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PHL 1/7-1/8 Regional Discussion and Obs


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honestly, i dont see why not? Today a lot of the ratios were around 15-1 and tomorrow looks to be colder than today, but for around always assume 10-1 and hope for better.

Yeah, we saw over 18:1 ratios here with this morning's snow, so it's certainly possible.

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Those places where skies have cleared out are radiating pretty quickly... some places (like TTN) may reach their coldest temps of the season thus far in the next few hours.

down to 21.4° here from a high of 36.3° this afternoon.

The number to beat is 17.7°. I don't think we do it but we could certainly get close.

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Pretty sure he meant where on the page, since it's not obvious. Start from the home page: http://www.erh.noaa.gov/phi/ and then click on the link for "storm total snow forecast available " which is located about an inch above the map of the region. And maybe because this is a government run operation, the link to stuff like this is different on every office's homepage: for example, the NYC office has a link named "storm total forecast" which is located just below and to the right of the region map. Would love to see some better standardization of the NWS office websites - same thing in finding many other things, like snowfall reports, weather records, climate info, etc.

Just to address this a little bit. The storm total snow graphic is not required however more and more NWS Offices are placing them on their homepage as users are liking it (my office tried it last year for the first time and the users really liked it). One thing we changed for this year is to include the created date/time stamp on it. Regarding the standardizing of the NWS Office homepages, this is being currently worked on especially in Eastern Region. The pages have been improved, but more work needs to be done and there are NWS folks working on this at this time. Users should be able to go from one NWS homepage to another and get the same information from the same spot. That is the goal.

Okay, back to the snowfall chat. ;)

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I don't know how accurate my DVV is with measuring small precip amounts, but I have 0.08" today, which would mean 20:1 ratios with this morning's burst of snow.

Is it heated? If its heated, then there was probably some evaporation which reduced the liquid.

If its not heated, did it all melt on its own?

Automated rain gauges do great with liquid, but very few do well with frozen.

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agree..0GFS takes the .15 qph line up to around Edison, NJ

In the past I would hear trim the NAM precip totals by 30-40%

i think tony or some other met has said the gfs qpf within 36hrs has been bad...let me see if i can find it.

can't find it..mesoscale models would be what you turn to right now...i do agree the nam may be a little to wet, but with these inverted trof setups, you never know. Tell that to waterbury,ct who got 18 inches today.

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