For as much as I’d use the “typical paring down” metric for determining ice accretions I also am reminded that temperatures will be tumbling down as this happens. Not a very pretty look regardless.
Dry air is definitely eating into the returns here now as the bands begin to line up to smack Boston with subsequent (slow) de-escalation of the snow intensity here
Light-moderate snow has been occurring for most of the morning here which is quite a surprise. A new coating has been laid down in the last hour and we probably snow for another 3-4 hours to probably pull 3-4" for this one.
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Still coming down light-moderate with a new coating since I first went outside to clear an hour ago. Assuming another 3 hours of this 3” isn’t out of the question
Need more light but I look to be in the 2-3” range as of now. Not terrible, could get close to 4” before drier air starts winning out. Sounds like it’s absolutely ripping on the coastlines though
An incredibly rogue snow shower is re-applying the coating that was laid down earlier that subsequently melted. Watch me over-perform from just this single snow shower and nothing else for the rest of the night and tomorrow
These gradient storms always suck for us far north and west. What does a guy have to do to order up a 1-2’ storm all up and down? I’ll gladly take this one off, though, considering our snow removal situation IMBY at the moment isn’t exactly the best.
I would expect Binghamton to toss out an advisory for me by this afternoon’s cycle. Low end warning event may still be in the cards for us, rest of 12z and 18z will be telling. Very good ratios will pay dividends.
Wherever that gradient starts is going a long way to settling what happens for those of us far N&W. I’m not completely committing to just a 1-3 forecast here just yet
Going all the way to the wire, that’s for sure. One thing is for sure: if you do pull 8”, I get 5”, and then 50-100 miles east of us doubles you and triples me I might not sleep well for the next week
One certainty is that ratios here far inland will be much better than on the coastlines. Longer duration light snow could totally still stack up a solid 4”+. The least BGM should, and probably would do, is issue advisories for the southeast counties (including mine) this afternoon
Interesting trends overnight for the coastal, but probably game over for me seeing >6”
still, sneaking a nice advisory event would be fine even if it gets massively dwarfed by whatever maximums there are on LI and due east from there
Game is just about over for me in the Catskills for >6” by this point but, wow, this is looking like something genuinely special. Don’t park your car anywhere near JFK lol
I can personally attest to the above from March 2017 and last February, but in particular March 2017 where I pulled near-consistent 2-4” per hour for that whole event….
and maybe even 5-6” in an hour between 10-11 AM that day