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KUNV had a peak gust of 64 mph, KJST 63mph.

Power has now gone out after the fact. At least a couple trees came down in the woods around my parents house up the road in Bellwood.

The wind part was quick but it was legit. Power flashed off at the height of the winds so unsure of the gusts, but definitely was easily of the severe variety. Had some pea sized hail as well.

Looking at mesoanalysis, dynamics are definitely the big factor in the severe threat from this line. Effective helicity is pretty notable in a narrow corridor of west central PA just ahead of the line. Same goes for effective bulk shear as well. Limiting factor is CAPE, which is only of the few hundred J/kg variety in western PA. Thus, QLCS spinups are quite possible directly associated with the line given significant helicity/shear. Eastern PA still pretty stable, so we shall see how the atmosphere evolves as the line traverses PA. We’re def in the warm sector here. Quite warm/humid considering the date (66/58ºF on the station here). Winds are really ripping. KAOO wind is SSE 33mph gust to 45 with a high gust of 55mph.

Multiple tornado warnings with the portion of the line in western PA roughly from Ligonier to Indiana

If you use mobile you might not see it but there’s a sidebar that shows stuff like most popular posts and days as well as the top 4 posters in the topic. Bubbler and ITT are #1 and #3. Blizz and mitchnick are the other two. Mitch has been posting in the Mid-Atl threads and there hasn’t been much snow digital or otherwise for blizz to share. Definitely a dynamic changer for sure. Those 4 combined account for like 44% of the posts in this thread haha. Also, despite the general winter is dead theme today..it’s probably not going to be dead for you tonight. I expect at least some of that precipitation in northern Ohio and western PA to make it over as far as you and it’ll likely be mostly snow. Nothing serious but could be a quick coating. Not much is progged to make it past the I-99 corridor in the rest of C-PA otherwise.

0.61” here with this morning’s round of rain. Best dynamics in terms of shear/helicity/high winds aloft reside with the main area of heavy rain (with imbedded line) traversing Eastern PA currently. I think severe potential is there but limited with secondary development of storms late this afternoon in the dry slot. Western PA has built up surface CAPE of several hundred J/kg back in the dry slot per mesoanalysis and some decent LI and low level lapse rates which has led to some storm development. I think the main threat is mainly sub severe gusty winds/hail with the potential for some more organized storms strong enough to warrant a few warnings as winds aloft aren’t quite as strong there. Tornado threat not zero but very unlikely IMO. Best helicity as mentioned is associated with the main stuff moving through eastern PA. Modeled CAPE on high res guidance going into this evening is best in western PA decreasing to not very much once to the Sus Valley. Thus I think main threat is a round or two of gusty showers/storms with maybe a warned storm or two.

Made it up to 60ºF here.

Well, the 18z GFS just did it again.

The only period I’m semi-interested in for anything wintry for the time being is that wave being progged in about the 3/7-8 timeframe, which comes on the heels of what likely will be a fairly potent GL cutter that will hopefully deliver some kind of decent rainfall in the eastern half of the state. Not expecting a phasing scenario so will have to see how the wave tracks across. 18z GFS tracking similar to the 12z Euro with the GFS a bit colder. One issue I’m already seeing progged is low level and surface temps could be an issue in the lower elevations like the Sus Valley if the wave delivers any kind of respectable precip to C-PA. After that we look to moderate significantly going into mid-month as despite the NAO forecast to go negative we counter with a pretty positive EPO and negative PNA. Major strat warming over the pole and a displacement/stretching of the stratospheric PV could eventually have implications down the road for late month, but of course you need more to go right storm wise and bigger - temp anomalies with respect to normal to remain in the snow game when you get to that late in the season. Climo wise CTP mentioned in their AFD today that MDT finished met winter (DJF) at 31.1ºF for average temp, which was 2.2ºF below normal. Good for the coldest winter since 2014-2015. Too bad that came with only 15.6” of snowfall, which is about 66% of average to date. Worse yet in the snow dept is Philly, only at 8.1” (42% of normal). Places like the deep Louisiana bayou country, New Orleans, Pensacola, etc have technically had snowier winters with that historic storm they got. Also underscores how dry that part of the state has been this winter as well as Philly is at 2.98” total precip YTD out of an average 5.99”. Driest was 1992 with 2.19”.

I do believe he was referenced at the tail end of the CNN article about the terminations. They do. I give my opinions in here too, mostly on the weather. I don’t find it necessarily off topic or “non weather related” to discuss the impact of terminating hundreds of very intelligent people in an agency that maintains/improves/provides weather forecasts and life saving warnings to all US and maritime interests, free and open access to computer modelling, analysis and data that all private weather entities (including free model sites) and weather enthusiasts like yourself use. All for an annual cost to the taxpayer that amounts to less than two months subscription to DT’s newsletter. But that’s just my opinion I suppose.

That Route 153?

It has, the LSV has generally had a much better winter than last winter.. but still running a few to several inches below normal to date (closer to normal along the M/D line). The Laurel’s region has had a much better snow season with respect to normal than probably the last several winters given long periods of favorable flow for upslope and lake effect. Climo stations like Laurel Summit and Somerset are running solidly above average to date. The actual central part of the state off the mountains has been lacking in the snow department the most, due to a lack of synoptic snows. State College is behind about 10 inches for the winter to date. Out of 16 measurable snowfalls I’ve recorded this winter so far to get to only 23.9”, the Jan 19-20 snow event was the only one that got past 3 inches here… and it took the post storm upslope/LES to get to that 4.1”. I still have about 6 inches just to get to last year’s lackluster snow total. The rough average in this part of town against the ridgeline is roughly in the 45-50” range. Despite that, aside from about a day or so in between sleet events the first week of Feb during pinger week 2025 (I cracked 60ºF here that week), I’ve had some kind of snow on the ground every day since New Years. The 3-4” of it on the ground right now is just about bulletproof. The lack of a signature storm in our area has obviously been the biggest knock on what has otherwise been probably the coldest winter temp wise overall since 14-15. Can that change in March? Certainly.. next month isn’t looking overly warm in the longer range stuff for the northeast right now. I think we’ll continue to have a pattern that will at times present the opportunity, but we’ll have to see if things can actually line up for a change. I had been eyeing that Feb 28-Mar 1 period that had amplification and a big storm in some runs a couple days ago.. but that has largely disappeared.

Did ChatGPT incorporate the 1-2” of powder and a bump commentary from a couple days ago? Haha

Still quite windy here, and the temp has fallen back all the way to 15ºF already.. so definitely not pleasant out. My station had a peak wind of 51 mph early today. No real major direct issues from the wind around here fortunately, other than the combo with the snow bands and blowing and drifting last night. A lot of the secondary back roads around here were tough to drive on last night and early this morning.