Voyager

Aren't we kind of getting into the better range for the mesos over the globals, though? If we are than that would give the edge to the NAM.

I'm watching this closely as I'm a trucker heading back east from California in the time frame for the storm. I usually run 40 to 44 to 70, but if it's going to be bad in Oklahoma, I may just head right on up to 70 and go through Colorado and Kansas.

New Year's greetings to my Central PA friends from a rather cold Hesperia, CA where the temperature right now (7:30 pst) is 32 with a wind chill of 26. I've got to tell you that dry, desert cold feels colder than our damp cold back east...lol.

So my plan to drop down to I-10 to avoid the snow might just be a fail. The cold air made it much farther south, and now the NWS is predicting 1-4 inches along the whole I-10 corridor from Sierra Blanca to Lordsburg.

My truck driving plan is to drop south to aviod the mess that I-40 will be, and now it looks like I-10 will get in on "some" of the activities as well. NWS El Paso says perhaps up to 2 inches in the lowlands...

Ugh...

Thanks guys! I'll be monitoring this thread (along with the models and the NWS) for your thoughts and analysis. 

1 hour ago, mayjawintastawm said:

Your last couple hundred miles look a bit dicey at this point. Too early to tell for sure, but snow and icy roads on I-40 in the western TX panhandle and E NM high plains look like a good bet, with temps possibly remaining below freezing for a couple of days. Not a fun place to be if it does snow. Check back in a day or so.

Thanks. I've been keeping an eye on this since yesterday. I'm heading to LA after loading in Ohio. I'd probably lose some time going south around it, but I might lose more if I-40 turns into an icy nighmare.

Friday is where my interest lies. I will be trucking across I-40 fom Tulsa to the 66 Casino that day, if I don't drop south to I-10 to aviod it.

What are the thoughts of you western guys and gals with regards to this event?

Every global model shows energy spinning through New Mexico putting down 4-8 inches of snow at JUST THE PERFECT TIME for my western travels. Couldn't be a day sooner or a day later...no.

Right on my travel day in the region... 

Recorded 0.10" of precipitation for last nights white rain to pad the yearly total a bit. If it would have been colder we'd have gotten somewhere around an inch of snow. As for the Sunday and New Year's snow, since I will be sitting in a truck stop in SoCal hopefully soaking up some sunshine, I hope the storms deliver for those of you who want it.

In my case, I will probably see rain in IL, MO, and OK, and perhaps some white stuff along I-40 in NM and AZ. Hopefully nothing big as I have a tight time frame to get out to Los Angeles for Sunday morning delivery.

1 hour ago, MAG5035 said:

Well, was worried about warm surface temps maybe affecting any accumulation of snow falling and it turns out it's too warm to even snow. Pretty much all rain here (light) with the moon more than partially visible through the clouds. 

Cold enough aloft for snow here, but surface temps too warm at the moment (35 degrees) to accumulate, so it's just white rain.

NWS point and click gives me 1-2 inches of snow overnight...

3 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Thanks for getting this started!

Here is some good news to start this thread. The 12z GFS gives us 2 snow storms. The first one arrives for New Year’s Eve & drops 3-4 inches of snow for CTP. The second one arrives on January 2nd & puts down another 2 or 3 inches of snow.

This would be a great way to ring in the New Year!

Woo hoo....Bring it on!!!

6 hours ago, CarlislePaWx said:

Had to be from thunderstorm events with training I'd say.  Hard to imagine just one county away and that huge of a difference.  Didn't Voyager say he had something like 70 or 75" up his way too?  Those differences had to appear during the summer months with all the TSRW events we had.

How much did you have in July and September?  I had 9.5" in July and 10" in September.

Yup. I'm at 73.38" right now after getting 1.82" so far today. 

5 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

This I can get on board with. Still lots to be excited about by the time we flip the calendar. 

I hope you all get a whopper of a New Year's storm this year.

I'll be sitting in Southern California rooting you on!!!

3 hours ago, bubbler86 said:

That's a good map, thanks.  A lot of people I have spoken to in the LSV think the Piedmont is State College and other more mountainous areas when in reality it is them!    That yellowish area is the "Ehh, piedmont or ridge" tough call area.  The WIKI for PA Geology is pretty decent.  Who wants to discuss escarpments?  LOL.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geology_of_Pennsylvania

 

 

 

 

 

Thanks for the answers, guys! The Piedmont is definitely more pronounced down south, hence the better knowledge of where it is down there. So the Lehigh Valley is part of the Great Valley section, and here in Tamaqua we are in the Anthracite Upland section.

1 hour ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Yeah, that's ridiculous. I had about 18" down here and that was with about a 6 hour period of driving sleet. I think just about everyone north and west of the Piedmont was 2' or more. (Syracuse approached 4' if my memory is correct) 

I lived in Bethlehem at the time and we had 17 inches due to the same 6 hour flip to a driving sleet storm. BTW, in PA where exactly is the Piedmont? Would the Lehigh Valley be on the Piedmont? I ask because generally it's not referenced as much up here as it is down south.

49 minutes ago, Voyager said:

I'm parked at the Bloomsbury TA truckstop in New Jersey and every now and then I see some mangled, half melted snowflakes smacking the windshield. Temp here is 38.

If I was sitting up on I-80 in Columbia by the water gap instead of I-78 in Bloomsbury right now, per radar, I'd be seeing some very heavy snow.

I'm parked at the Bloomsbury TA truckstop in New Jersey and every now and then I see some mangled, half melted snowflakes smacking the windshield. Temp here is 38.

A few days along the Gulf Coast, and here I am in Raphine, VA freezing my arse off... 

31 minutes ago, Atomixwx said:

Why are you trying to save this dope money? Take the UberX, get some strange, and then have a damn burger. He's offering his money, take it.

OMG... 

38 minutes ago, canderson said:

Uber to a Whataburger. I’ll pay!

That's going to be quite the expensive burger...lol

19 minutes ago, canderson said:

Eat Whataburher for me. #4 double. 

I wish, but the Loves that I'm at has an Arby's. 

71 glorious degrees here in Katy, TX this afternoon!  

3 hours ago, canderson said:

Remember mowing your lawn Christmas Eve a few years ago? That blew. 

That was my favorite Christmas since moving back from Arizona in 2001.

10 minutes ago, canderson said:

Yea that's likely wise. Enjoy 59S - I've spent literally 1,000s of hours on that road. I went to college in Nacogdoches, wave to it as you take the loop around.

I was on it a few weeks ago and went through Nacogdoches. It's a good road. Lots of 70mph zones outside the towns.