The ICON is actually a decent model. It ended up being too cold in runs early this week but it was one of first to signal at least part of this day would be snowy when most other LR guidance was rain.
Your posts were spot on and perfectly pleasant this AM. Anyone who said otherwise should have been apologizing to you as you were just defending the beat down Horst has taken here this week.
Most agreed except that everyone keeps saying that DP's are not the issue but if it is not below freezing at the surface it can snow forever and is just going to melt on the roads except in the heaviest bands...that is why I keep referencing DP's. Most of the LSV has not had 5" or more on Kuchera for a day or two but we were progged to get so much sleet that the WSW might have worked out. HRRR is progging much lower qpf's all together now and that probably played into it. HRRR delayed the arrival of heavy snow to 5-7PM almost 12 hours ago so if that had dropped it this AM it would have seemingly made more sense but not a big deal either way.
CTP PTC forecasts were a 2-4 inches higher in Central Dauphin and Lebanon counties vs. Cumberland + Perry but Carlisle is sitting pretty right now. I believe he said he was weest of town close to the ridges?
LSV wise I think you are in the best position. Both north and west. If you get the rates you may be the jackpot today. I think I over did it on my calls for western pa but my 2 to 4 for you might not be enough!
Well, I am not here to be a winner or a loser. This is a weather discussion board. I am not trying to bring you to the ledge. Sorry if you have taken my posts as anything other than synoptic discussion.
It actually has the Lancaster area getting up to 50 tonight. I would usually chuckle and say no way but the temps are so warm right now it is very believable. We needed that low to transfer south of us and it looks like it is not going to happen. A bit depressing.
Short range model wise the HRRR shows the LSV getting up to 40 then a rain/snow mix arrives driving down temps to 33-34. We get an hour or two of snow before 850's go above freezing then several hours of sleet before changing over to rain. Precip arrives 4-5PM. Unfortunately it shows no snow accum's south of I81 and 1-3" (probably on the grass on)the North/W side of the Valley. The rain snow line gets up to the PA/NY border later tonight.
Pretty much in line with NWS's point and click's that I looked at except they are too high on the snow accums.
I think a lot of the LSV sees quite a bit of sleet as it is quite cold in some of the upper columns(as Mag posted last night). Temps seem to be progged to stay between 32 and 35 so not a huge freezing rain signal.
I fear iI am going to bust too high on my accums. I knew we did not have the Arctic air and talked myself into thinking otherwise. It is 35 here with a dp of 32 right now.
I believe it was Dec. 30th 2000 that we were under a WSW for a foot and not only did it not snow there were hardly any clouds. Not rain though. That storm equaled out the Jan 5th 2000 Miracle Blizzard where we got over a foot and had little to no snow forecast. That one is an Eastern US WX Legend as weenies nowcasted their way into a blizzard.