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OBS: Rain->snow Wednesday night-Thursday, March 4-5 2015


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FYI, site isn't allowing me to reply to forky's post with the cool EWR radar for some reason, so trying this way.  Anyway, this is an awesome radar.  It clearly showed the 20-30 mile wide "dry line" approaching from NW to SE, engulfing me in dryness from about 2:05 to 2:45, while the Ft. Dix radar showed 20-25 DBZ virga.  FWIW, the 0.20 reflectivity (48 mile range) worked best for me, probably since I'm only 15 miles away.  Bookmark worthy.  

 

http://www.wundergro.../nj/newark/ewr/

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I already have some drifting, and I'm measuring on a driveway so it's a bit tainted, but I got between 7.5" and 9" so that's about 8.2" on the driveway so far.  (the 7.5 and 9" places seemed pretty even in distribution)  My driveway got nailed with some rain runoff yesterday/last night and was still a bit present when I left for work this morning, as one part had 2"+ and one hardly anything.  Eyeballing places on other peoples properties here and the grass(in that one 3'x3' area I have that is bare due to south exposure lol)......looks closer to 10-12"!!  All I can say is it's a lot more than I had at work in Fogelsville.

 

Edit:  My location is in sig, and Fogelsville is just north of Trexlertown........and I wish I had stayed home today! :(

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I already have some drifting, and I'm measuring on a driveway so it's a bit tainted, but I got between 7.5" and 9" so that's about 8.2" on the driveway so far.  (the 7.5 and 9" places seemed pretty even in distribution)  My driveway got nailed with some rain runoff yesterday/last night and was still a bit present when I left for work this morning, as one part had 2"+ and one hardly anything.  Eyeballing places on other peoples properties here and the grass......looks closer to 10-12"!!  All I can say is it's a lot more than I had at work in Fogelsville.

 

Edit:  My location is in sig, and Fogelsville is just north of Trexlertown........and I wish I had stayed home today! :(

I would say both Macungie and south Allentown are getting lolipops with this event.

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I would say both Macungie and south Allentown are getting lolipops with this event.

Thank you for the input, I have not been able to monitor the storm all day until now.  (I work in a factory) 

 

I got this quote from the Mt. Holly Facebook page, Huffs Church is just two miles from me on the same ridge:  "snowing again 9.6" at 2:55 Huffs Church Berks County...MJF-013" 

 

He's an official spotter, so I'll go with his totals for me because my driveway got tainted bad from rain/melt runoff last night. 

 

I SO wish I had stayed home today to enjoy this storm....not to mention the stress of driving home.  (no accident but lots of frustration)

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Thank you for the input, I have not been able to monitor the storm all day until now.  (I work in a factory) 

 

I got this quote from the Mt. Holly Facebook page, Huffs Church is just two miles from me on the same ridge:  "snowing again 9.6" at 2:55 Huffs Church Berks County...MJF-013" 

 

He's an official spotter, so I'll go with his totals for me because my driveway got tainted bad from rain/melt runoff last night. 

 

I SO wish I had stayed home today to enjoy this storm....not to mention the stress of driving home.  (no accident but lots of frustration)

 

 

Do you work at Deka by any chance? I had the same exact experience today. Wish I would have stayed home but glad I made it threw. I live in Fleetwood and have a little less than you guys but not by much. Awesome storm imo! Now we get to take the snowmobiles out!

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Thank you for the input, I have not been able to monitor the storm all day until now.  (I work in a factory) 

 

I got this quote from the Mt. Holly Facebook page, Huffs Church is just two miles from me on the same ridge:  "snowing again 9.6" at 2:55 Huffs Church Berks County...MJF-013" 

 

He's an official spotter, so I'll go with his totals for me because my driveway got tainted bad from rain/melt runoff last night. 

 

I SO wish I had stayed home today to enjoy this storm....not to mention the stress of driving home.  (no accident but lots of frustration)

I'm at 6.25 just a couple miles south on 29 ..... but mine is compacted since this morning, and there is the elevation there, so totally believable.... and snowing nicely again  :-)

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Do you work at Deka by any chance? I had the same exact experience today. Wish I would have stayed home but glad I made it threw. I live in Fleetwood and have a little less than you guys but not by much. Awesome storm imo! Now we get to take the snowmobiles out!

I work near Kraft in Fogelsville, or about 2 miles north of Trexlertown.  I'm just going to shovel, shower, and play some PS4 :)  (I wish I had stayed home to watch the snow and play some PS4 when I got tired of looking out lol)

 

BTW I'll knock a couple of tenths off of the Huffs Church obs for my own personal records, because  I never like to give inflated totals.  I'd say it looks like I'm going to go with 9.5" for my total and leave it at that.  (He said 9.6" but that was an hour of light snow ago......I figure this way I'm not giving an unrealistic number either way....as measuring on rain tainted pavement is kinda crud lol.....but I can tell you my pavement had MUCH more snow then at work)

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Went outside to shovel at 1:15 pm and we were up to 6" and down to 24F.  Took an hour to shovel and for most of that hour it was pouring heavy snow with visibility a little less than 1/4 mile (not as heavy as the 2.5" per hour 25:1 snow we got a few weeks ago) and my measurement at 2:15 pm was 7".  Wow!  It's now down to 23F/21F with 92% RH, but with 20 DBZ overhead, it's snowing very lightly. 

 

Had a lull with little snow, due to that "drywall" that came through, from 2:00 to 2:45 pm or so.  Been snowing lightly to occasionally moderately and we've picked up another 1/2" of snow and stand at 7.5" for the storm.  Would love to make 8" and think I will with that next band on my doorstep.  22F. 

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