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Baseball saddens me. First game I attended was in 1971 at brand new Veterans Stadium. I was 6 at the time and was immediately hooked. (though NOT on the Phillies...but baseball in general) By the mid 1970s I knew every player on every team. I lived and slept baseball. No cable back then but I'd watch every O's or Phillies game that was televised locally. 1981 I got my license and 2 years later I was an 18 year old who owned his first season ticket plan with the Orioles. At this time I was going to 40-50 games a season in Baltimore, Philly, NY, Cleveland, Pittsburgh...wherever I could reasonably drive to, I'd be there. By the late 1980s I started booking flights to LA, San Diego, Chicago, Atlanta...I was consumed with baseball. I held my season ticket plan in Baltimore until the late 1990s. By this point, marriage, family, job demands, and an increasing frustration with strikes and lockouts had me starting to pull back. I replaced Orioles tickets with Senators tickets. I had those until several years ago. These days, I might see 1 or 2 games a season. Mostly for fun, the passion I had for baseball has long since waned. It is what it is - there's so much about the game and the way it's operated that I can't stand. Final straw was the hideous extra inning rule and the 7 inning doubleheaders. As a baseball purist who developed his love for the game 50 years ago - seeing what's transpired over the years makes me sick.

I never said that. My preferred time to snow is December and January. I've said this repeatedly for years. Doesn't mean I don't enjoy February snow. Not sure why the "lol" was needed.

I sure hope so - last year was a shutout in March, which is fine with me. We're already past the time when I most like snow, so if we're going to get anything of significance I really hope it's soon.

EPS wants nothing to do with what the Euro OP was showing. (Doesn't mean either is correct, just stating information)

The Euro has a lot of "making up" to do to pull me back in again. I've missed out on about 325" of snow that the Euro showed me that I never got over the past few years.

Reality of what just happened.

No, but I have some really heavy sleet right now. Actually sounds like hail. Temp down to 29.8.

HRRR did very well. As did a lot of mets who only use models as a tool and not verbatim.

So did Donegal. Wind has increased here in the past 15-20 minutes. Hopefully this precipitates at least some drying before too much freezes at sundown.

Sure was - and for at least a couple of days leading up to the event.

Down to 30.4 here - was just out and any surface that was wet is now...still wet. Great call by Kyle at MU. CTP never needed the advisory for our area. (it appears)

1.55" of rain here, temp is down to 31.3. Hasn't rained for close to an hour and my sidewalk is already mostly dry

Temp has nudged below freezing now, down to 31.8

Just reached 1.5" of rain for the event. Temp is currently sitting at 32.7.

This ain't Cheers my friend. LOL

Light rain continues as my temp slowly oozes it's way towards freezing. 33.8 currently, 1.46" of rain. I see we have our first Flood Warning for the Swatara Creek. (Harpers Tavern area only)

Thanks for recognizing this... I mean that. Really easy to throw criticism in advance. But how often do people come back and give praise when they ended up being correct?

See, I live this every day. It's pretty remarkable how creative people have gotten these days with the reasons why they can't come to work. Privacy issues protect these types of things from being shared, but trust me - I get some doozies.

Update a few minutes ago from Elliott confirms what you said earlier: As expected, colder air is taking longer to filter into the Lower Susquehanna Valley. Temps. are still several degrees above freezing to the S/E of the I-81/78 corridors & near freezing farther N/W. I don't anticipate #icy roads to be an issue S/E of I-81/78 until after sunset.

.95" of rain yesterday, .47" since midnight for a storm total of 1.42". High yesterday was 56, now down to 34.3 currently.

15 miles down the road it's 56.

Also, .95" of rain so far. Winds are howling outside.

At 9:30pm it was 44 here. Now, it's 55 at 11:00pm.

An average season at Main Lodge (8900' elevation) is 206". They are at 203" for the season, so even with a shutout January and NO foreseeable end to the snow drought, they should go above normal since their season runs into May. I think the issue is that pretty much all of the 203" came in 20 days during the final half of December. If things don't turn around soon, they'll be closing months earlier than normal as the sunny, warm days are eroding the pack pretty quickly. Main Lodge is down to 60 something inches...at the start of 2022 it was 155". Point being, by the time traditional runoff season begins in the spring, what they have now will likely be gone. It is exceptionally rare to go 6 weeks at this time of year with zero snowfall. Forecasters out there say the next snow is at least 3 weeks away. That's bizarre.

For Mammoth Mountain in the eastern Sierra: January 2021: 108.5" January 2022: 0"