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I have to chuckle just a bit over the timing of the high wind warning.  It began two hours ago at noon, and as I look out my window there is absolutely no movement, ie the winds are calm.  My pressure has dropped to 992 millibars, or 29.10".  It looks like the descent is slowing down.  For the winds, many reporting stations to the norrth and west still have either calm or less than 5 mph, at all stations in central PA.  
I unfortunately think the worst won't even start hitting till it's dark outside

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2 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

Why should they be better? Unless we are funding a gigantic swarm of millions upon millions of tiny, self contained, self propelled sensors that can be directed at will to areas of our atmosphere I doubt models will become anywhere like you expect them to be.

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I agree, I am not sure why he keeps saying the same thing over and over...and this time he is talking about ensembles which are NOT forecasts vs. means.  Does not "mean" they cannot be way off as to individual members but the mean maps are never forecasts.  Using a mean map to assume results is like counting weights of 100 people walking into a building then "forecasting" that the next person will be a mean of them all.   In many cases these are also members purposely fed false info to see how it would affect the end result.   Their entire goal in life is to cross check the op's.    If the mean is way off from the op's (upper air stuff, not snow maps) then that places the op's depict into question. 

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I have to chuckle just a bit over the timing of the high wind warning.  It began two hours ago at noon, and as I look out my window there is absolutely no movement, ie the winds are calm.  My pressure has dropped to 992 millibars, or 29.10".  It looks like the descent is slowing down.  For the winds, many reporting stations to the norrth and west still have either calm or less than 5 mph, at all stations in central PA.  
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11 minutes ago, Ruin said:

my argument is they should be better shouldnt they? we have had the same problems with them being inaccurate and it feels as if they are not getting better. yes 1 model can catch onto a trend and be good for 3-4 -5 storms and its slightly more accurate then it shits the bed. yes with out models we would be worse off. but i think its funny how I dont attack any one on this forum and my argument is with the tech they use for weather being bad but then some on this forum just love to throw personal attacks. 

Of course the models “should” be better but they’re not, for a whole host of reasons.  Not the least of which is that it’s really F’ing hard to predict something that operates on as grand of a scale as the Earth’s atmosphere and translate that down to the local level. What we think of as vast distances just aren’t in the grand scheme of things and the resolutions and data ingestion of the models just isn’t granular enough to produce better results. With that said, they are still correct the vast majority of the time and it’s foolish to say they aren’t far better than they were many years ago. The main issue with you is that your penchant for negativity gets unduly rewarded in a field like this, simply because there are always FAR more ways to fail than to win with these big storms.  Don’t mistake your wins for some great insight; you’re just a glass half empty guy and that’s an easy role to find fulfilling in this hobby. 

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I agree, I am not sure why he keeps saying the same thing over and over...and this time he is talking about ensembles which are NOT forecasts vs. means.  Does not "mean" they cannot be way off as to individual members but the mean maps are never forecasts.  Using a mean map to assume results is like counting weights of 100 people walking into a building then "forecasting" that the next person will be a mean of them all.   In many cases these are also members purposely fed false info to see how it would affect the end result.   Their entire goal in life is to cross check the op's.    If the mean is way off from the op's (upper air stuff, not snow maps) then that places the op's depict into question. 
I am logged in. Less than 1/4mi visibility and getting worse. You might be hearing some thunder soon. The convection looks like it'll be able to tap into that strong LLJ and start jet engines in the trees roaring all night

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15 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

I have to chuckle just a bit over the timing of the high wind warning.  It began two hours ago at noon, and as I look out my window there is absolutely no movement, ie the winds are calm.  My pressure has dropped to 992 millibars, or 29.10".  It looks like the descent is slowing down.  For the winds, many reporting stations to the norrth and west still have either calm or less than 5 mph, at all stations in central PA.  

Doing regionwide warnings has always bothered me when it comes to front passages. 

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2 minutes ago, Jns2183 said:

I am logged in. Less than 1/4mi visibility and getting worse. You might be hearing some thunder soon. The convection looks like it'll be able to tap into that strong LLJ and start jet engines in the trees roaring all night

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Yea, entering Franklin County right now.  Like Carlisle said, the high win warning has been a nothing so far so this may kick it into gear. 

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7 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Of course the models “should” be better but they’re not, for a whole host of reasons.  Not the least of which is that it’s really F’ing hard to predict something that operates on as grand of a scale as the Earth’s atmosphere and translate that down to the local level. What we think of as vast distances just aren’t in the grand scheme of things and the resolutions and data ingestion of the models just isn’t granular enough to produce better results. With that said, they are still correct the vast majority of the time and it’s foolish to say they aren’t far better than they were many years ago. The main issue with you is that your penchant for negativity gets unduly rewarded in a field like this, simply because there are always FAR more ways to fail than to win with these big storms.  Don’t mistake your wins for some great insight; you’re just a glass half empty guy and that’s an easy role to find fulfilling in this hobby. 

Very, very strange temperature phenomena ongoing here. At noon my reading was up to 43 and climbing steadily.

Now? It's 37!

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17 minutes ago, Itstrainingtime said:

Very, very strange temperature phenomena ongoing here. At noon my reading was up to 43 and climbing steadily.

Now? It's 37!

I was actually just about to post how there isn’t any temp spike happening today and things are actually going in reverse. Some serious WAA fog on the advance, getting thick over here. Once that mixes out I assume we’ll spike a bit but nothing like what was projected. 

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44 minutes ago, CarlislePaWx said:

I have to chuckle just a bit over the timing of the high wind warning.  It began two hours ago at noon, and as I look out my window there is absolutely no movement, ie the winds are calm.  My pressure has dropped to 992 millibars, or 29.10".  It looks like the descent is slowing down.  For the winds, many reporting stations to the norrth and west still have either calm or less than 5 mph, at all stations in central PA.  

Yeah, mine says 51mpg gust.  I think they can remove the 1.  Nothinburger....so far. 

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37 minutes ago, Mount Joy Snowman said:

Of course the models “should” be better but they’re not, for a whole host of reasons.  Not the least of which is that it’s really F’ing hard to predict something that operates on as grand of a scale as the Earth’s atmosphere and translate that down to the local level. What we think of as vast distances just aren’t in the grand scheme of things and the resolutions and data ingestion of the models just isn’t granular enough to produce better results. With that said, they are still correct the vast majority of the time and it’s foolish to say they aren’t far better than they were many years ago. The main issue with you is that your penchant for negativity gets unduly rewarded in a field like this, simply because there are always FAR more ways to fail than to win with these big storms.  Don’t mistake your wins for some great insight; you’re just a glass half empty guy and that’s an easy role to find fulfilling in this hobby. 

I've said it before, we've become a "point n click" society and peeps think everything they see on there PC's or phones is instant and 100 accurate.  Weather has proven countless times to alway hold the cards.  That should be the fun in it, and not the distain...we'll thats how I think most of us feel.  We just know better.  Hoping for the comeback runs in the next day or so.

 

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