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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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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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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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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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Tuesday, October 28th, 2008
An October coastal storm system is developing off the mid atlantic coast. It started yesterday with an area of rain developing and persisting through the night here in central Pa. This would have been a nice situation for a little snow here in January. Right now and yesterday during the afternoon the temperature held in the low 40’s
Now in the Poconos and higher elevations of northern Pa. I wish I still had my place up near Hazleton and would be going up there. With an elevation of 1600 feet or so and the fact that they always tended to get more snow than the surrounding areas I bet it would be a nice late fall snowfall.
It should be a cool blustery day later as the wind picks up with highs in the 40’s.
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Thursday, October 23rd, 2008
It’s always a sign of winter coming when the leaves are turning but It’s even more exciting when the NWS is starting to talk about lake effect snow. State college is saying temperatures should support lake effect snow into tuesday after the arctic from moves through.
I’m not looking forward to the rain but arctic fronts can be fun.
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Friday, February 29th, 2008
It’s a pretty cold morning today for the end of February. My vantage pro2 recorded a low of 14.1 and the coldest it’s recorded this year has been 8 so it’s not that far off. Yesterday was chilly too. The wind made it feel even colder. It’s just a little more wasted cold.
Today we should see a clipper move through the area but most of the snow will be to the north. Here the NWS is saying snow and rain in the evening with accumulations of less than an inch. That sounds about right. It would be nice if this clipper was an over performer like they are sometimes but that’s pretty unlikely.
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
We ended up with an inch or two of snow this morning before the precipitation shut off. I can’t really complain, its more than I had expected.
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Well no big shocker here but another week and another potential ice storm in southern Pennsylvania. State college seems to think up to 1 to 3 inches of snow then it switches to sleet and freezing rain. They’re thinking southern Pennsylvania could receive more than a quarter inches of ice accumulation. They have put us under a winter storm watch.
Don’t get me wrong. Ice is interesting but snow is better and more fun and we haven’t had much of that this year.
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