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    I said this earlier, but the best way to measure snowfall is to give two numbers....total snowfall (6 hour swipe) and snow depth. Problem solved.
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    I also have an issue with this assmption because utilizing only low level temperatures to estimate snowfall ratios is crude at best, and inaccurate at worst. The mid levels also need to considered and while the mid levels were likely favorable as well during that event given the synoptics of the offshore low relative to NYC, it should at least be mentioned.
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    No, you and the article are wrong. I understand that you keep finding articles to support your position, but it quite simply isn't the case. Snowfall measuring today is sloppy and yes, sometimes UNDERmeasured. Additonally, many snowfall measurements are not made using the 6 hour method.
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    It doesn't matter, the point it is that modern measurements aren't universally inflated.
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    I'm sure he'll appreciate the sea scrolls lol
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    @Ginx snewx
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    I round my measurements to the nearest 1/4"...I mean, at the end of the day its an inexact science...snowfall measurements vary...there is no use trying to be any more concise than that. I try to do half inch measurements, but sometimes I can't justify it.
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    Commando pilgrims.
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    "The morning dawned with snow above thy weenie approaching the northern extent of thy knickers"
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    Perfect example. You can't base an opinion on that assumption that amounts are over measured today....the issue is that quality and consistency of said measurements.
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    I can buy that....what I don't buy is that more modern totals are consistently over reported.
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    Yea, any measurement derived from hourly clearing should be tossed. Agreed.
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    At first they accepted it, but then the next day they ommited it. It was a different OCM for a local news station that explained why and then opined that he believed. My opinion is that they have a trained spotter in the same town just a couple of miles away who does not use the swipe method. When he came in with 25", which was my depth at the end of the storm, they had to accept that. This is what I mean by the inconsistency.
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    Right....and 44" was the measurement on the CT shore, which I find a bit suspect.
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    This is what I am getting at with the inconsistency.....then why did NWS toss my total? The OCM reportd that it was tossed for using "the old school way" of measuring. Its so inconsistent.
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    I am in a decent radiational cooling spot...not exceptional, but good....
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    26.6 Can tell we remained mixed with the wind active...I would have been in the teens.
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    It was the first week of April back in March...
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    I have no doubt the 1888 blizzard was absolutely exceptional, but I defintely have some shred of doubt regarding a measurement of 44", ON THE LEVEL, at the end of the storm on the CT shore. That implies total snowfall of somewhere around 50"....tough to swallow.
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    Absolutely....which is my point. Measurements are a crap shoot....they are now and certainly were then, so its difficult to say anything with absolute certitude except that technique remains inconsistent today.
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    Yea, you're telling me that some folks back in 1888...life in complete dissaray from the storm, didn't hop off off their horse and buggies and measure in a drift? Yea, little Joey has typhoid, Mary is lost in the storm and Billy, with the gimpy leg, is frost bitten and dying from the measles.....but let me be extra meticulous with my measurement and be certain I'm not measuring in a drift so that Chris can go back to the future and prove it doesn't snow anymore . Gotcha-
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    Oh, no contest as far as LE....my ratios were probably near 20:1 during the height of March 2018. 1997 was probably 10:1, at best. The latter was far more impressive.
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    Its the same thing......the issue is measuring technique back then relative to now...and I'm telling you that the swipe method isn't as consistent and prominent as you are implying. I also would question how reliable measurements were 100 to 150 years ago in general........I think the better argument from your POV would be perhaps some of the higher totals were missed back then because the array of reports was probably not as dense and expansive, so perhaps some of the higher measurements were missed.
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    I wasn't dilligent at all back then as a sophomore in HS...I went to bed a bit after midnight, at which point my last measurement was around 1'. I think the total snowfall was very comparable to the March 2018 event, but the April fools event was cement and the depth may have been a bit greater. It was definitely more impressive than the quickly sublimating powder of March 2018. The April Fools day event plastered everything.
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    I think even if someone has every intention of considering data 100% objectively, there can be some level of inherent confirmation bias at play with one has their mind made up on an issue.
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