Yep. Most of the minutes lost have come as a result of sunrise being almost ten minutes later already, while the sun only sets a few minutes earlier today than it did at the solstice three weeks ago. The opposite happens in the fall when our earliest sunset is in early December, and by New Years you can already see the difference in the evening as you'll have tacked on ten minutes to the sunset even as sunrises are still bottoming out.
Then what do you do when 12z ticks back the other way? Ryan already had 3-6 basically to the CT/RI border and said stay tuned because things were trending towards a bigger hit. As it stands now, he can just drag that 3-6 purple shading 40 miles westward over New London County.
Why? TAN is generally a good spot to be in these types of storms. Did you think Cape Cod, MA, USA, North America, Earth was gonna have its own private storm?
I think the biggest problem is getting it to accumulate. Hours and hours of snow and wet roads and frosted tips of grass are all we have to show for it. Upton says take 'em down, only has 1-3 here now with any meaningful snow moving out by late morning/midday.
Interesting seeing the school buses driving around in what is like a snow globe with big flakes falling at a moderate clip. Poor kids are probably the only ones in the state having to go.
I went with a forecast of a foot across the city and 12-16 in SW CT. Busted badly and probably look stupid to a lot of folks this morning, but when I put my forecast up alongside that 24-36 inch thing OKX had going for what seemed like forever, I feel much better about it.
I'm surprised there's a travel ban for half a foot of snow down this way. And no trains. NYC schools even closed today which is insane, but with MTA service suspended as a precaution, they have no choice. Hey at least the SI ferry is back in operation!
I'd say it was closer to a foot here than 1.5 feet. Let's call it 12-14 inches. Surprisingly Greenwich has been slow in the snow removal dept. which is unusual given that they have an unlimited budget and have been pretty good in storms bigger than this one.