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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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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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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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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
Yesterday gave two very nice surprises. First one was the clipper left us more than an inch of very fluffy snow acumulation. It just kept snowing with nothing showing on radar anywhere near us. My guess would have to be the precipitation was below the radar beam.
Last night about 9pm we decided to run to the store to pick something up and the moon was out. It had cleared up in time for the lunar eclipse! I spent about an hour watching it outside where It was pretty cold for that. It was awesome to watch it since I haven’t done that before. Int the past I had always forgotten the time.
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Thursday, February 14th, 2008
Well this last storm was one of those times where the cold air just hangs tough at the surface. We ended up below freezing here until about 11am with freezing rain. Some of it was heavy. Cold air damming sure is fun to watch in action. It was a good thing state college issued the ice storm warning.
The roads seemed to mostly stay wet but it was really accumulating on the trees and wires and other things. I saw some branches bent down to the ground. That’s the first time I seen this since 1994. We did lose one pretty big branch from the only tree we have early yesterday morning.
I think it was a good thing it rose above freezing. After the wind switched to the NW last night it got pretty windy. I would imagine there would have been many more trees and wires downed if there was wind with the pretty thick ice accumulations.
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Tuesday, February 12th, 2008
This time last year we had the most sleet I have ever seen. We ended up with about six inches of very compacted sleet and snow. We had some rain mixed in there too. it was heavy to shovel it. It was funny to see the people on the news trying to dig there cars out of the icy mass after everything refroze. We did ours while it was still fairly mild.
It warmed up enough for it to melt a bit then we head a deep freeze. Everything froze as solid as a rock for a few days. It surprisingly enough didn’t seem that slippery either. While it stayed cold the stuff didn’t melt and when the sun shined on it it made it look like shiny ice. It was also really interesting to be able to just walk on top of the frozen sleet and snow. It was pretty much like walking on rough concrete.
The roads stayed covered with ice and Pa had a mess with a 50 mile stretch of I-78 being closed due to it for more than 24 hours. At some points I-80 and I-81 were closed also
There was also a fire across the railroad tracks from our house. That was a bit odd because I was just going to bed when I thought I smelled smoke. Me being the way I am I had to find the source of the odor before I could go to sleep. where if I remember right they had trouble getting water to fight the fire due to frozen pipes.
This was a pretty memorable storm for sure.
North of here in New York state and Vermont some areas received record snow fall when a heavy band of snow set up over their area. They were the big winners as far as snow is concerned. That looked like one intense band and I hope to be under one like that someday.
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