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Possible NYC snow Wed Night or Thursday


Mitchel Volk

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I  mean I wasn't making any type of formal declaration that it was purely an elevation driven snow event; I saw the 19 inches up at West Milford...which, I guess is above the 1000' a.s.l. topographic contour...and just described it as I did. 

 

Ironically, I'm the spotter who reported the 19" snowfall in West Milford in the October 2011 event. An extraordinarily difficult snowfall to measure as temps were marginal and it was such a wet snowfall. There was great variety not only within the township (a rather large town of 80 square miles with much change in elevation) but even within my own property. The 19" number was an average of sorts and, looking back, perhaps under the conditions encountered, I should have reported the maximum measurement of 25" I measured on the flat. However, there were other measurements as low as 14".  Not knowing I was the person who reported the official measurement and which the national media happened to pick up on (although there was a higher official measurement in NJ of 19.1" by a spotter in adjoining Highland Lakes), reactions from people in town were very telling -- some saying that we had far less than 19" and others complaining that they had far more. In reality, both were right.

I remember telling the Weather Channel crew who were covering the storm live from our town that they'd be better off moving to a higher elevation spot. However, due to some technical reasons they needed to stay where they were, which happened to be at one of the lowest elevations of the entire township. Consequently, I doubt they received more than a foot or so in the spot they were reporting from. Elevation was huge in that storm; probably a 500 year event, considering the calendar and the amount of snowfall.

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That's something that is exaggerated time and time again. Heavy snow will quickly overcome warm ground temperatures. We've seen it several times where temps were in the 60s just a day or two before an event. Once it sticks, it becomes the foundation for the rest of the snow to stick to. Without heavy precip though, that is correct, it will have a very tough time. Otherwise, we've seen it stick in mid April following a day in the 60s to almost 70

The Easter Snowstorm of 1970 was a case in point. In 60's day before, 6-8" accumulation at least in Scarsdale. I think KNYC only got 3-4".
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