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The real problem is daycare. Public schools are great, but between 1 and 5, youll spend $70,000 per kid. For a young family with a house thats killer. You can easily make $200,000 + household income and be broke, living a modest life. Without daycare its a different story. But for young families, its is extremely hard to make ends meet and own a house in the NYC Metro area.

Yes, the wind in that event was incredible as well.

this year we had 5 min of heavy snow and maybe 1/4", last year was 15 min of blitz and like an inch

last year was much worse

heavy snow

light snow has commenced

Agreed, FOK was sitting at 31 for much of the night.

the airport itself is actually north of the town of westhampton, not on the water. And the south shore got plenty of ice last night, the winds were from the NE, so it really didnt matter how close they were to the water.

Suffolk coming in with big ice totals, lots of winning LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS ICE OF /INCHES/ MEASUREMENT CONNECTICUT ...FAIRFIELD COUNTY... BRIDGEPORT AIRPORT 0.17 700 AM 12/17 ASOS NORWALK 0.12 900 AM 12/17 SOCIAL MEDIA DANBURY AIRPORT 0.10 700 AM 12/17 ASOS WESTON 0.08 630 AM 12/17 TRAINED SPOTTER ...NEW HAVEN COUNTY... NEW HAVEN AIRPORT 0.17 700 AM 12/17 ASOS MERIDEN AIRPORT 0.08 700 AM 12/17 ASOS ...NEW LONDON COUNTY... LEDYARD CENTER 0.20 600 AM 12/17 TRAINED SPOTTER GROTON AIRPORT 0.09 700 AM 12/17 ASOS NEW JERSEY ...BERGEN COUNTY... RIDGEWOOD 0.10 718 AM 12/17 TRAINED SPOTTER ...ESSEX COUNTY... CALDWELL AIRPORT 0.04 700 AM 12/17 ASOS ...PASSAIC COUNTY... WEST MILFORD 0.05 1200 AM 12/17 PUBLIC NEW YORK ...NASSAU COUNTY... MERRICK 0.05 600 AM 12/17 TRAINED SPOTTER ...NEW YORK COUNTY... CENTRAL PARK 0.02 700 AM 12/17 ASOS ...ORANGE COUNTY... MONROE 0.21 815 AM 12/17 TRAINED SPOTTER MONTGOMERY AIRPORT 0.15 700 AM 12/17 ASOS ...QUEENS COUNTY... NYC/JFK AIRPORT T 700 AM 12/17 TRACE OF FREEZING RAIN ...ROCKLAND COUNTY... CHESTNUT RIDGE 0.10 745 AM 12/17 PUBLIC ...SUFFOLK COUNTY... ISLIP AIRPORT 0.19 700 AM 12/17 ASOS WESTHAMPTON AIRPORT 0.19 700 AM 12/17 ASOS NORTH BABYLON 0.12 545 AM 12/17 PUBLIC SHIRLEY AIRPORT 0.08 700 AM 12/17 ASOS UPTON T 700 AM 12/17 TRACE OF FREEZING RAIN ...WESTCHESTER COUNTY... SOMERS 0.10 745 AM 12/17 SOCIAL MEDIA

Interesting that temps busted high for you, and low out here. Would love to better understand how that occurred

All of the models had ZR for the island, nobody believed them, myself and the NWS included.

This goes down as a nice icing event

Nobody is saying this was a severe ice storm. But we had some nice accretion. Even now the trees and lines are still glistening. Temp only 32.9

Was pretty icy here at 6 am. Lots of ice accretion

32 and zr in Suffolk, nice glaze of ice out there, busted forecast

How about that. All sleet here 32, coating now.

32/29 and sleet

Temp still ticking down, 33/27 and sleet

Same

Storm winding down, final band dropped another 1/2", 3.5" total

Visibility below 1/2 mile, will likely bring me to 3.5" for the event

Not bad. Up to 5.5” for the year

Steady snow again, 30, roads snow covered again, here come the plows, 3” down

Plows really doing a number on this inch of snow on the road...

Looks more like 3” on colder surfaces, nice event