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    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    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.

    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    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.

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    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    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.

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    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    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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    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    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.

    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    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.

    Central PA Winter 25/26 Discussion and Obs

    in Upstate New York/Pennsylvania

    Posted

    Just now, Voyager said:

    Unless it comes later, with the wind element along with the heavy snow, I can't figure out how Norfolk/Virginia Beach doesn't have a Blizzard Warning for this storm... 

    ...WINTER STORM WARNING IN EFFECT FROM 4 AM SATURDAY TO 7 PM EST
SUNDAY...

* WHAT...Blizzard conditions possible. Total snow accumulations
  between 7 and 12 inches expected with locally higher amounts
  possible. Winds could gust as high as 50 to 60 mph.

    Anyway, locally, it's not nearly as cold as what was expected. I'm sitting at +4 this morning.

    -9 here!

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