Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

[ChescoWx]

Some light snow has crossed the area this morning with mainly a coating here in NW Chester County to some reports of a 1/4 inch across southern Chesco. We warm up nicely today to near normal in the low to mid 40's which should help melt some of our snowpack that has now reached 40 straight days with at least an inch of snow on the ground. This is the 9th longest stretch since 1894. Another shot at some light snow tomorrow evening. A little cooler on Friday before our warmest day of the year looks possible on Saturday with temps in the low 50's. We turn colder Sunday and there will be some potential for yet another winter storm early next week but way too early to nail down specifics.

[pasnownut]

1 hour ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

No dusting or evidence of any flakes here last night either.

The Old line “Never count on a Clipper” rings true again.

Yeah, it started to go poof on some mesos yesterday, and while I expected (and got) zero flakes down here, I was hoping for the 1-3" at the cabin for what might be the last hurrah for snowmobiling.  I may head up anyway, or i have an invite to Brantingham NY where snow is a plenty right now.  

Only good about modeled clippers, is that they never stop inspiring false hope for a snow weenie like me, cause every once in a while they make it SE of the mountains.  

Monday looks nice as currently modeled.  Would be a nice end (unless the improving tellies/ssw) materializes later in March.  I'd be just fine w/ it either way.  

Seeing snow covered landscapes on way into office today, was just another win for this snowhound.

[pawatch]

Picked 3/8” of snow, my lane is covered and had to blow the snow off the cars with my leaf blower.

[Jns2183]

Awesome. Thank.you for looking that up. I'm not sure how deep you went, but it sounds like this spring falls pretty short on 1960 analogs. I'm hoping to get back to work in the next ten to fourteen days, so 1960 doesn't sound that attractive anyways. 

I've been building myself a little personal weather history database. I have for KMDT and KCXY every hourly reading for in the NCEI database. They have missing hours, obviously as you go back in time, but combined I pretty much have at least a temperature reading hourly going back to the 1930's. I also have complete daily records for York and Lancaster and a lot of co-op that have come and went over the years. There really wasn't explosion of them around World war II. Soon as I decide about storage and server setup I'm going to see about attaining all 5 minute asos automated sensor readings. But at that point it's GB of data and doesn't really move the needle too much on what I'm doing. I was also starting to look more into soil temperature records and hydro automatic creek sensors for nailing down preceiptitation which is a big interest.

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[Jns2183]

I’ve mentioned it somewhere in one of these threads in the past. I don’t believe that event dumped anywhere near that much snow in Harrisburg though. The NOAA NOWdata at Harrisburg/Middletown for those two days has over 3” of precip but only 2.4” of snow. 
It did dump those kinds of amounts back this way and on down the Apps thru WV and KY though. The local station here had something on it a few years ago. 
https://www.wtaj.com/weather/the-late-april-snowstorm-of-1928/

 

1919 103"
1924 74
1925 70
1926 90.75
1927 67
1928 81.75

I believe those were the snowfall readings from a place called horseshoe crab in Altoona. They want very many stations back in the day. And Altoona area as a super wide variance it's snowfalls depending upon location with elevation and lake enhancement. Trying to get a handle on that area's actual snowfall through the years was a nightmare because of that. So much of that years mean was dependent upon what station was reporting in where the stations were.

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[Mount Joy Snowman]

GFS still wanting to bring some snow Thursday, although not sure how much it would matter with a middle of the day event and marginal temps, to say nothing of the lack of other model support ha.  However, it's still showing the Monday storm, albeit a bit weaker this time (probably more realistic), and temps do not appear to be an issue whatsoever in that one.