famartin Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 i guess my snow ratio wasn't off. Phl intl pulled a 40:1 ratio, that's nuts. Eh, like Tony said, sometimes you can trust the ASOS gauges, sometimes not. Would like to see some manual gauge melt-downs before I believe that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Mt. Holly's 7PM reading had a 22:1 ratio. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Cross-thread BUMP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 ^^^ that's actually verified too low for Philly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Parsley Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 ^^^ that's actually verified too low for Philly. It had the right idea. Best snows near and just NW of Center City. (K.O.P. 3+" for example) Overall it did well with the 2 events this week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Looking at ASOS out of York. They reported 4 and 1 degrees the last two hours respectively, but this hour they shot back up to 10. Does anyone know why? 25 21:53 Calm 10.00 Overcast OVC018 10 6 84% NA NA 30.06 1018.9 25 20:53 Calm 10.00 Overcast OVC022 1 -3 83% NA NA 30.06 1019.1 25 19:53 Calm 7.00 A Few Clouds FEW031 4 1 88% NA NA 30.08 1019.9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Looking at ASOS out of York. They reported 4 and 1 degrees the last two hours respectively, but this hour they shot back up to 10. Does anyone know why?25 21:53 Calm 10.00 Overcast OVC018 10 6 84% NA NA 30.06 1018.9 25 20:53 Calm 10.00 Overcast OVC022 1 -3 83% NA NA 30.06 1019.1 25 19:53 Calm 7.00 A Few Clouds FEW031 4 1 88% NA NA 30.08 1019.9 That place is notorious for being an extreme radiator, worse than SMQ, its on par with some of our airports out here in the empty, frozen desert. Looking at the obs, you can see the clouds broke up after 7PM, when they dropped 10 degrees between 7PM and 8PM. They fell down to 1 by 821PM but the clouds were moving back in. By 9PM they were cloudy again and still 1, but by 10PM they were still cloudy and had rebounded back to 10. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LMolineuxLM1 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 It's still flurrying outside with partly cloudy skies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nodriveslow2 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Eh, like Tony said, sometimes you can trust the ASOS gauges, sometimes not. Would like to see some manual gauge melt-downs before I believe that. Just melted down the snow in my Cocorahs gauge and had .09". Just under 3" total, so right around 30:1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NaoPos Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 It's still flurrying outside with partly cloudy skies. Ooo Lee... It's just the fine powder of snow blowing off trees and roofs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cary Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Don't know about York, but 9:54pm hourly OBS were all over the place... 25 at WWD, 12 at PNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 That place is notorious for being an extreme radiator, worse than SMQ, its on par with some of our airports out here in the empty, frozen desert. Looking at the obs, you can see the clouds broke up after 7PM, when they dropped 10 degrees between 7PM and 8PM. They fell down to 1 by 821PM but the clouds were moving back in. By 9PM they were cloudy again and still 1, but by 10PM they were still cloudy and had rebounded back to 10. Yeah, I knew they radiated well out there, but that's still pretty impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 LOM also reporting 9 which seems pretty low. I'm at 12 here in the valley right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quakertown needs snow Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 8.9f with 2.1", should help with lowest temp of the week? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BucksCO_PA Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 10:30pm 10 degrees in Fairless Hills Bucks Even 2.0" here, looks to be a pretty consistent 2.0" across Lower Bucks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 1 inch edison Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Everybody, Thank-you, looks like the aggregate average snow water equivalent ratio was in the lower 20s. That Caribou snow tool worked well. Mark was in this evening and he suspected we would have had 30:1 everywhere without the wind. Love the pic Andy. (See our FB). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chief83 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 I'm down to 4 degrees here in Worcester pa. Montgomery county Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 1.7" here with .06 melted core 28.3 to 1 ratio FTW. Edit add pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rafpsu Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 1.8" here in Sinking Spring, PA. Current temp is 5.2 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Everybody, Thank-you, looks like the aggregate average snow water equivalent ratio was in the lower 20s. That Caribou snow tool worked well. Mark was in this evening and he suspected we would have had 30:1 everywhere without the wind. Love the pic Andy. (See our FB). You guys did superb with this event. Nailed my hourly weather forecast QPF of .06 down to the exact one hundredth. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jrodd321 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 About 3" here in Nova. Nice little event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cast4 Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 You guys did superb with this event. Nailed my hourly weather forecast QPF of .06 down to the exact one hundredth. Agreed. Mt. Holly did great with this one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattinpa Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 2.3" final - Graterford, PA Also around 2 inches here in Royersford. It was a pretty snowfall. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rainshadow Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Thank-you guys. It was fun to not have to think about mixed pcpn types (Hello Monday) and just concentrate on ratios for once. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Everybody, Thank-you, looks like the aggregate average snow water equivalent ratio was in the lower 20s. That Caribou snow tool worked well. Mark was in this evening and he suspected we would have had 30:1 everywhere without the wind. Love the pic Andy. (See our FB). Yeah that was a bit higher than I thought... Hell that's better than most of the ratios we've had, and we've been way colder than you guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnc Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 Calm winds, clear skies, snow cover... how low will it go tonight? 8.6F so far. brrrrrrrr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlexD Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 ended up with about 1.75...measured 2" in a few spots... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 The sounding that produced 20+:1 ratios... pretty isothermal but perfect temperatures for that portion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phlwx Posted January 26, 2013 Share Posted January 26, 2013 dendritic snow growth ftw. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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