Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

[Mount Joy Snowman]

Current temp of 5 is the low. This has to go down as one of the colder Super Bowl Sundays in history. Just frigid. Although I agree with what @Itstrainingtime said yesterday, that I didn’t really notice the winds being bad here all day. The house never made the sounds it typically does in high winds, perhaps the slight change in direction was enough to mitigate but it just didn’t seem that serious here. 

[canderson]

Harrisburg is at 17 consecutive days with lows below 20. That’s the 4th most ever. 

Won’t get to the 3rd though since Tuesday night’s low will be the mid to upper 20s.

The record is 26 in 1905. 1948 (21) and 1983 (20) round out top 3. 

[Blizzard of 93]

55 minutes ago, canderson said:

Harrisburg is at 17 consecutive days with lows below 20. That’s the 4th most ever. 

Won’t get to the 3rd though since Tuesday night’s low will be the mid to upper 20s.

The record is 26 in 1905. 1948 (21) and 1983 (20) round out top 3. 

I had a few wind gusts even until early evening that shook the house & it sounded like a freight train was moving through the neighborhood.

[Blizzard of 93]

MDT added .3 of snow to the total for the Friday pm event. They really seem to be making an effort to get the snow total right this season.

[mahantango#1]

When is our next storm threat?

[MickeyTim6533]

1 minute ago, mahantango#1 said:

When is our next storm threat?

march

[ChescoWx]

East Nantmeal looks like it had the coldest reading this morning with a low of 2.5 above zero. Of note Atglen DEOS, KMQS Coatesville Airport and the West Grove DEOS stations all will tie the County record for most consecutive days below freezing high days today at 16 straight days set way back in 1961! They are on track to set a new consecutive record of 17 days tomorrow. It looks like all spots will finally get above freezing on both Tuesday and Wednesday before falling back below freezing for max temps on both Thursday and Friday. The week looks pretty dry with only a slight chance of some precipitation toward Wednesday.

[Itstrainingtime]

2 hours ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Current temp of 5 is the low. This has to go down as one of the colder Super Bowl Sundays in history. Just frigid. Although I agree with what @Itstrainingtime said yesterday, that I didn’t really notice the winds being bad here all day. The house never made the sounds it typically does in high winds, perhaps the slight change in direction was enough to mitigate but it just didn’t seem that serious here. 

I was thinking about this yesterday- this has been the longest stretch of prolonged cold that I can remember in years. I feel like we've lived in the teens and 20s for weeks. And yet my lowest temp for the entire winter may end up as 5 degrees. Just the way it worked out with wind and clouds at night.

[Blizzard of 93]

24 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I was thinking about this yesterday- this has been the longest stretch of prolonged cold that I can remember in years. I feel like we've lived in the teens and 20s for weeks. And yet my lowest temp for the entire winter may end up as 5 degrees. Just the way it worked out with wind and clouds at night.

Agreed, this season has featured many nights in the single digits, but I haven’t been able to get to below zero.

Last January’s -2 is still my coldest temperature of this decade.