There is truth to that. I've seen many a forecast bust for to mix and change much farther north. For my backyard, if the Lehigh Valley or Reading changes, we go over about 15-30 minutes later, even if it's not forecasted.
Getting some nice dendrites mixing in with the smaller flakes now, so the heavier stuff is hopefully is moving in. I just wish the wife was home from work already. She has a rental car that she's not familiar with as her Jeep is in the body shop getting fixed from when a deer ran into her drivers side fender and front door about a month ago.
I may miss the first flakes, but I'm going to take a little nap to recharge the batteries for a night of observing and (hopefully) filming for my YouTube channel. Currently 26 degrees with solid lead gray overcast.
I'm a trucker, and I can't even begin to think what it would be like trying to climb the Pine Grove to Tremont hill on I-81 northbound at the height of this storm.
I take a ride with my next door neighbor to go to Macungie to get a truckload of heating oil and come back to an I-81 mauling on the NAM's. Unbelievable!!!
What's with that area of lighter accumulations (8-10 inches) in the Lehigh Valley? Subsidence between banding features? If so, that's a bit to close for comfort for me...
Oh no they didn't...
Wednesday Night
Snow before 1am, then snow and sleet. The snow and sleet could be heavy at times. Low around 23. Northeast wind 8 to 10 mph, with gusts as high as 25 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New precipitation amounts between 1 and 2 inches possible.
Mary D is right in my backyard almost, well, a couple miles west of me. It was named for Mary Dodson, the wife of a coal miner who lived in the villiage, or "patch town" as we call them in the coal region.
I swear, our weather up here is NOTHING like what you get down there. Every time you guys post about crazy winds, I sit here wondering, "what wind???".
Mine's almost the same. No precip amounts, though...
Wednesday
Snow showers, mainly after 1pm. The snow could be heavy at times. High near 28. East wind 5 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%.
Wednesday Night
Snow showers. The snow could be heavy at times. Low around 21. Chance of precipitation is 90%.
Thursday
A chance of snow showers before 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 30. Chance of precipitation is 30%.