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Yes, we should, but where would be a good "central" location. Harrisburg metro I guess?

Personally, I like the Pivotal Weather snow maps. You can go 10:1 or Kuchera, and they also include (fwiw anyway) ice maps. I find Pivotal's snow maps to be much closer to reality than TT's.

I do believe we went up a degree or two after I posted this last night. It's general Tamaqua climatology in this kind of situation. The ice accrual we had when I went to bed last night was (and still is) negligible this morning. The tree tops on the highest hills surrounding the town appear to have some ice on them, but nothing here on the "valley" floor.

As soon as the heavier rain came in we shot up to 32. Wouldn't surprise me one bit if we don't go up one or two more. I'm kind of doubting the whole half inch ice possibility that CTP had for my area.

Too late. Stuck on the ramp to I-81 north. I was going to Tomhicken for another load, but a multi vehicle wreck shut down the freeway...

I honestly don't know. The tank has some insulation around it under the chrome jacket. I guess it would be a time issue more than anything. If I could park it in our shop, it would probably be ok, but we usually park our loaded dump trailers inside, because the coal does freeze.

Thanks! CTP shows .43" for my area. Hopefully smart minds (boss or receiver) say to park the truck.

Ice storm warning for me now. My entire run from Hazleton to Allentown. It's going to be an interesting night hauling water unless the customer cuts loads, or I call it off myself if it gets bad...

I'm not exactly liking this set-up for today. We have a slight glaze from a bit of light freezing rain, but the bulk of the precipitation seems to come in after sunset tonight. Seeing as I'm a second shift truck driver, conditions will be good enough for me to start my shift, then deteriorate halfway through, and then I might get caught up in a potentially bad situation. I'd rather this come in now, or at noon so I could just legitimately stay home and stay safe...

Agreed. It seems like a lot of the meso's are putting out some crazy ice accretions. Much higher than the NWS has. But, in my experience, the ice is usually far less than even what the NWS forecasts for me. It seems like we almost always get to a 33 surface temp quicker than indicated.

If you look at the ice hazard maps for the entire state (not just the CWA), Carbon County gets .25 to .50" of ice while Schuylkill gets .10 to .20". I guess the ice storm will stop right at the county line, which is how it's depicted on the map...lol

Does anyone know when the last time the ENTIRE state of Texas was under a Winter Storm Warning at the same time?

I've been perusing the NWS sites in the upcoming harder hit areas of OK and TX, and by mid-week, Oklahoma City may have between 18 and 24 inches of snow on the ground. Astonishing...

Without all the drama, yes. There is sometimes good discussion mixed in with the mess...

They did put out a map out of the CWA on FB and/or their website indicating the regions and their boundaries, but I don't know if it's still available or not.

Did you see Houston with a low of 12 after getting snow and sleet?

Up my way, not really even any 50's.

OMG...

Between work and all this snow, my surgical shoulder isn't going to make it... It hurts like hell already.

That's some pretty impressive cold for that far south. Those reds are low teens all the way down into old Mexico. Crazy! As for me, just got home from work. Decided not to do my last load, which was a good call. The guy that loaded ahead of me made the right onto 309 to go up the Blue Mountain and lost traction and got stuck. That would have been my fate as well, had I loaded and tried to go deliver it. After helping him blindside back onto the road he came out of, we both went back to the yard and called it a night. 309 was completely snowpacked. Just went out and we have 1.5" so far.

Light snow has commenced on my water route...

Waiting to load my truck. Nothing here yet at the base of the Blue Mtn on 309 but virga, but I see we're now in an advisory for 3-5 inches. Pretty good bump up from the 1-2 inches CTP was saying this morning.

And I just went out and measured 14" in the backyard still. Would have been 10", but yesterday...

I didn't push it down there. Now that I'm working again, I want to keep it right here. Nontheless, for quite a few years it did seem like the models wanted to "cheat" the coal region out of snow, and sometimes they were right...lol

I don't think anyone in our subforum has moderator power, so I guess the best that can be done is to report it.