Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

[NepaJames8602]

15 minutes ago, Summit Snow said:

Crazy today. Left Clarks Summit with snow on the ground and mood flakes and drove to Mt Pocono to pick up a car. Once I passed Gouldsboro on 380 it was like I drove into a bad winter storm. Cars off the road everywhere and 4-5'' of heavy snow. Got back and we might have go 2" but in Mt Pocono they were close to 6".

That sounds about right. I live 15 minutes north of Gouldsboro off 507, and 30 minutes from Mt. Pocono. I received right around 4.0" here at my location.  380 is a nightmare with any appreciable amount of snow most times, especially from Moscow south/east. The big change is always from the Gouldsboro exit, down to Mt. Pocono. Now you're driving through 1900' to 2000' foot elevations on the plateau.  Overall, a nice event in the Pocono area today, for sure.  Looks like a couple inches "possible" tomorrow am as well, nice little refresher before the incoming cold.

[MAG5035]

Pretty solid area of snow has blossomed up from WV over western and central PA the last couple hours. Something that the HRRR hasn’t really seen at all in recent runs where it doesn’t blossom precip til later over the Sus Valley. 0z 3k NAM looks to have seen that better as have the RGEM and globals. So I guess in other words, the HRRR is about the only thing that didn’t see that.

Snow falling here isn’t doing much currently, but it is accumulating up in the Laurels per 511 cams. 

[Yardstickgozinya]

It starting out as sleet here . 

[Yardstickgozinya]

Moderate sleet here in New Cumberland for the last 45 minutes.  

[Ruin]

started off as light snow around 1 am earlier then forecasted but turned to sleet fast no sleet was in the forecast as far as I saw. 

[Yardstickgozinya]

11 minutes ago, Ruin said:

started off as light snow around 1 am earlier then forecasted but turned to sleet fast no sleet was in the forecast as far as I saw. 

I don't believe I got the initial shot of snow at my house,but I have received around 1/8" of sleet, and I'm finally transitioning to snow here.

[MAG5035]

Steady light to moderate snow here with a fresh coating, 29ºF. This has turned into an outright accumulating event for some folks that it really wasn’t in the forecast for. US 322 corridor from State College to Lewistown showing a lot of snow covered roads on the cameras. 

[Yardstickgozinya]

It's pukeing snow here at the moment fellows.I've already surpassed anything I've received yesterday morning. I'm not surprised by the start of sleet here. In the pictures I posted yesterday morning you can clearly see that almost all the precipitation I received in my area was graupel while others not far away had much better flake quality. Obviously rates were an issue in my area, but thermals were suspect also here.  

[Yardstickgozinya]

Good luck tonight, fellas. Some might want to look outside before you browse your phone this morning.

[Ruin]

20 minutes ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

I don't believe I got the initial shot of snow at my house,but I have received around 1/8" of sleet, and I'm finally transitioning to snow here.

back to moderate snow here temp is up tho from 29 to 31 which is funny 

[Ruin]

18 minutes ago, MAG5035 said:

Steady light to moderate snow here with a fresh coating, 29ºF. This has turned into an outright accumulating event for some folks that it really wasn’t in the forecast for. US 322 corridor from State College to Lewistown showing a lot of snow covered roads on the cameras. 

yeah this is the type of stuff that they can get right 6-12 hours out? a family member is flying out today into the midwest. Im staying up to drive them at 5am most likely going to be delayed 

[Yardstickgozinya]

2 minutes ago, Ruin said:

yeah this is the type of stuff that they can get right 6-12 hours out? a family member is flying out today into the midwest. Im staying up to drive them at 5am most likely going to be delayed 

It's always nice to see family but it could be a little dicey around that time.

Stay safe. 

[Ruin]

10 minutes ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

It's always nice to see family but it could be a little dicey around that time.

Stay safe. 

yeah thus why I am mad lol they couldnt even get this right for forecast 

[Yardstickgozinya]

22 minutes ago, Ruin said:

back to moderate snow here temp is up tho from 29 to 31 which is funny 

This is actually not unusual at all. You're seeing the laws of thermodynamics and physics at play.  There's latent heat being produced by the freezing process and by friction itself .