CPcantmeasuresnow

Declaring the second White Christmas in a row is much more complex than just measuring snow. At 7am Christmas morning I would say for sure it was a white Christmas. The viewable area from my house had at least a one to two inch snow cover over 80% of the land mass which is my criteria for snow cover. However as you yourself stated our current snow has staying power, the snow consistency from the 23rd did not. By noon on Christmas Day snow coverage was less than 50% and by sunset 20%. How is that really a White Christmas? And there we have the White Christmas Paradox. How is it a white Christmas when more than half the day is green? The Fermi paradox may be answered before this. I'm considering changing my declaration of this year being a White Christmas. No question about today's snow cover. After a morning low of 9 snow cover at 5.5. I believe the consistency and LE of the current snow pack will easily survive our rain tonight and mid 40's tomorrow.

Morning low of 9 currently 12.4 in the HV. forgot to mention the weird aspect of this morning it's 13° and there is fog.

Newark airport measures 4.2 inches and LGA also 4.2 inches and right in between the two Central Park, for once, correctly measures 4.3 inches and now someone on social is suddenly concerned Central Park over measures. Amazing.

I'll be shocked if it does but would be a great sign if it was.

Through several weather boards.

So true RJ I just didn't want to go through the whole history of decades of under measurements for one disgruntled poster. You know my history all too well.

Sure that's the problem. They've under measured for five years and now we're worried about one that seems correct. So ridiculous.

Don when was the last 4 inch daily snowfall in the park? A dubious record for sure, you could technically have 7.8 inches of snow from one storm and still keep that record intact.

What's your season to date now in Saugerties?

Ended up with 5.6 here, 17.2 for the season. A litle less than forecast but an overall excellent December. Lets see if we can keep some snowpack after Mondays upcoming debacle.

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Ended up with 5.6, 17.2 inches now for the season. A shade under the 8 I was expecting but no complaints

Ended up with 5.5 inches here although very light snow still falling so I can't give up on 6 yet. A bit of an underperformer here.

5.2 inches as of 1:30 in Highland Mills, Orange County NY, 16.8 inches for the season. Light snow and 20.1°. Maybe we can still eke out 6 inches by morning.

The Central Park 1am measurement of 2.3 inches appears in line with the surrounding area for a change. Maybe enough people complained, however from experience, it rarely lasts.

Looks more like 6.

4.2 inches as of 10:00 PM. 20° with light snow. By looks of the current radar I'm doubting we make 6 inches which I was figuring would be our minimum threshold here. The morning will tell.

2.7 inches as of 630. Didn't really start going here till after 4:30 although the rate has lessened quite a bit now 18° moderate snow.

It's because they don't know who's measuring tonight. Or better yet not measuring.

This forum includes places 50 miles and more north of NYC. People seem to forget that.

Most of the usual suspects and the usual newcomers when it snows have their typical meltdowns. I had someone call me stupid for even suggesting the possibility of sleet at some point 50 miles north of the city where I am. I'm not sure I'll ever recover.

Clearing it away sucks but give me six inches of snow with two inches of sleet on top and it's all good. Will have a snowpack through January.

I'm concerned I can mix or change to sleet and cut down my totals from 8-10 to six. To say you know where the sleet line ends up or far it travels is plain stupidity. Merry Christmas

That's probably denial speaking. I'm concerned and I'm 50 miles north of the city.

I've been debating this one. I'm calling it a white Christmas as of 7am observation, and I believe official time to declare a white Christmas or not. If I did it as of right now it's 50-50. Anyway it was much better last year with a 4 1/2 inch snowpack Christmas morning that had been freshened up on Christmas Eve with the inch and a half that fell that morning, but I digress. Merry Christmas North and West and northeast people, where our best winters start around Thanksgiving and begrudgingly leave us in late March.