December 24-25, 2020 Storm Observations and Nowcast primarily 6PM/24-10AM/25

[nycsnow]

4 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

Pretty calm out there and getting foggy, inversion will strengthen overnight

Upton thinks opposite 

[NJwx85]

Based on current radar trends looks like storm will track further West of modeled. Should bring in even milder air and heighten wind potential.

[Rtd208]

Current temp is 59 here with gusty winds. Not much rain yet.

[nycsnow]

Noticeable uptick in winds last 45 minutes or so

[CIK62]

Creeping up the coast:

[nycsnow]

Just now, CIK62 said:

Creeping up the coast:

Keep us updated with this!

[Intensewind002]

Gusting up to around 30 for the most part in the past hour or so here, there have been a few up to 35 mph, highest so far, 36 mph. Temperature is steady at about 56.5 F

[Snowlover11]

unless something changes i dont see how we get the 2-4” of rain forecasted. 

[Intensewind002]

31 minutes ago, Snowlover11 said:

unless something changes i dont see how we get the 2-4” of rain forecasted. 

Yeah these frontal events always seem to underperform when it comes to rainfall totals

[wishcast_hater]

10 minutes ago, Intensewind002 said:

Yeah these frontal events always seem to underperform when it comes to rainfall totals

Good maybe I will be able to keep my snow. Got about 6” snow depth left. 

[NJwx85]

The radar near VA beach looks juiced. Latest HRRR still has 1-3” of rain.

[Stormlover74]

Meanwhile its snowing near Atlanta 

[nycsnow]

Starting to see some gust approaching 45-50 now 

[jm1220]

The most rain would be in upslope areas in NY/NJ that typically do well in SSE flow events like this. Otherwise I wouldn’t expect more than 2” in any particular place. Main story from this would be winds-which are kicking up here in Long Beach. Having an eggnog and paying a vigil to the few remaining snow piles. 

[MJO812]

It was snowing in Atlanta before

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

Hanging on to the last patches of snow in north Lynbrook. Very apparent now that significantly more frozen precip occurred here then at my Dads in south wantagh.

Winds are still pedestrian. Going to do a drive to the beach during peak winds 

[nycsnow]

1 minute ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

Hanging on to the last patches of snow in north Lynbrook. Very apparent now that significantly more frozen precip occurred here then at my Dads in south wantagh.

Winds are still pedestrian. Going to do a drive to the beach during peak winds 

So I’m not the only one staying awake nice 

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

4 minutes ago, nycsnow said:

So I’m not the only one staying awake nice 

It’s not often you can stand in 40-50 sustained gusts in the 60s (70?) right on the beach front. I have done it a few times, the last being March 2010. I was at work on the uws during Isaias and sandy was too dangerous to get near a beach. 

[weathermedic]

Intense radar returns down in DE/MD and radar getting quite robust to our south. Heading north.

[Rjay]

19 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

It’s not often you can stand in 40-50 sustained gusts in the 60s (70?) right on the beach front. I have done it a few times, the last being March 2010. I was at work on the uws during Isaias and sandy was too dangerous to get near a beach. 

I was at the beach during Isaias.  The sand blasting I received was brutal and it was tough to stand.  

[ChineseFood4Snow]

Light breeze in Bound Brook, I hope this continues rather than the higher winds others are reporting.  I love extreme weather, but not on Christmas!

[the_other_guy]

Hicksville. 8pm.

 

Just went for a walk between courses and didn’t get blown away. Actually pleasant outside with a nice moon.

[nycsnow]

Sustained winds picking up again gust aren’t there impressive yet 

[justinj]

Se winds gusting to 30 near Islip airport 

[NJwx85]

Radar in SE VA up into the Delmarva looks intense.

[crossbowftw3]

Just now, NJwx85 said:

Radar in SE VA up into the Delmarva looks intense.

Per weatherwiz in NE forum it’s more likely something funky is happening with that radar. Observations/ground truths I’ve seen don’t match appearances 

[White Gorilla]

Had a huge gust here in Poughkeepsie that shook the house, felt like at least 40-50 mph

[IrishRob17]

6 minutes ago, crossbowftw3 said:

Per weatherwiz in NE forum it’s more likely something funky is happening with that radar. Observations/ground truths I’ve seen don’t match appearances 

Agreed, you can see it on RadarScope that the one radar, KDOX, is funky down there making it look much worse. 

[Stormlover74]

2 minutes ago, crossbowftw3 said:

Per weatherwiz in NE forum it’s more likely something funky is happening with that radar. Observations/ground truths I’ve seen don’t match appearances 

Id say so 

[crossbowftw3]

6 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Id say so 

Yeah definitely no way we have 75 DBz+ echoes happening at the moment. That’d have to be indicative of some seriously incredible rain rates  which again, don’t match ground truths.

I have seen this occur before when looking over some radar imagery in the Desert Southwest—indicative of a bad radar algorithm. Here was an example from this past summer. At this point in time the areas shown here were high and dry without any precipitation occurring.