Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 3.3" at 5:30AM. A little better. This radar stuff is frustrating--holes keep appearing just to our west. Meanwhile, a very heavy band has been raging 20 miles to my south. 3.5" at 6:00AM. Slow progress continues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 3.5" at 6:00AM. Slow progress continues. 3.7" at 6:30AM. Snowing harder again, finally. But it won't last very long, unfortunately. At least we should be near or above 4" by 7AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Unusual for radar at this point in a storm - more like you'd expect before air gets saturated here - looking West on radar has really no meaning at all because everything falls apart just prior to reaching UNV and holes are popping and disappearing constantly. Frustrating indeed. Nothing of any significance seems to be able to make it past around Tyrone. Just a quick cursory study from SPC meso page shows that the best dynamics are clearly moving off to the east and along the frontal boundary through the south. From a very basic synoptic view, the burly high over Quebec which is certainly supplying the cold is also fighting the minimal moisture this system tapped from the GOM. We began with deep cold and much of the initial moisture was utilized to saturate the column. This was a nice moderate, climatologically typical winter event for PA with a wave moving across the country. Certainly some locales will do better than others, but a general snowfall of 3-5" from this synoptic setup is what one should expect in mid winter with a nice Arctic high in place while a relatively weak wave attacks from the west and tries to advect moisture towards it from the GOM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jen16226 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Hello. I am on the Route 422 corridor in Armstrong County and we are currently at 4.75 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 If we had been able to keep snow rates like what's over us now from dying out before they got here, we'd be 6"+ right now. That's probably where they're sitting along a line about 15-20 miles south of State College. We're probably getting upwards of 1" an hour rates right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 3.7" at 6:30AM. Snowing harder again, finally. But it won't last very long, unfortunately. At least we should be near or above 4" by 7AM. 4.3" at 7AM. Too bad these snow rates are about to fall off dramatically, again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 It's a good day when you go to bed while it's snowing and wake up the next morning and it stil is snowing. No mixing here in Harrisburg (as of yet), looks like 4.25"-4.5" eyeballed (no contacts do that could be off a tad). Expecting another few hours if snow, would be awesome if we don't flip to zr as forecast at the tail end. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caveman Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 As of 7 am, 4.2" with a liquid equivalent of 0.46" giving a ratio of ~9:1...surprisingly low given what I observed overnight and what I walked through early this morning. I would like to get one good -8C 850 mb isotherm snowfall here this winter...we have all of February to possibly enjoy that. Location for this obs is northern York County. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 4.3" at 7AM. Too bad these snow rates are about to fall off dramatically, again. 4.4" at 7:30AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 One last little burst of moderate snow. This'll probably push us up to 4.6" or 4.7", and we'll end up just shy of 5". Not bad, but could've been better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sauss06 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 It's a good day when you go to bed while it's snowing and wake up the next morning and it stil is snowing. No mixing here in Harrisburg (as of yet), looks like 4.25"-4.5" eyeballed (no contacts do that could be off a tad). Expecting another few hours if snow, would be awesome if we don't flip to zr as forecast at the tail end. Measured 30 minutes ago. at 4.5 on the dot, Its still snowing so we may do 5 or even 5.5, i can't get a radar so i'm not sue what lse is coming. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 The southern edge of the precip looks like its eroding northward a bit...we might have an hour of accumulating snow remaining here. Just estimating from inside it appears we have about 4" on the ground. Temp is 21.6°. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JSTWX Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 4.5" here so far. Some sleet cut down on the totals between 1 and 3 this morning Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 4.4" at 7:30AM. 4.8" at 8:00AM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mallow Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 4.8" at 8:00AM Looks like the final total will be 4.8" for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pawatch Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Sitting in front of fireplace drinking coffee, watching it snow. One more band of snow and then the snow is done. Will go out and measure when it quits. Nice first storm of the year. More than eclipses my season total of 2". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 5.3 here, snow is ending, so should be my total. Pretty much as expected. Have 8.5 on ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 5.3 here, snow is ending, so should be my total. Pretty much as expected. Have 8.5 on ground. Very nice Jamie. At least it will look and feel like winter for a couple of days in January. I'll be heading out to get a measurement and do some shoveling in a bit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Nice event for Strasburg, PA. About 4"...Some sleet and freezing rain moved in during period when precip was light this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 We got hammered the rest of the overnight, had 7.5" at about 730 this morning and thats pretty much where we finished... overachiever ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Sitting at 4.8, still snowing and radar west has what looks ciudad be another two hours of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 5.3 here, snow is ending, so should be my total. Pretty much as expected. Have 8.5 on ground. 7.4" was the official I got here at home. I had 1.8" from the clipper the other night, so I guess we can call it even for the week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 We got hammered the rest of the overnight, had 7.5" at about 730 this morning and thats pretty much where we finished... overachiever ftw. I figured you guys had to be 6+, looking at long radar loops, you all got hit good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
canderson Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 7.4" was the official I got here at home. I had 1.8" from the clipper the other night, so I guess we can call it even for the week. Nice! I guess that line just south of State College was the winner. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 7.4" was the official I got here at home. I had 1.8" from the clipper the other night, so I guess we can call it even for the week. Wonder how cold it gets tonight? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Sitting at 4.8, still snowing and radar west has what looks ciudad be another two hours of snow. That's cool.....five inches ain't too shabby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JamieOber Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Huh....didn't expect this - UNV on the Euro for Friday: THU 12Z 26-JAN -4.8 -0.9 1023 83 78 0.00 558 539 THU 18Z 26-JAN 1.3 -1.3 1018 78 100 0.02 556 542 FRI 00Z 27-JAN -0.2 -0.3 1011 97 100 0.24 552 543 FRI 06Z 27-JAN 2.1 -2.7 1009 94 90 0.12 542 535 FRI 12Z 27-JAN -0.1 -4.1 1014 88 4 0.00 550 538 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 We got hammered the rest of the overnight, had 7.5" at about 730 this morning and thats pretty much where we finished... overachiever ftw. Cool...I bet there are some 8-9" reports from that area. We ended with 4.5" here, exactly what I was expecting. A nice event, especially this winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Superstorm Posted January 21, 2012 Share Posted January 21, 2012 Definitely mostly snow in Lancaster County. I think the freezing rain threat was overhyped some. Especially as the models went colder and colder. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted January 21, 2012 Author Share Posted January 21, 2012 Now Sunday night to be watched for freezing rain .10-.20" possible over much of the region. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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