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When it clears out overnight here temps will drop like a rock.

And their high tomorrow is only 32 so it will stick around for a while. Wonder if there’s been this kind of snow there since they’ve even been a city.

Wonder if this will be considered a KU? Are these only for NE storms? I know there’s a near miss category but this isn’t a near miss. For that swath from Houston to Cape Hatteras this would be a Cat 6 winter storm lol.

Seeing the Bourbon St webcams is just surreal.

The drunken snowball fights in the French Quarter tonight will be epic.

In Feb we tend to see the jet stream start to come back north and more surges of moisture into the colder air. Hopefully we can time one or two correctly.

Looks like it got down to 3 IMBY.

5 here. The calmer winds helped radiate. Looks like 10-11 in the city and on the shore.

Gonna be a cold one. Down to 17 already.

The Palmetto Pulverizer storm?

We can’t keep blaming “bad luck” for why we can’t produce anything during favorable pattern windows. There’s a reason these turd in the punchbowls show up and ruin setups for big storms. The prevalence of all these confluence/kicker etc shortwaves is because the Pacific jet is so chaotic and fast. It also knocks down the big ridges and troughs that can generate the bigger storms, and can push them into bad alignments and locations, ie make them positively tilted.

Pathetic. Wonder how many Gulf coast cities will have more for the season than Central Park in 24-48 hours? Not enough for Memphis and Little Rock of course. Nice event generally and we take, but snow wise this is still one of our lamest winters.

If we can maintain the cold into Feb, we should have some chances as moisture comes back north to attack the cold air. We usually have our better storms when that happens. Amazing the lack of SE ridge this year, maybe that will be good to keep the SWFEs at bay. The Pacific slowing down and flinging less crap towards us that interfere with our bigger threats would be great.

Islip got 2.3". Up to a whopping 4.8" on the season there, still under half of average to date. I probably should be at 10-11" at this point and have 8".

On the low end of expectations generally but a nice event. It was clear yesterday AM that other than the places hit by the 700mb/mid-level band it wouldn't live up to the higher expectations since this was a disorganized system that couldn't really drive in the Atlantic moisture. 3.5-4" around this area, can't complain.