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It's not fog brother. Wind can often be what's transporting pollution and particulate to you. It's all relative to where the pollution, particulate, pollen radiation, etc, source region,and you are located. It also appears to me that there is an excess amount of particulate in the air for this time of year. What you're seeing in the pictures below is not moisture or mist. I'm outside every night with a headlamp. My eyes are well, trained to tell the difference between solid particles and water droples. It's not the larger particles that actually cause the respiratory issues, It's the smaller particles making the picture look grainy, and the ones you can't see, that are responsible for the majority of respiratory and analergy issues.. Cpa is also subject to what are known as oreographic pollen and or pollution showers later in the day and night as the atmosphere cools ,due to our eastern proximitie to the Appalachian mountains . Cpa can dbe a rough place for people with allergies and health problems due to air quality ,especially when the atmosphere starts to cool after those hot and warm days in the spring and fall, when the pollen and mold counts are elevated.

Apparently it's from particulate and other pollutants getting trapped under a persistent inversion facilitated by the extremely cold air we had as of late according to the NWS.

Just had a brief a grauple shower here.

Sorry, it was that bad? I 'm glad you're on your way. Having VVS never makes things any less complicated.

Knowing you, you've probably already researched it. There's quite interesting history that goes along with opioids and opiates being used as cough suppressants that makes for some good reading while you're down. I've always found the history on opioids and opiates interesting to begin with. From Asia, Nazi Germany to the modern day streets of Kesington, Philadelphia, it has quite the interesting and horrifing history.

D*** brother, i'm sorry to hear that. Praying for a fast recovery.

The sun wasn't even close to coming up when I had posted this but it was all, but maybe thirty minutes after I posted that everything completely dissipated. NWS did mention in their forecast discussion that very little snow was reaching the ground from that first wave.

This baby looks pretty sweet.

The good news is NWS has Increased their confidence in a winter storm during Sun-Mon timeframe. The bad news is NWS has lowered confidence in the occurrence of precipitation Sun-Mon. Once again they're getting all the angles covered. Area Forecast Discussion National Weather Service State College PA 444 AM EST Tue Feb 10 2026 .WHAT HAS CHANGED... * Increased confidence in winter storm during Sun-Mon timeframe * Holding off on any winter weather advisories for possible ice accums for E/NE this evening-SW later tonight && .KEY MESSAGES... 1) Light precip possible later today and this evening, with light post-frontal snow showers and gusty winds over the Alleghenies later tonight through Wednesday night. 2) Lowered confidence in occurrence of precipitation Sun-Mon. Confidence in timing of possible precip is slightly higher. Confidence in precip types/amounts remain low

Well, I'll be d***** . Looks like that might be able to sneak in here.

I think the end of the month and early next month look interesting, but until I actually see snow falling.this coming weekend I'm comfortable right here in the doo doo camp. The difference between me and some others not feeling the upcoming pattern, is that I want my intuition to be completely wrong. The way I see it, is if i'm wrong, everybody here that actually enjoys winter wins including myself. I'd rather be buried in snow than be right. I think this winter is far from dead just to be clear, which is a long ways from my DOA thoughts in November.

It was quite beautiful around here yesterday. I ended up with a dusting .The wind arrived here in Fareview township around 1:45AM and snow showers have returned just after 2:00AM.

Unfortunately there's no do all end all for ice and compacted snow, if you don't want to completely kill yourself or have it sliding off a spade shaped shovel you need to break it up with something narrow and scoop it up with something wide if you wanna make it easy on yourself.

I also forgot to mention that some of the roofing spades and shingle removers come in real handy for snow and ice removal.

This here is my forged steel ice scraper/chopper that I got at J&W Hardware in Etters. I've also recommended you guys try a six, tine, forged pitchfork like, in my picture. Obviously I use my chopper for chopping and scraping, but sometimes the pitchfork is the way to go for scraping if the ice is loose, or you have time to wait for magnesium or chloride to loosen it up.

My expectations for this winter weren't that high to begin with .The pattern has already verified quite a bit colder then I would have thought, due to my solar cycle biases. Hopefully, when we reap the benefits of the SSW later this month we're not in the hostile phases of the MJO and can time some other interactions properly. As far as any guidance goes, I don't put any emotion or thought into any qualitative or quantitative forecast this far out for a number of my own reasons, but mainly because I just can't handle the f****** ride. Until we're inside 96 to 72 I view most of the data as noise and look for other cues .

That would be classic. There's a special place for guys like us.I'll be waiting at the gates for you.

Mood flakes are flying here. Nice size flakes. Good call, SnowNuts.

Oh snap !! When you and blizz team up, for a good one, I expect at least 3 solid inches.

I don't think kicking it in the high gear Is the right way of putting it lol. As you already know a subconscious turning off of the key is more like it. Unfortunately it doesn't matter if it's fake blood on TV or CGI of someone hanging on a cliff that s*** can be completely lights out for me. I had a really bad episode with it my last hospital visit and the doctor's we're about to use the defibrillator on me. I might have to consider a pacemaker for my condition if it gets much worse even though my heart looks to be completely healthy.

@Jns2183 I forgot to mention that it's also getting worse for me as I get older and obviously during high stress.

Yikes. I'm sorry to hear that you had to go through that. I'll have to ask my mother, but I never had that test done that I know of or i'm just too young to remember. That said ,If the experience was true too traumatic, I would have passed out anyways. I've had it as long as I can remember and it's triggered by a lot of different types of stimuli, but heights ,blood, looking at sharp objects, brain freezes, and sudden boom's are big ones I have to be extra mindful of if i'm in a working environment. I would fully imagine its probably one of the main reasons I'm always looking for lightning. I love it, but I don't want it to sneak up on me when i'm running equipment.

Yep, definitely the good old days. I actually fell through ice as a kid while my buddies and I were beating the s*** out of each other with catty nine tails. It was a containment ditch that we caught frogs in so we knew that it was only waste deep in the middle., but never considered how cold the walk to the nearest home would be if we did fall through.