IrishRob17

The wind really packs the snow in there making it more dense for sure. I just got back from a drive, still getting ground blizzard conditions along NYS 416, 208, and 207. The State guys will be plowing for quite a while still.

Im loving this storm so much more than the Snowicane, the drifting is insane around here. NYS 416 and 207 are down to close to one lane in the open spots with whiteout conditions. I've never seen anything like that around here, the last time I saw a ground blizzard was when my brother lived up in Cazenovia after a lake effect event. I have bare spots in my yard and 30" drifts in other spots. Impossible to get an accurate measuremnt of anything. I saw a report of 15" in Montgomery from 1am which seems reasonable, looke like 16-18" around here overall but we'll never know for sure.

Dish.

It was only a couple of the local NYC stations and only the HD signal for some reason. It's back now.

I'm getting into something heavier now, I'm starting to lose my Dish signal.

I havnt gone out, maybe 6-7" after taking a window looks measurement

Yeah, I can't believe NYC is getting rocked again. What happened to the storms when we get rocked and they get rain?

Glad to see you guys towards the east are getting rocked. Im just a bit too far west so far, shades if 2006 when I was just a tad too far north, we'll see if something can rotate through overnight.

Hey you! Welcome back

Agree 100% on both counts. Thanks to Wx4cast for his insight and less powder>more wet snow.

There will be more drifting with this storm, I'm hoping to see some epic drifts

Let's do this! 60mph gusts tonight and Monday possible! The drifting will be awesome.

Giddy up! We will be a bit too far west? I think it was the Dec 2003 storm when I had 18" in New Windsor, there was like 6" in Middletown and maybe 3" in Port Jervis.

I've actually had that before, it was ok, im more of a lager guy though

Are you saying that the trend is our friend? Hey, I hope it works out but I also know that in 30 minutes my brother-in-law arrives with the Sam Adams with the rest of the family to follow shortly there after so i won't be able to track much tonight. Merry Christmas to all my weather board buddies!

Did you see this? From BOX AFD: "WE WANTED TO NOTE THAT WE HAVE RECEIVED MESSAGES FROM HPC ABOUT INITIALIZATION PROBLEMS ON BOTH THE NAM AND GFS RUNS THIS MORNING. " Not sure yet how that affects this run if at all, it's still up for debate. Maybe we'll have a better idea after seeing the euro.

Thanks. Completely understand the numbers thing as it's way too early for that sort of stuff.

Thank you for dropping by with this information. In the areas that you mentioned bolded above would that be a stripe of heavier snow or is it from those areas south and east would see heavier snow. Sorry for the kinda IMBY question.

Wow, that goes a way back. Yeah, I remember that name but I don't honestly remember from which board, I've been on the various boards since late 1997. Not sure who his was but I haven't seen that name in a long time, that much I know. I'm rarely able to stay up for the overnight runs but I still read through the threads in the morning if theres something of interest, like tese days. So even though i wasn't here last night I enjoyed reading through everyones comments just now, so THANKS! Happy Festivus as well!

I'm just sitting tight and hoping that we get in on this.

So much for that storm, they are doing a radio show tonight

I can too but now that I have a generator it doesn't 'scare' me nearly as much. It would be sweet. Nice to see you here in this thread! I'd love to see that kind of powder, there would be some wild drifts near my house.

Yes, we were closer than you but on the right side for most of the winter You're correct there were no KU storms but there was some wild weather. I really wish I kept a detailed weather log but then but I can't go back, I was too busy in college for it then. There was a storm mid January that gave me 6-8" of snow and then changed over to rain, I remember the warm front coming through as I was outside wearing glasses and they fogged up as the warm breeze moved through, it was pretty cool. It then rained for a good part of the day off and on and then the arctic front come through at night. Whatever snow was not cleared off of cars/walks/ roads froze in place. The schools were closed for a week with many road impassable. NYSDOT was using graders to try to scrape the ice off of the roads because it was too cold for road salt to be effective and the other chemical treatments used today were not widely used back then. I'll never forget it. That storm really set up the snowpack for the rest of the season.

Exactly and the winter of 93-94 that I'm referring to had events like that. My record keeping wasn't very detailed back then but the biggest snowfall I have recorded that winter was 12", which happened twice. Otherwise it was a bunch of smaller events but they just kept coming along with the cold temps.