Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

[Yardstickgozinya]

1 hour ago, mitchnick said:

Still going here. Just lt, non-accumulating stuff that's not on 

Very tiny dandarites started falling from the sky right around 5:00am and continued all through the morning hours here. 

[Mount Joy Snowman]

22 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

What type of gauge do you have

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[CarlislePaWx]

3 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

I’m still at 30 degrees and everything is caked in a solid quarter inch of solid ice. Not going anywhere until things soften up a bit this afternoon. Thought I’d have more sleet but it’s a pretty scene out there either way. Ready for more cold as we approach the New Year. Melting down the gauge and will report back with qpf. Toodles. 

I just melted down my freezing rain and sleet.  It came out to precisely 0.25" (liquid).  There was no plain rain recorded throughout the entirety of the event as the temperature never went above 32.0 degrees.  Ice-coated trees and grass are barely showing signs of melting with a current temperature of 33.6 degrees.  Pavement and sidewalks are mostly ice-free now.  They experienced the least accumulation of ice from the storm.

It's next to impossible to come up with precise measurements of sleet versus freezing rain, although it seems obvious that the predominant form was from freezing rain.  I am going to go with 0.3" of sleet (0.09" liquid) and 0.16" of freezing rain.  The final few hours on either side of midnight were a "heavy" freezing drizzle.  It looked like the tiniest snowflakes floating and flying around, but it wasn't snow.

This precipitation brings my YTD total to 34.57" which represents an annual deficit of approximately 13.5" compared to the normal annual average of 48", which is the total I recorded during last year.  I'll have the final yearly total after our last precip event coming up tomorrow evening into Monday afternoon.