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OT: Significant Winter Storm Likely on Thursday (2/18)

In Texarkana,Arkansas let the Texas half of a shared road go unplowed.The picture is in The NY Post.

There's a shared road in Raritan/Bridgewater where the same thing happens. Raritan side is almost always down to pavement, Bridgewater side is almost always a disaster.
 
1st punch was just enough thanks!! Closed store early... got home and pulled out new 34" "Beast" that basically laughed at this snow!!! (Bought the new snowblower 10 days ago... and even that didnt stop this storm!!) But DAMNNNNNNN... It laughed at that heavy slush at the bottom of the driveway!!
Awesome. I'm due for an upgrade. Next year
 
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because T2K is being his usual ornery self and trying to troll RU#'s.
And he does it very well, given how RU#'s just can't resist replying to him.

So we topped out at 4 1/8 inches:

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There's a shared road in Raritan/Bridgewater where the same thing happens. Raritan side is almost always down to pavement, Bridgewater side is almost always a disaster.
Yup and for the longest time on Rock Avenue from North Plainfield heading into Plainfield. There seemed be a disagreement or misunderstanding of where each county’s responsibility began and ended. There was a stretch that was always a mess. Short stretch though.
 
NWS:


The main show of this winter storm has exited the region, however periods of light wintry mix are expected to persist through Friday morning. Additional light snow accumulations of 1-3" and/or a glaze of ice are possible mainly inland, but also coastal areas north of AC. Use caution if you must travel through especially Friday morning as snowmelt may refreeze on roadways. A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect for the entire area through Friday afternoon except for the coastal strip from Atlantic City and southward.


 
Measured 8” in Hamilton. Just finished shoveling and snow blowing. Also scraped 2-3’ up along the roof line with my new roof rake. Don’t want no ice damns again.
 
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I think this storm was the 195 storm. Seems like that’s where the big band dropped its load.
 
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And he does it very well, given how RU#'s just can't resist replying to him.

So we topped out at 4 1/8 inches:

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You would think that he would have figured out how to control himself by now! 😁
 
And a few lower. NWS still can't get Philly right.
Depends where you are in Philly...

...Philadelphia County...
Chestnut Hill 8.8 in 1259 PM 02/18 Public
Mount Airy 5.5 in 0930 AM 02/18 Public
Northeast Philadelphia 5.5 in 1140 AM 02/18 Public
Philadelphia 3.1 in 0142 PM 02/18 Public
1 ESE Kensington 2.8 in 1212 PM 02/18 Public
Philadelphia Internati 2.8 in 0700 PM 02/18 ASOS
1 SE Point Breeze 2.3 in 1059 AM 02/18 Trained Spotter
 
And he does it very well, given how RU#'s just can't resist replying to him.

So we topped out at 4 1/8 inches:

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Yeah, not really. He gets mocked and destroyed and looks like a fool. Over and over again.
 
Depends where you are in Philly...

...Philadelphia County...
Chestnut Hill 8.8 in 1259 PM 02/18 Public
Mount Airy 5.5 in 0930 AM 02/18 Public
Northeast Philadelphia 5.5 in 1140 AM 02/18 Public
Philadelphia 3.1 in 0142 PM 02/18 Public
1 ESE Kensington 2.8 in 1212 PM 02/18 Public
Philadelphia Internati 2.8 in 0700 PM 02/18 ASOS
1 SE Point Breeze 2.3 in 1059 AM 02/18 Trained Spotter
Only one neighborhood beat 6 inches. Center City area way below, again. Amazing all storms never came near NWS number in the CC area. I'm between Pt Breeze and the Airport. Maybe a mile tops from Pt. Breeze. Around 7am the locals all reduced the forecast amounts but as I've always said once the storm starts its not a forecast but an observation. Again the Delaware River areas of Philly all underperformed again.
Chestnut Hill is very close to Conshohocken both about 10 miles outside of Center City.
 
Joy, now it is a bit of freezing drizzle. I just almost killed myself on my steep driveway trying to get the mail(of course it hadn't come yet).

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Yes, people need to be careful out there. I just woke up from a nap and missed the freezing rain (ZR). We have a decent glaze (guessing 0.05-0.10") on everything and it's slippery on any untreated surface. Luckily I had put salt down where I had shoveled. The advisory does say for 1-3" and up to 0.10" of freezing rain. It also mentions the freezing rain for every other group of counties under the NWS in Philly and NYC.

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE
National Weather Service Mount Holly NJ
352 PM EST Thu Feb 18 2021

New Castle-Hunterdon-Somerset-Middlesex-Western Monmouth-
Eastern Monmouth-Mercer-Salem-Gloucester-Camden-
Northwestern Burlington-Delaware-Philadelphia-Eastern Montgomery-
Upper Bucks-Lower Bucks-

352 PM EST Thu Feb 18 2021

...WINTER WEATHER ADVISORY IN EFFECT UNTIL 7 PM EST FRIDAY...
...WINTER STORM WARNING IS CANCELLED...

* WHAT...Mixed precipitation. Additional snow accumulations of 1
to 3 inches and ice accumulations of around one tenth of an
inch.

* WHERE...Portions of central, northern, northwest and southern
New Jersey, southeast Pennsylvania and northern Delaware.

* WHEN...Until 7 PM EST Friday.

* IMPACTS...Expect slippery road conditions. The hazardous
conditions will impact the commute times this evening and on
Friday morning.

* ADDITIONAL DETAILS...Patchy freezing drizzle, sleet, and snow
will continue through the evening hours. Snow, sleet, and rain
will then increase Friday around sunrise from the southwest as
the next system approaches.
 
