No, but you always whine bust and you're usually wrong, as you are again this time, so I usually try to correct such posts, especially when a forecast was so good (already did with T, so you're not alone). With regard to maps, the main one I posted a few times is the NWS one, below, which unequivocally shows Philly in the 6-8" yellow swath, as well as the NWS's best guess for 7.2" of snow in Philly, which is actually for 7.2" at Philadelphia Int'l Airport, the station of record for Philly. And the map of actual snowfall has, lo and behold, all of Philadelphia County in the 6-8" yellow swath - if that's not a bang on forecast, I don't know what is.
And with regard to what actually fell, those preliminary reports are just that - preliminary. Pretty much any reports before when the precip was over are generally dropped from the final reports and in this case, here are the only reports in the current (final, I believe) PNS. Yes, all three are between 6 and 8 inches and my guess is the other ones were eliminated because they were incomplete (from before the snow stopped - many early reports get eliminated in later reports - see the link) and they didn't update the NWS with final snowfalls. As an aside, if you measured the snowfall to be less than 6" in South Philly, maybe you should start posting accumulation reports (and I never said a word about South Philly - you brought it up later).
...Philadelphia County...
1 W Belmont 8.9 in 1230 PM 01/29 Trained Spotter
Philadelphia International A 7.5 in 0100 PM 01/29 ASOS
Chestnut Hill 6.1 in 0207 PM 01/29 Public
https://www.wrh.noaa.gov/total_forecast/getprod.php?afos=xxxpnsphi&wfo=phi&font=120&new=1&version=3
I also have zero idea why you're rambling about other maps and 8"+ as I never showed maps saying Philly was getting more than 8". The other forecast maps I showed from Lee Goldberg and Steve DiMartino were just additional forecasts, but the NWS is the main one I usually go by, but having said that, both of those other maps had Philly in a 6-12" swath, which is a bit wide, but that's what they showed (and those did verify). I have zero idea why you made some other post showing the Euro model output as that's irrelevant - it's not a forecast, it's just a model run.
And finally, we get to one thing you said that was right, but irrelevant. Yes, part of the airport is in Delaware County, but most of it is in Philadelphia County, as per this, from the wiki page: "Most of the airport property is in Philadelphia proper. The international
terminal and the western end of the
airfield are in
Tinicum Township, Delaware County." And it does turn out that the weather station is in the Delaware County part, literally yards from Philadelphia. However, that's irrelevant, as per the words from NWS met, Mike Gorse, who I asked about this on line and who said, "It is technically in Delaware County. We list it as in Philadelphia County though for continuity plus it represents Philadelphia." Case closed.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philadelphia_International_Airport#:~:text=Most of the airport property,in Tinicum Township, Delaware County.
