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Took a trip into Clearfield. Roads are garbage and it's still snowing. Winter here is just so radically different from what years in the LSV conditioned me to experience.

Deicing the girlfriends SUV was like digging a shovel out of an iceberg. Holy ice.

Are you filming this run?

Nobody knows your last name on here, right? Spill.

Sleet has changed over to snow ensuring another period with a pack in place.

The pack in my yard was wasted this week and yesterday down to the layer of ice from the first event back in January. With the amount of rain we got yesterday and with the temperature near 40°F at one point, I had assumed we would have lost the entire pack, but that ice layer held serve. The pond by my doorstep is frozen and there appears to be a little more than a dusting of sleet on it. I can't wait to forget about the water just sitting there in a day or two and fall through the surface layer of ice, fall five inches through water and then roll my foot on the permafrost. I don't always roll a joint, but when I do, it's my ankle.

It continues to sleet here and the five inch pond has frozen over. In the spirit of the Olympiad, I will host short short track speed skating tomorrow morning with the areas babies.

Sleet

Looks like Pittsburgh and Mt Holly have added some flood watches into the mix. This would be a better question for our board red-tagger, but I wonder if it's rained or may rain enough for parts of the Juniata to get a similar treatment in some of the more vulnerable places like the Aughwick in Shirleysburg? For you Cumberland valley folks, how high are the waters there? Any concerns about the Conodoguinet or Swatara in spots?

I believe the trainer has been monitoring the snow levels in the Sierra Nevada and had recently reported a shutout for the month of January... https://www.cnn.com/2022/02/03/us/california-drought-snow-dry-january-climate/index.html

I have a five inch pond of water sitting on top of a solid sheet of ice by my front door. I cannot WAIT to see how this plays out as the cold air approaches.

This is the weirdest way for the rich to get richer lol. Does it hurt when you fall UP a flight of stairs?

The average blue haired old bitty and hill person from Snyder county doesn't read the forecast discussion. They also don't visit weather forums. They get their weather from their local weather man or country music radio station, who gets their forecast information from the NWS office in State College. As a result, CTP has a responsibility to not send everyone running to Weis for French toast mix and toilet paper every time the Euro has a five inches of freezing rain extravaganza out in fantasy land. Their disco can be more inside baseball because only nerds like us read them. The rest of them could be installed within the Library of Congress and they still wouldn't be picked up because most people in the CTP CWA freeze and lose their minds at "Library." So that's probably why they're more conservative and less "sky is falling."

I can't help but notice a lack of immediate denial of this one. I'm thinking @canderson's folks are getting weird right at this moment. Maybe @FHS's nanny is there with them.

Gang bang?

But let's crucify the NWS in State College for not hoisting EXTREME DEATH ICE alerts. Lol

The rain is ponding on top of the permafrost. I can't wait for this to turn to ice. Again.

"And I don't see any horns on ya, so I guess that kinda narrows it down..."

"Pass the buck to the night crew."

Hey, @sauss06, you comfortable with junior here having these kind of fantasies?

We still rate the Euro?

I feel like MAG, KTX, and myself are going to be in a weird spot with this one being not far enough NW to get the good stuff but not east and south enough for all the liquid. It's tough to tell.

Shadow seen by virtue of a million camera flashes. It'll be winter until March 21, folks.

If Punxsutawney Phil shits on the podium, it's 12 more months of winter.

This. I must have missed a lot last night but it looks like there's some squabble about this met and that met. Folks, people have differing opinions and manners in which they desimanate information. If you don't like their opinion or don't like how they may or may not treat you with kid gloves, then change the channel or station. It's really that simple. The two above posts are basically me dragging an Altoona weatherman over a field of hot coals and razor blades and salt, but precisely none of it is based on how he delivers the weather on television. In all honesty, I think he's a very good "weather man," but he has the unfortunate job of following a regional icon and probably the man that as a child, I grew up wanting to become. That's it. Im not butthurt because a weather guy let me down hard about the harsh reality of rain. I just don't understand he glows. Point I'm trying to make is: if Kyle Elliott isn't your favorite weather personality online, that's okay. It's probably me, anyway, but I know nothing compared to these people and don't pretend to. But if Kyle ain't your style (achievement unlocked: poetry in rantism) then find someone who is. Just as long as it's not that criminal from S&S.