He's won by getting the lengthy response. Doesn't matter if it's right, wrong, or whatever response comes. He got under #'s skin. Goal achieved.

Nah, not when he's repeatedly made to look like a total fool. Which happens multiple times in every one of these threads.

And #s still wins by virtue of the fact that he posts a weather thread and the troll brigade, which now apparently includes a "mod," trips over itself to see who makes the dumbest response. Every time. Death, taxes, weather trolls.

T2K is always the first to run and report to mods, too, so it's not like he's a cool, collected guy.
 
He's won by getting the lengthy response. Doesn't matter if it's right, wrong, or whatever response comes. He got under #'s skin. Goal achieved.
Disagree somewhat - yes he's annoying, but I also only respond selectively these days and I'm certain he comes out looking far worse. Who wants to be known as a troll?
 
Only one neighborhood beat 6 inches. Center City area way below, again. Amazing all storms never came near NWS number in the CC area. I'm between Pt Breeze and the Airport. Maybe a mile tops from Pt. Breeze. Around 7am the locals all reduced the forecast amounts but as I've always said once the storm starts its not a forecast but an observation. Again the Delaware River areas of Philly all underperformed again.
Chestnut Hill is very close to Conshohocken both about 10 miles outside of Center City.
Definitely underperformed for the SE parts of the city, although I'm certain that's due to sleet cutting down on depth, but not frozen mass. Yes the number said 6", but the swath was 4-6" and the warning was for 4-7" and much of the city was in the 4-7" range. Can you actually imagine making a forecast saying SE Philly will get 2" of snow and 1" of sleet (3" of depth, but 5" of snow equivalent), while NE/NW Philly will get 5-7"? Nobody is that good. Nobody. So they forecast 4-7" and hope everyone is in the range and they were on mass, but not on depth. For me that's still a good forecast, but I know it's not for you and we'll simply never agree on that, which is OK.
 
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I just looked at a map of the Memphis area and saw that there's a dog track in West Memphis across the river in Arkansas.After Florida banned dog racing,I figured that they were finished in the South.

Southland Greyhound racing track has stopped Greyhound racing but operate a casino name Southland. It is a fairly big draw as Memphis, Tn is only 5 miles away.
 
One has to consider that there may be exceptions to certain rules. Some of them involve common sense, such as not staring at the sun during an eclipse--or other times for that matter. 😎😎

Reminds me of the meme "Don't look into laser with remaining eye."
 
Yeah, not really. He gets mocked and destroyed and looks like a fool. Over and over again.
He's won by getting the lengthy response. Doesn't matter if it's right, wrong, or whatever response comes. He got under #'s skin. Goal achieved.
He nailed it. This is like grade school, where if someone is needling you, by responding you're validating them.
 
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Definitely underperformed for the SE parts of the city, although I'm certain that's due to sleet cutting down on depth, but not frozen mass. Yes the number said 6", but the swath was 4-6" and the warning was for 4-7" and much of the city was in the 4-7" range. Can you actually imagine making a forecast saying SE Philly will get 2" of snow and 1" of sleet (3" of depth, but 5" of snow equivalent), while NE/NW Philly will get 5-7"? Nobody is that good. Nobody. So they forecast 4-7" and hope everyone is in the range and they were on mass, but not on depth. For me that's still a good forecast, but I know it's not for you and we'll simply never agree on that, which is OK.
We didn't get much sleet here. Maybe 30 mins of very light stuff that you had to see bouncing off something.
Yes the number said 6. And again they missed it for the most populated area of Philly even at 4-6. Believe it or not the Airport number is Philadelphia's official number for record. Which is odd. They should have used behind Independence Hall when they started keeping weather records.
And I get your mass versus depth argument but doesn't apply today. For 2 reasons. We didn't get that much sleet. They gave a forecast which included the crossover. The Point Breeze number at the time stated is very close to the time of the switch.
I don't like the Airport number for several reason. Its not in the city, its not in a concrete jungle, it not in between two major rivers. I dont like it more for the official temperature, especially in the summer than snowfall.
I can't say the NWS failures in CC is a bust anymore. Its a lack of looking at the last 10 years of them ignoring the data of their failures in CC. I still think its the river temps affect. It never comes close to freezing anymore. Something that was common many years ago.
 
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Definitely underperformed for the SE parts of the city, although I'm certain that's due to sleet cutting down on depth, but not frozen mass. Yes the number said 6", but the swath was 4-6" and the warning was for 4-7" and much of the city was in the 4-7" range. Can you actually imagine making a forecast saying SE Philly will get 2" of snow and 1" of sleet (3" of depth, but 5" of snow equivalent), while NE/NW Philly will get 5-7"? Nobody is that good. Nobody. So they forecast 4-7" and hope everyone is in the range and they were on mass, but not on depth. For me that's still a good forecast, but I know it's not for you and we'll simply never agree on that, which is OK.
BTW what was the Wilmington DE number today? They always get lumped in with CC Philly and always underperformed
 
Disagree somewhat - yes he's annoying, but I also only respond selectively these days and I'm certain he comes out looking far worse. Who wants to be known as a troll?

Really, MANY on this board consider ###s is performing a service by posting his weather threads. Yes, we acknowledge that he loves snow & may lean towards being optimistic when predicting snow totals, but even that has been tempered recently & he not only posts model predictions but updates them as they change,even if it means lowering snow predictions. To have a tool like T2k come in adds nothing of a positive nature to the threads. Personally, I think ###s has been very generous by not ripping in to him even more. Wish he would take a long vacation ,at least from weather threads.
 
I am rubber, you are glue. Whatever you say bounces off of me and sticks to you.
The funny thing about that line it is grade school level. It will go right over his head because he is just kindergarten level. Maybe next year he'll get it.
 
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