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Observations of snow, sleet, freezing rain Sun-Tue Dec 1-2-early 3


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12 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Being a few miles east of JFK and using the radar for confirmation, I can state that it was snowing pretty steadily from 8 PM last night to around 7 AM this morning.

 

There were good echos over SW Nassau for a while yesterday night. I wonder if Long Beach actually did fairly well. 

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6 minutes ago, Cfa said:

Lol I’m fine as long as it quickly melts, but it was unexpected (for me), things didn’t look too promising last night.

It's very photogenic but looks like it's melting pretty quick, better take pics quick or it'll be gone before noon!

The birds are having a field day too, I think they're playing in it and eating (drinking) it?

 

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22 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

It's very photogenic but looks like it's melting pretty quick, better take pics quick or it'll be gone before noon!

The birds are having a field day too, I think they're playing in it and eating (drinking) it?

 

The ground is still warm so it’s probably melting from underneath. 

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1 hour ago, NYCweatherNOW said:

********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL********************

LOCATION          STORM TOTAL     TIME/DATE   COMMENTS                   
                     SNOWFALL           OF 
                     /INCHES/   MEASUREMENT

CONNECTICUT

...FAIRFIELD COUNTY...
   NEW FAIRFIELD          6.7   400 AM 12/03  TRAINED SPOTTER         
   BRIDGEPORT AIRPORT     2.0  1200 AM 12/03  CO-OP OBSERVER          

...NEW LONDON COUNTY...
   GILMAN                 5.8   517 AM 12/03  SOCIAL MEDIA            

NEW JERSEY

...BERGEN COUNTY...
   FRANKLIN LAKES         7.8  1000 PM 12/02  BROADCAST MEDIA         
   EAST RUTHERFORD        2.0   710 PM 12/02  TRAINED SPOTTER         

...ESSEX COUNTY...
   CEDAR GROVE            6.6   425 AM 12/03  PUBLIC                  
   ESSEX FELLS            6.2   600 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  
   WEST ORANGE            5.5   900 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  
   BLOOMFIELD             4.5   945 PM 12/02  BROADCAST MEDIA         
   MAPLEWOOD              2.6   530 PM 12/02  COCORAHS                
   NEWARK                 1.1   841 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  

...HUDSON COUNTY...
   HARRISON               2.2   345 AM 12/03  CO-OP OBSERVER          

...PASSAIC COUNTY...
   WEST MILFORD           9.2   920 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  

...UNION COUNTY...
   NEWARK AIRPORT         2.2   100 AM 12/03  FAA OBSERVER            
   CRANFORD               2.0   810 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  

NEW YORK

...NASSAU COUNTY...
   MERRICK                1.5   501 AM 12/03  BROADCAST MEDIA         

...NEW YORK (MANHATTAN) COUNTY...
   CENTRAL PARK           1.5   100 AM 12/03  PARK CONSERVANCY        

...ORANGE COUNTY...
   MIDDLETOWN            13.2  1150 PM 12/02  FIRE DEPT/RESCUE        
   MONROE                11.3   445 AM 12/03  TRAINED SPOTTER         
   WARWICK               10.0  1100 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  
   GARDNERTOWN            9.1  1134 PM 12/02  TRAINED SPOTTER         
   NEW WINDSOR            7.0  1200 AM 12/03  TRAINED SPOTTER         
   HAMPTONBURGH           5.0   700 PM 12/02  TRAINED SPOTTER         
   1 NNW CORNWALL ON HU   3.5   700 PM 12/02  COCORAHS                

...QUEENS COUNTY...
   NYC/JFK AIRPORT        0.6   100 AM 12/03  FAA OBSERVER            
   NYC/LAGUARDIA AIRPOR   0.3   100 AM 12/03  FAA OBSERVER            

...RICHMOND COUNTY...
   WESTERLEIGH            3.5  1250 AM 12/03  SOCIAL MEDIA            

...ROCKLAND COUNTY...
   SLOATSBURG             5.1   945 PM 12/02  TRAINED SPOTTER         

...SUFFOLK COUNTY...
   WEST BABYLON           2.3  1150 PM 12/02  SOCIAL MEDIA            
   UPTON                  0.8   100 AM 12/03  NWS OFFICE              
   ISLIP AIRPORT          0.6  1200 AM 12/03  FAA OBSERVER            

...WESTCHESTER COUNTY...
   CHAPPAQUA              2.0   835 PM 12/02  PUBLIC                  

&&

I heard tourists in Central Park got lost during the intense thundersnow band that came through at 6pm.. Help was sent for them but then that late night band pivoted down from Albany and it was too intense to search in.. Unfortunately many suffered frostbite. If only they listened to your 50 posts on this storm, they would've known NYC was going to be buried. 

