January 25-26 Winter Storm Potential

[Birds~69]

//chatter// At the library, schools already off on Monday. //chatter//

Kids running around like they found Dads white powder...

[kickingupastorm]

How often and when typically does mt holly update its WSW text?

[LVLion77]

It’s funny watching the various weather forecasting services gradually backing off the extreme snow forecasts. The reality is that when you have low pressure passing this far to the north without the coastal becoming dominant at about VA Beach, doesn’t matter how solid the cold air mass is in place - mixing will race north. It’s been that way forever. I think it gets even into the southern Poconos at this point just looking at the situation this morning.

[ChescoWx]

1 hour ago, Heisy said:

How much sleet did we get in the 2007 storm. This has to be up there in one of the most we’ve gotten in a while right?


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6 inches of straight sleet in East Nantmeal with that one!

[RedSky]

I remember 5" sleet in Feb 2007

[RedSky]

There was another storm in March 2007 with 1-2" sleet

 

[ChescoWx]

[CoolHandMike]

Didn't we have something similar in 2016? NWS called for a foot of snow and we got like 4" of sleet out near Coatesville. My front yard was a glacier for like a month.

[The Iceman]

10 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

Didn't we have something similar in 2016? NWS called for a foot of snow and we got like 4" of sleet out near Coatesville. My front yard was a glacier for like a month.

I think it was 2017 or 2018, I remember this also. There’s been several sleet ruiners in the last ten years. Feb 2021 would have been an all timer if we didn’t sleet half the storm. We ended up with a foot then or slightly over I think but 2” of that was sleet.

[ChescoWx]

9 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

Didn't we have something similar in 2016? NWS called for a foot of snow and we got like 4" of sleet out near Coatesville. My front yard was a glacier for like a month.

Looks like only the snowstorm in January 2016 out in Chesco....might have been another year

 

[The Iceman]

29 minutes ago, RedSky said:

There was another storm in March 2007 with 1-2" sleet

 

I feel like I got more with that storm than with VD but I might be misremembering. Time to access @famartins storm archive! 

[ChescoWx]

[RedSky]

3 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

I feel like I got more with that storm than with VD but I might be misremembering. Time to access @famartins storm archive! 

First storm was the big one. Second storm may have had 3" snow that changed to sleet. 

[RedSky]

Philly has run low on salt is that true?

[CoolHandMike]

1 minute ago, RedSky said:

Philly has run low on salt is that true?

Apparently ChesCo and also Berks. I noticed earlier this year that there wasn't much available, wonder why that is.

We have a bag of that pet-friendly stuff (the kind that looks like tiny shards of glass) and a bunch of leftover kitty litter from when we had cats several years ago. That'll have to do.

[Prairie Dog]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fV4KYq/.        Glenn.  Great met. Actually admitted on NBC10 he was wrong on several occasions when he was there

[rcostell]

50 minutes ago, LVLion77 said:

It’s funny watching the various weather forecasting services gradually backing off the extreme snow forecasts. The reality is that when you have low pressure passing this far to the north without the coastal becoming dominant at about VA Beach, doesn’t matter how solid the cold air mass is in place - mixing will race north. It’s been that way forever. I think it gets even into the southern Poconos at this point just looking at the situation this morning.

Why is it funny? 

[Prairie Dog]

5 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Philly has run low on salt is that true?

Would they salt before the storm?  The mayor said yesterday they had loads of salt, etc

[Mikeymac5306]

1 minute ago, CoolHandMike said:

Apparently ChesCo and also Berks. I noticed earlier this year that there wasn't much available, wonder why that is.

We have a bag of that pet-friendly stuff (the kind that looks like tiny shards of glass) and a bunch of leftover kitty litter from when we had cats several years ago. That'll have to do.

I know my AHJ has enough for this storm but will be low for the next one should it verify. 

[RedSky]

16 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

I feel like I got more with that storm than with VD but I might be misremembering. Time to access @famartins storm archive! 

Hard to decipher using Famartins maps looks like Jersey got the better of storm #2

 

[Hurricane Agnes]

8 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

Didn't we have something similar in 2016? NWS called for a foot of snow and we got like 4" of sleet out near Coatesville. My front yard was a glacier for like a month.

I remember some sleet storm since I moved to my current location, which was 2016 (but after any winter weather, so something 2017+).  I know the threads are here for that.  2017 - 2019 (notably 2017 - 2018) were significant "recent" years.

[Hurricane Agnes]

16 minutes ago, RedSky said:

Philly has run low on salt is that true?

 

12 minutes ago, CoolHandMike said:

Apparently ChesCo and also Berks. I noticed earlier this year that there wasn't much available, wonder why that is.

We have a bag of that pet-friendly stuff (the kind that looks like tiny shards of glass) and a bunch of leftover kitty litter from when we had cats several years ago. That'll have to do.

 

10 minutes ago, Prairie Dog said:

Would they salt before the storm?  The mayor said yesterday they had loads of salt, etc

What I heard on the radio yesterday was that the city hadn't expected the November snow so they cut into their stocks for that, and then used up some for the last 2-day storm.  But they said they had enough for this upcoming storm. 

I think  the bigger issue was the salt for consumers (e.g., ice melt), which has disappeared out of the stores, and from some posts I saw on Nextdoor, some smaller hardware stores were price gouging what they had.

[Kevin Reilly]

12 minutes ago, Prairie Dog said:

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8fV4KYq/.        Glenn.  Great met. Actually admitted on NBC10 he was wrong on several occasions when he was there

That’s what totally makes him a respectable met!