Seriously, WTF is with this Weather?

[EdBacon]

47 minutes ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

How long did this take to do?  

A couple of days of messing around. The data is easy to get, its all publicly downloadable from NOAA but I had to overlay it with coordinates from ski areas so I had to generate those manually. Then I entered the totals for each ski area manually but I like doing that part so I don't automate it. 

Imported the data to some statistical software (Prism) to generate the graph.

Edited January 6 by EdBacon

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

Is this clickbait?? Maybe but I’ll take a nice January storm where we are on the right side of things. 

[RidgeRacer]

it is clickbait because we all know for a fact that it won’t be a snow storm per se. it’ll be a dusting of snow that turns to freezing rain. 

[JFskiDan]

there is some chatter about some stuff like Thursday-Friday and maybe Sunday.  im gonna put on Doms rose colored googles and jump on the ride.  Just cause i dont like out current weather pattern. 

[RidgeRacer]

23 minutes ago, JFskiDan said:

im gonna put on Doms rose colored googles and jump on the ride.  

 

[EdBacon]

Ok so since we're waiting and its raining here's another one:

 

This is a measure of "freezing degree-days" which is calculated from the number of days below freezing and the number of degrees below freezing on those days. An explanation I found here:

"FDD = a 24 hour period where the average temperature is 32F (or 0C). That's simple enough. However, it kind of stacks; if the average temperature is 17F (-8.3C) for a 24 hour period, it is equivalent to 15 FDD because 17F is 15 degrees below freezing. 15 days at 31F or 1 day at 17F will yield similar results."

Think of it like a "snowmaking potential" score. 

[EdBacon]

And while I'm messing around. If we average all those Eastern PA mountains together and look at the data longitudinally we get this:

Trendline added via simple linear regression.

[AirheadD8]

Winter’s not over yet!

 

[AirheadD8]

Meh

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

19 minutes ago, AirheadD8 said:

Meh

If that holds true I’m sending somebody a pizza. 

[PSUFrankenstein]

13 hours ago, AirheadD8 said:

Meh

I'm in between reading and Lancaster.   Appears to be more than a coating to 2" outside haha

[toast21602]

15 minutes ago, PSUFrankenstein said:

I'm in between reading and Lancaster.   Appears to be more than a coating to 2" outside haha

definitely overproducing. 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

3 hours ago, toast21602 said:

definitely overproducing. 

The old Toast would have been at Blue today and loving it.  Clean the sand out of your vagina and start skiing with us again 

[AirheadD8]

18 hours ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

If that holds true I’m sending somebody a pizza. 

Pizza , pizza 

[AirheadD8]

And tomorrow’s entertainment….

Something bigger possible next weekend 🤔

[enjoralas]

9 minutes ago, AirheadD8 said:

And tomorrow’s entertainment….

Something bigger possible next weekend 🤔

Potential snow for tomorrow has me reconsidering whether its worth the hassle of cooking tomorrow . . .

[Benm]

 

[AirheadD8]

 

 

Another 2” 

 

 

Edited January 19 by AirheadD8

[theprogram4]

Usually takes 40 mins to get to VTmark’s house, but took 1 hour 10 mins around 6:30 last night.  Between Saturday and Sunday had about 6 inches at my apartment and 8 inches at my parents house 

[GrilledSteezeSandwich]

43 minutes ago, theprogram4 said:

Usually takes 40 mins to get to VTmark’s house, but took 1 hour 10 mins around 6:30 last night.  Between Saturday and Sunday had about 6 inches at my apartment and 8 inches at my parents house 

I haven’t seen VTMark in a few years.  Last I remember he made millions in crypto

[theprogram4]

1 hour ago, GrilledSteezeSandwich said:

I haven’t seen VTMark in a few years.  Last I remember he made millions in crypto

He’s engaged and just bought a brand new Harley 

[AirheadD8]

Possible Northern Lights tonight https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g4-severe-geomagnetic-storm-levels-reached-19-jan-2026

[JFskiDan]

big snow this weekend.  at some point.  maybe.  maybe not.  This map shows like 17-18" for Blue.  can anyone find one that shows more?

[toast21602]

1 hour ago, JFskiDan said:

big snow this weekend.  at some point.  maybe.  maybe not.  This map shows like 17-18" for Blue.  can anyone find one that shows more?

Some of these are just getting outrageous. Waiting for You to post your 0-48" picture that you have stashed away for occasions like this.

 

Like this? Somebody posted this and said "I can't believe we are going to get 20"!! Dummies. 

 

Edited January 20 by toast21602

[theprogram4]

I need to stay off Facebook til Monday cause it’s already getting ridiculous with the forecasts.  Or maybe I shouldn’t follow weather pages