NorthShoreWx

Then you would have loved the blizzard this week in 1978: https://www.northshorewx.com/19780120.html

Yeah, all this pure snow we've been getting the past 3 or 4 winters is getting boring

GFS LP drops 22mb in 24 hours. Only a wee bit shy of a bomb, and with that big high over Quebec, there would be some wind.

Awesome photo! Similar scene here:

I basically agree, except that I was here in 1978.

That was all snow here with an excruciatingly long period of rain on the south shore.

And this is a problem why?

Temperature got up to 34 briefly during the day before falling back below freezing, but it's been warming since sunset and is now up to 37.6 with snow flurries.

Seems you've answered your own question.

It doesn't even flip on LI (at least on those Pivotal p-type maps). Rare but not unheard of. Reminds me of 2-13-14 when we never got above freezing and were getting freezing rain while other places, including some inland, were getting plain rain.

January 21 (today) is on average (since 1/1/1996) the coldest day of the year in Smithtown. The actual unsmoothed average of the prior thirty years on January 21 is 26.9° F (min 20.0, max 33.8). A simplistic smoothing of the data (not cubic spline) results in a normal for the date of 29.3° (min 21.8, max 36.8). Interestingly, today's weather is going to bring that average down a little. It likes to be cold at this time of year. Tomorrow is similar, but the warming trend in the averages after that is noticeable.

I've seen great soundings for ratios, temps well down in the 20s, and gotten 12" of snow on 1.5" liquid in high winds. Mind you, the forecast soundings didn't verify perfectly, but the promise of high ratios was hollow. I think it happens more here because this is a windier place in a nor'easter; at least it is windier just off the deck with winds off the sound.

https://www.northshorewx.com/19780113.html

Or this one: