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Central PA Winter 2022/2023


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1 minute ago, Bubbler86 said:

Hard to remember a summer in the last 5 where the LSV has not had at least D0 or D1.    Fortunately, not severe recently.  Since July, MDT has been below norms qpf wise 5 out of 6 months (all except  Dec)  and they are below in Jan right now though I suspect they may catch up in the next week.  They finished the second half of 2022 at a 4.5" deficit.   That was coming off a great Spring so not a big deal, but it feels like it has rained a lot lately and really has not.

 

 

Lol, that’s why I said to keep the permanent drought watch…. I’m planning on no mowing & dead grass this year!

Less yard work is a win!

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2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Hard to remember a summer in the last 5 where the LSV has not had at least D0 or D1.    Fortunately, not severe recently.  Since July, MDT has been below norms qpf wise 5 out of 6 months (all except  Dec)  and they are below in Jan right now though I suspect they may catch up in the next week.  They finished the second half of 2022 at a 4.5" deficit.   That was coming off a great Spring so not a big deal, but it feels like it has rained a lot lately and really has not.

 

 

Lol, that’s why I said to keep the permanent drought watch…. I’m planning on no mowing & dead grass this year!

Less yard work is a win!

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2 minutes ago, Bubbler86 said:

Hard to remember a summer in the last 5 where the LSV has not had at least D0 or D1.    Fortunately, not severe recently.  Since July, MDT has been below norms qpf wise 5 out of 6 months (all except  Dec)  and they are below in Jan right now though I suspect they may catch up in the next week.  They finished the second half of 2022 at a 4.5" deficit.   That was coming off a great Spring so not a big deal, but it feels like it has rained a lot lately and really has not.

 

 

Lol, that’s why I said to keep the permanent drought watch…. I’m planning on no mowing & dead grass this year!

Less yard work is a win!

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Just now, Bubbler86 said:

MDT has reached 80 every April since 2010 except 2 years and one of those 2 they reached 79 twice in the month. 

Ok, maybe late April we get a few low 80s every so often, but certainly 80 is well above average for any date in April.

80 in March like that guy just posted is super rare!

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1 minute ago, Itstrainingtime said:

What?!?!?

April routinely reaches the 80s...and there have been some 90s as well. I need to check my notes but there was an Easter back in the 80s when I recorded a high of 94.

Yes, it can happen, but it’s well above average when it does, especially in early to mid April, & absolutely in March, 80 is super rare.

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5 hours ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Here is the combined 18z storm snow total for both events through Thursday am.

This looks a lot like the 1994 type of storm gradient that was mentioned by @psuhoffman recently.

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I wish my forecast earlier was snow changing to rain maybe a inch or 2. that same local forecast now rose the temps up 5 to 42 and now a cold rain.

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in this pattern, it is very possible for 80+ degree days in April as evident in 2002

April 2002 Allentown Weather
Day High (°F) Low (°F) Precip. (inches) Snow (inches)
56 37 0.01 0.0
63 31 0.00 0.0
68 37 0.18 0.0
50 30 0.00 0.0
43 26 0.00 0.0
44 27 0.00 0.0
50 21 0.00 0.0
62 35 0.01 0.0
72 54 0.33 0.0
64 43 0.01 0.0
64 37 0.00 0.0
55 34 0.07 0.0
70 54 0.05 0.0
76 53 0.84 0.0
77 59 0.23 0.0
89 57 0.00 0.0
91 60 0.00 0.0
87 61 0.00 0.0
87 59 0.19 0.0
68 45 0.01 0.0
54 44 0.03 0.0
55 39 0.12 0.0
55 36 0.00 0.0
60 30 0.00 0.0
54 37 0.33 0.0
59 34 0.00 0.0
61 31 0.08 0.0
59 46 1.13 0.0
57 41 0.01 0.0
59 34 0.20 0.0
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2 minutes ago, Albedoman said:

in this pattern, it is very possible for 80+ degree days in April as evident in 2002

April 2002 Allentown Weather
Day High (°F) Low (°F) Precip. (inches) Snow (inches)
56 37 0.01 0.0
63 31 0.00 0.0
68 37 0.18 0.0
50 30 0.00 0.0
43 26 0.00 0.0
44 27 0.00 0.0
50 21 0.00 0.0
62 35 0.01 0.0
72 54 0.33 0.0
64 43 0.01 0.0
64 37 0.00 0.0
55 34 0.07 0.0
70 54 0.05 0.0
76 53 0.84 0.0
77 59 0.23 0.0
89 57 0.00 0.0
91 60 0.00 0.0
87 61 0.00 0.0
87 59 0.19 0.0
68 45 0.01 0.0
54 44 0.03 0.0
55 39 0.12 0.0
55 36 0.00 0.0
60 30 0.00 0.0
54 37 0.33 0.0
59 34 0.00 0.0
61 31 0.08 0.0
59 46 1.13 0.0
57 41 0.01 0.0
59 34 0.20 0.0

I’m seeing 4 days over 80 on here in mid April.

8 out of the last 10 days of the month stayed in the 50s with almost 2 inches of rain…

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16 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

Here is the 0z GFS snow map- just for the Wednesday event time period.

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how in the hell can I believe this snow map when a penile looking amount of accumulation  is depicted in the middle of the Adirondacks? These models are becoming hilarious in their own mind. LOL

 

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4 minutes ago, Blizzard of 93 said:

The 6z GFS still looks great for the Wednesday front end thump of snow for all of CTP.

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High pressure in southern Canada seems to stick around longer this 6z GFS run, which helps to pull the snow line even further south into MD.

The “blue” now gets into northern MD this run, which @Itstrainingtime likes to see, which gives us some cushion.

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