2016 Blizzard in Pennsylvania – Jonas

On Friday, January 22nd, the blizzard of 2016 finally arrived (the outer bands of the storm) around 3 PM here in Pennsylvania. From that time on…the snow got heavier and heavier.

Originally they were predicting 12″ to 16″ of snow for my area here in central Pennsylvania…matter of fact, we were still hearing those amounts at 10 PM Friday night when we went to bed.

Sometime during the night…things changed and they didn’t change for the better! When we woke up at 6 AM on Saturday morning we already had at least 6″ on the ground and the main part of the storm still needed to arrive.

All throughout the day we watched as the snow piled up and the winds kicked up. At times the wind would guest to around 25 MPH but thankfully, it wasn’t sustained winds like they had down south.

It finally quit snowing Saturday night around 10:30 PM and we were ready to do the happy dance! However, the winds were still howling and we knew we would have some major issues to deal with tomorrow. Yeah, you know…snow clean-up!

In our backyard we measured a whopping 35 1/2″ of snow! We had no snow on the ground and this was our first snowfall of the season. There are some areas in our backyard where there are snowdrifts that measure over 45″ deep! Oh my!

Needless to say, we all survived the 2016 Blizzard and the winter storm named Jonas. We’ve been doing snow removal for days now and not sure where to put it all. Thankfully, no more snow is in the forecast for at least the next week.

For my “almost” Wordless Wednesday post for this week, I thought I would share a few photos with all of you from the storm and afterwards.