phoenixny Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 We picked up 6" in Phoenix as well. Roads are still snow-covered and still snowing and at times heavily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY_WX Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 I measured 4.3 inches here at 7 AM. Another 2 inches have probably fallen since then and it's now snowing as hard as it has all winter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CNY_WX Posted April 2, 2013 Share Posted April 2, 2013 The sun is now breaking through the clouds although it is still snowing lightly. It appears the lake band is beginning to break up in response to the rising April sun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flying MXZ Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 Yesterday's snow shower accumulated (dusting) in the shaded areas, and then an overnight snow shower turned everything white. Maybe for the final time this winter? I should know better than this in early April. 1.5" overnight which actually made the road a bit slick. Nothing 4 miles down the road. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeEffectKing Posted April 3, 2013 Share Posted April 3, 2013 SYR had officially 10.1" with .25 water equiv....yesterday....giving a ratio of over 40:1 in April!! That also gets SYR to within a few inches of normal....which they may have received overnight. (I received abou 2 more inches.) SNOWFALL (IN) YESTERDAY 10.5 R MONTH TO DATE 11.3 SINCE MAR 1 31.5 SINCE JUL 1 114.7 SNOW DEPTH 7 PRECIPITATION (IN) YESTERDAY 0.25 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted April 3, 2013 Author Share Posted April 3, 2013 SYR had officially 10.1" with .25 water equiv....yesterday....giving a ratio of over 40:1 in April!! That also gets SYR to within a few inches of normal....which they may have received overnight. (I received abou 2 more inches.) SNOWFALL (IN) YESTERDAY 10.5 R MONTH TO DATE 11.3 SINCE MAR 1 31.5 SINCE JUL 1 114.7 SNOW DEPTH 7 PRECIPITATION (IN) YESTERDAY 0.25 That should put them above Worcester for snowiest city (>100,000 people) in the country this season. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
champy Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 It was brutal on Whiteface Tuesday. Heavy snow, 35mph winds, but awesome skiing for April 2nd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cny rider Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 It was winter here yesterday. Today it's spring. I declare winter 2012-2013 over. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 4, 2013 Share Posted April 4, 2013 Lake Erie has melted out....went back up to 33F this morning. Btw, ASOS sucks for precip measuring in snowfall. We talked about this in Oswego...there's been times where they recorded 100:1 ratios...meteorologically ridiculous....unless someone is taking a core I wouldn't put much stock in 40:1.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakeEffectKing Posted April 6, 2013 Share Posted April 6, 2013 Lake Erie has melted out....went back up to 33F this morning. Btw, ASOS sucks for precip measuring in snowfall. We talked about this in Oswego...there's been times where they recorded 100:1 ratios...meteorologically ridiculous....unless someone is taking a core I wouldn't put much stock in 40:1.... The snow from 04/02/13 was extremely fluffy. I didn't take a liquid equivalent, but I'd of pegged it at around 25:1 or so....40:1 is the least dense I ever officially received (when I was doing some unofficial research for the NWS back in the '90's)...It's the type of snow that you can see the object below through 6". Or the type where you open your car door, slam it, and you have pretty much removed a good deal of it!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Up to 69F at KROC and 57F here. Visible satellite shows a few breaks in the cloud cover so the filtered sunshine should continue here for a few hours. Temperatures here should get close to or maybe slightly above 60F. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted April 7, 2013 Author Share Posted April 7, 2013 Absolutely gorgeous today with a high of 68F here. The period of sunshine early this afternoon allowed for mixing up to 850 mb, where the temperatures were about 6C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 pretty impressive ice signal showing up for Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 pretty impressive ice signal showing up for Thursday. i see the NAM is spitting out well over 1/2" of freezing rain. Do you think even with the mid April sun icing could be realized? