NorthShoreWx

Scary thought if you park the car in an attached garage.

Oozing downwards. 34.7 here as of 2:45pm. Rose to 38 after initially falling to 36 earlier this morning. Cold rain rocks!

He lists his location as GFL. Don't know if it's a lie, but the totality of behavior argues for additional discipline. PS several inches of snow at GFL

As for snow cover, the early morning hours were a massacre.

We maxed at 52.3 at 7:36 am. Was 43.8 at 8:36 am. 42.4 before I could hit send at 8:40.

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

TTAA00 KNYC 031520 NYZ067>081-NJZ002>006-011-CTZ005>012-031600- PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK, NY 1020 AM EST SAT FEB 3 1996 HERE IS A LIST OF SNOWFALL TOTALS FOR THE TRI-STATE AREA AS OF 1000 AM. THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WOULD LIKE TO GREATLY THANK ALL OF THE SPOTTERS FOR THE VALUABLE SNOWFALL MEASUREMENTS. LOCATION COUNTY TIME SNOW (INS) CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK 800 AM 7.1 JFK AIRPORT QUEENS 800 AM 8.0 LGA AIRPORT QUEENS 800 AM 8.0 CONEY ISLAND KINGS 815 AM 7.6 ..... LONG ISLAND ..... NWSFO BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK 830 AM 9.8 ISLIP SUFFOLK 800 AM 8.0 PLUM ISLAND SUFFOLK 700 AM 10.0 CARLE PLACE NASSAU 700 AM 6.0 CENTER MORICHES SUFFOLK 800 AM 7.0 SOUND BEACH SUFFOLK 800 AM 8.0 RIDGE SUFFOLK 945 AM 9.2 ..... LOWER HUDSON VALLEY ..... SUFFERN ROCKLAND 800 AM 6.8 NEW ROCHELLE WESTCHESTER 1000 AM 7.0 PEEKSKILL WESTCHESTER 700 AM 6.5 WHITE PLAINS WESTCHESTER 1000 AM 6.5 YONKERS WESTCHESTER 1000 AM 7.5 ..... NORTHERN NEW JERSEY ..... NEWARK ARPT ESSEX 800 AM 7.0 HARRISON HUDSON 825 AM 7.5 .... SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT ..... WATERBURY NEW HAVEN 800 AM 7.3 BEACON FALLS NEW HAVEN 800 AM 7.3 DANBURY FAIRFIELD 800 AM 8.0 NEW CANAAN FAIRFIELD 800 AM 6.0 DARIEN FAIRFIELD 800 AM 6.0 OLD SAYBROOK MIDDLESEX 800 AM 7.3 GROTON NEW LONDON 800 AM 6.5 MERIDEN NEW HAVEN 800 AM 6.8 STAMFORD p FAIRFIELD 1000 AM 7.0 GRISWOLD NEW LONDON 850 AM 6.0 NORWICH NEW LONDON 850 AM 6.8 HAYES/GOUDSWARD

The impact on snow cover is part of this event.

Sleet in a snowpack is more snowpack. Ice is just ice, plus the increased travel and power threats.

Montauk is 116 miles from NYC and 98 miles from BOS. Philly is closer to NYC. FWIW, 84 in NY is definitely part of this sub forum, but Clarkstown is not.

Final Smithtown stats for the weekend blizzard: Snowfall: 16.4" Water equivalent: 1.62" Temperature range during the blizzard from 29 at the start down to 12 late Saturday morning. So much for high ratios. I think there's some local effect here that exacerbates the shredding of dendrites. Might be proximity to LI Sound on a bit of an ENE facing hill above the Nisseqogue "fjord". At the surface, it was rather windy but we've had plenty worse. The biggest winds were when we spent an hour or so in subsidence between two nice bands. Other than that, we were on the plus side of banding for much of the storm. Trying to wrap my head around why we're just about always a local min during these windy snowstorms.

Top snowfalls in Smithtown, NY since December 1995. While technically, this weekend's was 6th on the list, I'd rank it a little lower, maybe top 10 or top 12. Great storm, but I guess we're getting used to them. 1 Feb 8-9, 2013 27.0 2 Jan 7-9, 1996 22.3 3 Feb 16-18, 2003 18.8 4 Jan 23-24, 2016 17.5 5 Dec 19-20, 2009 17.0 6 Jan 28-29, 2022 16.4 7 Jan 11-12, 2011 15.8 8 Jan 31 - Feb 2, 2021 15.8 9 Dec 5-6, 2003 15.5 10 Jan 26-27, 2015 15.0 11 Jan 26-27, 2011 14.5 12 Feb 10, 2010 14.5 13 Jan 22-23, 2005 14.4 14 Mar 21-22, 2018 13.6 15 Feb 13-14, 2014 13.5 16 Jan 27-28, 2004 13.5 17 Feb 11-12, 2006 13.3 18 Mar 05-07, 2001 12.2 19 Dec 26-27, 2010 12.0 20 Feb 25-26, 2010 12.0 21 Apr 9-10, 1996 12.0 22 Feb 9, 2017 12.0 23 Mar 1-2, 2009 11.5 24 Dec 19-21, 1995 11.3 25 Dec 30, 2000 11.0 26 Jan 4, 2018 11.0 27 Mar 14-15, 1999 9.8 28 Jan 7, 2017 9.5 29 Feb 5, 2016 9.4 30 Mar 7-8, 2018 9.1 31 Jan 7, 2022 9.1 32 Jan 22-23, 2014 9.0 33 Feb 3, 2014 8.8 34 Feb 2 - 3, 1996 8.5 35 Jan 2-3, 2014 8.5 36 Feb 1-2, 2015 8.3 37 Feb 7, 2021 8.1

It could (either accreting or melting), but in that scenario there might be enough air movement to carry it off without affecting the sensor. I'm sure somewhere someone has studied this for some reason, but it's way beyond my pay grade.

Here's a thought. If the ponds are still freezing (i.e.,the ice is thickening), the latent heat release from that freezing process has to go somewhere.

Lot sizes. Much higher percentage of rooftop snow on the lawn with a 60x100 lot than an acre lot.

I find it much harder to remember those self serving names. It's much easier to remember 2/8/2013 than to remember Juno or Junius, or whatever the heck they called that one.

Young guy with a truck and a snow thrower just snorkled up and knocked on the front door. I told him that I had the snow removal covered. He said "you're going to do it?" I said yes. Then he said "Your driveway just ate me". I almost changed my mind. We'll see how it goes. There will be libations afterwards.

From your lips to God's ears, but no, not going to happen. We can dream.

I'm sure there were multiple factors. There must have been some other source of convergence other than the usual frictional convergence on the north shore. But the sound may have helped. dT around 14 or 15° C is more than enough for some enhancement.

I'd have wanted better for being on the windward side. It was primarily a south of 495 enhancement.

Well worth the price of admission!

Jinkies, temp is down to 12° here. Visibility is about a half mile in snow and blowing snow, but lower in the stronger wind gusts.

Just measure on the deck and report it to the NWS.

Lucky you. Spent over an hour doing basically nothing here. Except for the wind which was howling to feed into the surrounding bands.

Southampton has been getting obliterated. Then again, a lot of places have. But here: