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February 8th-9th Snowstorm/Blizzard Event Observations


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I have never seen a storm with such drastic gradients of snow amounts as this on for the NYC metro. Both some major overperforming and underperforming all within 100 miles or so.

NYC and its boroughs were generally 10"-16" of snow.

Definitely no underperformer and pretty well forecasted.

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NYC and its boroughs were generally 10"-16" of snow.

Definitely no underperformer and pretty well forecasted.

 

Ahh ok I guess I was looking at the JFK total and farther back in NJ I know some were not too thrilled last night.

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We missed the timing of the phase. IF we caught it in time, we'd be 24 to 36+, like CT.

The warm tongue resulted in 5-8" less snow in NYC and Nassau. At least.

I would've had at least 19" of snow if I didn't lose .50"+ to sleet.

I still finished with 12.5" and I'm very satisfied.

I never saw rain. The worst it got was rain/sleet for an hour but the rest of the warm tongue was wasted with pure sleet/snow in Northern Queens.

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The warm tongue resulted in 5-8" less snow in NYC and Nassau. At least.

I would've had at least 19" of snow if I didn't lose .50"+ to sleet.

I still finished with 12.5" and I'm very satisfied.

I never saw rain. The worst it got was rain/sleet for an hour but the rest of the warm to his was pure sleet/snow in Northern Queens.

same in basically never rained in northern manhattan. Snow to sleet basically. I know the park recorded 1-2 hours of rain but I'm about a mile and a half NE not that it had a huge diff but didnt see much rain here

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NYC and its boroughs were generally 10"-16" of snow.

Who what now?

 

...BRONX COUNTY...   FIELDSTON             15.0   515 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     RIVERDALE             13.1   720 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     BEDFORD PARK          12.3   400 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                                 ...KINGS COUNTY...           SHEEPSHEAD BAY         9.0   730 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER    MARINE PARK            7.0   915 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER        ...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                  
...QUEENS COUNTY...   MIDDLE VILLAGE        15.0   810 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     ASTORIA               12.5  1000 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     NYC/LA GUARDIA        12.1   700 AM  2/09  FAA CONTRACT OBSERVER      COLLEGE POINT         11.1   500 AM  2/09  NWS EMPLOYEE               FLUSHING              11.0   900 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER            BAYSIDE               11.0   615 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER            FOREST HILLS           9.8   600 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER            RICHMOND HILL          9.5  1100 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     REGO PARK              8.5   830 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER            KEW GARDENS            8.5   200 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     FRESH MEADOWS          8.2   900 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     NYC/JFK AIRPORT        6.4   700 AM  2/09  FAA CONTRACT OBSERVER   ...RICHMOND COUNTY...   SUNNYSIDE             12.4   815 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     GREAT KILLS           12.3   830 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     ELTINGVILLE           10.2   500 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     DONGAN HILLS           8.0   330 AM  2/09  PUBLIC                     BAY TERRACE            5.0   900 AM  2/09  SKYWARN SPOTTER         
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The warm tongue resulted in 5-8" less snow in NYC and Nassau. At least.

I would've had at least 19" of snow if I didn't lose .50"+ to sleet.

I still finished with 12.5" and I'm very satisfied.

I never saw rain. The worst it got was rain/sleet for an hour but the rest of the warm to his was pure sleet/snow in Northern Queens.

 

 

I fully agree. probably we could have been in low 20 inch range.

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Just saw the PNS out of Upton (sorry have been focused on new England power outages for work). Nice all around! I honestly think Upton did well under the circumstances of being right on the line. Fortunately for snow lovers it was a huge bonus in some cases. I miss the big ones from when I lived in west islip (where I grew up), including PDII and '96. I was fortunate in NC to witness a "storm of the century" in 2000 when 21" fell where I was in one night on a 3-5" forecast.

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The warm tongue resulted in 5-8" less snow in NYC and Nassau. At least.

I would've had at least 19" of snow if I didn't lose .50"+ to sleet.

I still finished with 12.5" and I'm very satisfied.

I never saw rain. The worst it got was rain/sleet for an hour but the rest of the warm to his was pure sleet/snow in Northern Queens.

Same here, we never really changed to rain in jersey city. Just a little rain/sleet but it was mostly sleet and we accumulated about 1/2 to an inch of sleet/snow slop before the real stuff came in.

 

Fin

 

Blizzard of 2013

 

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Thats no freaking nor'easter, that my friends is a sub tropical hurricane. IDC what anyone says lol

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12 inches here in central nassau.

 

alot of sleet cut down on my totals.

 

that heavy band at 3 am was sick.

 

Kudos to suffolk boys!

I'm probably taking a drive up Rte 110 later and then maybe east on 25A out toward Smithtown. The LIE seems to be where accumulations really changed. I can't even imagine how heavy it must have been coming down around 4-6pm, we were absolutely dumping sleet here and they had heavier banding than we did.

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JFK once again was way too low compared to just about every other measurement. Both LGA and Central Park averaged about a foot. I'm 20 minutes away from JFK and got much more than 6".

 

On some of these big storms they come out too low for the totals in the adjacent communities like 1-26-11. Compare it to Howard Beach

and other nearby communities in Queens and Nassau.

 

http://www.erh.noaa.gov/okx/StormEvents/storm01262011.html

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I'm probably taking a drive up Rte 110 later and then maybe east on 25A out toward Smithtown. The LIE seems to be where accumulations really changed. I can't even imagine how heavy it must have been coming down around 4-6pm, we were absolutely dumping sleet here and they had heavier banding than we did.

 

 

yea i want to take my wife's xtera but shes not having it, lol, ill get out there at some point

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Same here, we never really changed to rain in jersey city. Just a little rain/sleet but it was mostly sleet and we accumulated about 1/2 to an inch of sleet/snow slop before the real stuff came in.

Thats no freaking nor'easter, that my friends is a sub tropical hurricane. IDC what anyone says lol

I wonder how eyewall would classify it as, since I think he is a hurricane specialist. ;)
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Saw this image of another "Car Graveyard" on Rt. 25. on FB. Not sure what town.

That's basically all towns east of nassau suffolk border from what I'm hearing. Still amazed that I experienced hours of rain maybe freezing rain, and still wound up with somewhere around 20 in. and the rain was heavy too. If we didn't change over, I think all of suffolk would be reporting 30 in totals. Just unreal.

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Saw this image of another "Car Graveyard" on Rt. 25. on FB. Not sure what town.

 

So strange we had this sort of thing happened with this storm, we've definitely had storms in recent years put down 3-4 inch per hour rates during bad times of day.  I wonder if maybe there was some poor preparation on the part of some of the removal crews out there.

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So strange we had this sort of thing happened with this storm, we've definitely had storms in recent years put down 3-4 inch per hour rates during bad times of day.  I wonder if maybe there was some poor preparation on the part of some of the removal crews out there.

 

Probably. Most forecasts were calling for 24" at most for LI when some end up with much more. I also think the fact that it was raining and sleeting for hours made some people thought it was ok to go out on the roads, and the rain probably caused the DOT to respond late.

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Would have loved to experience those sick totals like they did in SNE with those 25-30"+ amounts. Besides 1996, which I was not here for, the only event I experienced that was close to that was PD II with 23".

Jan. 27, 2011 dumped 16"-24" in Queens, SWCT and Nassau and had a band that was dropping 3-5" an hour for 3-5 straight hours.

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