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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Posts Tagged ‘winter’
A little snow is better than none
Friday, February 22nd, 2008another week and another possible ice storm
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Well 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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snow and lunar eclipse in the same day
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Yesterday 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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Fun little ice storm
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Well 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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Last Year’s memorable sleet storm
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008This 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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wasted arctic shot
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008Sunday ended up being very windy with temps dropping into the teens as soon as the sun set. We bottomed out around 10 here. Monday it only made it into the 20s and back down to 16 last night.
We had a little light snow this morning and then more snow will move into the area later and change to sleet and freezing rain then over to plain rain tonight. Once again it just seems like wasted cold. If we are not going to have snow with it I’d rather it just stayed warm so we didn’t have to pay for heat. It seems totally pointless with out snow. It just hasn’t been that good of a winter here but I expected that before winter even started.
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surprise snow flurries
Saturday, February 9th, 2008Cool.. snow flurries out side now. This is a nice surprise but not really anything to get excited over but it’s something. It would be too warm for any real snow today anyways. Tomorrow we get a quick shot of arctic air but it will be pretty much wasted cold again. I love snow but just don’t see anything really happening this year with snow.
Bring on spring and severe weather!
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Snow Surprise
Thursday, January 17th, 2008I looked at the radar than looked out the window and got a nice surpise. It’s snowing moderately and the grass is white. It’s just starting to stick to the sidewalks but the street looks just wet. It’s pretty heavy and fairly large snowflakes falling. My gut feeling was it would be rain or sleet. Maybe tonight I’ll have to go for a walk.
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No snow this time.
Monday, January 14th, 2008Pretty much like I’ve been suspecting we didn’t get any snow here. We got rain instead. I just didn’t see the temperature dropping fast enough for us. Besides that the storm was to form too far north and east to really give us anything. Maybe we’ll ahve better luck next time.
There was a time when I would really get my hopes up for a storm like this to happen but I don’t do that to myself anymore.
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Sunday – Monday storm
Friday, January 11th, 2008There is at least a potential for snow in the Susquehanna valley Sunday into Monday. It probably won’t accumulate to much of anything but that’s the way it’s going this year. At least there shouldn’t be a lot of ice.
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