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 i see the NAM is spitting out well over 1/2" of freezing rain. Do you think even with the mid April sun icing could be realized? we'll see. The Euro is a touch warmer than the NAM for BUF...looks like mid 30s or so in BUF on Thursday. I'd favor very cold rain in the metro area...but I'd keep an eye on it especially for Lake Ontario border counties into the north Country. This set up isn't all that dissimilar to the April 4, 2003 ice storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 9, 2013 Share Posted April 9, 2013 It really is a perfect ice storm set-up lol...except of course it's mid-april. This would be a damaging if not historic storm if it happened a month sooner Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULLAUTO Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Western NY is blowing up with t storms and the NWS seems to be asleep at the wheel again. THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTHCENTRAL NEW YORK..DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT.THE CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SmokeEater Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Western NY is blowing up with t storms and the NWS seems to be asleep at the wheel again. THIS HAZARDOUS WEATHER OUTLOOK IS FOR PORTIONS OF WESTERN AND NORTH CENTRAL NEW YORK. .DAY ONE...TODAY AND TONIGHT. THE CHANCE FOR WIDESPREAD HAZARDOUS WEATHER IS LOW. All that is, is heavy rain with some embedded thunder/lightning. Hardly hazardous weather. But by all means continue to trash them, even when you're wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 All that is, is heavy rain with some embedded thunder/lightning. Hardly hazardous weather. But by all means continue to trash them, even when you're wrong.I agree with you. I was right in those "storms" and they wernt storms at all. Some good downpours with a bit of thunder and lightning but no damaging winds by any means and no hail or anything. The NWS is never "asleep at the wheel" and thered be no reason for them to issue any sort of HWO or Storm Warning. Its a good thing he only has 15 post and hopefully he keeps it at 15 post for a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 NWS is now mentioning ZR as a possibility...and really cut down temps. Now have 33/36 in BUF on Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lakeeffectkid383 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 NWS is now mentioning ZR as a possibility...and really cut down temps. Now have 33/36 in BUF on Thursday. yup and the GFS even has about .70" of precip with 850s well above 0c and 925mb temps below 0c with 10m temps right around 32. Gonna be a close call between a cold cold rainy day and a historic ice storm. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
heavy_wx Posted April 10, 2013 Author Share Posted April 10, 2013 The top 3 CIPS analogs based on the 00z GFS at hour 60 all had at least some freezing rain. The 4/5/03 event is one of the those along with 3/2/07, another significant ice event. I think areas east of Lake Ontario could see cold air funneling from the Mohawk valley with low-level SE flow, enhancing the freezing rain potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Oh my bad. I was wrong to believe lightning strikes all around my house were hazardous. Uh oh, 16 posts now - out of control! lol Better tell the moderator! The HWO is used for severe weather...not general thunderstorms. You'll notice the flooding potential from the heavy rains over the next few days in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 although I am of the opinion that thunderstorm advisories wouldn't be a bad idea. We issued them in Bermuda and I think they're reasonable given lightning is such a big killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FULLAUTO Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 although I am of the opinion that thunderstorm advisories wouldn't be a bad idea. We issued them in Bermuda and I think they're reasonable given lightning is such a big killer. In the summer months it seems the NWS would have issued a watch or warning. Maybe the intensity was not high enough last night to trigger anything from them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vortmax Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Freezing Rain Advisory for all of WNY. Will the cold air overcome? Discuss... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 In the summer months it seems the NWS would have issued a watch or warning. Maybe the intensity was not high enough last night to trigger anything from them. these aren't severe thunderstorms, I'm not sure what you want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ayuud11 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Freezing Rain Advisory for all of WNY. Will the cold air overcome? Discuss... Morning Commute going to be a mess,how much are they forecasting? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeltaT13 Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 Morning Commute going to be a mess,how much are they forecasting? An ice storm during the second week of April is pretty unprecedented. That said, the setup is nearly ideal for icing. As stated though, sun angle, proximity to the lake, and timing of the precip will have a major impact on whether any ice accumulation actually verifies. Icing on the roads seems very unlikely, with only elevated surfaces (trees, powerlines) likely able to drop below freezing. The commute should be fine in regards to actual road conditions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSUmetstud Posted April 10, 2013 Share Posted April 10, 2013 I'd be concerned about decent power outages and damage in the Niagara Falls/Lockport corridor, just above the escarpment. The euro came in coldest yet on the 12z run....doesn't break us out above freezing until about 06z overnight Thursday night. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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