mahantango#1

1 minute ago, canderson said:

They’ll be higher 

I hope not.

URGENT - WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service State College PA
1221 PM EST Thu Feb 5 2026

PAZ019-026>028-035-036-045-046-049>053-056>059-063>066-060800-
/O.EXB.KCTP.EC.A.0004.260207T0900Z-260208T1500Z/
Southern Centre-Huntingdon-Mifflin-Juniata-Fulton-Franklin-
Southern Clinton-Southern Lycoming-Union-Snyder-Montour-
Northumberland-Columbia-Perry-Dauphin-Schuylkill-Lebanon-
Cumberland-Adams-York-Lancaster-
Including the cities of Sunbury, Gettysburg, Carlisle, Hershey,
Mifflintown, Selinsgrove, Chambersburg, State College, Newport,
Mount Union, Lewisburg, York, Williamsport, Shamokin, Lewistown,
Lebanon, Harrisburg, Pottsville, Danville, Lancaster, Berwick,
McConnellsburg, Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Huntingdon
1221 PM EST Thu Feb 5 2026

...EXTREME COLD WATCH IN EFFECT FROM LATE FRIDAY NIGHT THROUGH
SUNDAY MORNING...

* WHAT...Dangerously cold wind chills as low as 20 below possible.

* WHERE...A portion of south central Pennsylvania.

* WHEN...From late Friday night through Sunday morning.

* IMPACTS...The dangerously cold wind chills as low as 20 below zero
  could result in hypothermia or frostbite if precautions are not
  taken.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS...

If you must go outside, dress in layers. Cover exposed skin to
reduce your risk of frostbite or hypothermia

Now NWS has wind gusts of 49 for my location on Saturday. Going to be brutal  i hope and pray the power doesn't go out.

Looks like the high temp. will be in the early morning hours on Saturday. Both the Euro and GFS have temps. near 10 or single digits during the rest of the day. Don't know why NWS is downplaying the winds either as euro and gfs have gusts over 40mph.

-7 this morning.

1 hour ago, canderson said:

Anyone know where to buy an actual metal grain shovel? Maybe grain shovel isn’t the right term - a flat shovel I can use for chopping ice and all. 

I have a pole that’s good for braking up ice but I’d love a real metal shovel to make it a bit easier. All I see is fiberglass nonsense. 

Did you check Tractor Supply they might have what you looking for.

Sounds like this upcoming clipper means business on Friday. Euro has highs on Saturday in the single digit's, GFS mid teens.

Just now, paweather5 said:

Just need it to be right this one time. 

Let's do this!

7 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Shows how cold it's been when 20's and 30's actually feel warm...lol

Yea it's been feeling like a heatwave.

34.2 was the high again today.

16 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Just looked at my forecast. Another solid week of single digit lows. Enough...

This kind of cold is just too much for me. 

Hang in there temps. Will soon have to increase. 

9 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

For the following I'm assuming -25 F (not C)...

To achieve this windchill reading you would need an ambient temperature of +3 F combined with a sustained wind of 41 mph.  Increasing windspeeds above 40mph lead to negligible additional chill.  For example, a 45mph wind at the same +3 F produces a windchill of -25 F (no change) while a 50mph wind drops the windchill by just one degree F to -26 degrees F.  So basically, after 41 mph a nearly 10mph increase in windspeed results in virtually no additional chill.

With an ambient temperature of +10 degrees you can't drop to -25F even with a 60mph wind.  At that speed the windchill only drops to -18 F !

At an ambient of +15 F the max drop (at 60mph) results in a windchill of -11 F.  At 40mph the chill is -8 F.

These examples seem to indicate that you must drop to below zero to reach -25 more quickly with a wind of only 30mph.

At -5 F ambient you only need a wind speed of 15mph to hit -25 F.

At -10 F you only need a wisp of a breeze of 7 mph.

 

Still gonna feel brutal. With any wind over 20mph.

2 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

I actually got up to 34 yesterday. I think @mahantango#1 @canderson got warmer than I did. I'm already at 28.2 today. (CTP has me reaching 34)

I got home from Florida last Wednesday. Got home and spent time widening the driveway and in process got a good bit of snow on my floormat. That was on Wednesday. Yesterday it finally melted after sitting there for 5 days. The past couple of weeks has been what I dream of going into every winter. I just love the landscape.

Also, I'm really intrigued for next weekend. Way out there still but it seems like there's a lot to be interested in. Maybe the thing I'm liking most is the advertised amount of QPF...if only that can translate to white gold; well, a lot of us would probably stop and give the winter an A right then and there. 

Yes made it to 35.2 yesterday. Even though it got above freezing the amount of snow melting really occurred on roofs and elevated surfaces. With the ground that cold and frozen before this last snowfall, I guess it will take awhile to melt there.

Another cold night, already down to 7 here.

High today was 35.2 

2 minutes ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

I didn't know it was safe. Thanks for letting me know. I'm almost half way across the river now just above Dock Street dam. 

My friends and I were  walking on the Susquehanna River back in 1977 when we were teenagers. We erected a makeshift monument out of tires and some type of flag in the middle of the river, that was visible to the people in Dalmatia and to anyone traveling rt .147. We got a little over halfway across the river and we encountered thin ice in swifter water and turned around and got off the river. Those were the days, I got to do it with no regard for safety.

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3 minutes ago, Yardstickgozinya said:

When is your attempt to walk across the frozen Susquehanna River?

-3 this morning, was surprised that the high temp. yesterday reached 30.

11 hours ago, canderson said:

Don’t all truck stops have scrappers? If not, shame on them. I wish PA cops ticketed cars with roof snow, on trucks it is more of a safety issue. 

There's a scraper on Front street in the burg. The one by the UPMC hospital. Trouble is most trucks are too big height wise to fit under it.

3 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Average winter cold is fine. These repeated arctic blasts, however, are destroying me. I'm so stressed out that I've been frequently getting tightness and chest pains. It's beginning to affect my health. To those who might say that I should have stayed in AZ, or that I need to move, you are correct, I do....except said scenarios WOULD HAVE and WILL lead to divorce, because my stubborn wife will not leave PA.

Well get through this, but it's going to take time. Days are getting longer. So on that part, things are slowly looking optimistic.

49 minutes ago, Voyager said:

Good God... 

I know you guys love winter, but really, when is this pattern going to flip or relax, and why has it been so persistent? 

 

Maybe you should think of it as a refreshing, reinforcing shot of arctic air 

How far is Harrisburg running below normal so far this month?

On 1/4/2026 at 10:33 AM, Voyager said:

What is it with the damn clouds every day? We had beautiful sunshine this morning and now it's overcast again.

Perhaps I'd not hate winter so much if we could get some real sunshine between storms/disturbances.

It seems mother nature heard you loud and clear. Seems after this last storm were getting sunshine back again. Kudos to you for waking up mother nature. Maybe you can persuade her to lighten up on these frigid temperatures. I guess you have to talk to her more often.