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That was crazy!

Yeah but don't forget about last November...

Haha! Talk about nickel and diming...3 "events" have produced 1", .6", and .5". They all count in the scorebook.

First flakes have arrived here.

It was coming down really good for a while. Big, swirling flakes...we would have easily had 1"+ had it been a little colder. I was in serious tracking mode last night...I followed that band the whole way from New Jersey as it pivoted southwest towards us.

I'm leery every time snow has to cross the mountains. Way too often we get skunked...we'll see...

As excited as we are you'd think we live in New Orleans or something.

My ground was covered at 12:30am this morning. Seeing a dusting requires total vigilance Blizz!

It's almost time to get NAM'd

Nice band rolled through between 11:30 and 12:30. Had the temperature been below freezing for the duration you would have seen a little more this morning given the rates. I ended up with a solid coating which had mostly melted by morning.

Pretty nice band of snow moving southwest into Dauphin county. Looks like from there it will move into York county and miss me wide left.

Yep, I got my first flakes out this way since 8am.

Enjoy it...might be a tad jealous.

Great visual...how much do you think is up on the ridge tops?

Steady cloud movement and 38 here. Officially, Lancaster is up to 41 now. That is exactly what CTP forecast yesterday!

On the bright side, EskimoJoe just bailed on winter. We should be golden now.

A few sprinkles here now, temp has pulled back from 40.4 to 37.6.

It's actually turning into a pretty nice morning here...I've had sun since 8am and am now sitting at 40 degrees.

Well...today's event was a crapshoot to begin with. This isn't a real bust unless you rely on snow maps. But then again maybe you're being sarcastic...:)

I don't really disagree with you. My main point is that CTP is often in a no-win situation. Last winter they were so bullish a couple of times that their forecasted amounts didn't seem to match weather logic. There was a storm in late January that cut...it seemed obvious that warm air aloft was going to significantly limit snowfall amounts. The storm was arriving on a Saturday. Early in the day CTP was forecasting 8"-10" for MDT when previous storms typically produced no more than 2"-3" in this general area. MDT ended up with 3". It was a pretty big bust and it wasn't the only one. To your point, there are always opportunities to improve communication with the public and perhaps yesterday was one such time. Right now I have light white rain and 36.

I know I'm probably going to be alone on this one, but I think they're handling tomorrow well. They were "aggressive" in forecasting today's ice event that ended up producing a 5 minute period of sleet and zero ice accretion down this way. Now they're being a bit more conservative for tomorrow and people are critical about that. I believe, admittedly without numbers to back this up, that playing things conservatively will work out better more often than being bullish. At least it seems that way to me.

CTP was bullish on their maps more than once last year and really got burned. The 1/20 storm comes to mind. They were calling for 8' - 10" in Harrisburg the morning of the event, I think they ended up with 3" or less.

I'm sorry I wasn't clear...I'm not talking about CTP's maps, I'm talking about snow maps from models. I think @daxx actually kept track of how much snow he was to get based on one of the weather models last year (might have been the Euro) and it was over 300".

I agree with you...I guess I take pretty much any snow map with a grain of salt and nothing more than that. @daxx and I have had a few "discussions" on snow maps.