E PA/NJ/DE Winter 2025-26 Obs/Discussion

[ChescoWx]

10 hours ago, RedSky said:

Unfortunately there are no official tallies for small towns like doylestown perkasie and quakertown

Actually there is historical NWS Cooperative data for some of those spots I did a quick look with some select snow examples:

• Sellersville since 1948 (looks like snow since 1990's) - 24.4" of snow so far this season / 2013-14 - 58.3" season snow
• Doylestown 1899-2017 - 1977-78 - 56.4" of snow
• Quakertown 1884 - 1969
• Palm 1941-1922

Check out https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/request/coop/fe.phtml?network=PACLIMATE  if anyone else is interested in some local official NWS amounts etc.

 

 

 

[Heisy]

Such a tight gradient on all the eps members etc because of how wound up the system is. I feel like we’d need a pretty large shift for this range to get the city in the goods, but I still think we can muster few inches if we get lucky

[ChescoWx]

10 hours ago, The Iceman said:

Hm I have no idea, my dad’s records only go back to 1977, he started keeping track as a science project in high school and just kept with it… not really a weather nerd like me but he loves snow lol. In our combined tally of snow totals, 95-1996 was our snowiest winter at 75.6”. Do you happen to know what the tally for 57-58 was? 

I put the link above there are some NWS spots around that area - I grew up in NE Philly so check out:

• Neshaminy Falls 1915-Present - 24.5" of snow so far this season
• George School 1906-1978
• Southhampton 1979-2013

[The Iceman]

Another side note, but crossing the Delaware into Trenton this morning I noticed it's almost completely frozen all the way across. I have to imagine by the end of this weekend it will be completely frozen. That doesn't happen often. Will have to watch for Ice jams by the falls whenever the thaw comes.

[CoolHandMike]

1 hour ago, The Iceman said:

Another side note, but crossing the Delaware into Trenton this morning I noticed it's almost completely frozen all the way across. I have to imagine by the end of this weekend it will be completely frozen. That doesn't happen often. Will have to watch for Ice jams by the falls whenever the thaw comes.

The Skook out by me was ~50% frozen over yesterday when I drove down River Road north of Rt. 12. This is north of the Tulpehocken, which is fed from Blue Marsh, so I don't know if it's frozen downstream. Might have to go check it out later today.

I also want to see if anybody's out at Ontelawnee ice fishing. That's something I've always wanted to do, and this weekend might be a good weekend for it.

[Chadzachadam]

21 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

The Skook out by me was ~50% frozen over yesterday when I drove down River Road north of Rt. 12. This is north of the Tulpehocken, which is fed from Blue Marsh, so I don't know if it's frozen downstream. Might have to go check it out later today.

I also want to see if anybody's out at Ontelawnee ice fishing. That's something I've always wanted to do, and this weekend might be a good weekend for it.

Can confirm the Skook is frozen in Philly and looks very cool

[Duca892]

Probably wrong but think this is the 2nd run in a row the GFS has a clipper trying to spring a miller B around 260hrs. Pretty boring until then 

[Birds~69]

Would take a 1-3"/2-4" (refresher) deal for Sunday and be happy. Getting shutout would kinda irk me...means we wasted a full week of cold. 

17F @ 12:10pm