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I've been following Mammoth's weather almost daily since my visit a few years ago. They desperately needed this storm, it hasn't snowed of much significance since right around New Year's. That's the thing about out there though - all it takes is a good week or so and they can pile it quickly. Despite the weeks without snow, this storm will put them over 200" for the season. Far short of normal but it's a start. They need to build up the water table now, otherwise fire season later this year might be grim.

I was! I have meetings all week on 2nd shift and drove home in the snow last night at 11pm. I measured .1" here at home at 1:30am. When I left work there was already more than that on top of Turkey Hill. Oh, I received .34" of QPF.

Yeah, sort of lost over the past several weeks of bitter cold and snow cover has been the real lack of precip. We really need things to turn around soon or we're going to have issues.

I was thinking the same thing; however, most of the models that were showing snow had it falling largely to our east, and that's what's happened so far.

Philly thread is full of posters currently reporting snow all the way to the Delaware River.

First sprinkles here at work. Temp is 42.6 to be precise.

Yes, that's been my fear. Last couple of days I thought the writing was on the wall.

Not overly surprising in a progressive flow.

52.2 here. Feels like 65. As much as I love cold weather, today is a stellar day.

My apologies! I intended to like your post and just realized that I did not. Sorry about that!!!

Today your first day this week without one?

It's actually 2/10s of a mile south of me.

Tight rope is a good term for this. Very much so. Or the proverbial thread the needle.

Absolutely! And that's why I am hopeful if not a bit skeptical. We can pull this off for sure. We just need a little more than we have needed for a while.

I'm sure I'll be frowned upon. We don't have a good air mass. It's not like a March day when it's 55 but there's a NW wind cranking a fresh supply of colder air. What we have is stale. We can make stale work and night will help some but we need dynamics. GFS was a red flag to me. Less QPF is not our friend right now.

I was gung-ho on tomorrow 10 days ago. Mostly about there being a storm and not necessarily snow. I'm a tad less enthused today. My issue is that we are going to need rates...like at least moderate if not heavy to get things going. Otherwise we're looking at rain followed by essentially white rain. I've seen this scenario play out a lot over the years. We can do this but we better get into good precip...

Please understand, I wasn't being critical of you in any way. I don't do that. It was just ironic that the GFS jumped on to something it largely wanted no part of even when the Euro did.

And then...came the 18z GFS.

Thank you for sharing this. I hope you are feeling better. I know that I can harp on certain things incessantly. It's something that I'm aware of and even at my age continue to try and improve on. For years, I've posted about how I actually like it when we get storms that change over to sleet. For me, while I love the thrill of a 2' blizzard, I'd actually prefer a long-lasting winter landscape. To get that, we need something to preserve the pack. And that something is sleet. While I was in Florida reading @Mount Joy Snowman posts during the late January storm about how hard it was sleeting, I was actually giddy. I KNEW when I got home there would be a nice, solid snowpack awaiting me AND I knew it wasn't going anywhere for some time. The past 3 weeks have been Exhibit A of what I've talked about forever. Give me a lot of sleet after a "lot" of snow and we'll reap it for a good long time. Edit: March 1993, I had continuous snow cover for over a week in mid-March. 4" of sleet in the middle of the storm did the trick.

Not a lot, honestly.

You posted 6z...12z is even better!

Even down here, my forecast on Thursday evening (night before the storm) was for "4 or more inches, with the potential for as much as a foot" - the following day, 24.5" fell.

I recorded 5" of snow between 4pm and 5pm along with multiple rounds of lightning and thunder. I was a senior in high school and was worried that I wouldn't graduate until July because of the storm. Fortunately it came on a Friday, so we missed that day but we were back on Monday with a delay.

Also, the 12z Euro says we're still in the hunt this weekend...

Yep, 17 days only came in 17th place but the all-time record is 25 days, so there are a bunch of years in that 15-25 day range.