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OT: Cold and Potentially Snowy Pattern Likely for Most of January
- By RU848789
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Below is the snowfall for Philly (airport) for January, so far, showing 4.6" and the link below shows that Philly gets, on average, 6.4" for the entire month (for 1971-2015), which equates to 4.5" from 1/4-1/25, pro-rated for 22 days.
And I've posted several times about Philly and everywhere else in the area experiencing the driest January on record, so far, with <0.5" for most - but Philly's 0.39" of precip this month has been 0.36" of snow (and 0.03" rain) and at a slightly less than 13:1 snow to liquid ratio that equates to 4.6" of snow.
https://www.weather.gov/phi/snowfalltables
And the 1/19 NWS snow forecast map was certainly high vs. what fell for the 95 corridor, but not because it was too warm - much less precip fell vs. what was expected. Philly recorded 0.2" of precip which translated to 2.0" of snow, while snowfall/precip totals rapidly increased just a few miles NW of the Delaware River with most locations just NW of Philly (and 2 locations in NW Philadelphia County) getting 3-4" of snow as was reported in the storm thread and you can also see that from the map in the link below; these locations were all in the upper 30s when precip started - so was Metuchen and we got 3.6". Allentown got over twice as much precip as Philly, with 0.41" of precip, which translated to 5.7" of snow. If the bands of snow had simply hit Philly and adjacent SNJ like they did areas just NW of Philly, the rest of Philly/SNJ would've easily gotten 3-4" of snow (not ~5" as on that map, but much closer).
https://www.inquirer.com/weather/philadelphia-snow-totals-how-much-amounts-20250120.html#:~:text=Generally, however, they ranged from,reported to the weather service.