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45 and rain ending in Bucks County right now. Only .08″ – barely made a dent in the moderate drought declared Fri. Worried about the farmers during this beginning of growing season. And the wild fire potential in the more severe drought areas of the west. Any chance for this dry pattern to change?
Big temp change Bucks County PA: Upper 70s at 3PM and two hours later, more than a 20 degree drop.
30 degrees in Bucks County. What a wild evening with ongoing warnings, wind, downpours, and power outage. Thankfully we are restored this morning.
Love the new video format. A few more sessions and you’ll be ready for prime-time TV! Best weather presentation since Glenn “Hurricane” Schwartz retired.
According to the RainDrop website, we had 2.25 inches of precipitation which amounted to 15 inches of snow. Don’t know how accurate their estimates are. I took four measurement with a yardstick and got 14-17 inch amounts, so the 15 is in the ballpark.Snow is very dense and difficult to push the snowblower (a small Toro) through, but not as bad as…Read More
I have a tractor with a snow blower now. But still use my walk behind. But before the tractor I always made a point to go out and blow the driveway out around 5-6″ area. Because its takes forever with deep wet snow and small blower. Just take your time and don’t over work the blower. You can wear out the rubber traction disk.
Weather casting is like a coach preparing for the next game. You understand the players on both sides, come up with your game plan, make your adjustments as you go along, and hope for the best. You don’t always win, but you come out on top most of the time. By these standards, Henry is the Knute Rockne of forecasters! Henry, you hit a home run…Read More
A lot of people had my area wrong and I mean a lot. Euro, ICON and Canadian was pretty close so was Bernie and Joe Murgo. Which no big deal to me. Saves me a ton of work. I cleaned all three driveways in a hour with the walk behind snow blower. Melting now on the driveways because of the sun. It’s Getting stronger
About 15″ in Bucks County PA. Plows have been down our street several times during the night. Haven’t done tyhe final grooming when they put up a wall at the end of my driveway.
Henry, you mention the track is slightly east to the warm water. Does this make a difference in snow totals is eastern pa and NJ? While the NWS update warning still calls for 18-20″, the weather channel seems to have downgraded the totals here, but increased them for SE New England. What are your thoughts?
Here in Bucks County, turnover to snow is happening. Temp has gone from 37 to 34 in the past hour and half. Wind is picking up. According to Henry’ prediction, we are right on schedule. Let the Blizzard begin!
Henry spoke last night of the danger of the combo of heavy wet snow and winds bringing down tree branches. I want to add a word of caution. As an old timer, I have seen many heavy snow/ blizzard events going back to the late 1950s, including the 1978 storm in Providence and the 96 storm in the Philly region. I recall, as a little kid, a memorable…Read More
Philly Style snow plowing – 1888!
Blizzard of 1888 – could this be NYC Monday?
I have a book on this storm somewhere. Do you know how much NYC got?
Wow that really was a bad storm and with 80MPH wind gusts and 10 to 50 foot drifts to boot. Sounds like this storm won’t be as extreme but extreme enough wreak havoc.
The storm of 1888 is in my second book
6: 15 update: AW keeps pushing up snowfall total for SE PA and NJ. Now forecasting blizzard conditions on the coast and heavy snow inland. 6ABC weathercaster said some inland totals may be upgraded to a foot later this evening. Henry told us all this Wed when these other outlets were wavering with an inch or so. Thank you Henry!
I always was under the impression that the benchmark for the biggest I-95 corridor storms is just to the east of Hatteras. If inside of Hatteras, then snow-to-rain or all rain. Any thoughts on this from the experts on this site?
Benchmark is at 40N 70W. That location (approximately) is due south of Chatham MA (Cape Cod) and due east of Atlantic City NJ. It’s the sweet spot for storms to affect the I-95 corridor from DC to BOS with max snow for New England
Thanks for the clarification
6ABC Phila (source AW) calling for 70% chance of a few inches of wet snow inland and rain along the Jersey coast. Only 30% for a heavier, windy event. They are going with the Euro.
Philly has had snow cover now for 28 consecutive days with more expected tomorrow night.
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.
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.
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.
