Possible frontal wave snow

[bluewave]

The temperatures made it down to 32 here in SW Suffolk like the models were showing last few days. All the colder surfaces are covered with some paved areas wet and others white.

[NycStormChaser]

2 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

what did central park end up with..so far anyways

Probably a trace. I was shooting all over manhattan this morning. We had a few burst of moderate snow but nothing stuck to pavement. Maybe a dusting in the park though. 

 

 

[psv88]

3 minutes ago, bluewave said:

The temperatures made it down to 32 here in SW Suffolk like the models were showing last few days. All the colder surfaces are covered with some paved areas wet and others white.

30 at Westhampton, 31 here and ISP 

about 2” on the grass; inch on roads

[bluewave]

7 minutes ago, RichBailey said:

All surfaces covered in west Babylon. 
 

12 hours ago it was 60 degrees. 

 

Lots of people need to read that. 
 

 

Why? The comments about the snow not sticking on the pavement were for NYC with temperatures at 33 and 34 degrees. Long Island got heavy enough rates and temperatures falling to freezing. Like I said yesterday, this is why Long Island does better in rain to snow situations than NYC. But NYC can beat Long Island with snow changing to rain. 

[dWave]

Coating on cars, some patchy areas of slush on grass and wet pavement. If cars count then about  0.5" snow, otherwise a trace. Now 33 with flurries/drizzle.

At least they havent buried us in unnecessary salt so far.

[weatherpruf]

Did get an inch or so on cars; had to clean them off. Back to rain now. Very typical late 80's kinda storm. Still, any snows in Dec usually bode well for us, but I don't know if piddly events count. This will probably put me in the range of around 4 for Dec so far, give or take a half inch.

[psv88]

Looks more like 3” on colder surfaces, nice event 

[weatherpruf]

5 minutes ago, bluewave said:

Why? The comments about the snow not sticking on the pavement were for NYC with temperatures at 33 and 34 degrees. Long Island got heavy enough rates and temperatures falling to freezing. Like I said yesterday, this is why Long Island does better in rain to snow situations than NYC. But NYC can beat Long Island with snow changing to rain. 

Official forecasts wobbled a bit in the area, but none had more than 1-3, and by this morning were calling for an inch or less. SHows we can't zero in during these kinds of events til they are on top of us. At least we are seeing some snow; some Decembers have been warm enough for tomato seedlings to pop up...

[purduewx80]

17 minutes ago, The 4 Seasons said:

what did central park end up with..so far anyways

haven't seen theirs yet either. 

[Snowshack]

2.25” on the deck, less on warmer surfaces, 31f with light snow 

[the_other_guy]

2.25” 

 

5.75” Season thus far. Nice start

[NycStormChaser]

6 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Looks more like 3” on colder surfaces, nice event 

 

[Rtd208]

Light snow/flurries here. Picked up around 1" of accumulation on the colder surfaces.

Temp 34

[Snowshack]

4 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

Official forecasts wobbled a bit in the area, but none had more than 1-3, and by this morning were calling for an inch or less. SHows we can't zero in during these kinds of events til they are on top of us. At least we are seeing some snow; some Decembers have been warm enough for tomato seedlings to pop up...

Upton was rock steady out here with 1-3” in the forecast for the last 2+ days, and nailed the timing well in advance as well.  Good job by them ..

[NorthShoreWx]

Looks like about 3 inches here with enough to plow in the streets.  This would have been an enjoyable little event if only the pavement in Manhattan wasn't wet  

Still snowing, temperature is 30.

[Brian5671]

2 inches here with less on roads, kids have a 2 hr delay.  Euro did well on this one.

[BxEngine]

1 minute ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Looks like about 3 inches here with enough to plow in the streets.  This would have been an enjoyable little event if only the pavement in Manhattan wasn't wet  

Still snowing, temperature is 30.

Your snow doesnt count, silly. This is the ny metro forum, which is only the 5 boroughs. 

[bluewave]

2 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

Official forecasts wobbled a bit in the area, but none had more than 1-3, and by this morning were calling for an inch or less. SHows we can't zero in during these kinds of events til they are on top of us. At least we are seeing some snow; some Decembers have been warm enough for tomato seedlings to pop up...

We could see the theme of the event from the weekend model forecasts. Most showed NYC falling to just above freezing. So you knew that if the rates were too low, there wouldn’t be that much accumulation even on colder surfaces. Those 10:1 snow charts are often overdone for areas that can’t fall to freezing when precipitation starts as rain. 

[White Gorilla]

Beautiful 3 inch snowfall here where I reside up in Dutchess County 

[cardinalland]

I got 0.5-0.8” snow in Upper Manhattan (on grass, almost all paved surfaces were wet) However, in downtown Manhattan there’s no snow.

[dmillz25]

Approaching .5” with this burst of snow here by Prospect Park, Brooklyn 

[MJO812]

Snowing pretty good now

 

Nothing is accumulating here except colder surfaces

[purduewx80]

There are some ocean/bay effect snow showers moving S/SW into Sandy Hook and coastal NNJ now. Low-level lapse rates plus seeding from the synoptic event are helping these out. The north shore of LI will probably get a boost from these, as well.

[bluewave]

Now that the heavier band moved to my east, the patches of pavement in SW Suffolk  which were were white are becoming wet again.

[NorthShoreWx]

 

[gravitylover]

This back edge band blossomed nicely as it hit the Hudson Highlands and Taconics and gave me another 1/2" so far. It looks like it will be moving through soon though. I'll take this 4 1/2" and be happy.

[eduggs]

This event was elevationally dependent as expected because of the slope of the thermal front.  As is typical, surface cooling lagged mid-level cooling substantially.  So elevated areas changed over and began accumulating much sooner than lower areas.  And lower/coastal areas had only a brief period of accumulating snow when temps. were marginal.  The problem with the snow maps isn't an issue of "sticking" with "warm ground."  The issue is that the algorithms tally up all modeled "snow QPF" and display that total.  Snow accumulation is different than total modeled precipitation in frozen form.

Moderate snow sticks at 33 or 34F with dense overcast.  Truly heavy snow sticks at almost any realistic temperature.  But even steady light snow typically requires <33F to accomplish more than coating the cars.  And the vast majority of snow obs. are light in any given winter.

[hudsonvalley21]

2.6" here

[eduggs]

Overall this event was pretty well modeled even from several days out.  It was highly trackable and ended up like a standard, prototypical snow event for this area.  I'm glad a few spots hit 4", which had been suggested by the guidance as a possibility since last weekend.

It looks like it was a general c - 2 inches for the coast and river valleys with 2-5" above 400 feet or so.  

[Ericjcrash]

Weird  note from earlier side streets at home were slushy/snowcovered but sidewalks were wet. Definitely different.