Mount Joy Snowman

Obligatory cabin pic this morning from the upper terrain of the Tioga/Potter line.

A lot of coworkers mentioning how surprised they were to find their cars encrusted in sleet and snow thi smorning. I told them I stayed up to watch it haha.

29 when I left the house. 1.63” of total liquid but still waiting for some encrusted sleet/snow to melt off the funnel of the gauge, will report back later. Probably going with .2” of snow/sleet as things were decently covered when I went to bed last night and it was still snowing. Nice little event and today should be a heck of a winter day. Curious to see how far east some squalls can make it later today. March, always a trip.

Temp down to 33 with borderline heavy snow but the fun appears to be over soon. Still cool to see.

Had a period of steady sleet with a temp of 37 and now it appears I’m transitioning to snow as the temp has dropped to 35. Glorious. I need to go to bed but…..snow.

Well this is a first for me, someone on mPing has reported a mudslide down near the border just west of Shrewsbury. Also looks like snow has already moved into Cumberland Co.

The front is moving through here with some pretty impressive gusts. Nothing too crazy but we did briefly lose power. Temp plummeting as expected.

Haha I thought the opposite. I didn’t think you were THAT far behind me but there were times throughout the day when i was getting trained pretty good and it looked like you were just missing out on it. I don’t love the way that last sentence reads haha.

That gust front is moving its way across the mid state. Would love any reports from those to my west about how the winds are when it comes through. That’s the feature that’s always had my eye for this event.

Wow that’s crazy. I am way over an inch here.

Is anyone staying up to see the changeover to snow? I have to be up very early so doubt I make it but wouldn’t mind getting some reports from those that do.

I only received .02" that day but have in my notes that there were heavy storms all around that just missed, with four tornados confirmed in central PA.

Round one in the books here, quite garden variety but I was positioned well with the orientation of the line to squeeze what looks to be about a half inch out of it. No signs of sun out this way today.

Again, I don't get this at all. Also, aren't these buildings (i.e. schools, government buildings, etc.) supposed to be the safest places to be during events like this?? Kids are going to be exiting busses in the middle of this potentially. They could have just let the day play out and it's likely there will be a nice little gap in the action later this afternoon.

Yeah, I'm not quite sure what the logic is there, and the main gust front isn't until much later in the evening. It's all pretty random as to timing/location of discrete cells this afternoon so just run the school day as normal. I'm also a bit of a hardliner with school closings/dismissals and think we've gotten way too liberal with how often they are handed out. The virtual learning days are an absolute joke as well. Just one man's opinion.