mahantango#1

Can't believe that the ground is still that cold, despite some of the recent days that were very warm. There are spots on some untreated roads that are iced over. And there are some schools that canceled classes for the day. My lane is solid ice. And temp is still at 32 @11:04am.

March has arrived with wind. Feels like winter again compared to yesterday.

1 hour ago, Voyager said:

Look at you. Not only do you beat my lows, but now you're beating my highs, too.

Knock it off already... 

I have to revise the thigh to 63 for today.

62 was the high today.

 From what i'm reading, Seems like the "forever Winter crew" is suddenly looking forward to Spring.

32 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

This is from my weather notebook:

I measured 8.8" just south of Mountville here in Lancaster county. Rain began on Monday night, April 5th with temps in the low 40s and by daybreak on the 6th I had heavy snow and very strong winds which created true blizzard conditions. The 8.8" of snow fell in a 7 hour period as temps crashed into the mid 20s. We missed 2 full days of school and had a  2 hour delay on the 3rd day after the event. Winds were measured at over 50 mph in the county. Dad said we never had anything like that before in April during his lifetime and that I would never see it again.

43 years later, he's still right. 

Here's the snow map. I was just inside the southern edge of the good stuff. Hard to believe based on this that you didn't do better. It wasn't an elevation dependent storm, temps were in the 20s throughout the snow portion. 

Thats what I remember about the storm I don't remember and issues at my place from the storm. Maybe we had a half inch or so from it. the further east/ northeast (and the increase in elevation) there was more snow. And we were traveling to Gratz so my grandfather could purchase a wringer washer. And I still have that wringer washer. But hasn't been used in decades. And if i'm right that was the last year of they made them.

2 minutes ago, Voyager said:

19.6 here. Funny how 20 with no wind doesn't feel all that cold.

20 is the new 40 after all the ridiculous cold that was bestowed upon us weeks ago. 

11 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

April 1982 was an incredible storm. Nothing in my 60 years on earth is even close I'm that month. 

I remember April 1982. I had barely any snow here (being I live down in the valley) elevation 460. I remember going through a little town of Hebe, Pa. elevation 661ft. and there was about 6 inch of snow, there were plows out plowing.

15 hours ago, Voyager said:

Thanks for posting this. I know I'm in the minority, and sometimes I can be overbearing, but I really needed a spirit pick me up. I've been about as depressed as I've ever been this winter.

18 this morning.

32 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Lol, just what they needed…

Were the emergency snow shoveler's activated?

Cooper and his grandmother are thinking ahead — way ahead — and preparing for a special snowball fight in July.

https://www.wgal.com/article/boy-keeping-snowballs-in-freezer-for-july/70468549

12 hours ago, Voyager said:

I don't have any hurrahs left in me... 

10 hours ago, Jns2183 said:

The median snow for Harrisburg after a February storm like the one the other day this late in February here is the past outcomes

25th 0.48
Median 2.66"
75th 6.28"

So likely all we get rest of season is a 1"-3"/3"-6"

She's just about done.

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Thyere's always hope.

1 hour ago, pasnownut said:

Wont be as fun this time but man would it be nice to wrap up with a doozy. 

Yes, one last hurrah!

2 hours ago, Jns2183 said:

A post about increasing sun angle and how it affects rates needed to accumulate on asphalt.

It truly brings home the point that the 1993 storm was in its own league beyond even what we informed people think. It needed to overcome 2.3x more solar radiation than mid January and 1.5x more than mid February.

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I remember how bad the roads were several days after the storm. It was like driving over a washboard.

2 hours ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Interesting going back to the threads from 2010-11, a lot of forgotten names along with a lot of us still here. It didn't take me long to find a Canderson post about winds.  

And March is on our doorstep, you'll be hearing more from him regarding wind.

Beautiful landscape this morning. depends where I measure 3-4 inches at places. On my stone gravel lane 1.5-2 inches fell overnight. Trees are caked with snow.

33 and very wet snow started about 10 min ago.

13 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

18z High res short range Canadian HRDPS has the inverted trough band right in the west shore of Harrisburg really close to RT. 15

It shows 5 inches for Harrisburg by tomorrow morning.

And of course looks like I'll miss it by about 15 miles or so.

Temp dropped almost 2 degrees the past hour. Down to 35.2 now just waiting on the rain  to change to snow. .23 precipitation today. Most of that was 97% rain.