CPcantmeasuresnow

5.9 degrees with heavy snow. A phrase more commonly heard from somewhere in the Adirondacks.

I have people that have lived up here as long as I have that will comment on the 5° difference between here and New York City. I'll usually just roll my eyes slightly. if I know them well enough, I will say something like yes maybe 5° during the daytime but 15 to 20° during most nights. That's why the winter month averages are 10° colder here. Even educated people don't get it. I apologize for the libertybell like responses this morning.

By that you mean 4/10 of an inch liquid equivalent, correct? Which had to equal 6 inches of snow? Or did you actually just get 4/10 of an inch of snow I ended up getting 12 inches from that storm as I'm about 15 miles south of you most of it coming when I was lucky enough to have one of those heavy bands south of us rotate over Highland Mills area for two or three hours. I remember even 6 miles north of me only ended up with 6 inches. That was such a frustrating cut off from that storm, while the city and NNJ got 30 inches.

I find myself drawn into it at times and inevitably getting drawn into some kind of minor confrontation with someone or other from Central, New Jersey or the jersey shore, speaking like they are representative of the entire forum. I usually come to my senses, then and walk away. It's best to just realize there's real weather going on out there. Why do I care that someone from Raritan is complaining that we, as in everyone, have not seen 6 inches of snow in the last 10 years.

Not that I depend on the weather channel app for accuracy, but it is kind of cool to look at it this morning and see 22 inches of snow expected in the next 24 hours. Hope for once it's right.

How long have you lived on the Delmarva?

In All Upton areas warning level is 6 inches. In mt Holly areas it's 5 inches.

Since the moisture is pushing all the way past Albany and into Adirondacks eventually I'm not as concerned as I normally would be with an airmass this cold and dry in place.

They want it back or they will call social services.

These 10:1 maps don't do the areas 30 miles and more north of the city any justice.

Central Park 10.2 actual 8.5 measured Boston 15.8 Philadelphia 7.4 WDC 6.1 Hartford 16.3 Albany 14.6 Highland Mills NY 17.2

4 degrees. If the over under line for Orange County was 15 inches, using Goshen as the measuring spot, which is close to the geographic middle of the county, do you take the over or under? I would take the over but I think it's close.

That's half an inch of sleet on LI which is nothing.

Central Park doesn't get lower totals because of UHI effect. They just don't measure timely, properly, or with a trained professional that actual cares about proper protocol. It's that simple.

I don't understand why people aren't seeing that?

Maybe he meant to the high side? Considering past post though I doubt it.

10.2 total sleet and snow will fall there. 8.5 will be the official incorrect total measurement.

Some of the short-term models are showing 2 to 3 in./h rates at times on Sunday. It doesn't take many hours of that to get near double digits.

I don't really consider far southern coastal New Jersey part of the forum. That's more for the mid Atlantic or the least the Philadelphia forum.

When you say here, are you speaking for the entire forum?

Elevation has no bearing on mid level temps and changes to sleet.

If the pattern progression continues this year, Central Park should record a 34.2 inch storm. Math at work.

This from the station that for years posted snow totals and temperature records for Dulles airport as part of WDC records.

If you're lucky enough to get under a band of 2 to 3 inches an hour or a couple of hours it piles up quickly.

This would be rare. No one on the forum gets screwed. That's why it won't happen as depicted here. Would love it if it did though.