RutgersWx92 Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Snow is mostly melted here; just a coating in most places and lots of bare ground too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 I believe that would be right around 20lbs per sq ft. Figure out how many sq ft your roof is and it probably winds up being a scary amount of weight up there right now. So I did the math. We had about 10 mid sized automobiles parked on my roof. Not that much anymore, fortunately. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted February 12, 2013 Share Posted February 12, 2013 Looks like around 12 or 13" left here. I measure in the morning usually. We had 15" at 8AM. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 There's about 6-7" in south-facing sunny lawns here in Dobbs Ferry, with close to 12" left in the north-facing wooded areas of the town. That's a marked contrast with where I work in Brooklyn, where the snow is quite patchy except for a few spots that are well shaded with 3-4" remaining. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Hard to tell exactly but there is still 50/50 snow cover with most of it being in drifted and shaded areas 6 inches as of tonight. I am surprised it held up this well here and that is why i am holding to my 14 inches for the storm even though the reported total was 11 for my town. (18, 2 miles east?) obviously the observer measured in a drifted out area. I measured in 10 spots in the least drifted areas i could find and my average was 14. Based on observations to my south west of almost all snow gone I think my obs was solid. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Snow depth in Smithtotwn this morning was 12" I took the following photos a few minutes ago just as high clouds are stating to roll in. The blue sky view is toward the north and the cloudier view is toward the south. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dosh Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 NCDC says "cat 3" http://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/news/evaluating-february-2013-blizzard-regional-snowfall-index Quite odd that theres no red dots in Connecticut given how many 30-36" reports there were from Bridgeport to Hartford. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Quite odd that theres no red dots in Connecticut given how many 30-36" reports there were from Bridgeport to Hartford. Yeah after I posted the link I noticed that... kinda surprised it took someone else this long to notice it too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted February 13, 2013 Share Posted February 13, 2013 Down to 14.5" of snow on the ground in Port Jefferson as of 6:20 PM tonight....though the worst of the melting may be over for a bit. Down to 13.0" of snow on ground in Port Jefferson as of 6:30 PM tonight. Not expecting too much new snow overnight...though the 18z RGEM printed out two to three inches for Long Island overnight...and I'm always told inside 24 hours is its good range. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 Lol.....this is your pet peeve isn't it? Agree though.....just because it's snowing doesn't mean it's "ripping".... And a new entry to the great "ripping" debate: a "ripping" thaw. From the January 17, 1851 edition of the Burlington Free Press: The flood of Mr. Noah was well enough, in its way, but he who sees a "ripping" thaw, this winter, will get a lively idea of what snow is made of! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 the last of the snow in the fields around my house is almost gone...Some shoveled spots left in shaded areas... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 And a new entry to the great "ripping" debate: a "ripping" thaw. From the January 17, 1851 edition of the Burlington Free Press: The flood of Mr. Noah was well enough, in its way, but he who sees a "ripping" thaw, this winter, will get a lively idea of what snow is made of! the record from 1851 where rainfall was recorded near Jamaica NY... Dec...Jan...Feb...Mar... 5.51..1.50..4.83..2.27 temperatures were a little above average for the obs site on Governors Island... 33.2..32.1..33.7..39.7 I have no snowfall records from that winter...I wonder if snowfall records were kept and saved somewhere from the mid 1800's? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
donsutherland1 Posted February 15, 2013 Share Posted February 15, 2013 the record from 1851 where rainfall was recorded near Jamaica NY... Dec...Jan...Feb...Mar... 5.51..1.50..4.83..2.27 temperatures were a little above average for the obs site on Governors Island... 33.2..32.1..33.7..39.7 I have no snowfall records from that winter...I wonder if snowfall records were kept and saved somewhere from the mid 1800's? Unfortunately, I've never come across detailed snowfall records from that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Down to 13.0" of snow on ground in Port Jefferson as of 6:30 PM tonight. Snow depth 10.0" in Port Jefferson as of 12:30 AM Saturday morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NorthShoreWx Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 Snow depth 10.0" in Port Jefferson as of 12:30 AM Saturday morning. We are down to 9" as of 7am. Some small bare spot showing under the Hemlocks, but that is to be expected given the trees themselves collected a couple feet of snow. Two of them had the tops snap off. Its been a tough year for trees. I am in period of horticultural mourning. The event today/tonight looks like it might not suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cfa Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 A week later and there still appears to be more snow on the ground near ISP than I got during the actual storm in Southern Queens (which has fully melted). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Allsnow Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 A week later and there still appears to be more snow on the ground near ISP than I got during the actual storm in Southern Queens (which has fully melted). I really feel you live in the worse spot for winter storms in our area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 We are down to 9" as of 7am. Some small bare spot showing under the Hemlocks, but that is to be expected given the trees themselves collected a couple feet of snow. Two of them had the tops snap off. Its been a tough year for trees. I am in period of horticultural mourning. The event today/tonight looks like it might not suck. We haven't even seen the disaster yet to come this spring! In areas that flooded with the surge from Sandy there will be catastrophic damage to trees/shrubs. You can already see it on the evergreens here which are for the most part already dead. Even the salt spray which spread far inland has done a number on the white pines all the way up into the middle of the island. The fresh water pond preserve down the block from my house was overtaken by the surge and about 100 acres of pristine forest flooded with several feet of salt water. Its going to be very sad this spring when most of that forest doesn't leaf out. I remember reading about coastal forests in New England that were decimated in the 38 hurricane. I think we will see something similar here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TWCCraig Posted February 16, 2013 Share Posted February 16, 2013 We haven't even seen the disaster yet to come this spring! In areas that flooded with the surge from Sandy there will be catastrophic damage to trees/shrubs. You can already see it on the evergreens here which are for the most part already dead. Even the salt spray which spread far inland has done a number on the white pines all the way up into the middle of the island. The fresh water pond preserve down the block from my house was overtaken by the surge and about 100 acres of pristine forest flooded with several feet of salt water. Its going to be very sad this spring when most of that forest doesn't leaf out. I remember reading about coastal forests in New England that were decimated in the 38 hurricane. I think we will see something similar here. I was wondering why all the white pines around here look like they're dying. A lot of them have yellow needles and look they are on the fringe of dying. I thought it was lack of water, or too much water, too warm, I didn't know. That's crazy how far the salt spray got inland.Those hurricane force winds must have carried enough of salt spray inland to do substantial damage to the pines. It's only that species though, all the other evergreens such as the Norway Spruce, are doing fine. I wonder if the Norway Maples are able to handle the salt well. We'll see this spring. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted February 17, 2013 Share Posted February 17, 2013 I was wondering why all the white pines around here look like they're dying. A lot of them have yellow needles and look they are on the fringe of dying. I thought it was lack of water, or too much water, too warm, I didn't know. That's crazy how far the salt spray got inland.Those hurricane force winds must have carried enough of salt spray inland to do substantial damage to the pines. It's only that species though, all the other evergreens such as the Norway Spruce, are doing fine. I wonder if the Norway Maples are able to handle the salt well. We'll see this spring. White Pines are super salt sensative. They should be the onlys pecies that takes such a big hit past the surge line. Within the surge area all bets are off because even salt tolerant evergreen species such as cedars are dropping like flys around here. The spring leaf out here will be scary to say the least. Without giving to much away its an excellent business opportunity, one which I am all over. (other the meteo and surfing im a horiculture junkie) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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