Mount Joy Snowman

Peak ridging looks to occur Thursday, perhaps lingering a bit into Friday. For what it's worth, the daily records for MDT on those days are of the softer variety and wouldn't seem to be anything out of reach, at 63 and 59, respectively. Early next week certainly has my attention for some potential front end action. Curious to see if the Euro comes back around this afternoon. Still a looooooong way to go.

I got .09" of rain on Saturday and bottomed out at 24 last night. Should be a nice mild pleasant week ahead as we look for some changes in the pattern heading through Christmas week. Cheers to all.

Haha if that aint the truth, and I honestly havent’t even seen it.

How ‘bout it!? I’m down to 45 now. Very solid gusts here, have the dog barking and the baby moving around the crib. Whiskey is helping ha.

Topped out at 65 here today.

I’m at 60 as well, let’s see how high we go.

Indeed it does. The immense power of mother nature is the reason many of us are here but it can be terrifying at times.

This damage from Mayfield, Kentucky is amongst the worst I have ever seen. Clear EF5 damage. Reminds me of Joplin. Death toll sure to rise. Very sad. Thinking of all involved.

Yes, that's true. The fumble at the end of the one game was particularly bad. But he is a rookie, guy is going to be a good one. His combination of hands and wiggle are pretty darn elite for a TE.

I have not been to Lambeau either, will definitely get there one day. Had a chance to sit in box seats for the playoff game against the Giants years ago but it fell through at the last minute, long story. You're right about 'Muth, he really got crunched on that last play and the one defender got an arm in to deflect, guess he could have made the catch but really not one you'd expect to be made more than like 10% of the time.

I can't stand that sh$t either, have zero tolerance for mental errors and stupidity like that. Honestly, it speaks to coaching and the accountability in the locker room. Need better culture and I say that as someone who normally loves the Steeler's culture over the years, even as a Green Bay fan.

Joe has always had a face for radio

Correct, the frequency of large storms has increased but the consistency of more modest type events has seemed to decrease. It's funny, I was once working on a study comparing snow totals and types of events across many decades, with the main aim of tackling the notion of "winters were better back in the day" that we always hear so much about. Preliminarily, if I recall correctly, I found that there really wasn't the magnitude of difference in snow totals that people seem to think there is; however, unfortunately I let the project fall off and never finished it. Perhaps I'll pick it up again one day but babies make anything involving spare time difficult ha. One day.....

Eh I hear you but we've still had plenty of wicked winter bouts. Winter of 2103-2014 featured incredible cold and snow. Jan through March of 2015 also comes to mind, was the coldest such period in history for our area. We also had 364 consecutive hours of being below freezing from 12/25/17 to 1/9/18. Lord knows we still get our fair share of big snowstorms as well. I understand the consistency may not be there and the last couple winters haven't been great but they still come around. Keep the faith!

Looks like the record high for MDT tomorrow is 63 back in 1897, very beatable.

I've been thinking this morning about something my Meteorology professor at Penn State said on the first day of class many moons ago, "forecasts for more than 5-7 days out aren't worth the paper they're written on". Things have gotten a bit better since then but still mostly truth.

Looks like some 8-10" totals around the Jamestown, NY area last night and 3-5" inland from Erie. Tomorrow morning's event not looking very bountiful for the LSV. I would be thrilled to see the grass whiten up at this point.

Yeah it's all about siting when it comes to anemometers. After a while I just took mine down because, like you, I couldn't get any readings worth a crap.

It's always a good day to day drink. Booze just hits different with the sun up.

I see you DMX. 40 degrees here and .06" of rain.

Whoops I wasn't aware there was one, will head over there now.....

November is my driest month, with a monthly average of only 2.78", but even by those standards this November was particularly dry, as I ended up with a total of 1.39". Millersville came in at only .99", marking their 10th driest November on record. It looks like MDT totaled 1.20" with a monthly temperature departure of -1.5. Oh yes, I also totaled .2" of snow, just under my average of 1.09". Carry on.

Nice mood flakes here. I've had various parts of the morning where I was under heavier radar returns and nothing was falling and then no returns where nice light snow was falling, that is to say, we are entering winter radar season! Yes, I know the lower levels need to moisten up but still, dissecting winter radar is always fun, particularly when you live in the Bermuda Triangle of radar returns like we do around here.

I’m in between MDT and LNS and topped out at 43 today.

Looks like a widespread 1-2” for most of the mid-state and northern tier. Highest amount I’ve seen in PA is a report of 4.7” near Corry, which has had a heck of a start to the season.