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Sunday, February 7th, 2010
Yesterday we had a good snow storm. Very little wind occurred with it but snowfall rates of maybe 2 or 3 inches an hour happened Friday night. I saw it snowing heavier than I remember seeing it snow before. By the end ot the storm we had about 20 inches of snow on the ground. Not bad considering the storm was forecast to be better just south of us which has happened more than once this year. Near the Mason Dixon line into Maryland have been the big winners.
This was the most snow we’ve received since the President’s day storm of 2003. That storm had given us close to two feet also..
The nice thing is that the snow should stick around for a little while with it getting to near 30 during the day and low teens at night to refreeze the melted snow.
Now looks like maybe some lite snow Tuesday into Wednesday. That should be fun.
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Saturday, January 2nd, 2010
December was a good month.. We had above average snow with the storms overdoing the original forecasts and plenty of cold air. There is still some snow on the ground from the surprise 3-4 inches we received for New years. Now we’re between an ocean storm off the new england coast and high pressure over the northern plains states.
We’ll see what happens later in the week.
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Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009
This season so far has been pretty good for snow.. Saturday was our third snowfall of the year and Lancaster set anew record December snowfall at 16 inches. Southern parts of the county received 20 inches or more and northern parts received as little as 8 inches of snow. Here at home we got about a foot. Rain for Christmas though will probably help melt alot of the snow away then early January looks to be warmer.It was
a nice dry snow but we didn’t have much wind to blow it around.. Hoping for more snow later!
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Sunday, March 1st, 2009
It’s March first and looks like we might actually get some snow. State college has us under a winter storm warning for five to eight inches of snow here. The problem is we’ll be on the back edge of the precipiation and it’ll have a sharp cutoff. I’ll take the snow though. It’s much better than anything we’ve had so far this winter.
Now my at my parents’ house in Bucks county are forcast to get eight to fourteen inches. When I still lived there it seemed like there was always more snow north and west of Philly but Lately it seems to be more from Philly east, go figure. It doesn’t even seem like they’ll have to be concerned with a changer to rain.
Oh well, it should be interesting to watch things unfold.
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Sunday, January 11th, 2009
The cold has been building in Alaska for a while now and it has mostly stayed where it is. It looks like it will head straight down into the midwest and north east US.. We’ll probably get below zero here but the NWS isn’t forcasting that yet. I imagine it’ll be pretty brutal just a bit north of here where there is snow cover on the ground and if it clears up at night.
I wonder if we’ll make a run at 1994’s numbers.. I still remember that well. I was still in high school and lived with my parents in Bensalem and the temperature never made it above 10 the one day with the sun out. I was also lucky enough to fall through ice and have about 5 blocks to walk home. That year there was also not snow cover.
We’ll see what happens.
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Friday, December 12th, 2008
We had a nice moisture rich storm system move from the gulf coast up the East coast.. The system is currently causing snow and major ice in the new england states.
Here we were in the mid 50’s all day yesterday with rain and then in the evening the rain became heavy. ended up with 2 – 3 inches of rain in the area. My Davis vantage pro measured 2.06 inches of rain here. This is on top of the rain from the day before. I’m really surprised there’s not more flooding.
It looks like quite a bit of flooding going on in the area where my parrents live. We had the warmer air in our area but They had snow west of here.. Snow in Texas, snow in New Orleans.
It’s been a pretty interesting December with some snow and plenty of cold air available to storms.
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Friday, November 21st, 2008
So much for the flurries I thought we might get last night. The ground is white. even the street has snow covering it. It’s too bad the band didn’t sit over us, some of the counties to the north of us were under a winter weather advisory for three to six inches of snow. Pretty impressive considering it’s not even December yet. It’s been an interesting fall so far. Remember the storm in October that produced heavy snow in the mountains and even an accumulating snowfall in the Philly suburbs.
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Thursday, November 20th, 2008
November 20th and there’s a nice looking snow squall stretching across the state of Pennsylvania. It goes from Northwestern PA to Philly and is pretty solid looking. The heavy band of snow is pretty much staying over the same areas with snowfall rates of up to 1 to 2 inches an hour. It would be nice if it shifted 30 miles south now.
Looks like it’s crossing I 81 near the Schuylkill and Berks county border. I wounder how many people will wreck there coming between the mountains. Pretty cool to see snow on radar so early in the year though, even if it is just a squall. We actually made it into the low 40s today but stayed in the 30s earlier in the week. NWS is forecasting a high only 32 tomorrow.
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Tuesday, November 18th, 2008
After last week being a mild week we had a fairly strong storm system move through Saturday. It wasclose to 70 that day with a tornado watch in effect. While a line of showers developed and moved through the area it was not near severe limits. We had some heavy rain and a bit of wind.
Sunday was cooler with some wind. Nothing major. I was sort of surprise by that considering our pressure made it down to 29.26 on Saturday.
I’ve been noticing the lake effect snow on radar since then. I haven’t seen any here but they said on the news this morning that they had some in the Harrisburg area. We should have a hight temperature today of about 38. The same for tormorow and we finally get back. It feels like winter now.
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Wednesday, October 29th, 2008
Yesterday’s storm was not too bad at all for a late October storm system. It deepened throughout the day and the wind picked up. We had howling winds most of the night with occasional gusts that seemed pretty strong.
We only got rain here and most of the precipitation didn’t make it this far west but down in my mom’s area in Bensalem they had some snow. She said none stuck to the ground but I did see a spotter report of .5 inches in Bensalem. Her elevation is only like 50 feet or something like that.. There are some parts of Bensalem that are a bit higher.
The big winners appear to be the higher elevations in north east PA. I saw a few places with reports of over a foot of snow. The highest total I saw was 17 inches in Freeland, Pa
This would have been a pretty good setup for snow during the winter. lets hope that we have more like it! Now the storm is pretty wound up just north of new england.
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