A Pleasant Surprise Today...Local Lake-Effect Blizzards!

Hello this is Junior Meteorologist Kyle Elliott with a quick update on a pleasantly surprising event that has been occurring across York, Lancaster, and Adams Counties toeday. For the past two hours now, local lake-effect blizzards have been moving across the three counties...especially northern Adams, central and southern York, and southern Lancaster counties. For once I got luckily surprised here at my house today as I have seen three or four local lake-effect blizzards move across my area in the past two hours now. The last one just ended about 10 minutes ago, but while they were going on it was like a winter white-out outside as the visibilities dropped to under a tenth of a mile in less than two or three minutes. We did not see any appreciable accumulation, but the first squall coated mulchy areas...the second squall did the same after the first had melted away...and the third squall pleasantly surprised me as the whole ground is nearly white now with a fresh dusting of snow. Even though it is only about one eighth of an inch of snow, it still looks nice and cheers my winter spirit up because I have been wanting to see snow now for three weeks and have not seen a flake. In all reality, though, these local blizzards today are amazing as I was watching a thunderstorm-like cloud feature moving toward my area before it moved over us and it was a near-white out with dark gray skies. It was somewhat like a summer thunderstorm except without the thunder and rain...just heavy snow and gusty winds. But anyway, just thought I'd tell ya'll about the little present we are receiving today across south-central Pennsylvania...so if you have to drive today, please, use caution as visibilites could drop to under a tenth of a mile very quickly in one of these snow squalls as they move across the eastern and southern parts of York and Lancaster Counties throughout the next hour or so. Remember, if you are driving and a white-out hits, slow down and pull off to the side of the road if you have too because the squalls should last no longer than fifteen minutes. So that's about all I have to say about the "fun" today, so hope ya'll have a great rest of your afternoon and I'll talk to ya'll later this evening as I talk about the possible upcoming weather "fun!" This has been Junior Meteorologist (Storm Tracker) Kyle Elliott with a special report on some pleasantly surprising snow, for the AKStormtracker Forecasting Center!