Albedoman

well Red Sky, you will have your white Christmas like I had promised. The big snow event was last night and not on Christmas eve/day . As I said my earlier posts days ago, if their was a decent snow pack, we would have below zero overnight lows. Well Monday morning wil be a dandy with temp below zero at my house and for many in the LV. I expect a 1-2 inch refresh of the snow pack on Christmas Eve and then it is off to big time moderation with lots of rain maybe an ice storm. This MAJOR pattern change coming up may lead to some decent snow events in mid january

3-4 inches in Macungie right now. still snowing

2 to 3 in on deck still puking snow

bullseye for me but this does not make sense . A norlun trough does not set up like this but I will take the outcome

I will take anything at this point. A 1-3 inch snow event would be a huge win in this crappy season thus far and overnight raditional cooling with a snow cover on Sat morning would push the lows in the single digits for sure over the weekend.

Well it now appears Christmas day will be brown. NO major snow event anywhere on the models for our area for and after Christmas and in fact after Christmas we get torched. Rain I will take but this crap of having freeze your balls off temps with no snow pack is utterly ridiculous. So many years of this stupid weather pattern is got to end soon. The snow producing storm events never matches up with the deep cold anymore as the deep cold air sticks around only for a few days . We are always on the frozen/liqid precip line too as a result. If we would have had a decent snowpack this weekend, we would have been below zero for overnight lows. I aslo do not know which is worse, the snow drought or rain drought? LOL I am sorry but with my 50+ years of weather history experience, I am realizing that the only way to break this shitty snow producing weather pattern will be a severe ice storm with a real deep and strong cold snap from repeated passing clippers every 2-3 days- kinda like 94. LOL.

dusting on the deck now- give me a break- no drought buster. The burn ban is lifted now in Lehigh county. Time for a fire with my new fire ring on Tuesday evening. Been waiting a long time almost 3 months. 55 degree high and sunny on Tuesday afternoon. Time to burn the fallen limbs. Last true day of fall before "WINTER IS COMING"

too much missing buoy data in the west PAC. Drones on the NJ coast hogging it all LMAO

MIne was right at 2" Flurries at the end more today. ...Lehigh County... 1 NE Lynn Twp 2.55 in 1005 PM 12/11 AWS Germansville 2.04 in 1010 PM 12/11 CWOP Slatington 2.03 in 1007 PM 12/11 CWOP New Tripoli 1.97 in 1000 PM 12/11 CWOP Center Valley 1.94 in 1008 PM 12/11 CWOP NEW TRIPOLI 1.91 in 1009 PM 12/11 CWOP Slatington 1.86 in 0930 PM 12/11 HADS Trexler 1.84 in 0943 PM 12/11 RAWS Fogelsville 1.81 in 1000 PM 12/11 CWOP

MY update: No drought buster. However it is the heaviest rain since early August for my house in a 24 hour period. Nearly 1.80 inches in the gauge and still raining. Underground weather precip reports mostly range from. 1.5 to 2 inches of rain in Lehigh County with more north near Tamaqua. Its nice to see the Little Lehigh at bankfull for a change. No stream flooding as the ground is taking it all in nicely. I expect this to be all out of here by midnight. There will some big wet snow flakes at the very end of the precip with maybe a coating on the cars. I expect this to happen between 10 pm and midnight Temps are dropping pretty good now high 64 this morning. Now it is 45 and falling Still fishing for a white Christmas - not goiving up just yet

white christmas on the 18Z hope is still alive

its going to be close thats for sure. This needs to be watched, maybe the 26th. Anyway, much needed rain by wed- thursday 2-3 in of rain by the latest runs with the possibility of anafront snowfall of 1-3 inches changeover as the really cold air quickly advects in behind the cold front. This would be nice because the snow that sticks to the ground after the rain will not melt for days. This situation will really help with soil moisture before the ground freezes shut by next weekend.

