CPcantmeasuresnow

And that’s why we love Walt he’s the only one that does. I’m about 12 miles south of 84 and I often times don’t feel like I’m part of the subforum either. Yet further away from New York City on the East End of Long Island they still seem to qualify. Never quite figured that one out yet. You could even add to that some parts of South Jersey and West Central Jersey. They also seem to make the cut and they’re further away than we are.

I' m not saying their total was egregious just off. Let's first start with the basics, the Park reported 1.2 inches of snow on the 28th and 7.3 inches on the 29th which equals 8.5 for the storm. Simple math right? Yet they recorded 8.3 inches as a storm total. It was at least 9-10. If they can't even add 1+1 I don't trust they can stick a ruler on a snowboard and record amounts, a lot of times they don't. Years and years of experience with them has taught me this. The Conservancy helped for awhile but I'm not sure who's recording totals there this year. And I think the 5.8 from the 7th was a bit low too. Most likely in the 6.5 to 6.8 range.

Seriously? So where you lack for snow the past several storms you make up for in bitter cold.

It was more like 10.3 in NYC in the park but as usual the NWS dropped the ball and decided to just throw out a bogus low number just so it would look like they actually measured. It happens all the time and people just accept it as gospel.

No, that's what was reported, that's not what actually fell. People just accept any number the NWS throws out from the Park even though they don't have anyone that actually measures there. It's been a problem on and off for decades.

I'm sure there was more in Brooklyn than in Manhattan, but are we just going back to the days of the Park just reporting half asses totals again. That's the number everyone looks to for NYC totals. Can't they ever get it right? Everyone I've talked to says there was at least 10 maybe 10.5 inches in the Park, where did they come up with 8.3?

Are we really buying that, or are we just back to accepting bad totals from whomever does or doesn't measure at the Park nowadays. There was the debacle of the Central Park Zookeeper for many years, until they finally gave it to The Conservancy which wasn't perfect but much better than the Central Park Zoo, now who's not taking the measurements these days? I've talked to people in Manhattan today, 8.3 is just another in a long line of under measurements the Park is famous for.

You mean bxengines car? No, I have no idea what a stratus is, other than a cloud type.

Really, three inches? I can’t believe the difference is that extreme 8 miles away. Very odd, I usually get more than New Windsor but not to that extreme. Are you in butterhill or near the river? I lived in butterhill in the late 80’s early 90’s and always found myself on the short end of snowfalls.

The finally tally here is an even 9 inches. I started to doubt myself even though I measured in several spots and went on the NWS site and saw a trained spotter recorded 8.4 inches from Highland Mills. I picked up over 2.5 inches of it from 9:15 to 11:15, accumulating snow stopped within the next half hour. Definitely exceeded my expectations. Seems to happen a lot here. Must be something about the topography and just being south enough and east enough without being close to the river. Elevation is only 650 feet so it's about average in the town.

It still sounds a little light. Thought they were in the 10-11 inch range from what I saw from Central Park. Who even takes the measurements there now? Did they take it from The Conservancy? They weren’t perfect but certainly a lot better than the zookeeper before them.

Did you lose a bet on the GFS on Draftkkings and are trying to convince them you really won? You’re usually pretty sensible but I just don’t get this argument at all.

Legitimate or just because they didn't bother to measure properly (or at all) like so many other storms over the last 50 years?

I've been busy all day so it may have already bee discussed but are we buying the 7.5 inch figure from Central Park? Looks like to me like one of the measurements from the Zookeeper days. I don't live in the city so from those who do is it legit?

We never really got into the subsidence areas I'm just far enough east to avoid it and I saw them 10 miles to my west and north on radar. The last three hours were actually the best I observed has really tapered off now though. Probably will finish with not much added to the 8, I can't complain.

8 inches up here in Eastern Orange County NY, 11° and moderate snow down a lot from the heavier we received the last two hours. About a foot on the ground now. I know other totals south and east are prolific but if I get to 10 it's an over performer for sure up here, actually it already is.

Their all time record is 28.2 inches so they have a good shot to break it. Bastards.

And to add to that anything from Orange County and Putnam County north they pretty much view as Canada.

I measured 5 inches about an hour ago. Gonna go snow blow now so I'll get a better handle on it and measure several different spots. Just checking, but I include what I already had on the ground so we can at least compete with the LI folks?

5 inches so far in highland mills in Orange county. 9 degrees and moderate snow continues. GFS had me for 0 inches Thursday night. End of story at least for how it performed up here.

12° here steady moderate to borderline heavy snow. 3.5 inches as of 4:45. will try to get back to sleep now. Not sure how that's gonna work out. Was predicting 8 and I may get there, at least I hope.

12° with 3.5 inches of new snow on the ground in Highland Mills in Orange County 50 miles due north of midtown, and snowing moderate to occasionally heavy. This wasn't on any maps yesterday. Looks like the WWA for 3-5 may be a bust low here. Doubt they'll upgrade to a warning now but who cares. I was hoping for 6-8 here and it looks like it could happen, dare I say more.

25° light to moderate snow, amount to be determined but not tonight. Waiting on the deathbands, the incoming, and the 30 to 1 ratios with our colder temperatures up here. Put them all together and I'm thinking we may jackpot.

Here in Orange County NY, I've had a solid snow cover since January 7th, I would guess you're about the same .

Heat back on in the house I've been out of touch for awhile. How do the latest NAVGEM and ICON look?