I went with 6 as well. I had spots in the driveway that were over 5 even with the melting. I had some raised spots up to 7" but apparently that is too generous to count those.
Yea, storm definitely busted for some of you over there. I guess once we heard Pittsburgh exceeded their best hopes we should have expected something to change here. Quick observation is that the best precip from the intitial wave ended up making it much farther west than initially progged...before Miller B'ing away as the coastal took over.
That was me. In this day and age of extreme protection of children, it surprised me. Like I mentioned, our local antique store closed. LOL. With that said, I assumed you were seeing the same issues as we had here so that was part of my thought.
In my case, the snow on top was light and is blowing around. It was the slush layer underneath that never froze despite the temps. It supported snow laying on it but something kept it from freezing on the bottom. The roads here have 2-4" on them still (side roads).
We picked up about an 1" in the last 90 min. Snow is very light right now though there is another band forming to the west...a fairly large one actually. The wind is picking up so it looks like it is still snowing hard at times. My measure lamp, that Cashtown did not like, shows 7" but going to go with 6 per my every 1-2 hour ob's. Just finished shoveling and it is heavy which is going to lead to an observation. Roads temps really are affecting things as I was shoveling 4-5" off and getting puddles under that snow despite tt being in the mid 20's right now. The march sun is not causing puddles to form under the snow. Heat coming up from the bottom.
It was a lot of people hyping it so not really pointing at him other than your comment about your kids. You were just passing on info :-). But I will also agree that it has never snowed super hard today. No puking fatties, or 2" an hour rates. It snowed much harder in other events earlier this winter. March '93 this is not. LOL.
Well MU told you to stay off the roads. LOL. I will say that I thought some of this did get overblown a bit as to Blizzard comments....setting up a vision of a mid January day with blizzard conditions. But in the areas that did get 4-6" so far, the side roads are covered with it and not great travelling. If no drifting occurs later then the over all effect on day to day life will be greatly less worrisome than thought.
Yea, its not exact but its not far off. I just walked out to the road and its definitely close to 5" on the grass and 4" on the driveway. I would think in a scenario where we were talking 20-30", it would not be very accurate. But I do not do a snow board so all my numbers are estimates. Going to be some tough shoveling shortly (with the wind).