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.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Ended with 1.7" of sleet and snow mixed.

[Physicsteve]

Solid 1/2” of freezing rain set sleet coating everything but the trees which have noticeable accretion in the daylight. More than that fell but compaction, rain, etc. Though enough pixie dust fell on top where it wasnt all that slippery to walk on this morning. 

[penndotguy]

27F Dp24 , not sure how accurate due to fact I didn't get out measure last night. As of this morning .70 IP/ZR we didn't see a flake of snow out this way, Im sure its compacted. That puts me just about 5" for December.

[Mikeymac5306]

Wife said driveway is a sheet of ice but road crews did a decent job keeping things under control.  

[wkd]

0.75" snow/sleet/freezing rain.  Pain to clear the car.

[RU848789]

6 hours ago, RU848789 said:

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.

Well whaddya know? We got another 0.3" since 3 am, bringing my total to 2.1", which somehow sounds like less of a bust than 1.8", lol. Woke up once and saw some light snow and looking at the radar since 3 am I can definitely see another 0.3" (looks like it should've been more, but that's what I measured). Snowing very lightly now at 25F.

Reports of 4-7" on LI, 3-5" for most of NYC including 4.3" in Central Park, breaking their almost 4 year streak without a 4"+ storm (last storm over 4" was 8.3" on 1/28/22, although everyone says they've undermeasured a few times - there's a whole cottage industry on critiquing CPK's snowfall measurements, lol), 3-5" in NENJ (Union up to Bergen), including 4.2" at EWR.

However, I'm not sure anywhere else in NNJ or CNJ got over 3", especially S of 78, apart from NE Middlesex County, as it's the furthest NE part of the NWS-Philly counties; saw a report of 3.2" from Carteret, which is ~8 miles NE of me and reports of 3+" in southern SI, which is 7-8 miles E of me and being NE definitely made a difference.

[Hurricane Agnes]

Ended up with 0.30" of compacted graupel and sleet, coated with some freezing rain.

Temp has been hovering around 27 for the past couple hours but finally ticked up to 28 with dp 26.

Have been watching some narrow stationary band, extending from south central NJ to NE NJ, just sitting and I guess snowing.

[The Iceman]

I’m guesstimating an inch of slop. They were plowing the roads last night.

[LVblizzard]

Thank god that’s over. Just a brutal storm to track and experience. My least favorite in recent memory.

[RedSky]

4 hours ago, Mikeymac5306 said:

Wife said driveway is a sheet of ice but road crews did a decent job keeping things under control.  

That and the walkway here no way of tackling it without a hammer

 

[RedSky]

2 hours ago, Hurricane Agnes said:

Ended up with 0.30" of compacted graupel and sleet, coated with some freezing rain.

Temp has been hovering around 27 for the past couple hours but finally ticked up to 28 with dp 26.

Have been watching some narrow stationary band, extending from south central NJ to NE NJ, just sitting and I guess snowing.

Strange deformation band of snow dropping south along I95 in Jersey

[JTA66]

Just chiseled out the car and parked it in the sun.

[RU848789]

4 hours ago, RU848789 said:

Well whaddya know? We got another 0.3" since 3 am, bringing my total to 2.1", which somehow sounds like less of a bust than 1.8", lol. Woke up once and saw some light snow and looking at the radar since 3 am I can definitely see another 0.3" (looks like it should've been more, but that's what I measured). Snowing very lightly now at 25F.

Reports of 4-7" on LI, 3-5" for most of NYC including 4.3" in Central Park, breaking their almost 4 year streak without a 4"+ storm (last storm over 4" was 8.3" on 1/28/22, although everyone says they've undermeasured a few times - there's a whole cottage industry on critiquing CPK's snowfall measurements, lol), 3-5" in NENJ (Union up to Bergen), including 4.2" at EWR.

However, I'm not sure anywhere else in NNJ or CNJ got over 3", especially S of 78, apart from NE Middlesex County, as it's the furthest NE part of the NWS-Philly counties; saw a report of 3.2" from Carteret, which is ~8 miles NE of me and reports of 3+" in southern SI, which is 7-8 miles E of me and being NE definitely made a difference.

Again!  Since my last measurement of 2.1" I had some errands to run and then I went to Oak Ridge Park and shoveled all the disc golf tee pads (29!), as I'm part of the club there and I enjoy being out in the snow shoveling and walking around. It was snowing the whole time and they went from 2.5" to 2.7" when I was done around 1:00 pm. So I got home and measured again and we got about 0.3" more snow as everything was covered again - bonus! Wife said it was snowing the whole time I was gone and the radar showed the snow - guessing that IVT some were talking about materialized. Anyway I think the final number is now 2.4" which brings my season total up to 10.1".  It's just beautiful out there and despite the bust for our area and most in NJ, I'm pretty happy with the result as it feels like deep winter out there - 28F at midday with snow falling - sweet! 

[Birds~69]

1 hour ago, JTA66 said:

Just chiseled out the car and parked it in the sun.

 

As fun as that sounds my initial reaction this morning was I wished I had a early 1970s boat LTD (RWD) w/a V8 429cubic inch, empty/clear parking lot and/a handle of spiked Eggnog.....fun morning indeed.

31F/partly cloudy/sunny