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February 8th-9th Snowstorm/Blizzard Event Observations


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I love it. The deep snow pack, the sun shining through high level cirrus clouds. Haven't seen it this good in years. Feels like I'm on a different planet. Snow is very wet and heavy too. The sleet we had last night froze and formed solid sheet of ice under the snow. Roads have yet to be plowed!

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Fell asleep around 4:00 am, woke up around 8:00 am and went outside and measured a final tally of 10.5" in numerous spots (technically 10.0" measured + 0.5" that fell yesterday morning).  Reports from around the region were reasonably well in line with what what the Euro and many pros were predicting, although quite a few pros busted badly on the low end (will never forget Bill Evans's 1-3" prediction for most of Central Jersey on Thursday night, if I recall correctly.  Like many in this forum/thread, I was very worried after that scare in most of NJ, where we had the 3-4 hour lull - just imagine if we hadn't had that lull, but had an additional 2-4" in most places?  Anyway, here are a few numbers I collected, figuring people might want to see some representative reports (mostly in NJ, where I am) and the links below are to the NWS snowfall reports: 

 

Central Park had 11.4", LaGuardia had 12.1", parts of LI/CT had 24-30", with the most I've seen reported being Milford CT with 38".  Cheesequake reported 10.6", Paramus-14", Millburn-12", Jersey City-11.5", Newark-10", Scotch Plains-12", Princeton-7", Flemington-6", Hazlet-9", Somerville-7", Chatham-14", Pt. Pleasant-9", Brick-3", Vernon-12", Hackettstown-7" and Piscataway 8.5".  Most of South Jersey/Philly reported 1-4", the NW Philly suburbs got 2-4", and the Lehigh Valley/Poconons reported 4-7".  I didn't report anything that wasn't reported after about 4 am, since reports before then are probably missing a lot of snow.  Hell of a storm. 

6-12 seems to be the central NJ range; i didn't measure but Staten island had reports of 12 and other towns near me are 10-12. Woodbridg ALWAYS under reports and someone mentioned around 6 inches, which is too low. Probably 10-12. Any other year would be a good thump...but darn when you got reports of 40 inches in CT, i'm wondering if CT and parts of LI were the actual jackpots, not Boston. By the way Portland ME had a lot too, but my BIL in ME  still says the Boxing Day Blizzard, when he was down here for Christmas, remains the biggest he's ever seen.

 

 

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Some pics I took around campus.  Loved the orange tint to the sky.

 

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is that passion pond above? brings back memories...1984, where's the beef? flounder fishing on my days off with a a Pakistani classmate who had never been on the ocean,people in Piscataway tell the had 6 but that seems low.

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Awesome pics!  I remember wandering campus at night sometimes during big storms, always fun!

OT, but I always wanted to put "Ray" in front of the "Martin" on Martin Hall :lol:

 

Haha.  Thanks!

 

is that passion pond above? brings back memories...1984, where's the beef? flounder fishing on my days off with a a Pakistani classmate who had never been on the ocean,people in Piscataway tell the had 6 but that seems low.

Yes that's Passion Puddle.  6'' is too low, Piscataway officially measured 8.5'' which seems about right.  8.2'' here in New Brunswick.

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Cuomo saying CT and MA got hit harder than NY. I don't see any amounts in MA close to Suffolk county totals though I realize its not done there and those reports could be old. Be he sort of downplayed the impact on NY state.

Would like to see the quote about what he said that was down playing the impact.

 

How many people were stranded on the LIE while in Connecticut I95 was closed.

 

Not criticizing him. Just would be curious to see more details.

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11.4" here total in College Point, which is close to the 12.1" LGA ended up with. Great storm. 7.4" from 11pm through just after 6am. I was out during the megaband and took photos, but didn't think to take video.   :facepalm: I'll see if I can upload a photo or two. 

Thanks, RCNYILWX.  Here are the NYC measurements:

 

...NEW YORK COUNTY...   CENTRAL PARK          11.4   700 AM  2/09  CENTRAL PARK ZOO   UPPER WEST SIDE       10.9   730 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER   HAMILTON HOUSES        9.0   745 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER   GREENWICH VILLAGE      7.5   207 AM  2/09  PUBLIC
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