NorthShoreWx

0° days at ISP. Most of them had snow on the ground. Date MaxTemp MinTemp Precipitation Snowfall SnowDepth 2/13/1967 21 -14 T T 7 1/18/1965 21 -8 0.08 2 3 1/22/1984 24 -7 0 0 6 1/15/1988 21 -7 0 0 6 2/12/1979 15 -6 0.09 0.9 2 1/15/1965 15 -4 0 0 3 1/9/1968 9 -4 0.12 1.5 2 1/9/1981 26 -4 0 0 3 1/12/1981 15 -4 0 0 3 1/14/1988 19 -4 0 0 6 1/17/1965 16 -3 T T 6 1/21/1984 15 -3 0 0 7 2/8/1967 26 -2 0 0 10 2/12/1967 24 -2 0 0 7 2/11/1979 11 -2 0 0 4 2/18/1979 14 -2 0 0 1 1/17/1982 26 -2 0 0 8 1/18/1982 17 -2 T T 8 12/31/1963 30 -1 0 0 2 2/4/1965 20 -1 0 0 3 1/8/1968 8 -1 0 0 2 1/23/1970 28 -1 0.06 T 0 2/10/1979 15 -1 0 0 5 2/14/1979 13 -1 0 0 3 1/21/1985 6 -1 0 0 3 3/18/1967 18 0 0 0 2 3/19/1967 24 0 0 0 0 1/10/1968 16 0 T T 4 2/10/1974 29 0 T T 7 1/23/1976 13 0 T T 4 1/18/1977 12 0 0 0 7 2/17/1979 10 0 0 0 1 1/4/2014 28 0 0 0 11 2/14/2016 13 0 0 0 4

Confirmed that there was a period of OES snow flurries on a south wind over the south fork this morning. I'm watching a replay now. Can anyone say "procrastination".

Possibly through a combination of factors...effect of the virus itself plus effect of fanatical efforts to avoid encountering any germs. Both factors might be real.

I made a video of the Reeks hike...the three highest peaks in Ireland in unusual summer weather. Banter, but it seems to be today's motif:

Nothing doing on land, but there's a hint of OES over eastern LI: https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/?parms=OKX-N0Q-1-24-100-usa-rad

Midleton is a nice area. Stayed there a couple of days in 2018. Walked around town but didn't visit the distillery. Had a great day down in Ballycotton doing the cliff walk followed by some Guinness and lunch. We were in Ireland during a rare legit heatwave and a bit of a drought, but some people we met were still talking about storm Emma (a rare blizzard) a few months earlier. It was quite a weather year across Ireland. We 2 weeks of sunshine and temps in the 80s. Went to Kerry and dayhiked the Coomlaughra horseshoe in a teeshirt and shorts (carried storm gear just in case but didn't need so much as a windbreaker). The only cloudy and cooler day was when we went and found my grandmother's house up in Balinasloe (Galway). Might go back later this year if I can swing it...not expecting the same weather ever again. Back in Smithtown, we dipped down to 6⁰ this morning. A couple of nearby spots a little lower lying got down to 4⁰.

You said it, not me. Shallow cold https://wx1.bnl.gov/graph.html

They might go sub zero, but once the breeze turns parallel to or off the ocean, they'll rise pretty quickly.

Can see it on the IR satellite too: https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G16&sector=ne&band=GEOCOLOR&length=24 Sorry this link seems not to be working.

There's some 2s and 3s popping up in the pine barrens and some 4s and 5s in NW Suffolk. It's similar or even a degree or two colder than in Orange County, so you can surmise where the clouds are.

You might have a shot if the clouds hold off. Light southwest surface wind can be good for radiation on the north shore. Unless it's true WAA, that breeze might not make it over the moraine...and it's not off the sound. I'm sure I've said this before, but our best radiational cooling conditions are often 1 night after KFOK's. Down to 9 here, 4 degrees lower than this morning's toasty minimum. The day before we bottomed at just under 7⁰. Temp will either rise towards 4am as per the NWS forecast, or the north shore may stay decoupled a little longer and a few spots do hit 0.

We will radiate better here than last night, even if some clouds do move in. Less than 2 miles from the sound, with clouds and a north breeze off the water, we didn't radiate at all last night and the low was 13.5°. Tonight's forecasted low is 13° and we are already down to 14°. The main difference is calmer winds, or a light breeze with a southerly component. North shore microclimates.

If only it had. Between clouds and a breeze it only got down to 13.5⁰ here.

Probably will be little more than a coating around Montauk (ending soon) but the Cape and Islands could get an inch or three.

Here's an interesting thought: some models were predicting an historic snowstorm, perhaps the greatest of all time for parts of southeastern Louisiana, and the storm over-performed.

Snowing at Montauk: https://hamptons.com/east-lake-beach/

It was on an April Tuesday during school break. I took a date to the circus at MSG in the blizzard and heard thunder out on 7th Ave. It was an omen; we got married a few years later and still are.

More likely on south fork. But interesting to watch. I hadn't made any possible connection about OES until I saw Walt's post. I had nothing but different shades of virga in my head.

Mostly https://www.met.ie/national-forecast.html

Earthcam camera shows weenies on Bourbon Street looking at radar and convincing themselves it is back building.

The reality shows are scripted. Perhaps not in as much detail, but they are.

NEW ORLEANS REGIONAL WEATHER ROUNDUP NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW ORLEANS LA 400 PM CST TUE JAN 21 2025 LAZ038-048-061-063-065>067-069-076-077-212300- SOUTHEAST LOUISIANA CITY SKY/WX TMP DP RH WIND PRES REMARKS N.O. INTL ARPT HVY SNOW 27 26 96 N20G31 30.51S VSB 1/8 WCI 13

Some light snow has made it all the way to KATL, but there's hundreds of miles of virga northeast from there into SE VA. Not sure there will anything more than virga approaching E-LI this evening, although a surprise would be nice. There is a nice slate gray "it's gonna snow" look to the sky here. Temp is 17.8° Enjoy the illusion!

I was all manual with only min/max up until early December. Brought myself forward in time to the 1990s with an Ambient WS which actually seems quite accurate for a relatively inexpensive piece of gear. I've been shocked at how close the little tipping gage is to my 4" COCORAHS, although it understandably showed zero for this weekend's snowfall: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNYSMITH69

I imagine very rare, but it must have happened on the west coast of FL at some point.