call it whatever the hell you want for the ENSO, but if we do not get substantial rains in the next 3-4 weeks we are in some deep shite. When I say susbsantial, I mean 3-6 inches spread out in a course of 2-3 weeks. The ground is frozen now in some places, Pure runoff does not help as the only benefit would be to hold off the salt water intrusion into the Delaware a few weeks longer. We need the ground to warm up, which we will get in the next few days but the 12th storm event is an absolute joke as a precip maker right now in the models. Sorry but .5 in rains for a few days will not cut it for some droughgt relief unless we became Seattle again, which I do not see with this progressive upper air flow at all My Christmas storm is slowly going away to the dumpster fire after every model run. WE cannot even squeeze out a good rainmaker of a noreaster. All I can say is that we are not the only ones being screwed in this crappy weather pattern. The Midwest, specially north of the Mason Dixon line is way too warm and dry. Without a good snowpack there, were are really screwed here. Any clipper that reaches here will be DOA without moisture. Flurries and snow shower will not cut it. The winners for snow- Great Lakes. Just when their feet of snow melts next week, they get another round. Will the lakes ever freeze up again in my lifetime LMAO? That pece of siberian high that has remained in Russa for the last 3 years needs to get its ass parked right over southern Cannada for 15 days.

This drought is rapidly becoming pretty damn serious folks Water supply managers for the Delaware River Basin this week declared an “emergency,” setting the stage for further action if dry conditions persist. The Delaware River Basin Commission declared the “water supply emergency” during its quarterly meeting Thursday. The declaration along with two special permits that were also approved allow the commission to coordinate operations of regional reservoirs, diversion from outside the 42-county basin area and Delaware River flow objectives. The last time commission officials declared such an emergency was in 2016, spokeswoman Elizabeth Brown told lehighvalleylive.com. “We’re essentially getting the table set if conditions continue to deteriorate,” she said. Despite recent precipitation, the potential is still there to reach basin-wide drought operating conditions that would trigger the action authorized Thursday. All but two of the counties in the basin covering communities in Delaware, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania are under drought watches or warnings declared independently of Thursday’s approvals. Those two counties are Lackawanna and Wayne in Pennsylvania. “DRBC urges all water users to fully cooperate with Basin state water use restrictions and conservation measures and encourages all Basin water users to maximize water efficiency wherever possible,” the commission said in a news release following Thursday’s approvals. A basin-wide drought declaration would occur if available water storage drops below a certain level in three New York City reservoirs — Cannonsville, Pepacton and Neversink — located in the Delaware River’s headwaters in New York. As of Thursday morning, storage was 25.9 billion gallons above a drought watch. “Over 14 million people rely on the shared waters of the Delaware River Basin,” Executive Director Kristen Bowman Kavanagh states in the release. “During times of drought, the DRBC’s primary responsibility is to conserve and protect water supplies.” The commission is responsible for protecting water supply throughout the Delaware River Basin, including by managing the flow of the Delaware River to repel the salt front of the Delaware River Estuary to avoid fouling drinking water supplies for Philadelphia and millions of other people. “The special permits approved today will set in motion management actions that will maintain access to clean water for the entire Basin, should conditions worsen,” stated New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Interim Commissioner Sean Mahar. Thursday’s approvals would, in part, reduce Delaware River flow objectives at Montague, New Jersey (supported by releases from the New York City Delaware River Basin reservoirs) and at Trenton (supported by releases from the Beltzville and Blue Marsh reservoirs in eastern Pennsylvania). That’s if the dry conditions continue. A separate special permit approved would add water releases from Lake Wallenpaupack and New York’s Mongaup system to assist in meeting the Delaware River flow objectives at Montague and Trenton. As of Thursday morning, the salt front was located at river mile 85.4, which is just south of the Philadelphia Airport. This is roughly 16.4 miles upstream of its normal location for this time of year, but still 24.6 miles downstream from key drinking water intakes.

Still sticking to the Christmas storm. Been saying that since Ocober. We all need a nice Christmas day perid storm event for all the shit we have had to put up with the last 2 to 3 years of no t storms, the unbearble heat, drought and of course no fricking good snow events . We deserve a foot of snow for Christmas morning.