Inquirer Article: Philly’s official snow totals are measured at the airport, but PHL gets a lot less snow than other places

[ChescoWx]

https://www.inquirer.com/weather/snow-weather-philadelphia-winter-phl-measure-20200121.html

 

[ChasingFlakes]

Interesting to see wayne got almost 20 more inches than phoenixville. Could that be because wayne is on a ridgeline?  The town part of phoenixville is only about 100-200ft above sea level.  Wayne is probably closer to 400-500ft.    

[KamuSnow]

As an FYI, snow measurements for PHL have been taken across the river from the airport, in National Park, N.J., for the last 15 years or so. Not that it snows that much more or less there, just that it's not literally done at the airport anymore.

[ChescoWx]

2 hours ago, KamuSnow said:

As an FYI, snow measurements for PHL have been taken across the river from the airport, in National Park, N.J., for the last 15 years or so. Not that it snows that much more or less there, just that it's not literally done at the airport anymore.

They actually moved it back to PHL I think back in 2016??

[tombo82685]

9 hours ago, ChasingFlakes said:

Interesting to see wayne got almost 20 more inches than phoenixville. Could that be because wayne is on a ridgeline?  The town part of phoenixville is only about 100-200ft above sea level.  Wayne is probably closer to 400-500ft.    

Exactly it. That data is from my work here in wayne which is at 500' in elev. 

[KamuSnow]

4 hours ago, ChescoPaWxman said:

They actually moved it back to PHL I think back in 2016??

Ok, I didn't realize that, thanks!