Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

[MAG5035]

We have a couple potential events this week. A potent shortwave traversing the Great Lakes Wednesday and another potential wave(s) over the weekend. The low on Wednesday passes north of PA, which will likely focus snow potential in northern PA and the Laurels with downsloping off of the mountains and probably surface temp issues. Another period of significant LES/upslope likely ensues in the aforementioned focus area of snow potential after the passage of the low. 

More pieces of energy along this fast northern branch dominated flow are in the pipeline behind this, with all major models at 12z today focusing more towards Sunday for a more notable wave traversing PA with a widespread snowfall. Much colder air looks to be in PA for this weekend vs Wednesday. Still some potential light snowfall Friday night as well showing on the Euro. All these waves will be enforcing a continued regime of much below normal temperatures. 

[canderson]

It’s cold today - 26 at 2:20 here. 

[Itstrainingtime]

4 minutes ago, canderson said:

It’s cold today - 26 at 2:20 here. 

Sure is! I'm currently at 26.2/10 with a real feel of 13. 

[AccuChris]

25° presently in Lebanon


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[Ruin]

What's with the last storm's clouds?Not moving out.It's been like three days now and the clouds are still sticking around

[Itstrainingtime]

19 minutes ago, Ruin said:

What's with the last storm's clouds?Not moving out.It's been like three days now and the clouds are still sticking around

There is another system moving through the mid-Atlantic today with more snow - beautiful winter scene in central VA right now:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgkdREYOfw0

 

[ChescoWx]

You can tell things have slowed down with my business as we near the holidays....plenty of time for some updated analysis!

Below are the Top 10 snowstorms since January 1, 2020 here in East Nantmeal Township. We have had 5 storms greater than 6 inches but only 2 storms that have exceeded 10" or more.