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A quick coating of snow is not a snow squall. NYC folks don't really know what a whiteout or snow squall actually looks like.

No actual squalls within 10 miles of NYC anyway. Maybe Susses County if they hold?

I know what OPS is, but anything newer, I have no idea. At one time, it would all have been in my brain.

True dat. The January Thaw is not a myth.

I can't forsee what will happen in 2 weeks, but I am optimistic based on the relatively cold and active pattern that we are presently experiencing. Of course, the ugly Pacific jet just doesn't quit...

Ouch, March 29, 2025 wins the game!

Though light, snow kept falling Saturday, even though the main system was already offshore...

I don't know. I feel that all recordable history events are valid and relevant. I am in the minority that average temperatures should factor in from whenever we first started recording. We use maximum and minimum temperatures from inception...

Every 6 hours was silly. The actual snowfall is what is on the ground (or measuring surface), rather than a theoretical depth not accounting for gravity or other physical properties. And I believe there is an average based on a differernt number of spots, so as to account for variations due to drifting, or is this just for larger snow falls?

I received 2.5" (maybe 2.8" figuring in compression), so I would naturally assume Central Park was not going to excced central Union County NJ (about 10 miles south/southwest of Newark Airport). But the storm was farther north and east, so the CPK measurement is not suspect, in my opinion...

I still contend that the lack of snow in areas such as Union county NJ was that the center for the storm was too far north. Areas north and east of NYC got the jackpot. Without enough lift in my area, the storm dynamics fizzled. Had the storm been more intense, it would have easily overcome the "warm nose" and "dry slot". To reiterate an earlier post, we are mainly disagreeing over semantics.

I don't really recall, although I think Long Island does occasionally receive some ocean/sound enhancement?

Measured 2.5" at 6 AM. It snowed about another 1/3", but still just measured 2.5" at 8:30 AM. I guess the difference was lost to compresssion.

NWS defines a dry slot: Dry Slot A zone of dry (and relatively cloud-free) air which wraps east- or northeastward into the southern and eastern parts of a synoptic scale or mesoscale low pressure system. A dry slot generally is seen best on satellite photographs.