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Central PA & The Fringes - December 2013 Part III

PennMan

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pasnownut

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  On 12/17/2013 at 4:37 PM, Wmsptwx said:

Looking at 50s this weekend, white Christmas hopes are fading quick!

On the road playing Santa with clients today and having been thru Harrisburg selinsgrove lewisburg Williamsport and now headed back south I think you have the best shot at a white Christmas up there. Hopefully the warmup is muted as some suggest.

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  On 12/17/2013 at 6:32 PM, wxmeddler said:

Big fat dendrites. Cloud top height makes all the difference!

Edit: Half-Dollar + collided dendrites now. Not much quantity but the quality is fantastic.

Yeah I'm on the north side of Lancaster, same thing. Huge fluffy flakes. Pretty.

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  On 12/17/2013 at 7:21 PM, PSUHazletonWx said:

Been ages since we've had a white Christmas...looks like upper 40s-low 50s for 3 days will sink this one too.

I do not remember the details of the event, but down here in Harrisburg, we had 2" of snow last year on Christmas eve. And then we had another 2" on December 26. 

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  On 12/17/2013 at 7:43 PM, Blizzard92 said:

I do not remember the details of the event, but down here in Harrisburg, we had 2" of snow last year on Christmas eve. And then we had another 2" on December 26.

in the late afternoon of 12-24-12 it started to snow and snow for a couple hours, all said and done 2" then on 12-26-12 we got 2.5" more. there was some sleet with the 12-26 event!

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  On 12/17/2013 at 7:21 PM, PSUHazletonWx said:

Been ages since we've had a white Christmas...looks like upper 40s-low 50s for 3 days will sink this one too.

 

Hate looking at that nice 10" or so snowpack out there and knowing it's going to probably get nearly taken out later this weekend. Was hoping the initial wave would progress the frontal boundary quickly and only end up with a day or two in the 40s to near 50 but it appears that the boundary stalls and allows the second and much stronger storm to head up into the Lower Lakes. GFS has alot of heavy rain and the Euro has us in the warm sector Sunday with 60+ temps (upper 60s at MDT!). Just a tremendous surge of warmth progged by the Euro. GFS not quite to that level but it's enough, and it has a lot more rain. So with all of that said, have to have some concern about potential flooding issues when that second storm slices up into the lakes Sunday. 

 

Models seem to agree that this warm up ends at some point within the first half of Monday when the front finally crosses and reestablishes colder weather. From there our colder regime looks to resume where it left off but the few days up to Christmas look quiet so we likely won't have much snow if any to show for the holiday this year. Also noteworthy in today's crazy Euro run was how cold it was over alot of the country at hour 240, with a 1056+ high residing in the Northern Plains.

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  On 12/17/2013 at 7:43 PM, Blizzard92 said:

I do not remember the details of the event, but down here in Harrisburg, we had 2" of snow last year on Christmas eve. And then we had another 2" on December 26. 

This was one of my favorite snow events. We had friends from Sydney visiting and they'd never seen snow in their lives. We took them to a Target parking lot to drive around in it so they could see the tire tracks and slide a little bit.

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  On 12/17/2013 at 7:21 PM, PSUHazletonWx said:

Been ages since we've had a white Christmas...looks like upper 40s-low 50s for 3 days will sink this one too.

we had snow last Christmas eve, coated everything in white for Christmas. Not sure that would entirely count as a White Christmas I don't think we made it to inch but it was white.

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  On 12/17/2013 at 8:00 PM, MAG5035 said:

Hate looking at that nice 10" or so snowpack out there and knowing it's going to probably get nearly taken out later this weekend. Was hoping the initial wave would progress the frontal boundary quickly and only end up with a day or two in the 40s to near 50 but it appears that the boundary stalls and allows the second and much stronger storm to head up into the Lower Lakes. GFS has alot of heavy rain and the Euro has us in the warm sector Sunday with 60+ temps (upper 60s at MDT!). Just a tremendous surge of warmth progged by the Euro. GFS not quite to that level but it's enough, and it has a lot more rain. So with all of that said, have to have some concern about potential flooding issues when that second storm slices up into the lakes Sunday. 

 

Models seem to agree that this warm up ends at some point within the first half of Monday when the front finally crosses and reestablishes colder weather. From there our colder regime looks to resume where it left off but the few days up to Christmas look quiet so we likely won't have much snow if any to show for the holiday this year. Also noteworthy in today's crazy Euro run was how cold it was over alot of the country at hour 240, with a 1056+ high residing in the Northern Plains.

That's a really nice snowstorm look on day 10, too. 

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  On 12/17/2013 at 9:23 PM, JamieOber said:

Too bad the only real break in the cold comes right before Xmas. 

 

This 100%. If we had to have this torch, why couldn't it have come next weekend (27, 28, 29) and not this one. Oh well. As for this little event, I got a total of 1.6" out of it.

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Thought you guys would appreciate 3-4 inches per hour rates I got on video on Sunday, along with some thunder-snow on video.

 

Here is the video of the snow chase. Huge fan of Frank Sinatra, hope you guys are to. Enjoy! ^_^

 

 

I caught the thunder snow twice, here is the separate video just for that. We also had some insane wind gusts when the band was drifting south at the tail end of it. Had to be over 40 MPH which caused some insane blowing and drifting.

 

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  On 12/18/2013 at 11:56 AM, BuffaloWeather said:

Thought you guys would appreciate 3-4 inches per hour rates I got on video on Sunday, along with some thunder-snow on video.

 

Here is the video of the snow chase. Huge fan of Frank Sinatra, hope you guys are to. Enjoy! ^_^

 

 

I caught the thunder snow twice, here is the separate video just for that. We also had some insane wind gusts when the band was drifting south at the tail end of it. Had to be over 40 MPH which caused some insane blowing and drifting.

 

Cool videos.. Thanks for sharing.

Is it me or is there something on your wipers?

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  On 12/18/2013 at 12:02 PM, 2001kx said:

Cool videos.. Thanks for sharing.

Is it me or is there something on your wipers?

 

I think so, the wipers are really bad for the first few minutes but I slow them down. It's hard to see on video but the visibility was like 20 feet, if they weren't moving that fast I wouldn't be able to see anything ^_^

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