coastalplainsnowman

Been hoping for good weather early to mid next week but hasn't looked great. Didn't realize it reflected a storm close to the coast. Jumped on here and seeing some signs that it may be strung out and/or OTS? Unlike the winter, hoping for this trend to continue and that the models don't start to 'bring it back.' P.S. If this post has so much wrong in it you don't know where to start, I understand.

Saw this on Twitter and immediately thought of this forum. I hope it's not true.

The label on the thread is very fitting today

My wife snapped this interesting pic of the sky a short while ago. Sort of an upside down rainbow overhead in the wispy clouds. Said photo doesn't do the color justice. Thought this might be interesting to some folks here. Have a good day.

Shoot I thought I checked that! In fairness, those would still be some heavy lanternflies.

lol

180 elephants, at 7,500 lbs each, equals 13.5 million lbs. If 180 elephants = 1.2 million lantern flies, then each lanterfly weighs 1.125 pounds. I honestly did this just to get a witty put down from Will.

Definitely. Outside tonight has the feel/smell of a winter storm that was just a bit too warm for snow.

Some rough data (weather underground history for Ronkonkoma LI) supporting the "winter's been starting late and ending late" theme: 2016 - 2021, Median High Temperature: Week preceding Christmas: 60.5 Week preceding Easter: 64.5

Nowadays it seems that every other day sites like Accuweather will have an Air Quality Alert for NYC metro, often rating it as Poor, and I see similar alerts, though not as frequent, from Upton as well. I realize the Accuweather thing is recent, but I don't remember seeing so many alerts from NWS either, say 5-10 years ago. I don't remember alerts or official warnings like this other than an occasional 'smog' alert once in a blue moon in the 80s/90s. Is this just because we run more sensitive tests now, and that if we had today's tests running 30 years ago they'd be lighting up every day?

Underrated post. This is freaking cool.

Was just reading NOAA's definition of a blizzard, because reading through this thread and the clips from 1982 I was surprised to see that the April '82 storm was actually a blizzard, which apparently it was around here. Saw that the definition of a blizzard on NOAA's site includes the line "Sustained wind OR frequent gusts to 35 miles an hour or greater." (my emphasis.) How is 'frequent' defined?

My favorite part of this is how the realtor pics of the house show it just buried in snow. On LI, the realtor would do anything to get a pic of the house on a sunny spring or summer day, almost never with snow in the pic. Here it's like, "That's right, snow. Deal with it."

Regular reminder that it's pretty impressive that this whole thing was identified on this forum, what, 8 days ago? Heavy rain turning into a icy, wind-whipped finale, and since at least 5 days ago even the timing pretty well nailed? You mets and advanced hobbyists here hold yourselves to a high standard I know, but from a layman's standpoint this was really well done. I always tell people that in winter if you never want to be caught off guard by a potential snowstorm, just check in on this site every now and then.

Any thoughts on how this compares to Christmas Day 2002? Up until that storm I had never seen any real 'wraparound snow' follow heavy rain, but that one was pretty awesome - about 6" of absolute paste. Haven't seen anything remotely close to that storm since then either.

B- here. Just based on total snowfall and average temperatures it would be a C, but it's tough to give any winter on the south shore of LI a C when we've had a 15+" snowstorm and solid winter weather for all of January. Compared to N&W, where expectations and averages are higher, yet the snow totals were lower, the Ds and Cs I'm seeing are justified there.

Thanks for sharing -- what's the rationale for the difference? Surprised that central PA, which (I would think) would be much more acclimated to icing and winter weather in general than, say Long Island, gets a warning at just 1/4", while Long Island needs to be forecast for 1/2"? Seems like it should be the opposite.

This thread is underrated right now. The whole 'if a snowflake falls in the woods but no one is awake to see it' riff is pretty funny.

That was fun today. Facing north at a red light I could see the snow come at me like a wall - was looking off in the distance about '10 o'clock' and watched the falling/blowing snow move in toward me across an open space rapidly from NW to SE, with blue skies off to the east. The low clouds ahead of it looked just like a big T storm might.

Foggy AND gusty here. Fairly rare combination I suppose? I can't recall ever experiencing both simultaneously, not to this degree at least.

Yeah it feels great out there. Whatever one's thoughts on this winter so far, once got past our usual Christmastime 60s it hasn't been above 50 much right? Today reminds me of the old days when a sunny mid 50s day in Feb after nothing like it since December, feels like early Spring.

This would make two snowy Super Bowl Sundays in a row.

This is great information. So essentially flat in terms of snowcover days despite what looks like (eyeballing it) rolling average increase of 10-12 inches annually? Makes sense I guess that the somewhat rising average temperatures over that timeframe offset the additional snow. Pretty interesting too that for all the memorable storms particularly in the latter two-thirds of that timeframe, that it amounts to only about 10-12 inch increase in annual snowfall. Understood that's a like a 30-40% increase, but in terms of actual snow, just seems like it would be more, given how we think of the 80s as so snowless and the 2000s/2010s as the best of times. Maybe we used to get smaller, more frequent storms (like all those decent clippers) that offset the big ones that we never got?

What's with the trend lately of posters who want to speak to the manager after the dust settles after a storm? - Last week a suggestion was made that there shouldn't be threads created for [checks notes] potential upcoming winter weather too far in advance [whatever that means], basically because it creates sadness if doesn't come true. Not to mention that when those threads were created they are invariably accompanied by great analysis which I'm sure must take hours and hours to prepare. How about we all be a-ok with experts providing such analysis and creating such threads whenever they please, and the rest of us can choose whether or not to read it? - Now we have a suggestion that the moderators work harder so that the rest of don't have to scroll over some replies once in awhile that they don't like. How about we leave it to the moderators - since they're the ones doing the work - to decide when something is out of bounds, and handle it as they see fit? And if there's too much east/west talk for one's liking, one can always close the browser for a few hours, and check back later.

Hi all, apologies for stretching the definition of what goes in an obs thread here, but just wondering if any of the LI folks know have been on any of the big roads from Nassau westward. Have to head upstate early tomorrow. I figure getting off LI will be the toughest part. Any quick insights would be really appreciated. Thanks.