thanksgiving winter storm

ahhh I love waking up to weather discussions, the euro (as usual) was being a little brash about its forecast, and numbers have dropped a little bit. I'm gonna answer all of the questions in a sort of list so lllleeets go

4VPI - I would certainly try to leave earlier, the highs are going to be hovering around 40 during the afternoon and steadily drop to the high 20's and 30's at night. That means its going to go from a rainy sleet snow mix (with very little to no accumulation) during the afternoon to snow later that night with some accumulation. That being said I expect the snow plows to be out in FULL force wed afternoon and evening. Thus the roads will probably be clear regardless, I just wouldn't risk things maybe freezing over and for safety reasons if possible id recommend wed afternoon but yes the highest accumulations will be in the north east.

Horse - you are quite correct, the euro (the lord and savior of models in my opinion) is showing maybe an inch all of Thursday and .1" all of Friday pretty negligible stuff and I'm sure a region as heavily snowed on as Pennsylvania will have it together and clear the snow pretty quick. All and all traveling home Thursday or Friday shouldn't be to bad. It will be cold though so bring a horse sweater!

Hokiebone - first off I gotta ask where in deep creek (girlfriends grandparents have a place up there and I visit every winter/summer) this ones a tricky one, Wed. afternoon (around 2) is showing a temperature of about 33 (31 dew point which it could very easily reach with the precipitation) and 3.1" of snow falling within the next few hours. It should slow down to about 1.2 inches per six hours around 8 but at that point you're looking at stuff freezing back over. That being said deep creek is really good about clearing snow. It'll probably stop around 12ish but I mean that's pretty late if you wanna leave then. My shot would probably be later at night so you don't have to drive through the heavy snow, we all know how much people can flip out on the roads with a little snow coming down.

GoKart - you're pretty spot on, temperatures may dip down enough to get a little accumulation and the ground might get cold enough due to the moisture and the horrible mix you'll be saying but for the most part id expect rain and sleet. Temperatures have a long way to work down before getting to freezing and by the time they do later that night a majority of the storm precipitation will already be all petered out and dead. So yay no serious accumulation in da burg! There is still plenty of time for this to move around though, keep a close eye on that freezing line and where it is in the state.