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56 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Thanks!  Do they have METARs for Central Park too or is that only for airports?

In case it's just for airports, do you have one for Islip too? Their last measurement was also at 1 am.

Yes, NYC's observations are also available in METAR form. The 931 groups are usually only done for the 3 major airports: JFK, EWR and LGA, and even that isn't consistent. ISP did not report a 931 group at 12Z.

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25 minutes ago, West Mtn NY said:

I heard tourists in Central Park got lost during the intense thundersnow band that came through at 6pm.. Help was sent for them but then that late night band pivoted down from Albany and it was too intense to search in.. Unfortunately many suffered frostbite. If only they listened to your 50 posts on this storm, they would've known NYC was going to be buried. 

I'm on a SAR team.  Surprised we didn't get called out for that.:snowing:

1.5" in Smithtown.  It snowed for a long time but mostly quite light.

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2 hours ago, Brian5671 said:

About an inch and half here.   Big bust all around-models really failed on this one.   Oh well, take what we can get, the season is young.

I think Bridgeport beat Fairfield for the first time with 2.0 on both sides of the storm.

2 overnight and .5 for the first part for 2.5 in Easton.

Was your 1.5 just for last night or entire storm.

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1 hour ago, NorthShoreWx said:

I'm on a SAR team.  Surprised we didn't get called out for that.:snowing:

1.5" in Smithtown.  It snowed for a long time but mostly quite light.

1.5" seems to be quite widespread with this storm along the coast, with a high of 3.5" in some spots.  For so much banding this storm was quite uniform for us.

 

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48 minutes ago, Snow88 said:

Guess where I live 

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They always hate on Queens lol.

Do you know when they calculated the NESIS value of the Jan 2016 blizzard they ignored JFK's 31" total from that storm even though that total was confirmed on re-analysis?  That storm would have pulled ahead of March 1960's NESIS value had JFK's measurement been taken into account.

 

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10 minutes ago, rclab said:

UHI Capitol of the world? As always .....

there was a  5 mile wide radar bubble with JFK its center for three hours yesterday where it was raining while it was snowing in every other direction, this happened from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM.  At least it snowed here for a few hours longer than it did in the city to make up for it so the totals evened out (although you can't tell by that map because the last measurements were taken at 1 am while it was still snowing here until 7 am or so.)

 

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Took off out of JFK earlier

 

Ironically, JFK ended up with more snow on the ground than most of Queens.

Once the sun set, the southern parts of BK and Queens must have has some stronger precip.

There is a line that extends about a mile inland where open areas are white...beyond that, not very white

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1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

there was a  5 mile wide radar bubble with JFK its center for three hours yesterday where it was raining while it was snowing in every other direction, this happened from 11:30 AM to 2:30 PM.  At least it snowed here for a few hours longer than it did in the city to make up for it so the totals evened out (although you can't tell by that map because the last measurements were taken at 1 am while it was still snowing here until 7 am or so.)

 

Remember there are different parts of the city. It snowed by me on the far uws the whole day other then a couple periods of drizzle. From some reason the LGA area into central queens had a stronger heat island the all but maybe midtown 

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3 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Remember there are different parts of the city. It snowed by me on the far uws the whole day other then a couple periods of drizzle. From some reason the LGA area into central queens had a stronger heat island the all but maybe midtown 

I think that might have been an early season thing, I saw that there were areas of rain on the north shore early in the evening (like around 8 PM) while it was snowing to beat the band down here.

I wrote a post about the timing of the change to snow, tell me if you think this is fairly accurate- where does the UWS fit in here?:

9 AM Staten Island. 10 AM North Shore (Huntington/Oyster Bay) 11 AM Central Park 12 PM Brooklyn 1 PM Queens 1:30-2:30 PM Western Long Island

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11 minutes ago, jfklganyc said:

Took off out of JFK earlier

 

Ironically, JFK ended up with more snow on the ground than most of Queens.

Once the sun set, the southern parts of BK and Queens must have has some stronger precip.

There is a line that extends about a mile inland where open areas are white...beyond that, not very white

Indeed.  It snowed quite steadily here from 8 PM to 7 AM.  We already had like a quarter of an inch on the ground before that which fell between 2:30 PM and 3:30 PM.

 

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