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Central PA Fall Thread II


JamieOber

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Just got out of my 531 exam and am quite happy at what I see! Major westward shift on the newest GEFS! Very nice snowfall well back west in PA if this verifies! I would be surprised to see any further significant westward jumps as this is already close to hugging the coast as it is.

Hope you did well on the 531 exam, jmister and thanks for posting the maps.

That exam sucked! :thumbsdown:

But at least the 18z is a pleasure to ogle. ^_^

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Correct. And you're right--beautiful ^_^

I gotta get this out of the way...

You move here - week you get here, earthquake. Then we get all these severe storms and we don't get them all that often. Plus one of the wettest Aug-Sept periods ever. Accumulating snow at higher elevations Oct. 2

I mean, based on all this, a foot of snow and drifting Saturday night wouldn't surprise me.

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FWIW, the 00z NAM is similar to the 18z NAM... so not great, but not terrible for Central PA. That being said, the NAM sucks, so I'm more looking forward to what the GFS has to say. :arrowhead:

I gotta get this out of the way...

You move here - week you get here, earthquake. Then we get all these severe storms and we don't get them all that often. Plus one of the wettest Aug-Sept periods ever. Accumulating snow at higher elevations Oct. 2

I mean, based on all this, a foot of snow and drifting Saturday night wouldn't surprise me.

You're welcome. :weight_lift:

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FWIW, the 00z NAM is similar to the 18z NAM... so not great, but not terrible for Central PA. That being said, the NAM sucks, so I'm more looking forward to what the GFS has to say. :arrowhead:

You're welcome. :weight_lift:

Hate to be a weenie but honestly, how are you feeling about Saturday? The SREF 50% chance of 4+" seems pretty crazy, but it looks increasingly likely that we'll see some kind of sticking snow.

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Hate to be a weenie but honestly, how are you feeling about Saturday? The SREF 50% chance of 4+" seems pretty crazy, but it looks increasingly likely that we'll see some kind of sticking snow.

I'm probably not the person to ask. :arrowhead:

But I think 2-4" seems reasonable for a first guess for KUNV. Obviously the range of possibilities is still quite large, since the precip gradient on the northwest side of the low will be sharp. The NAM is now pretty much on the low side, with probably only 0.5"-1" of snow... whereas some of the GFS and SREF ensembles have 8-10".

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Thank the gods roads are too warm. I have to drive to Pittsburgh tomorrow, drive back to Lancaster Sunday and then down to Westminster, Maryland on Monday. I just don't need road closures this early in the season.

They'll be clear tomorrow and Sunday, but Saturday they will have snow on them if there are good rates. October 2005, 2009 and even on Oct. 2 this year, the roads had snow on them.

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I'm probably not the person to ask. :arrowhead:

But I think 2-4" seems reasonable for a first guess for KUNV. Obviously the range of possibilities is still quite large, since the precip gradient on the northwest side of the low will be sharp. The NAM is now pretty much on the low side, with probably only 0.5"-1" of snow... whereas some of the GFS and SREF ensembles have 8-10".

Thanks for answering. I'm sure a place like State College is worlds different from where you came from (somewhere in Oregon, right?). I'm from around Atlanta so I'm pretty clueless as to how things tend to go around here (not having a met degree doesn't help, either!). But...good to hear that even on the low end we're looking at accum. snow.

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