Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

[guitar73]

we got about 2" so far....we kinda feel left out, lol.

[burton71]

End up with about 6in in the yard. Busted out the skate rail and did some backyard jib honking. Lots of fun for a surprise storm.

[toast21602]

mountains will be crowded today because people think they actually got snow. ~1" at Blue.

[Johnny Law]

Another SEPA storm coming in tomorrow, a band will hit 4-8". Outside of the band it drops quickly, doubt it will make the hills but Love Park should be pretty good.

[indiggio]

Roads are more dangerous when there is only a small amount of snow as evidenced by yesterday.

 

Coming home from Blue yesterday, I was following a nice, new Mustang.

 

Coming up on a stop sign, he hit the brakes and the black ice under the snow had him careening towards the sign.

 

He came to a stop a foot or so from the sign, then jammed on the gas to try to get out of the little ditch, amazingly he made it.

 

Nothing like AWD to go to Blue and back...

[guitar73]

mountains will be crowded today because people think they actually got snow. ~1" at Blue.

don't forget the snorkels

[Johnny Law]

Love park at big boulder or in Philly?

 

Philly, this is a southern event.

[burton71]

Snowing pretty hard here...probably about an inch on the ground already.

 

Web cams at BC and Blue show some pretty nice snow fall as well.

[toast21602]

just over an inch up here around Blue. I'll probably let it come down a bit before I head up there.

[guitar73]

the wissahickon ski club is having a bumper year so far, lol....probably the only hill in PA with +12" of pow in the last 7 days.

[moe ghoul]

2-3" down in philly already, good snowman building snow.

[alias]

snowing hard in downingtown, not sure of the totals as I am still in bed. i dont think work ever gets cancelled but i can hope

[alias]

I like being the one who makes the decision if work is cancelled.

 

thats awesome you get to make the call. if work was to be cancelled (it wont be), i wonder if i get a payed day off

[alias]

I don't feel guilty about missing work cause the last two winters hardly any snow days.

ya i wouldnt feel guilty if work got cancelled even if i didnt get payed, it would just be a bonus. id head straight up to blue

[Schif]

Flurries Just started outside my office window in Wilkes-Barre. Schools and some businesses have already been closed for hours in anticipation of this Winter Storm of death. One to Two inches projected for up here. All I'm hoping for tonight at Montage is quiet snow, not the normal earsplitting sound of scraping and cutting through ice.

[Justo8484]

the wissahickon ski club is having a bumper year so far, lol....probably the only hill in PA with +12" of pow in the last 7 days.

might have to go poach a few laps tonight...

[alias]

Roads are a lot better than Sunday

[fastfood]

snow or rain or mix this saturday?

[toast21602]

cold weather should be in place. looking like an all snow event as of right now.

[toast21602]

Surprise dusting of snow overnight. Toast would call it 2"

 

yup! deep!

[moe ghoul]

Pretty nice start for the season so far, I can't recall any time in the past few years where we were talking about snowfall 3 times in about a week's span of time in December. Nice thing is the cold is holding up and drying out this snow. When we got the snow the other day it had a pretty high moisture content but by night fall it dried out and remained powdery.

[moe ghoul]

Nice observation. Are you done skiing in PA?

Not done, but I decided not to bring any gear back since I knew I was heading back north next week. I might bring some gear back after the holidays and try to hit some local hills once everything opens up. I have no trips planned for this season other than VT, so a few day trips here and there isn't out of the question. Where'd that carpool organizer guy go? The adorable one in the brown onezie. TT C6! Just saw his name on the beer thread.

Edited December 12, 2013 by moe ghoul

[moe ghoul]

TTC6 started the beer thread. He hasn't posted on PASR in a few years. I remember trolling him the one PASR day at Jackson Frost.

Haha!! I was there that day, so much bravado from a guy that bench presses cupcakes.

[Johnny Law]

No model is showing 12-18" for anywhere outside of Nova Scotia. GFS is saying maybe 6" and GFS has been coming in too wet, EURO is 4-8". 3-6" is a reasonable bet with some light mixing on the tail end Sunday morning. This will likely show up Friday night, build moisture until Sat morning and then snow lightly all day and night, with about 1/10th of an inch or less of sleet before it moves out.

 

Anything over 5" requires a ratio of 15/1 or 20/1, it's too warm and 20/1 is like diamond dust, it doesn't snow diamond dust in the Mid Atlantic. If you got a 15/1 ratio and the phasing from the beach maybe then you would have enough moisture for 12" but that is highly unlikely. I would love to rip 18" of cream cheese at the Blue with ARG's but that is highly unlikely.

 

Tuesday's storm is classic clipper Miller B, they don't bring much moisture and don't hang out at the beach long enough to gain much, it will swoop by dropping some inches in a very confined location, wrap around and oragraphic lift will help but that ain't us. Green Spine will probably be the spot.

 

Pattern is pretty good though, cold artic air from the AO with pretty good NAO blocking, if moisture comes it's probably going to snow.

[Sno Mountain Skier]

TP4 didn't we get into a heated battle once that almost came to internet blows? I feel like Ski999 offered you lift ticket to Montage or something because of it.