Local Updates

As in most storms even as we wake up to find drifting snow banks and sustained winds of 20 to 30 miles per hour, updates to maps are still taking place.  Winter storm warnings have extended north and west to include places like Scranton and State College.  Blizzard warnings extend throughout Philadelphia and the suburbs to Lancaster and much of New Jersey.

Totals are also on the rise after they had been rising consistently yesterday.  You can now add all of Berks and Allentown to the 18-24 inch club.  The storm will now take aim at a top 5 place in biggest snowstorms in the recorded history of Allentown.  So yeah, my prediction will be off by a little bit.

This is going to be an impossible snowstorm to measure for the average joe.  I'm still not sure how they figure totals out when winds are this strong.  It appears I might be up too early again to see updated reports come in.  As long as the storm is still cranking I am only focusing on our area.  We can recap the whole even when the sun comes out.  I'm also only looking for totals from official reporting stations because of the difficulty in measuring with the blowing of snow.

Looking at local power outages the numbers are currently low.  PPL is reporting about 2,000 in the Lehigh Valley while Met-Ed shows similar numbers in various locations.

I will try to trek about later if we get into a bit of a lull.