porsche Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Should be in my neck of the woods in about 30 minutes or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 Eric Horst went on a little Twitter rant about the Harrisburg-area radar hole today. Here's what he said: @MUweather The Harrisburg "radar hole"...it's a real thing, especially with Arctic snow showers. This traffic camera (near zero visibility snow) at Harrisburg and the Radar view below are both from the same time! How can it be snowing so hard, but nothing on radar? @MUweather I've been talking about this for years...it's flaw in the placement of the radar sites, in that there's not radar coverage below 10,000' in the Capital city of PA. Imagine that! As a result, we can't see these shallow squalls (which are mostly occurring below the radar beam).... @MUweather ...and in the warm season we can't see low-level rotation (i.e. tornadoes). It's a huge problem IMO, but it's never been addressed. Perhaps some State politicians can look into a fix? A local radar would improve forecasts and safety of citizens...and more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 9 minutes ago, canderson said: Eric Horst went on a little Twitter rant about the Harrisburg-area radar hole today. Here's what he said: @MUweather The Harrisburg "radar hole"...it's a real thing, especially with Arctic snow showers. This traffic camera (near zero visibility snow) at Harrisburg and the Radar view below are both from the same time! How can it be snowing so hard, but nothing on radar? @MUweather I've been talking about this for years...it's flaw in the placement of the radar sites, in that there's not radar coverage below 10,000' in the Capital city of PA. Imagine that! As a result, we can't see these shallow squalls (which are mostly occurring below the radar beam).... @MUweather ...and in the warm season we can't see low-level rotation (i.e. tornadoes). It's a huge problem IMO, but it's never been addressed. Perhaps some State politicians can look into a fix? A local radar would improve forecasts and safety of citizens...and more! So if one is going to attack Harrisburg from the sky they must stay below 10,000 feet and in they go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bubbler86 Posted January 30, 2019 Share Posted January 30, 2019 1 hour ago, CarlislePaWx said: FV3 most bullish of NAM/GFS models for Friday with 2-3" in our area. Other 3 are 1" or less. Wonder how long it will hold on to this 2/8 storm? After the Euro comes out maybe someone with access can tell us if that storm is showing up on it? FV3 has had this storm being more South East twice now. Let's hope it is right otherwise we are in for two weeks of 50's and 60's with rain rotating between slight cool downs. Need something to force those lows south of us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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