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The Official Unofficial Overnight February 16/17th Snow/OBS Thread


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well this drought guy has had his ass handed to him this week on a silver shovel in the Macungie area .  On Tuesday, I had nearly 11 inches of snow.  Well this morning, add and other 15 inches  and I have  had over two feet in 5 days.  No model in the world saw this coming. That deathband gave me 4 in+ hour rates for 1.5 hours. We now have had more snow this year than any area in PA right now- Alburtis Macungie area is now the snow king of PA this year.- just unbelievable  I shall declare the drought dead and for some people who hate snow, they would say the groundhog was dead to. LOL  

I am utterly shocked how much we got in this region from kutztown to macungie and emmaus. I am upset I slept through it. I got pics from a friend in Bethlehem 20 minutes away - may be 5” there at most and 12”+ here.
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11 minutes ago, sibbley said:

Holy crap. I can't believe some of these totals.

...UPDATED SNOWFALL REPORTS AS OF 8 AM FOR FEBRUARY 17TH...

...Pennsylvania...

...Berks County...
Lyons                        12.0 in   0328 AM 02/17   Public               
Fleetwood                    9.0 in    0602 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Huffs Church                 8.4 in    0723 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Blandon                      7.3 in    0215 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Bern Twp                     5.7 in    0145 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Spring Twp                   3.0 in    0625 AM 02/17   Public               
Reading Regional Airport     2.5 in    0700 AM 02/17   ASOS                 
Union Twp                    2.0 in    0706 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
1 N Union Twp                1.8 in    0446 AM 02/17   Public               

...Bucks County...
1 ESE Kintnersville          13.0 in   0630 AM 02/17   Public               
Kintnersville                8.0 in    0212 AM 02/17   Public               
East Rockhill Twp            5.2 in    0645 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Newtown                      3.4 in    0719 AM 02/17   Public               
Jamison                      3.0 in    0710 AM 02/17   Public               
1 SSE Northampton Twp        2.8 in    0724 AM 02/17   NWS Employee         
1 W Levittown                1.0 in    0227 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      

...Carbon County...
Jim Thorpe                   3.0 in    0645 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      

...Chester County...
Berwyn                       4.8 in    0720 AM 02/17   Public               
Oxford                       3.5 in    0700 AM 02/17   Public               
Jennersville                 3.4 in    0640 AM 02/17   Public               
West Caln Twp                3.1 in    0700 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
2 WSW West Sadsbury Twp      3.0 in    0650 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
East Nantmeal Twp            2.5 in    0400 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      

...Delaware County...
Morton                       3.4 in    0520 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Boothwyn                     3.2 in    0429 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Aston Twp.                   3.1 in    0530 AM 02/17   Public               

...Lehigh County...
Center Valley                13.8 in   0419 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Macungie                     13.7 in   0357 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
1 S Allentown                12.1 in   0720 AM 02/17   Public               
2 ENE Ancient Oaks           12.0 in   0410 AM 02/17   Cocorahs             
Upper Saucon Twp             8.0 in    0156 AM 02/17   Public               
1 WSW Vera Cruz              8.0 in    0600 AM 02/17   Public               
Allentown                    7.8 in    0653 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Lehigh Valley International  5.7 in    0700 AM 02/17   ASOS                 
Whitehall Twp                4.5 in    0700 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      

...Montgomery County...
Pennsburg                    5.0 in    0454 AM 02/17   Public               
New Hanover Twp              3.0 in    0645 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
1 E Willow Grove             2.3 in    0541 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Norristown                   1.0 in    0200 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      

...Northampton County...
Hellertown                   11.8 in   0406 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
North Catasauqua             4.8 in    0530 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      

...Philadelphia County...
Northeast Philadelphia       3.5 in    0700 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Somerton                     3.1 in    0545 AM 02/17   Trained Spotter      
Belmont                      3.0 in    0445 AM 02/17   Public               
Philadelphia Intl Airport    2.3 in    0700 AM 02/17   ASOS   !

