Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

[SnowPlowGuy88]

Starting to lay on hard surfaces. Just a dusting, but steady light snow for the last 20 minutes or so. 

[Itstrainingtime]

Seeing reports of 4"+ with heavy snow still falling in central VA. What a great surprise for them today.

[SnowPlowGuy88]

Got a 1/4” in pickle town. Nice, steady snow. Sirens in the background 

[canderson]

Cars caved but that was about it but a beautiful afternoon.  

[Mount Joy Snowman]

.3” here with neighborhood roads all completely covered. I love these events where the snow falls very lightly for hours upon hours in a cold airmass and eventually overtakes everything. All to add a few tenths to the books ha. Love it. 

[Blizzard of 93]

I just got to Palmyra for my daughter’s indoor softball league game & the main roads appeared to be fine, however, there was a major accident on the west bound side of 322 outside of Harrisburg towards Hummelstown. There was a tractor trailer on its side. There were police & fire trucks on the scene & responding. I will likely be taking a different route home, because I imagine it will take awhile to clear that area.

if you are venturing out, please be careful. Roads are getting slick!

[Blizzard of 93]

Light snow actively was falling the entire way between Marysville & Palmyra.

Light snow & 23 currently in Palmyra.

[anotherman]

Looks like snow reinforcements are on the way, per radar.

[Itstrainingtime]

21 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

.3” here with neighborhood roads all completely covered. I love these events where the snow falls very lightly for hours upon hours in a cold airmass and eventually overtakes everything. All to add a few tenths to the books ha. Love it. 

You got wayyy more (very relative, I realize )than I did. Nothing is covered here other. Just a trace on car window trim.

[CarlislePaWx]

Here in Carlisle, just before 7:30pm...it continues to snow lightly with mostly fine flakes mixed with some larger ones as well.  It's been snowing steadily for the past 4 hours or so.  Everything is coated in white...including my main street (which is a cul-de-sac).  I just took a measurement from my board, and I'm just about up to 0.4".  It even continues to snow when the radar has no echoes directly overhead.  So, it's better than it seems.  Oh, I almost forgot...the temperature is currently 25.3 degrees F with a dew point of 22.  I had pretty much given up on today when I got up this morning.  So, it's been a bit of a nice surprise to have the flakes falling again.

[Mount Joy Snowman]

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

You got wayyy more (very relative, I realize )than I did. Nothing is covered here other. Just a trace on car window trim.

Wow that’s crazy, everything white here. As @anotherman mentioned looks like we have another batch moving our way. Perhaps a squall from the front in the cards. 

[canderson]

Putting this down as a coating. Just got home from dinner in Hershey and roads for us were no issue thankfully. Took a broom to the sidewalk. 

Tomorrow is going to suck with the wind. I f’n despite wind and gusts above 50 really make me so incredibly nervous. 

[Itstrainingtime]

33 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Wow that’s crazy, everything white here. As @anotherman mentioned looks like we have another batch moving our way. Perhaps a squall from the front in the cards. 

Coating achieved! Very thin but cars are covered and a few tracks on the road. :)

[Yardstickgozinya]

It was quite beautiful around here yesterday. I ended up with a dusting .The wind arrived here in Fareview township around 1:45AM and snow showers have returned just after 2:00AM. 

[pawatch]

3:00 am the wind woke me up. Snow and wind…17mph wind, 30 mph gust Originally not real great visibility. The temperature dropped from 24° to 19° in a couple minutes.

Edit: 4:00am the snow is over, currently 5mph wind.

[canderson]

Already had multiple 47 mph wind gusts. 

Today is going to suck. Wind scares me. 

[Festus]

To say it's brutal outside is an understatement.  Temperature dropped 10 degrees in the past 3 hours.

I have a good view of State Street (Rt 722).  Lots of blowing snow and what traffic there is are crawling.  Beware if you're going out.

[canderson]

It’s snowing again and blowing 51 mph. Like a gust front. 
 

Wife is about to dive to the Philly burbs. That’ll be brutal. 

[pawatch]

Currently 5 degrees and boy is it windy.

[Voyager]

Woke up at 4:00 am and it was 23.4 outside. Four hours later and it's down to 8.4 

[Blizzard of 93]

I’ve been happy with MDT’s measurements this season so far, but I’m a bit puzzled by their measurement yesterday. They recorded .02 of precip but only recorded  .1 of snow, despite temperatures well below freezing. 
It doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things, but, for example if we end up sitting at 29.9 of snow for the season, that could have been the tenth of snow to push us to the 30 mark.

These little events all add up & details matter…

[canderson]

9 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

I’ve been happy with MDT’s measurements this season so far, but I’m a bit puzzled by their measurement yesterday. They recorded .02 of precip but only recorded  .1 of snow, despite temperatures well below freezing. 
It doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things, but, for example if we end up sitting at 29.9 of snow for the season, that could have been the tenth of snow to push us to the 30 mark.

These little events all add up & details matter…

I had a coating which I believe goes down as ..1” so it lines up. 

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Current temp of 12 is the low, down from 28 sometime after midnight. Melting down my .3” of snow. 

[Blizzard of 93]

1 minute ago, canderson said:

I had a coating which I believe goes down as ..1” so it lines up. 

Not for actual snowfall.

That is snow depth you are referring to:

[Blizzard of 93]

12 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

I’ve been happy with MDT’s measurements this season so far, but I’m a bit puzzled by their measurement yesterday. They recorded .02 of precip but only recorded  .1 of snow, despite temperatures well below freezing. 
It doesn’t matter much in the grand scheme of things, but, for example if we end up sitting at 29.9 of snow for the season, that could have been the tenth of snow to push us to the 30 mark.

These little events all add up & details matter…

 

[canderson]

Brandford is currently -7 with a -32 wind chill 

[Blizzard of 93]

The 6z AI Euro & AI GFS remain interested in the next Sunday & Monday period for a Winter storm chance.

[Summit Snow]

-1 currently.

 

[Voyager]

Now down to 6.

[CarlislePaWx]

Down to +9.7 for current and low temp for today (so far).

Had 0.4" of snow yesterday which melted down to 0.02".