IrishRob17 Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 minute ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said: 7.4 inches otg at 11:00, so a very modest 0.6 inches in the last hour, yet as Rob just stated I show no radar echoes over Orange County yet it has snowed the last hour and it's still snowing. Science is great when it works. Off to bed gents, I have no idea at this point what the morning will bring. I'm hoping somehow we end up under the impending death band everyone keeps referencing and I can barely see out my window. More likely the sun will be shining and the 7.4 inches of snow I just measured will be 4.2 inches of compressed snow, ice, and sleet from the more warm nose that will ultimately spread over Orange County after midnight. The radar is filling in nicely to our south, I think it pounds again soon enough. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 18 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: The radar is filling in nicely to our south, I think it pounds again soon enough. This. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrangewx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: The radar is filling in nicely to our south, I think it pounds again soon enough. Yup Looks like some of the convective precipitation that was being modeled earlier to hit around this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Agree that more goodies are on the way, but would caution that those impressive looking echoes are being enhanced quite a bit by sleet/melting and will weaken as they push north. Probably won't reach the snowfall intensities that many of us saw a few hours ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrangewx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 5 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: Agree that more goodies are on the way, but would caution that those impressive looking echoes are being enhanced quite a bit by sleet/melting and will weaken as they push north. Probably won't reach the snowfall intensities that many of us saw a few hours ago. Can’t complain really enjoying the event so far. Ski areas are getting crushed right now. Epic start to the season for them. I tried buying tickets today for Friday and hunter/belleayre were sold out already. Ended up settling for Jiminy peak, looks like they’re gonna do ok lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 3 minutes ago, LaGrangewx said: Can’t complain really enjoying the event so far. Ski areas are getting crushed right now. Epic start to the season for them. I tried buying tickets today for Friday and hunter/belleayre were sold out already. Ended up settling for Jiminy peak, looks like they’re gonna do ok lol. Yeah, even if we struck out in the second round, a widespread 6-8" would be just fine for mid-December. Light sleet, grauple, and even a few liquid drops falling now. Never would have thought it, but even this far north I'm starting to lose ice nuclei activation in whatever saturated layers may be around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaGrangewx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Beautiful night. dumping snow again but not as fluffy as that initial band was. I measured A 9” depth in the yard Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Definitely some pingers out there. Cleared 7”. Fingers crossed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tpalm5 Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 8” on the nose in Cornwall. 1” last hour, snow/graupel mix. Radar snow hole incoming... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPcantmeasuresnow Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 7.8 inches otg 19.0° and snow has picked up in intensity. Not the quality of flakes it was earlier, snow/graupel mix, when over 3 inches piled up in an hour but no sleet either. Maybe I will make it to 12. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPcantmeasuresnow Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 If this somehow verified between now and noon I'd be ecstatic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Getting pretty blustery here with occasional whiteouts. It's still a bummer that this is all happening in the dead of night, and we won't have very impressive snow depths to show for it in the morning. Nice for 1 am jebwalks though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CPcantmeasuresnow Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 9.0 inches even at 2AM and calling it a night. Snowing at a better clip now and better snow growth but not great, yet. Hoping to exceed 12 inches by morning. Good luck to all. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Fell asleep Looks to be at least 8-9" but the wind has smoothed everything out nicely so good measurements are gonna be tough. A whole section of my front lawn still has grass showing and the other side looks to be at least a foot deep and the cars are pretty much clean (which is nice). Looks like I missed a fun one when I fell asleep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snywx Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Heavy snow 11” otg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Cleared an additional 2” for a 9” total so far. Uncleared measured 8”. A bit disappointed tbh. Still snowing though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 25/23 10.8”, light snow, blowing and drifting snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 This is one bone-chilling snowstorm imby. 18F with a stinging wind, brutal. Pretty incredible for this to be the case in a storm whose potential was ultimately thwarted by mid-level warming. Seeing those 40"+ totals from out west really stings. I can't lie. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 6 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: This is one bone-chilling snowstorm imby. 18F with a stinging wind, brutal. Pretty incredible for this to be the case in a storm whose potential was ultimately thwarted by mid-level warming. Seeing those 40"+ totals from out west really stings. I can't lie. Fooking bgm. