Boxing Night Snow/Sleet/Ice Dec 26-27 Storm Thread/Obs.

[Hurricane Agnes]

Doesn't seem to be doing anything here in NW Philly except maybe some FRDZ, with about 0.3" of a crust of graupel/sleet/ice.  Temp currently 27 with dp 25.

[JTA66]

Pixie dust here as well. Will add a nice third layer on top of the sleet and ice.

[Imgoinhungry]

Looks like another hour and it’ll be done out here in Berks, good riddance 

Im in kutztown. Gnarly out there. High of thirty tomorrow, so probably a glacier through late morning Sunday.


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[Violentweatherfan]

27 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Straight accumulating snow now in Ivyland. 27F.

On the way home from work back to Jamison it’s snowing too

[penndotguy]

24F Dp20 NE winds at 4mph with FRz drizzle. And that looks like a wrap out here lm very happy this wasn’t a long ice event. We’ll try this snow thing again next week. 

[JSharp]

5 minutes ago, penndotguy said:

24F Dp20 NE winds at 4mph with FRz drizzle. And that looks like a wrap out here lm very happy this wasn’t a long ice event. We’ll try this snow thing again next week. 

The 18z Euro has a small snow system possible on New Year's Day.

[RedSky]

.50" total 

I made it 10" December

[LVblizzard]

About an inch of a sleety mess here. I just shoveled it and cleared off my car and it was not fun.

[Ralph Wiggum]

48 minutes ago, JSharp said:

The 18z Euro has a small snow system possible on New Year's Day.

As does the GFS

[Albedoman]

1 hour ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

As does the GFS

Winter is going to take a brief break after this BS first of the year storm of only 1-3 inches if we are really lucky. I see no snowstorms until after the 15th and it will warm up into the upper 40's to 50's . I do think we will pay the piper for this brief warm up by Marin Luther Kings day--  seems to be the pattern the last 5 years.

All I can say is the drought situation  in our area is only going to worsen as the Gulf storm production  is shut down for business.  Believe me, dried up wells and sinkhole formation with dropping groundwater tables with waterline breaks galore will be the talk of the town in the next three weeks as the ground starts to thaw out with what little moisture is in it.  The base flows of the creeks will begin to drop again too. We really need a 96 type of storm event asap.

[RU848789]

Just finished shoveling and it looks like the storm is done, so unless something happens overnight, my final measurement is 1.8", as we got about 0.1" the last hour.  Not as bad as it was looking at 10 pm, but still a pretty significant bust when we were under a winter storm warning for 4-7", my hourly forecast gave me 5.7" this morning, and the average model snowfall was about 5.5" (over 10 models) - and my prediction was 6.1" (oof).  Of course it's way better than the rain and 60F it was looking like 10 days ago, but still disappointing.  Pretty snowfall, though, and loved having temps in the 20s for most of it.  Feels like winter.  Brings me to a healthy 9.6" for December, my most since we got 10.3" in Dec 2017.