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Bucks County PA 4 degrees with -16 windchill Happy we only got a coating this morning and the wind cleared the walk and driveway. First time I ever thought that way.
NWS just issued Severe Cold Watch for SE PA effective Sat afternoon. Only 3 days after Henry began allerting us to this possibility!
Breaking News: No models, AI, weather hype; just good old fashioned meteorology. SIX MORE WEEKS OF WINTER!
I heard Groundhog taste like chicken.
I’ll pass. I would rather eat deviled ham out of the can.
lol I’m sure there is some that would like to shoot the groundhog. My Dad said in the depression days they ate young groundhog. I never tried it.
My Pops had some good stories growing up around that time.
Henry, the human side of your winter outlook at the end of last summer – “Watch what you wish for” – was right on! I guess the years of warm winters and little snow made us forget.
Not sure where you live but one storm doesn’t make or break a winter forecast. This winter forecast, just like the last three years, have been way off the mark. The fact that a 20 inch snow storm was needed to make the winter forecast come true is in fact a bad forecast.
Bucks County PA: Ending with about 11 inches combined snow and sleet and a balmy 18 degrees now. Like Henry said, I never saw it snow at 9 degrees, either here or while I was living in RI for the decade of the 70s.I
saw it snow heavily at -4 degrees in cumberland RI in i believe 2015
I lived in Foster Rhode Island for 28 yrs Use to go sledding at Diamond Hill in Cumberland.
I lived in Coventry. I recall that NW RI weather was more like Worcester than the rest of the state. I think your area recorded 50+ inches in the 78 blizzard, while Coventry had “only” 28.
Washington Crossing PA: mixing with sleet and temp up to 14. About 6 inches now.
Some advice from an old timer who has been through many of these: With uncertainties about turnover to sleet and freezing rain in many areas now, I offer the following that I learned the hard way from previous storms like this: if you have a base snow cover, wait until the precipitation goes back to snow before snow blowing/shoveling. Otherwise,…Read More
Great advice! This coming from a fellow “old timer”.
Philly has already issued a snow emergency effective Saturday evening. The schools will be closed Monday. Can’t remember them being this certain of a storm this far out since the 1993 blizzard.
Along I-95 from Philly to Providence, the 93 blizzard mixed with sleet which kept the totals down to “only” a foot of the heaviest snow to remove. In Bucks County PA it stayed in the low 20s throughout the storm and changed back to all snow at the end.
i measured 26 inches in that one out here west of town but Hagerstown officially measured 34 inches and all in a 24 hr period. Many roads were clogged for 2 weeks as temperature plunged to near zero after the storm.
Snow ended in Bucks County, PA. 26 degrees. About 6 in today and 3 yesterday. Henry’s forecast was right on! Captured these two events better than any of the others that I looked at. And much earlier.
Bucks County, PA: After a lull and some melting from the solar radiation, the temp is now below freezing again and the snow has expanded back inland and is accumulating on roads again. Very slippery on unsalted surfaces. Freeze up tonight with low in the teens.
A couple of inches and 32 degrees in central Bucks County, PA. Henry nailed it; other outlets missed the boat. Now waiting for the sun and melt so I don’t have to clear it from pathways. Tomorrow may be a different story according to Henry. Other weather outlets are not on this bandwagon and see the snow closer to the coast, not inland. We’ll wait and see.
Bucks County PA: squall line went through about 6AM with the same wind sound as a summer severe TS line. The ground witened quickly and the temp fell to 22. Now the sun is shining but it is windy temps are in the lower 20s. I wonder how the Mummers Parade will manage down in Philly.
Is it my imagination, or has there been an excessive number of very windy days in the past month? We always have some days with 30+ winds in the gradient between a departing storm and a high building from the west, but nothing like this season.. Are there any archived records to compare to? Anyone?
Not days..months..I have never seen so much wind since around June ever..so many offshore fishing trips cancelled its nuts..but yes the last month has been especially brutal
8 inches here in Bucks County PA; snow totals varied in the area between 5-8 in, but official measurement at Phila Airport was only about an inch. Other areas of Phila were between 3-5 inches. The location of the airport in a swampy area near Delaware Bay makes official temperature and snow readings unreflective of the region as a whole.
Local Philly TV weather has down-graded the heavy rain inland to a half or one inch amounts west to east across the suburbs. 40 mph wind gusts still on the table. We need the rain, not the wind! One outlet is saying the upper level low will not phase. Any thoughts Henry?
Bucks County PA: NWS confirmed that 60-70 mph straight line winds resulted in the widespread damage and 300,000 PECO power outages in last evening’s storms. My neighborhood resembled the aftermath of Sandy with leaves and branches strewn everywhere and downed trees. Luckily, our power was restored during night. 158,000 remain without power now.
Latest forecast maps show most of the heavy rain moving off the NJ coast and into NYC and NE. Only .53 inch so far, not nearly enough to put a dent into the drought here in SE PA.
Henry, do you think the second squall line will make it over the mountains to SE PA?
Snow drought zone all winter! Only half the average in many of these areas; Overall a much colder season. Still waiting for the Big Daddy.
5 year drought for Hagerstown.
