jm1220

My area specifically has just gotten skunked on any kind of jackpot/historic type event. The last 20” snowstorm I’ve seen has probably been PDII in 2003 when I was 16. A couple have come close but still nothing like even 20 miles east of me. My specific area is great for moderate to 12” type events but never gets the jackpot, ever. The snow average here is quite good relatively speaking because we do well in those marginal to moderate events. But 16-17” here too and 29” at Islip, again maybe 14-15” here in Jan 2022, over 2 feet for Islip.

Sure does. And in the summer when we really need the rain, we’ll be dry for weeks.

Yep we need the rain but these 33-35 deals and rain are the worst. SWFEs in general are the worst. I don’t care we get the one out of 10 to work out here, I’ll never root for them at our latitude, ever.

Yep. The minute I start seeing the low heights over the Maritimes in the spring, I know what that means here. Hoping somehow we can keep ridging and westerly flow.

Beautiful is always tough to come by here. Those waters are chilly and stay that way for 2+ more months.

If we go into a weak to moderate Nino hopefully not. Would still be great to get out of this perma-Nina state with the boiling western Pacific dominating the pattern.

Snow is taking a beating-yesterday with temps well in the 40s and sun and definitely today with rain and 40.

Our dirt ice piles in the shopping malls might last a couple days longer than the Hudson Valley’s though.

Today should be a good melt day and then by the end of the weekend we’re finally in the clear.

33 here. At that temp it can rain all it wants and barely any snow will melt.

Down to 23 already. Felt frigid on my walk. But agreed, we’re taking the next step up the ladder to spring. By the weekend we’ll be down to ice piles.

The back for this winter had to break at some point. Hopefully it doesn’t come with backdoor fronts every week.

I still have a ways to go, probably by the end of the week here. The snow left here is glacier, the snowmelt during the day ices up and freezes into the snow on the ground and makes it bulletproof. It’ll be great when I can hang out on my deck for a while and get some sun.

That’s March 1 sun for you. It’s bad for snow retention in general here near the coast-this year is tops for sure on retention but sooner or later as the sun gets higher in the sky every day it does its thing.

Yep, it was kinda sad in Long Beach actually, snow just disappearing. There was well over 20” there based on the photos I saw and still plenty of piles of course. I think the difference is that up here every night has been below freezing so the melt during the day just ices up. The snow we have here is very dense and glacier like.