EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Power going on and off over 12k now in York, In less then half hour went from 7k to 12k. 15K now. What is the deal with York county? It is the only one that is really bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paweather5 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 15K now. What is the deal with York county? It is the only one that is really bad. Not sure but no snow at all melted from the trees today the area had 6 plus. I think that had a lot to do with it, Big cracks all over if I stand out side. Temp has held at 30.9 for the past two hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfox1 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Routing for you north guys radar looks good. Routing for that dryslot here. Guess the flash I saw was a transformer. One is on fire a mile from me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Sitting at 30 here in Hanover with an 1/8 of an inch of ice on ground surfaces and a 1/4 of inch on elevated. Rain coming down at a light to almost moderate rate at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Just walked outside and seen massive blue flashes in the sky. Looked like transformers blowing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Some icy refrozen flakes and sleet mixed with huge snowflakes. Probably 75% true snow and really coming down hard. Still at 22°. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 .45" of ice now. Branches starting to break outside. Shouldn't that be closer to a 1/4 inch considering you measure from the focal point which is the branch? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Shouldn't that be closer to a 1/4 inch considering you measure from the focal point which is the branch? No. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rick G Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 we are near 6 inches and heavy snow right now. I haven't heard any thunder yet. But I would not be surprised if we do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Shouldn't that be closer to a 1/4 inch considering you measure from the focal point which is the branch? That's a good question. On a flat surface the number would be halved, I would think, so I wonder what the true measurement for an ice accretion is. No doubt Zak's measurement is correct for the branches/wires, but what is the true and correct measurement for reporting purposes? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yorkpa25 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 No. Subtract the width of the branch itself and it's a quarter inch of ice. That matches up well with the surrounding areas. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeffsvilleWx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 That's a good question. On a flat surface the number would be halved, I would think, so I wonder what the true measurement for an ice accretion is. No doubt Zak's measurement is correct for the branches/wires, but what is the true and correct measurement for reporting purposes? It's from the object to the edge of the ice, not total thickness on both sides. You measure cylindrical objects the same as flat ones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Subtract the width of the branch itself and it's a quarter inch of ice. That matches up well with the surrounding areas. What branch? I ripped the twig off. lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 The tree in my backyard is about to snap in half. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 It's from the object to the edge of the ice, not total thickness on both sides. You measure cylindrical objects the same as flat ones. Thank you sir. That's "kind of" what I thought. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 No. If you are measuring total ice accreation that would be around 1/4 of an inch on that twig. http://www.cocorahs.org/media/docs/Training_IceAccreation.pdf Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 All snow here again and coming down pretty heavily. Up to 4.7" for the event. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeffsvilleWx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 If there is a twig in eastern's picture, he has about 3/16" of ice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Looking like I might sneak into the southern edge of the heavier band coming east. Will soften up the ground surfaces but wouldn't be surprised to see another 1/8 of an inch on the elevated surfaces. Decent ice storm but nothing really close to crippling here. Now if it would have been a couple/few degrees colder probably would have been a whole different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 One things for sure. Whatever we get today and over the weekend isn't going to be going away anytime soon. Look at the temps over the first 180 hours on the chart. If they verify even remotely close we go cold for awhile again... This is the 0z GFS. http://wxweb.meteostar.com/sample/sample.shtml?text=kunv Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MAG5035 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Some icy refrozen flakes and sleet mixed with huge snowflakes. Probably 75% true snow and really coming down hard. Still at 22°. Looks like snow's trying to hang in there in State College by the looks of the 511 cams. It's sleeting hard down here.. appears that the heaviest precip of the event is moving through currently and its finally warmed up to a point aloft where we finally have true sleet pellets with the frozen raindrop over heavily rimed flakes. Sleet has piled up over an inch on top of the 2.3" of snow we started with. About 3.5" of combined frozen but its compacted down to around 3" or so. This stuff is going to be hard to remove when this event wraps up. Thus far it's been a purely "dry" ice event with no freezing rain. I'm sure the glaze on top will be coming once precip lightens up later this morning. Temps have been rock solid around 24. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PennMan Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Looks like snow's trying to hang in there in State College by the looks of the 511 cams. It's sleeting hard down here.. appears that the heaviest precip of the event is moving through currently and its finally warmed up to a point aloft where we finally have true sleet pellets with the frozen raindrop over heavily rimed flakes. Sleet has piled up over an inch on top of the 2.3" of snow we started with. About 3.5" of combined frozen but its compacted down to around 3" or so. This stuff is going to be hard to remove when this event wraps up. Thus far it's been a purely "dry" ice event with no freezing rain. I'm sure the glaze on top will be coming once precip lightens up later this morning. Temps have been rock solid around 24. Yeah I can see the snow/sleet line on the correlation coefficient images...stubbornly hanging on the southern Centre County border. We had a maybe a quarter inch of sleet and some freezing drizzle at some point, but not enough to form a true glaze on the snow...it's like walking in sand now. I should have a decent shot at 6". Still 22° here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
showmethesnow Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 DAM!!!!!!!! Just had a pine come down and take my power line out in the back yard. Still have power but the line is on the ground. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djr5001 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 DAM!!!!!!!! Just had a pine come down and take my power line out in the back yard. Still have power but the line is on the ground. I have been listening to the local scanner and it has been all about lines down the past hour... I am sure the accidents will pick up again in the next hour or so due to slick spots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 And just like that we're back to mostly snow. About a 70/30 mix at the moment. Surface temp rose one to 27 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 Transformers blowing everywhere out there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Voyager Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 And just like that we're back to mostly snow. About a 70/30 mix at the moment. Surface temp rose one to 27 degrees. LOL...scratch that, back to mostly sleet again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2001kx Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 right around 7.5" so far...still snowing but its starting to get lighter now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EasternUSWX Posted February 5, 2014 Author Share Posted February 5, 2014 First gust to like 5mph, every tree is going to fall over I swear. lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcfox1 Posted February 5, 2014 Share Posted February 5, 2014 Had no power for about 10 min. Shortest outage I ever Had. Its better then a Lighting storm out there with transformers blowing. A Huge show just to my south a little bit ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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