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1/23-24/16 #1 All Time KNYC Snowfall-please add Obs, Accums, Pics

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RU848789

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Did one last shovel (#6) - toughest one as the plows had just come by and tossed all the heavy wet stuff into the mouth of my driveway.  Anyway, after that I took a quick spin to the middle school since I knew that was the only place I could get a good measurement. Final tally for Metuchen was 22", which is the 3rd most I've seen in my 24 years in Metuchen (28" for Jan-96 and 23" for Dec-2010).  Helluva storm.  

 

Worth repeating that I experienced a lot of difficulty getting a consistent measurement in my backyard, which is a good size with few trees, and has usually been good for previous storms: the variance was much greater than previous storms.   I'd take 20 measurements and the range would be something like 7 to 13" with a mean of 10",and a pretty high standard deviation - in addiiton, I was afraid my sample selection was biased.  So earlier today I went to the local school ball fields, which showed far less variance, providing much more confidence that the measurement was correct and unbiased.  For example, I took about 10 measurements and basically saw almost no variability on my 18.5" measurement at 5 pm or my 22" final measurement at 11 pm.  

 

Given the variance I observed, presumably due to the high winds and low moisture content snowflakes, which made drifting worse than I've seen before, I do wonder a bit about the accuracy of some of the reports published by the NWS or reported here.  Not that I suspect inflation, per se, it's just that the variance made it easy to obtain an erroneously high or low result.  

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NorthShoreWx

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96 was a huge undermeasurement. We had 28" in Brooklyn.

 

I've had enough times finishing out of the money here that I have no problem believing such discrepancies.  I thought today might be the one I jackpotted in but no it wasn't.  However I did watch the radar closely and we definitely missed all of the best banding until a little before 4PM today when we got into a great 3"/hour band.  Even with that I am going to be way lower than ISP which is about 10 miles SSE from here.  Based on the radar throughout the storm, I am not having any problem believing NYC got close to a foot more than here.

 

Other than 2/8/2013, my location has been near the bottom in a lot of the greats.  Perhaps there is a local mesoscale reason for it and perhaps it's just luck, but stuff happens.

 

PS 17" snow depth right now, which is also my storm total.

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jm1220

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Fwiw, I'm not annoyed or upset, it just bugs me. Like accuweather "real feel" and espn QBR.

I just dislike private corporation naming of public things.

Nothing personal. Hope I didn't offend you.

No way. Absolutely not. :)

 

What offends me is that I missed perhaps the NYC area's best snow event in a century. It was still awesome to live vicariously through everyone's posts here. 

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