snywx Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Uploaded with ImageShack.us Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Some nice token snow going on here. Perhaps we can get our second coating of the day Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wolfie09 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Just rain here with some flakes mixing in from time to time, took a ride to my buddy's in SI, there was a very light coating on the grass just before getting on the goethals bridge, nothing on the SI side...The heaviest burst i saw was on the way back to freehold, just north of old briidge (lasted about 2 min).. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 Been snowing here all day. A little over an inch on non paved surfaces. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mweisenfeld Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 We continue to be just west of the snow line, with almost 1" of wet snow on unpaved surfaces, paved surfaces mostly melting. Still snowing moderately. Temp has held at 33 for a couple of hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelocita Weather Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 We continue to be just west of the snow line, with almost 1" of wet snow on unpaved surfaces, paved surfaces mostly melting. Still snowing moderately. Temp has held at 33 for a couple of hours. You close to the Millburn town line? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Snow starting to recoat areas that meltedoff before. Radar looks okay for about another hour or two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 it's changed to mostly wet snow now...Not sticking yet...time is running out... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgwp96 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 max snow depth of 4 inches at 2 oclock. since than its compacted and melted some Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Cold rain here. 36 degrees. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwx21 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 0.75 of snow on colder surfaces here now, but the snow has stopped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
winterwarlock Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I just drove from Branchburg (all snow and about 2.5 inches on my deck) to Somerville (mostly rain and barely anything)...only about 5 miles apart at most...huge flakes coming down pretty hard right now, side streets are all covered and main roads were earlier yeah its weird Im in Belle Mead and we got 3 inches on the grass while Somerville and Bridgewater got peanuts and they are usually colder. I guess the further west one was the better for snow this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wxman Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Looks like it's nearly done here. 4" total. Temp 33. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Some of you in the Mt. Holly CWA, they'd appreciate if you posted your totals in the Philly forum thread. Parents never got any more. 0.3" was the total in Ewing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cfa Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Nothing but cold rain here in Suffolk, I haven't seen a flake of snow today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Liquid-equivalent back home was 0.69", for 0.3" snow... NAM wasn't all that bad QPF-wise for a few places. Thermals were a bit off at times. I guess this storm was a lesson in that, even if you get good rates, but dynamic cooling is being fought by warm advection, don't get your hopes up. Then again, they did get 2" not far to the north. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bmc10 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 4 inches on grassy surfaces in franklin lakes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I guess surface temps are more important in certain situations than 850 temps. I clearly thought the area was going to be all snow based off the 850's. Lesson learned for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snow_Miser Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Finished with around 3 inches in Southern Somerset County. Very nice little event for C NJ. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr Torchey Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Perfect night, medium sized dendrites falling into the spotlight. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
earthlight Posted November 27, 2012 Author Share Posted November 27, 2012 I guess surface temps are more important in certain situations than 850 temps. I clearly thought the area was going to be all snow based off the 850's. Lesson learned for me. Plenty of people advise against using 850s for precipitation type forecasts -- now hopefully some more people understand why. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tombo82685 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 I guess surface temps are more important in certain situations than 850 temps. I clearly thought the area was going to be all snow based off the 850's. Lesson learned for me. i told you that like 3 days ago on fb the bl would kill you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 i told you that like 3 days ago on fb the bl would kill you. If ya got snow goggles on, you won't listen. Or is it that if you have snow muffs on, you won't hear. I can never get these sayings right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWCCraig Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Mostly Rain here but mixing with a little snow now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 i told you that like 3 days ago on fb the bl would kill you. Should have listened to you . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Plenty of people advise against using 850s for precipitation type forecasts -- now hopefully some more people understand why. It also just depends on where the bands set up...for this event, NJ got a lot more precip than NYC and north. We only had .5" snow here but it wasn't because of temperatures. We were around 33F but we only had drizzle/flurries for much of the afternoon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sickman Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Plenty of people advise against using 850s for precipitation type forecasts -- now hopefully some more people understand why. I'm sure they will... until the next borderline event, anyways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 It also just depends on where the bands set up...for this event, NJ got a lot more precip than NYC and north. We only had .5" snow here but it wasn't because of temperatures. We were around 33F but we only had drizzle/flurries for much of the afternoon. I wouldn't say a lot more. Parents melted down 0.69" from the 0.3" of snow (actually it melted all on its own). KNYC is up to 0.52". About 25% less at KNYC. Maybe some places north of Ewing got even higher total precip, we won't know til tomorrow morning most likely. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dsnowx53 Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 Plenty of people advise against using 850s for precipitation type forecasts -- now hopefully some more people understand why. All else being equal, the 850 line is really only a 50% determinant for a rain/snow line. It's simply a very basic place to start. Kinda like the 540 line in that regard, though the 850 line is probably a tad better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted November 27, 2012 Share Posted November 27, 2012 All else being equal, the 850 line is really only a 50% determinant for a rain/snow line. It's simply a very basic place to start. Kinda like the 540 line in that regard, though the 850 line is probably a tad better. Yeah, you can't just look at one level and say "it will snow" or "it will rain". Gotta look at the whole column. If the lowest 1000 feet of the sounding or more is progged to be above freezing, you will probably have real trouble accumulating anything. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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