KPITSnow Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 25 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said: We talk about that in here a good bit. Things got way out of whack in respect to historical climatology along the I-95 corridor over the past 10-15 years, and it really spoiled a lot of people, especially younger ones who I believed that they assumed what was happening was "normal". Entitlement. Sort of understandable, but they really needed a bit of a reality check. On the flip side, they had a dreadful year last year, so add that in and they're starving. Even here in Lancaster, our climate history suggests double digit snows come about once or twice a decade. I've had double digit snows 8 times in the past 11 years. I appreciated this storm because I know that it's not normal nor should it be expected. Meanwhile, I think our climo is a double digit storm ever 2-3 years? We have had one since 2010 (officially this one didn’t get there but it still kind of counts) in March 21st 2018 and that one really was more hours of light snow...not to mention it compacted a lot. I know the DC people get pissy and say “don’t you get 40-50 inches a year?” But when that is from 15 1-2 inch events and 10 other trace events it’s more annoying than anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 9 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said: Great information Stephen, thank you for sharing the QPF amount in particular. Had the 2" of QPF that was being advertised a few days ago come to fruition, snow and ice amounts would have been close to what was expected. Glad to provide it! Do you think I'm just a little detail-oriented (in real life)?? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 I Presume everyone is heading back over to the general Winter thread? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paweather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Congrats everyone. Time to find the next one! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 11 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said: Glad to provide it! Do you think I'm just a little detail-oriented (in real life)?? I think that's why I relate well to you. I work in a company of 900 people, and at a banquet last year, received an award for being the most organized person at work. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, MAG5035 said: Where that band set up and sat last night over those north-central counties got in excess of 2 feet, so a 3+ foot total somewhere isn't out of the realm of possibility. The models having the 20-30+ swath for days ended up being right in the end, just that it ended up being more W than what any model had and then it did arc over to Williamsport.. although the worst of that band was actually north of IPT for awhile and they still got what they did. I don't know what happened here. Looking at you guys' totals this morning, my 10.7" is on par with @Itstrainingtime and the Lancaster folks with some of the ones around Harrisburg actually doing slightly better even with the sleet. This was a big bust for me personally, as I was expecting mid teens here and when yesterday mornings models came in at the beginning of the storm I thought 20" was realistic. I think that intense band setting up just to the west of here for awhile got me into a subsidence zone. I never got the 2-4/hr rates. I'm still happy, it's a double digit snowfall in December either way. Roads are still a mess this morning and my back street hasn't been plowed yet. Couldn't imagine folks that ended up with more than twice of what I got. I had 4.2" between 3 and 5pm. That's what did it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 27 minutes ago, intentionallove said: Around 9-10" here in Middletown with 4 hours of heavy sleet. Its a bear to shovel....sticky as all get out! Anyone bored?? Lol i started at 430 at my house, then just spent the last 4 hours at work clearing snow, i'm good 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said: I had 4.2" between 3 and 5pm. That's what did it. i was out during those hours for that reason, it was dumping 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festus Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Right at 10" here. The blower was unamused moving it but got through. Amazing I have dry driveway already. Even at basically the lowest sun angle of the year, a clear sky can finish the drying quickly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllWeather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Finished with 11” of a sleet sandwich in Manheim and it’s a beast to shovel. Sprayed some cooking spray on the shovel and that helps! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarlislePaWx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 25 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said: I think that's why I relate well to you. I work in a company of 900 people, and at a banquet last year, received an award for being the most organized person at work. Congratulations on the award! It's a blessing and a curse at times. Just glad to be retired now and no longer needing to "sweat the details". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Nice to see almost everyone near or above double digits.It was dicey in Lancaster knowing we were definitely going over to sleet, but that period between 3 and 5:30 was easily 2 to 3 inch per hour rates.Nice to more than double my snowfall total from last year in one storm (still hard to believe).Looking forward to the next one.. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daxx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Storm total 11.2. Over an inch of sleet in that toatal.That sleet was not our typical sleet. It was almost a dry sleet. It added up nice. My highest hourly rate was 2.3 inches. If we wouldn't have mixed we probably would have ended with15 or more around here. On to the next! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 24 minutes ago, AllWeather said: Finished with 11” of a sleet sandwich in Manheim and it’s a beast to shovel. Sprayed some cooking spray on the shovel and that helps! WD-40 worked for me this morning lol 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 36 minutes ago, AllWeather said: Finished with 11” of a sleet sandwich in Manheim and it’s a beast to shovel. Sprayed some cooking spray on the shovel and that helps! Just saw a report that Marietta finished with 11.5", which is 1.5 miles from me. That was the highest that I've seen in our area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllWeather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 2 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said: Just saw a report that Marietta finished with 11.5", which is 1.5 miles from me. That was the highest that I've seen in our area. There seemed to have some sort of mini max from the Marietta area up into the northern part of the county. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AllWeather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just now, AllWeather said: There seemed to have some sort of mini max from the Marietta area up into the northern part of the county. Like this: edit: look at that band in N PA into NY. Wow! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Parts of Bradford County look like they got over 40". 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daxx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, canderson said: Parts of Bradford County look like they got over 40". Better hope for a slow thaw. All that water up north has to come down the Susquehanna. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Itstrainingtime Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 30 minutes ago, daxx said: Better hope for a slow thaw. All that water up north has to come down the Susquehanna. You got that right! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 My mom forwarded me pics from a couple of her friends up in her hometown of Renovo, Clinton County where that band sat for awhile last night. K&L Auto just outside of town Tamarack 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paweather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Posted this over in our other thread. If you want the river to freeze over GFS has an ice storm at hour 372. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paweather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just now, MAG5035 said: My mom forwarded me pics from a couple of her friends up in her hometown of Renovo, Clinton County where that band sat for awhile last night. K&L Auto just outside of town Tamarack That is awesome thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BuffaloWeather Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Figured I'd post this for you guys too. Radar of storm for northern PA 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wmsptwx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 24 or 25 ish here, lol was pretty crazy to clean up and abandoned cars were all over the place in town and local highways. The LSV can have the next big guy after that clean up, but excited and can’t complain about snow until at least 2027 or so lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kerplunk Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, Wmsptwx said: 24 or 25 ish here, lol was pretty crazy to clean up and abandoned cars were all over the place in town and local highways. The LSV can have the next big guy after that clean up, but excited and can’t complain about snow until at least 2027 or so lol. Uh huh...you do realize that’s about 6 years or so? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wmsptwx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, kerplunk said: Uh huh...you do realize that’s about 6 years or so? Yup but I never thought I’d see feet of snow in my lifetime, so my right to complain card just flew right out the window. I’ll be back to track next interesting weather, hope everyone made it to 8+ at least. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 This thing kicked it into an even higher gear when it got into NWS BGM territory. Multiple counties with 40"+ reports, including right around NWS Binghamton themselves. Incredible. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 48 minutes ago, MAG5035 said: This thing kicked it into an even higher gear when it got into NWS BGM territory. Multiple counties with 40"+ reports, including right around NWS Binghamton themselves. Incredible. I just saw that and was going to post about it. Thing is, it's nice to get a big bomb, but what do you do with all that snow? Where do you put it when shoveling? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Festus Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 35 minutes ago, Voyager said: I just saw that and was going to post about it. Thing is, it's nice to get a big bomb, but what do you do with all that snow? Where do you put it when shoveling? Reports the highest storm total of 44" near Binghamton. https://www.yahoo.com/news/deadly-winter-storm-brings-nearly-165906297.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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