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35 minutes ago, jfklganyc said:

I was a but surprised by today.

Wind and clouds not giving me the “warm” feel I expected. 

60F

Yeah that dry air will give that extra cool feel.  Dew points in the teens.

Earlier under full sunshine it did feel relatively mild..had to get out earlier before the increasing cloudiness

Wow started as all hail for a min then heavy rain.  No significant wind, lots of lightning.

Outside of sea breezes/back door fronts we overachieve. Need to start taking bets.

70 in central park 

Some breaks of sun now, 69. With a hint of humidity

68 now. imagine if we got a few breaks of sun..

3 hours ago, Dan76 said:

Not for these guy's....middle finger to the cold

https://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/10/13/freeport-parrot-nest/

These been around for years. They are known to frequently set up shop in the Bx, mainly in Pelham Bay Park (and adjacent neighborhoods) and on City Island. Also known to nest on major bridges, Throgs Neck, Whitestone, etc.

They get noisy as hell too.

For sun intensity equivalents 

http://windowseat.ca/sun/

March 11 sun equals Oct 1 sun 

7 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

I don't even think I got 3 inches lol

The storm the other morning looked more impressive than last night lol

The warmth was too strong for the coast. 850s were warmer than modeled and it never went below freezing here on the coast.

SNE is getting hammered

Forecasts I saw showed slightly above freezing temps were expected around the city but would be overwhelmed by heavy snow rates at night. Is it the heavy snow never came? Speaking just from my memory, when we count on very heavy snow to overcome temps it usually doesnt materialize. I always take it with a grain of salt. 

I know some people will say.."they closed school for this??"

3 hours ago, HVSnowLover said:

Back to moderate snow here, seems the real heavy stuff is staying SE of the Bronx and focused on LI which is sort what I predicted, still a nice storm but probably will end up a max of around 6 inches  

That what it seem like to me. The real heavy bands flirted with the bx time to time, but really sat over bk, queens and then head east over long island. It looks unimpressive to me considering they closed school. 

5 minutes ago, etudiant said:

NYC Central Park a healthy 2", maybe even a bit more. Plus we still had snow cover from the prior event, so it added nicely and gave a solid cover.

Lots of happy kids on sleds, even a few intrepid cross country skiers.

Enough to enjoy but with minimal effect on travel. Roads just wet with lots of melting now.

47 minutes ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

If you use the current posted 30 year averages 1981-2010 in NYC it's 25.8 inches. The 150 year average is 28.8 inches and the average since 1991 which will be the starting period for the new 30 year averages is 30.5 inches.

For all the winter despair, the city has a decent chance ending up just slightly below normal (20"+) in a few days. All the snow on the fringes of winter. 

Biggest snowfall since Nov

Gusting over 40 now at the airports and  Brooklyn mesonet

4 minutes ago, jfklganyc said:

What happened to warm temps today?

I topped our around 46F, 10 degrees below forecast.

Yeah I noticed we never got out of the 40s. I think some breaks of sun were expected. It stayed overcast here.

Heres comes the wind..

26 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

It's a pretty flimsy analogy. Watching a losing team takes time, money, effort, and intention; winter will continue to happen, or not, with zero regard for whether you've declared your participation over. I mean, sure, you could stop looking at the models and posting in winter threads, but if you're here announcing your dissatisfaction on a daily basis, it would seem you're just as invested as ever. The philosophizing just gets brutal after a while... we love snow so much that we hope it doesn't snow any more so we can be angry about not getting enough snow?

I understand the feeling from both sides. I think in a weird way it come down to getting the recognition for enduring a paltry snow season. A suprise moderate snow event in March that washes away as soon as its over would get the city into the mid teens for seasonal snowfall, but it'd still feel like a bad winter for snow lovers. Stastically itd end up being a run of the mill below avg snow season but it felt much worse.

Its kind of like 97-98, with its 0.5" total until a suprise 5" storm in late March took the record of least snowest season ever away. It was all gone by the afternoon too.  People suffered through the whole winter, they want the credit for it lol.

If something credible comes along everyone will get sucked back in though.

1 hour ago, HVSnowLover said:

Yea I get that, I'm not saying its an epic ice storm but for the city any sustained ZR is unusual. It's just odd to see the coastal front set up so close to the coast, upper 30s as you said immediate ocean but 30-32 for northern parts of the city and barely budging  

Yeah still freezing rain here in the bx. 31 now. Didnt get up to 30 degrees until after 10pm. So not major but still noteworthy icing up here. 

4 minutes ago, jfklganyc said:

29F Freezing drizzle for last couple of hours.

Everything is iced over good.

turning out to be more icy than i thought it would be..a burst of mod freezing rain, 29.  Icy espically once you're off the main roadways. 

Getting some ice accretion now

Freezing drizzle 29 degrees

1 hour ago, Snow88 said:

Any measurements around the city ?

1.6" in the Bx, measured by NYBG entrance

11 minutes ago, Cfa said:

Highlighting the lack of snowfall during met winter doesn’t take away from the fact that snow fell in November (met fall), nor the fact that it can snow in March (met spring).

Even including November’s little storm this season is still far below normal for most of us.

My seasonal total stands at 6.1”, with 70% of that coming from the November event (4.3”). 1.8” for DJF so far, not including today’s event.

I dont think ppl should just throw out the Nov snowfall, but I do understand why its worth pointing out. We have only 8 or 9" for the season, but it doesnt even "feel" like that much snow.  It feels virtually snowless when 6"+ of that fell in what some would consider a fluke event 3 months ago. It's statistically valid like any other snowfall but statistics cant tell the whole story. The commentary is what brings the story behind the numbers to life.

3 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

Moderate snow in Brooklyn

Oh wow you really got a head start

Snow in Tribeca for about an hr, starting to stick now. Camera at home in the Bx still shows nothing. I see it is a struggle moving north and east

Rain and sleet in the bx. 34 degrees. 

Had small hope of a coating of snow but not to be it seems.