Blizzard of 2026 Storm Thread/OBS

[Kevin Reilly]

7 minutes ago, KamuSnow said:

Yeah, not sure where the snow in tomorrow's forecast is coming from, but it's still snowing well here, probably around 8 inches so far as well. I'd like to get to 10 or 12, we'll see, but no complaints! Lost power for 15 seconds, glad it came right back.

Band blasting through here now wow just punching through heading down Route 1 heading your way big time rates.

 

maybe we get a Norlun trough set up looks like one of Chesapeake Bay 

[nesussxwx1]

Heaviest snow of the night currently falling.

[Ralph Wiggum]

Death band passed thru here. Did a better measurement on the board out in the field. That was a fun little walk. 9" and blowing around still so the measurement from earlier I lazily took from the deck was wildly inaccurate, sorry for that.

Looks like another deathband refiring right along i95 and pressing NW again. Just wow!

[NJHurricane]

This was around 12:40am National Park NJ, across from PHL

Alright….took some measurements (misplaced my ruler had to use a tape measure)

Walked down to a little used ball field located on Hessian Ave just outside Red Bank Battlefield county park (no not the Monmouth County battle)

Field is large and partially shielded by home plate fencing on one end and a stand of trees on the other….

Walked out past what I estimated to be the infield and took eleven measurements around an approximately 30 foot box I walked.  One on each corner, one on each side and two in the middle ish.

Came up with an average depth of 10.7 inches.

I drive past it every day and can confirm it was snow free at the start of the storm.

[ChescoWx]

Steady snow continues here in NW Chesco.  Not sure how much we might see from any of these bands pivoting back toward the west.

7.8" as of 1am 

Temp 28.1 degrees

Off to bed for a while! Good night all!!

[Eskimo Joe]

8 minutes ago, Ralph Wiggum said:

Death band passed thru here. Did a better measurement on the board out in the field. That was a fun little walk. 9" and blowing around still so the measurement from earlier I lazily took from the deck was wildly inaccurate, sorry for that.

Looks like another deathband refiring right along i95 and pressing NW again. Just wow!

That band is just reloading for Philly. Their original 16" - 22" was probably going to verify!

[penndotguy]

Ahh pretty disappointing out here in Western Berks maybe 3” I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Congrats Jersey and SEPA 

 

[CoolHandMike]

1 minute ago, penndotguy said:

Ahh pretty disappointing out here in Western Berks maybe 3” I guess it wasn’t meant to be. Congrats Jersey and SEPA 

 

Yup, NWS just scaled us back to 6" (though I'm not sure if that's cumulative or what they think is what's still to come). It was still a fun storm to track, especially when it seemingly sprang out of the blue just a few days ago.

[LVblizzard]

Light snow here, about 5 inches. Looks like some banding will find its way here overnight but it doesn’t look like it’ll be anything special. Not worth staying up for it, I’ll have to find out how much additional snow we get in the morning.

[delijoe]

Any other northern Delaware folks on here?

I'm in Bear, DE which is near the UD campus and right now it's not that bad.

We got maybe 7" of wet snow, it's coming down rather lightly, and the wind is minimal.

The snow barely stuck to the roads here.  I know areas to my south and east got it bad, I think the band just set up to my east and we've missed out on the heaviest precip.

[The Iceman]

Guessing we are getting close to a foot or over as deform band 2 comes in. I don’t think sleep is coming tonight… I’m supposed to work remote but might just have my internet conveniently have an outage tomorrow lol

[Eskimo Joe]

Any reports from Philadelphia proper? Paging @Hurricane Agnes.

[hosj III]

6 minutes ago, Eskimo Joe said:

Any reports from Philadelphia proper? Paging @Hurricane Agnes.

I'll go grab some measurements in a few minutes but I'm guessing around 11-12"
"

[The Iceman]

Ripping easily 2-3” hour rates at the moment

[nesussxwx1]

Just saw some lightning! 2-4"/hr rates.

[LowerBucksWx]

3 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

Ripping easily 2-3” hour rates at the moment

Can confirm in Lower Makefield.  Cleaned car around 11pm and approximately 4-5" of fresh snow on top since then.

[Birds~69]

Fun stuff outside. No idea how much... A foot?

[The Iceman]

Complete whiteout at the moment, unbelievable conditions.

[21chuck]

Wowwww!!! What did I just wake up to 

Camden County getting obliterated right now I assume 

 

[The Iceman]

This is why we track, just unfreaking real. All-time winter conditions right now. Not sure the wind meet the blizzard criteria but visibility is there. Closest to blizzard conditions that I can remember.

 

[Craig82]

The Moore Township, Northampton County report on the Public Information Statement is mine and we've only had negligible accumulation in over two plus hours since that report. Isn't snowing at all now. Amazing how much different it is 50 miles from me! 

[21chuck]

This forecast from 12 hours ago is panning out in real time. 

[JSharp]

Lost two dogwood trees here already, with 9.8 inches so far. These were the type of trees I didn't want to lose. 

[hosj III]

27 minutes ago, 21chuck said:

Wowwww!!! What did I just wake up to 

Camden County getting obliterated right now I assume 

 

what do you have? ~11" here

[LowerBucksWx]

42 minutes ago, The Iceman said:

Complete whiteout at the moment, unbelievable conditions.

No jinx but starting to feel like we may be a lock for 24+ in SE Bucks, or very close at least.

[21chuck]

7 minutes ago, hosj III said:

what do you have? ~11" here

Difficult to say with certainty but also getting measurements between 10 and 12 inches. 10-12 was my personal final call on Saturday but the NWS forecast is looking pretty good right now. 

[hosj III]

Just now, 21chuck said:

Difficult to say with certainty but also getting measurements between 10 and 12 inches. 10-12 was my personal final call on Saturday but the NWS forecast is looking pretty good right now. 

I've been saying 17" since friday.... i think i'm gonna nail it

[21chuck]

The only other time I've seen snow fall like this was in lake tahoe, CA.