Our final snow tally this morning is 10-12 inches and its still snowing!! Some schools are closed or at least have late starts, and depending on where you work you might have off today as well. Take the time to enjoy it as I’m sure it will melt soon enough.
I’m not one to normally start anything Christmas oriented until after Thanksgiving but I must admit that the snow definitely has brought out the Christmas feeling early, and we’ve even popped in a few Christmas CDs to listen to. Do you feel the same way? I wonder if snow before Christmas effects peoples buying habits at all. Although I’m sure no one wants to head out shopping for presents in the middle of a storm…once the roads are cleared and theres a nice coat on the ground does that bit of snow influence our buying at all.
Well, one way or another your holiday shopping will need to get done, my advice is get it done sooner rather then later this year. Although the recent snow is not normal for this time of year you never know what to expect so prepare early!
Here’s some information from the Pocono Record this morning:
The following is a list of snowfall totals (in inches) ending early Monday morning:
Tobyhanna, Pa.: 10
Pocono Summit, Pa.: 7.5
Dallas, Pa.: 7.0
Keelersburg, Pa.: 6.0
Binghamton, N.Y.: 4.0
If you looked around at all the snow on Sunday and thought, “This sure seems unusual,” you were right.
Sunday’s snowfall marked the first significant snowfall of the winter in the Poconos, the earliest the area has had that kind of weather since 1995, when Stroudsburg got four inches of snow on Nov. 13.
“We can expect to see the first significant snowfall, that needs to be plowed or causes travel problems, before Thanksgiving only once in a decade,” meteorologist Ben Gelber said. “This is not common at all.”
After last month, the hottest October on record, the early snowfall was quite a climate shock for the area. One month ago, on Oct. 18, the high temperature in Stroudsburg reached 76 degrees.
During the mild start to last winter, Stroudsburg did not see snowfall of more than one inch until Jan. 20. With snow still falling on Sunday night, Stroudsburg had received 2.5 inches of snow by around 9 p.m.
Gelber said the overall snowfall for the storm would likely be between four and eight inches for Monroe County, with lower elevations between East Stroudsburg and Tannersville getting about four inches, with more snow in higher areas.
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