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It’s kind of amusing that this thread has become a walk down memory lane rather than discussion of the incredibly exciting Christmas Eve rain and frontal passage.

Congrats PA?

I see what you did there (I think).

I think this is the best place to put this... I think the reason that there have been so many comments about the progged look not being ideal is because there are many of us (me included) who can recognize that classic look but who can't recognize a general good pattern in which we can score. There are other (like you, psu) who can recognize those "workable" patterns because you've researched them over the years, but the rest of us can't recognize or don't understand the nuances of those decent looks. If we don't see a ridge on the west coast, a 50/50 low, and a big, red blob in the NAO domain then we assume that it's not a good enough look for snow...or it's a look in which we are very likely to fail. Anyways, thanks for the work you put into this. Your skills as both a hobbyist and a teacher really come through when explaining what does or doesn't constitute a pattern that can bring us snow.

I need you good folks to stop quoting people I have on my ignored list.

I drove from home - just across the river from Philly in South Jersey - to hang out with friends who were at King's College in Wilkes-Barre. We got more snow at home than where I ended up. Still an awesome storm there, and we got stuck for two extra days because roads were shut. No complaints!

Who's comparing everything to 1996? Edit: Sorry...I see now that I'm beating a dead horse. My bad.

I make my own jellies/jams, and I can say that this is certainly true. We opened on Thanksgiving an apricot pepper jelly I made like 5-6 years ago (canned in a hot water bath). Smelled, looked, and tasted like I had made it the day before!

The remainder of my snowpack:

And I know that you knew that he knew!

You do realize that you won’t get a serious answer. Right?

Snowpack to your north? You mean you don’t have snow on the ground?

It’s frosty enough that if I squint really hard it looks like there’s snow on the ground.

@nw baltimore wx I interrupted my Christmas music to ask Alexa to play Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others. Goddamn what a great song and band.

I’m guarded against being interested, but my outer weenie wants it so bad. I think it’s possible - we’ve shown it before - but I’d absolutely prefer a small overrunning 2-4” event than trying to get this thing to work. That said, it would truly be the Christmas weenie miracle of all Christmas weenie miracles were it to occur, and I don’t think ANY of us would forget it.

And some ninas’ madres are bigger than other ninas’ madres.

Woke up this morning to some fresh snow on the cars and on too of the icepack on the ground. Pleasantly surprised. Didn't measure, but I’ll eyeball it to 0.25” since I usually measure in 1/4” increments and this was more than a simple T.

From my notes: November 15: 2.0” from a reeeeealy cold event for November We didn’t get much here in Burke from that. I was (of course) salty as people reported getting smacked with intense rates and big winds. I don’t have my notes on that, but I don’t think we got more than 1” out of it (maybe less than that).

I agree. I don’t think we get skunked that bad this year, but it does burn a little to see folks not far away get off to a flying start. I had to drop my relative misery in there for all to see. Yeah...the kids did have fun in what fell. I always have to remind myself that kids just revel in what’s in front of them - they don’t care about models or correlation coefficient or any of that. Just pure, unadulterated fun. It really is great when you see kids enjoying themselves right now. We’re lucky in that we have a “pod” of families with kids around the same age as ours who have been playing together for months now, and (knock on wood) we’ve been OK to this point. But there’s just something so special about kids playing in the snow...

Philadelphia International Airport is about 10 miles SSW of Center City.

Philadelphia International Airport is about 10 miles SSW of Center City.

Meh

F them