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Just came up over Chickies Hill (between Columbia and Marietta) and couldn't see squat in front of me. Scary stuff.

I've had my heat on for parts of 3 days...

On and off sprinkles here. Happy New Year's to everyone. Be safe tonight!

That is a great picture. Interesting climate over there...I've been stuck at 43 for hours.

Yeah it really does...I was going to say it but tried to find something positive lol

Currently light rain with just over .9" for the event. Need one more good shower to push me over the inch mark. We do rain well.

Took my wife on a walk on the local river trail after the Cotton Bowl and I was sweating pretty good. Gorgeous spring day! Until we snow I'm fine with this weather.

I feel the same way guys...at least until it snows. Then I want bitter cold thereafter.

Yes...we've strung together a few days with frosty starts and mellow afternoons. Honestly the weather recently reminds me more of early November than late December.

Sunshine and 50. Beautiful day to walk on the river trail with my wife!

The last time the Canadian model was right on anything, I had hair and wore braces. Wishing all of you a Merry Christmas or whatever it is that you celebrate and let's all hope for better (whiter) weather in the New Year!

I totally understand why people don't want to read "meh" or negative posts. It drains energy. It's depressing. It's not fun snd and it's not what we want to read. Truth is...being meh about something usually is correct 90% of the time. I've seen snow maps posted in this thread this season already that have added up to many feet. So far my ground truth is just over 3". As nut said I'm ready to move on now as well. Let's work on getting something that will make all of us happy.

One thing about the Superstorm of 1993...it was labeled a "once in 500 year storm" for a reason. We'll see our share of big snowstorms going forward but it's HIGHLY unlikely we'll ever experience a storm of that magnitude in our lifetime or for generations to follow. It is the storm that all storms will be measured against.

That's exactly the scenario you were looking for yesterday...

Lancaster and Allentown both reported 5" of new snow at their 5pm hourly measurements. That might explain my lack of memory.

I actually drove to Rehoboth Beach, DE on 1/24/2000 to watch it snow the next day because it was supposed to miss us wide right here. Ended up spending a couple of extra nights since it snowed more here than it did there. As a beach nut I was so excited to go and watch a huge storm at the ocean...oh how I wish I would have stayed home... I don't remember the storm you're talking about...though i remember 4/6/1982 very well. 9" of cold powder WITH drifting...on April 6th.

Feb '83 which made my list was forecast to be a 4-8" kind of deal right up until the morning it started. It quickly escalated from that to 8-16", 12-24", and finally 18-28". From 2-5pm I received 12" in that storm.

I believe 'ya...I must have been too busy posting on here to notice. Valentine's day storm was sleet...I mean sweet. How much did you get in '93? I recall Chambersburg topped 30"...

Those are the best... My memory of '78 is somewhat hazy now, nearly 42 years later. I know it was a Miller B that only affected extreme northern/northeast MD up into New England. Many in the far northeast US benchmark this storm as the granddaddy of them all. Amounts of 30"-40" were common and winds gusted to 100 mph (?) out on the cape. Lancaster county was fortunate to get into an intense deformation band and we ripped snow overnight...I went to bed with green grass and woke up around 5am with over 1' of snow and true blizzard conditions. As a 12 year old that was pretty cool stuff.

Another great storm us older guys remember is 1978. (PD1) We were forecast to get light snow/flurries and I ended up with 16" of wind-driven snow that left a 9' drift in our driveway.

I had a hard time leaving 1/22/2016 off my top #3. It was a great storm - one thing that scared the crap out of me was how close the dry slot got to us. I remember waking up early Saturday morning and being horrified by this huge dry slot that was moving N-NW out of the Chesapeake bay region. It made it to about the Mason/Dixon line JUST to our southeast as the pivot began. Areas affected by that dry slot lost 10-12" compared to surrounding areas that never dry slotted. I don't recall any mixing with that storm...I might (probably) am wrong. There was a separate storm in 2017? that we tainted for several hours between maybe 5am - 9am? Edit: March 13, 2017 we had a storm where those of us S&E of Harrisburg tainted for 4-5 hours during the morning. (See above) It was not modeled well, but Eric Horst was all over it screaming on Twitter that Lancaster was going to taint even though no model was showing it. Again, it was that onshore SE wind that did us in that morning...

I did not lose power. Go on YouTube and pull up some of the Weather Channel video...classic stuff!

That storm blew out the windows in the old Spectrum in Philadelphia. Flyers were home and playing at the time. Game was suspended after the 1st period. Winds in Philly gusted to hurricane force. That storm was modeled incredibly, especially at that time. It seemed certain that the entire east coast was going to be crushed 5-7 days out. You would have appreciated the severe aspect of it...squall line raced through Florida with tornadoes and wide spread damage.

1996 was modeled to miss south until about 48 hours or so before the event. It was one of those great storms where during the final hours before the event the amounts getting increased. Dramatically.

Yes, I was just comparing the snowiest week of each of those years.