That Snowpack!

jifigz

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If you're in Central PA, what a snowfall, eh? I haven't seen a snowfall like this for a few years! This snowpack should have our streams riding high and fishing fine well into July! We can all rest easy thanks to a nice and thick mountain snowpack!

P.S. This post is intended for joke purposes only. I figured I would start it now since there seems to be an almost yearly implication that snowpack and the melting snow really matters regarding our PA streams. It doesn't. Carry on with your day, and please be safe and enjoy the snowfall responsibly!

I'm ready for spring and fishing!
 
Dear board,

I just shoveled 4 inches off the deck to take the dog out to do his business. That was about 30 minutes ago. You can't tell I did anything. It's snowing to beat the band here in the suburbs of Harrisburg.

Getting back to the original post if we got into March with 15 inches of snow cover that is equivalent of 1 to 2 inches of rainwater due to melting over time and compacting the snow. The ground is presently hard as concrete and will not get any softer in the next week or so.

If that all comes off at once on a 50-degree day with heavy rain it won't do anything. If it melts gradually over the month of March, then the water equivalent will have time to get into the groundwater where it does matter over the course of the year.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
TimMurphy said:
Dear board,

I just shoveled 4 inches off the deck to take the dog out to do his business. That was about 30 minutes ago. You can't tell I did anything. It's snowing to beat the band here in the suburbs of Harrisburg.

Getting back to the original post if we got into March with 15 inches of snow cover that is equivalent of 1 to 2 inches of rainwater due to melting over time and compacting the snow. The ground is presently hard as concrete and will not get any softer in the next week or so.

If that all comes off at once on a 50-degree day with heavy rain it won't do anything. If it melts gradually over the month of March, then the water equivalent will have time to get into the groundwater where it does matter over the course of the year.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
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Don't take this post so seriously, Tim!
 
jifigz said:
If you're in Central PA, what a snowfall, eh? I haven't seen a snowfall like this for a few years! This snowpack should have our streams riding high and fishing fine well into July! We can all rest easy thanks to a nice and thick mountain snowpack!

P.S. This post is intended for joke purposes only. I figured I would start it now since there seems to be an almost yearly implication that snowpack and the melting snow really matters regarding our PA streams. It doesn't. Carry on with your day, and please be safe and enjoy the snowfall responsibly!

I'm ready for spring and fishing!
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in the words of Alan Greenspan... Irrational exuberance. If the snowpack is here in March, I agree. I don't want a wet April-May, we need wet June-July
 
nymphingmaniac said:
in the words of Alan Greenspan... Irrational exuberance. If the snowpack is here in March, I agree. I don't want a wet April-May, we need wet June-July
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Oh, boy! Joe, you're taking the conversation in that direction. Careful, folks. We are treading on the doorstep of another conversation that we repeatedly have over and over and over and over and over and over....
 
TimMurphy said:
Dear board,

I just shoveled 4 inches off the deck to take the dog out to do his business. That was about 30 minutes ago. You can't tell I did anything. It's snowing to beat the band here in the suburbs of Harrisburg.

Getting back to the original post if we got into March with 15 inches of snow cover that is equivalent of 1 to 2 inches of rainwater due to melting over time and compacting the snow. The ground is presently hard as concrete and will not get any softer in the next week or so.

If that all comes off at once on a 50-degree day with heavy rain it won't do anything. If it melts gradually over the month of March, then the water equivalent will have time to get into the groundwater where it does matter over the course of the year.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
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There are a lot of ifs in there. 🙂
 
wildtrout2 said:
There are a lot of ifs in there. 🙂
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Dear wildtrout,

And years ago, they weren't what if's, they were considered normal.

Regards,

Tim Murphy 🙂
 
jifigz said:
Right outside of Lewistown I'm closing in on 10 inches probably
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jifigz said:
Oh, boy! Joe, you're taking the conversation in that direction. Careful, folks. We are treading on the doorstep of another conversation that we repeatedly have over and over and over and over and over and over....
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well.... now that you have power (moderator) be ready for arm chair QBs and rearview mirror sages responding 😀
We are all like parents calling out their babies' teachers 🤣 nothing worse than snowed-in forum commenters
 
Storm is definitely overproducing along that band that set up SW to NE roughly between Lewistown and Harrisburg. I’m about a mile south of Blue Mountain, a few miles east of Harrisburg. Just shoveled a healthy 6”, possibly 8”. All in where that heavy band sets up, and this time, we got it. We were forecasted more in the 2”-4” range FWIW, but I think that heavy band set up a little further NW than was anticipated.

Started slowing down right as I was finishing. Gonna watch the end of the early game then go clean up whatever is left.
 
I’m fine calling that about 8”. Linglestown, PA.

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Has anyone done the calculations to determine how much the glaciers in PA add to our groundwater? I would think global warming should actually help keep streams flowing, as the PA glaciers melt. Should also help our mountain lion population evolve..
 
Does the Ice Cave in Potter count?
We got 6 in Hershey and according to my brother he got 6 in Lititz. Seems pretty evenly distributed across SE PA. I saw a map with a thin area of 6-8 up around the Ridge and Valley Front so I could believe 8 in Linglestown.
 
The snowpack is nice to hear about developing across some of the state. It does help with our fishing in the spring and those with groundwater wells. It does seem to lend itself to some flooding conditions usually in March if memory serves me. Hard to avoid with a wam spring rain event. But good stuff.
 
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