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Gorilla Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 35 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: This is one bone-chilling snowstorm imby. 18F with a stinging wind, brutal. Pretty incredible for this to be the case in a storm whose potential was ultimately thwarted by mid-level warming. Seeing those 40"+ totals from out west really stings. I can't lie. I know. I feel robbed. When I posted in the main forum about my concerns for mid level warming yesterday, I was told not to worry at all up here. Well, I had a good reason and there we are. I love the snow and feel grateful for it, but yeah... What could have been. An opportunity like this probably won't present itself for a log time again. If we aren't fringed, we're warmed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just now, White Gorilla said: An opportunity like this probably won't present itself for a log time again. We asked for a Nemo 6"/hr repeat a little further west. Ask and ye shall receive! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Gorilla Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 21 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: We asked for a Nemo 6"/hr repeat a little further west. Ask and ye shall receive! Yeah, west, but not THAT WEST!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 16 minutes ago, Juliancolton said: This is one bone-chilling snowstorm imby. 18F with a stinging wind, brutal. Pretty incredible for this to be the case in a storm whose potential was ultimately thwarted by mid-level warming. Seeing those 40"+ totals from out west really stings. I can't lie. Well that’s always going to sting. And it’s a chicken or the egg argument but the storm coming further up the NJ coast pushed those crazy totals to our N and W and that led to the bit of warming, no? Clearly not jackpotting will always bother people but at the end of the day a foot of snow with blowing and drifting and bitter cold, deep winter conditions, a week before Christmas is nothing to complain about IMO. Winter was cancelled at the start of December and look at what we have outside the window now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Gorilla Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 20 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: Well that’s always going to sting. And it’s a chicken or the egg argument but the storm coming further up the NJ coast pushed those crazy totals to our N and W and that led to the bit of warming, no? Clearly not jackpotting will always bother people but at the end of the day a foot of snow with blowing and drifting and bitter cold, deep winter conditions, a week before Christmas is nothing to complain about IMO. Winter was cancelled at the start of December and look at what we have outside the window now. Thanks for reminding me. Such is life too. Some will always have it better, be living my dream when I can't. But I gotta remember I am living another's dream too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted December 17, 2020 Author Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 minute ago, White Gorilla said: Thanks for reminding me. Such is life too. Some will always have it better, be living my dream when I can't. But I gotta remember I am living another's dream too. There you go! Don’t get me wrong, while they picked up on the storm last week I’m still blown away by the huge swings in the models as we got closer. A couple days ago it looked like I would be on the northern fringe of the heaviest snow and in reality I wasn’t even close to the southern fringe. It’s the nature of the beast with snowstorms that’s only made worse by our access to all the models weeks in advance. So with all that, it’s easy to overlook what goes down as a solid snowstorm IMBY. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 17 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said: Well that’s always going to sting. And it’s a chicken or the egg argument but the storm coming further up the NJ coast pushed those crazy totals to our N and W and that led to the bit of warming, no? Clearly not jackpotting will always bother people but at the end of the day a foot of snow with blowing and drifting and bitter cold, deep winter conditions, a week before Christmas is nothing to complain about IMO. Winter was cancelled at the start of December and look at what we have outside the window now. Sat in my living room with all the lights off except the christmas tree, with snow falling outside, and christmas music playing. I was disappointed we didnt get more, but having a night like last night a week before christmas after the last few decembers we’ve had? Just for a few minutes it was perfect. 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
White Gorilla Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 19 minutes ago, BxEngine said: Sat in my living room with all the lights off except the christmas tree, with snow falling outside, and christmas music playing. I was disappointed we didnt get more, but having a night like last night a week before christmas after the last few decembers we’ve had? Just for a few minutes it was perfect. Amen to that! Winter wonderland this morning. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hitman Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Heading out to clean off the car and drive to the supermarket. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 1 minute ago, IrishRob17 said: Well that’s always going to sting. And it’s a chicken or the egg argument but the storm coming further up the NJ coast pushed those crazy totals to our N and W and that led to the bit of warming, no? Clearly not jackpotting will always bother people but at the end of the day a foot of snow with blowing and drifting and bitter cold, deep winter conditions, a week before Christmas is nothing to complain about IMO. Winter was cancelled at the start of December and look at what we have outside the window now. For sure. That was a really exaggerated mid-level dry push though... more than would be expected from that storm track IMO. Someone mentioned this as a point of caution in the SNE thread the other day, but it really did come to pass that the conveyor belt structure remained disjointed during cyclogenesis. It'll definitely be a funky snowfall distribution when all is said and done, but every storm is unique. Some nice snow showers with decent growth hanging back currently as the ULL crests overhead. Might be good for another inch or two. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juliancolton Posted December 17, 2020 Share Posted December 17, 2020 Just now, Hitman said: Heading out to clean off the car and drive to the supermarket. Bring me back some milk, I don't feel like snowblowing yet. That's going to be a delicate and arduous operation with lights and wires flanking the driveway. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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