Submitted by The-Unmentionable t3_zqazb9 in philadelphia
A coworker of mine said it might snow a lot on Friday so I took a peak when I got home. It looks like Friday is rainy but warms up to nearly 60 before suddenly dripping to the low 20s and windy within a 10 hour period.
Sounds like a horrific icy mess just in time for everyone’s holiday travel!
should be interesting
Indeed
I've been purposefully ignoring this because I'm planning to fly on Sunday; no sense worrying about a thing I have no control of for longer than needed.
Procrastinating worrying is my life pro tip
Wow, encouraging people to procrastinate worry as opposed to stop worrying seems so much more…productive.
I’m stealing this, thank you
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I also have a morning flight on Sunday. Hopefully things will be fine by then…🙏🏼
Christmas Day travel gang 💪🏻
Same knock on wood but looks like Sunday should be clear
The chance of snow on Friday comes only on the tail of the warm front passing through. When we get air moving over from the south or southwest, it’s typically very warm and moist, and given our current cold conditions, this will provide us with mostly rain starting midday Thursday and persisting until noon on Friday.
Behind this warm front is seasonally colder air, so as that cold air seeps back in the rain could change over to snow for an hour or so. At most we’re looking at maybe an inch, two inches can’t be ruled out to the north and west of the city.
The more dangerous aspect to f all this precipitation will be black ice conditions on the roads in the evening.
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Climate Change.
Philly weather just be like that
It tru
Saw on the news tonight that the high will be mid-to-upper 50’s but it’s going to be intense wind and the temp could drop as much as 20 degrees during the day, windchills super low.
I don't have co-workers whom I trust enough when it comes to weather forecast, but I rely on forecast.io, which is more accurate in my experience.
Snow or not, Friday night looks like a mess with snow/rain during the day and a rapid temperature decline in a matter of hours.
Stay frosty, y'all.
I heard what they said and then looked it up myself! I think some commenters missed the “so I took a peak when I got home”.
I generally don’t trust anyone with anything
Good call.
Over the years I've found that a lot of weather forecasts are not particularly accurate (especially for real time, especially the one on iOS, which is being replaced next year or so by the one I linked above), and a lot of TV weather people keep hyping it up to the point where you want to run to get bread and milk every time their face comes on.
The wet bias!
They are already running around saying bomb cyclone.
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The best site for real data on weather is weather.gov (note the .gov).
For philadelphia, here are some GRAPHS of the numbers
I'm 35 weeks pregnant. Today my doc told me if my blood test comes back positive for a liver issue, they will move my scheduled January 18th delivery up. They didn't say when they will move it. I do. Not. Want. It. This. Weekend. My daughter was born in a 102 degree heatwave in July. I don't want a Christmas cold-snap blizzard baby to go along with that! And I don't want to spend my holiday in the hospital! This batshit weather can kick rocks!
Best of luck to you!
Hoping for all rain and nooo snow
Sorry to say I’m hoping for the opposite! A snowy Xmas sounds awesome and I could use the paid snow day from work. I have no place to be this year though
Unfortunately it looks like the chances are high for another philly snow-less winter.
Nothing better than making plow drivers pull a double-shift on xmas.
Well it would be on the 23rd, not 25th
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They make bank. Who cares about some dude born 2000 years ago in a barn?
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True.
Well that’s no fun
Yes plz
urbantravelsPHL t1_j0xh1fp wrote
It feels like we usually have at least one snowfall by this time of year, even if nothing that sticks.
Instead we've had repeated HEAVY rainstorms - if any one of those had been snowstorms it would have been an epic amount of snow. Thurs/Friday's storm looks like the same thing again, lots of rain but well above freezing. And then it's going to get SUPER cold for multiple days after that. Anyplace with uncleared drains is going to be a skating rink.