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It's all good. I think we'll get our 4, but insane rates are cool to watch. Even if just for an hour or two. I was in total awe back in 96 when it snowed so hard in the final deformation band that it looked like pea soup fog outside.

20+dbz rates have successfully danced south of Schuylkill County all night long. But, it had been modelled that way for a couple days now. Our heavy(er) rates have visibly backed off in the past hour though

Cool. If we're going to have snow, then I want to see good rates. Thanks!

Big question, though. Does that good forcing make it up here to Schuylkill County or does it stay down there in the southern tier counties? As you know, I'm a "go big or go home" kind of person when it comes to winter events, so if it's going to snow, especially in March, then I want to get my azz kicked with a good one, and not be "fringed".

And that's what I hate. There is more to weather than just snow. Try to start a discussion about thunderstorms and tropical systems, and it's mostly crickets in here...

Which storm is that? So many storms back to back I can't tell which one you guys are talking about...lol If it's the Sunday/Monday storm, what are the estimated start and end times? I'm supposed to do a Philly Flower Show trip on Monday, and I'm not looking forward to driving in that mess after spending a week here in Phoenix. I hope the trip cancels.

Nope. Tomorrow. I get back to PA about 7pm.

I wish I could stay in Phoenix another week...

I just hope it's enough to cancel my trip to the Philly Flower Show on Monday. The last thing I want to do is drive a 45 ft bus in a wintry mess immediately after arriving home from warm and sunny Phoenix.

Thanks! I'm not experiencing this one as I'm out west watching from the sidelines. It looks like gusts we're into 50's statewide, though. I expected to see the outage map intensify overnight. Was surprised it didn't.

Looking at the power outage maps this morning, it appears that Eastern PA is in much better shape than Western PA. We're the winds stronger out that way, or is there another factor at play?

Just checked my forecast for Tamaqua and CTP boosted the gusts up five to 65mph during the overnight hours.

I must be getting punished for my earlier post. Delayed/late getting out of Allentown by an hour due to a mechanical issue which caused me to miss my connecting flight. That resulted in rebooking on a later flight which now has.......... wait for it...... mechanical issues. So now this flight out of Charlotte is going to be delayed by about an hour or so. All in all a lousy flight day and one that's going to end up 3 to 4 hours longer than expected.

There are times when that causes a short circuit though...

Since there's not much weather to talk about (except for the wind tomorrow) I'm going to go off topic a bit. Why do people procrastinate and push things off to the LAST POSSIBLE minute? My grandfather taught me that if you are "on time" you are late and if you are early you are "on-time". Well, my wife is the opposite of that theory. It's recommended that you be at the airport 2 hours before scheduled flight time nowadays because of security. Well, my flight leaves at 11:30am, so therefore I should be at the airport by 9:30am. But my wife, who MUST sleep in on weekends decides she's getting up at 7:00. Now she needs a shower, which will mean make-up and jewelry, and other crap before we actually roll. This will take AT LEAST an hour (I know her quite well) and we live an hour away from the airport. So instead of having a nice, relaxing ride to the airport, it will be a high stress, fast driving event. Not to mention that we are now in moods because I get wound up if I think I'm going to be late. Just a wonderful start to the day and trip...

At least they're waterproof. You know, just in case...

Actually, I'm going to Phoenix, but they had 3 inches in North Scottsdale, and the close-in Valley mountains (White Tanks, Estrellas, etc) got snow overnight into this morning as snow levels were down to around 2,000ft, which is pretty low for out there.

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.

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.

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?

I just notice that on the radar. Wow. DC is ripping snow and you are getting rain. This is the most unbelievable winter I've ever seen...

And as it turns out, it wasn't warmth and rain we had to worry about...