Just wow the differences just within a county like Bucks and Berks like basically 1" to 13" over a what 25–35-mile area is just astounding!  I knew there would be a lucky soul that picked up 6" but this is like hitting the jackpot and you're in it up there LOL.  

That band that dropped all that snow last night was literally like 10 miles wide north to south and stretched along just south of I-78 straight out off the coast of New Jersey south of Long Island pretty amazing feature a training band of snow.  

 

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49 minutes ago, JTA66 said:

I slept through the whole thing. Looks like 2” eyeballing it from the house, roads and sidewalks just wet. A friend of mine in Kulpsville was out with the dog around 3am and reported light IP at the time.

31F/DP 29F

Snowing lightly....decent batch blew up to my W. 

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32 minutes ago, Birds~69 said:

Snowing lightly....decent batch blew up to my W. 

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Yeah I just came in from clearing the car and was even considering looking for a "snowbow" in the west earlier when the sun was busting out in the east and the dryslot with open sky was visible to the west, but the west eventually filled in. 

The snow wasn't powder nor was it the concrete like the last couple storms, but was fluffy (probably had lots of pancake flakes overnight).

The incoming band seems to be moving slower than the earlier bands and consolidated.  The SN- with intermittent dropping to flurries, hasn't let up the whole time.  It's not really accumulating anything but has been persistent.

ETA - temp is above freezing now and at 33 with dp 31.  Melting is underway.

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Just under 4” here and no shoveling needed, win-win all around. Pleasantly surprised waking up.  Things looked super meh when i went to bed at 1 am. Winter now graded at a D+ as opposed from a D. Still 8” away from average. LV is the snow capital of the east coast this year…

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updating a post I made earlier. I said I got 6.5 inches. well I found out my son had cleared the deck railing earlier in the morning. I took a measurement on my driveway and found I got 12". More in line with other observations in this part of Hunterdon county.

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4 hours ago, Fields27 said:

It was crazy driving to work. I live just N of Reading where we had 4.5". I work in Lyons Station close to Kutztown where they easily have a foot. Luckily roads are just wet. Light snow has started back up.

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That's incredible.  I'm 5 miles south of Reading and had less than 2 inches.  Roads were never anything but wet.

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well I was the jackpot this time. Its been since 2016 since I was jackpotted.  Just finished up. Just over 14 in of fluffy white on the picnic table on my deck and near the yard stick on the deck.  The snow flakes were extremely  fluffy pancake size . It was much easier to clean up as even my snow thrower ate through all of the snow . Definitely did not like that ball busting 11 in of snow on Tuesday.

 

I think you guys need to drive up to Macungie just to see what severe snow banding does. A drive up RT 100 or Rt 29 and you will see the difference within a few miles.  At 4-5 inch rates this morning, as fast as I was typing my measurements to MT Holly, they were changing. I  was hoping for thundersnow but again did not observe lightning.  I have had my fair share of snow now, time for you guys to the south  to get some more. 

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Here I was thinking I was seeing epicosity last night (did for one hour) only to find out the real deal was only about three miles away where 12-15" fell. All I did was suck death band exhaust for 8.7" :(

Doesn't look like any additional fell this morning

 

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10 minutes ago, Albedoman said:

well I was the jackpot this time. Its been since 2016 since I was jackpotted.  Just finished up. Just over 14 in of fluffy white on the picnic table on my deck and near the yard stick on the deck.  The snow flakes were extremely  fluffy pancake size . It was much easier to clean up as even my snow thrower ate through all of the snow . Definitely did not like that ball busting 11 in of snow on Tuesday.

 

I think you guys need to drive up to Macungie just to see what severe snow banding does. A drive up RT 100 or Rt 29 and you will see the difference within a few miles.  At 4-5 inch rates this morning, as fast as I was typing my measurements to MT Holly, they were changing. I  was hoping for thundersnow but again did not observe lightning.  I have had my fair share of snow now, time for you guys to the south  to get some more. 

I did. And Rt422...that sleet storm was great (3-4"?)

Swiss cheese brewing W...can see dark clouds that way....if it makes it.

 

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