Winter Banter 24-25

[WestBabylonWeather]

Plenty of marginal events on Long Island. It’s just amazing to see VA beach and the outer banks doing ok today yet in a lot of storms we struggle. Geez. 

[NorthShoreWx]

I found some snow today

https://photos.app.goo.gl/e9GV3EYofdiq7izm9

 

[jm1220]

1 hour ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Plenty of marginal events on Long Island. It’s just amazing to see VA beach and the outer banks doing ok today yet in a lot of storms we struggle. Geez. 

Temps in Norfolk are in the upper 20s in heavy snow, when those are our conditions we do the same. Problem is we’re on an island surrounded by water and we haven’t had the pattern lined up in our favor in quite some time. 

[coastalplainsnowman]

Wondering what folks here think regarding storms like this one and the public's perception, in particular the coastal public's perception.  In a situation like the current storm, where based on some of the maps I've seen here it could still be an 8-10 inch "event" 150-200 miles offshore, I bet that the overwhelming majority of the public don't realize that there was in fact a good sized storm, but it just missed us.  If you live in Chicago and a storm hits 150 miles to the east, everyone will still know about it because populated areas will still get pounded.  But if a storm misses NYC to the east by that much, the perception is that a big storm was predicted and absolutely nothing happened.   Maybe I'm master of the obvious, but I figured it's banter so why not.

[Stormlover74]

14 minutes ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

Wondering what folks here think regarding storms like this one and the public's perception, in particular the coastal public's perception.  In a situation like the current storm, where based on some of the maps I've seen here it could still be an 8-10 inch "event" 150-200 miles offshore, I bet that the overwhelming majority of the public don't realize that there was in fact a good sized storm, but it just missed us.  If you live in Chicago and a storm hits 150 miles to the east, everyone will still know about it because populated areas will still get pounded.  But if a storm misses NYC to the east by that much, the perception is that a big storm was predicted and absolutely nothing happened.   Maybe I'm master of the obvious, but I figured it's banter so why not.

Well yeah the term out to sea gets used alot when in fact only a few hundred miles away is getting hit hard.  Unless you watch the weather on the news you're probably not aware

[Brian5671]

10 hours ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Plenty of marginal events on Long Island. It’s just amazing to see VA beach and the outer banks doing ok today yet in a lot of storms we struggle. Geez. 

yeah all snow in VA beach with temps in the mid 20's the entire event. 

[LibertyBell]

7 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

Well yeah the term out to sea gets used alot when in fact only a few hundred miles away is getting hit hard.  Unless you watch the weather on the news you're probably not aware

this is why I think if we moved long island 100 miles to the east it would get a lot more snow

[North and West]

this is why I think if we moved long island 100 miles to the east it would get a lot more snow

that would make it more difficult for me to get to Mets games. That needs to be taken into consideration.


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[BxEngine]

7 minutes ago, North and West said:

that would make it more difficult for me to get to Mets games. That needs to be taken into consideration.


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Sounds like a win win. 
 

and a win for those of us willing to sacrifice long island to the snow gods. 
 

sorry not sorry

[MJO812]

Blizzard warning for nyc 

[North and West]

Sounds like a win win. 
 
and a win for those of us willing to sacrifice long island to the snow gods. 
 
sorry not sorry

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[LibertyBell]

16 minutes ago, North and West said:

that would make it more difficult for me to get to Mets games. That needs to be taken into consideration.


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true we would need a much larger tunnel.

[LibertyBell]

3 minutes ago, MJO812 said:

Blizzard warning for nyc 

a blue skies blizzard?

it's completely clear right now with blue skies and the only thing limiting visibility is the blinding sunshine.....

 

[NEG NAO]

9 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

a blue skies blizzard?

it's completely clear right now with blue skies and the only thing limiting visibility is the blinding sunshine.....

 

Sunshine Likely -  70% chance

[NEG NAO]

17 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

Sunshine Likely -  70% chance

Tonight  2 - 6 flakes Likely  . Chance of flakes 70 % 

They used to call the TV Show Seinfeld  "The show about nothing " the lasted storm thread was 59 pages about nothing" in NYC metro.. Amazing how all of us including Red Taggers and other color taggers and even the NWS get suckered in most times to believing long range range models..... usually it is the GFS leading the way but this time was the EURO

[NorthShoreWx]

3 hours ago, BxEngine said:

Sounds like a win win. 
 

and a win for those of us willing to sacrifice long island to the snow gods. 
 

sorry not sorry

Without us blocking for you, Nyack becomes "the coast" and bluewave might as well be back in Long Beach.

[Volcanic Winter]

I now have 10 inches on the season, the upside here is it oddly fell across like 5-6 separate “events” so there were at least several ‘wintry’ days and melt happened way slower than the past few winters. 

I’ll take it as someone who loves and appreciates cold weather, winter at least has felt like winter and that counts for something. 

This works for me:

[Brian5671]

We still have a glacier of 3 inches of rain soaked snow that froze solid this week-lakes are frozen.  Much more of a "traditional" winter this year even though we haven't received a snowfall more than 4 inches at a time.

[Feen]

i'm hoping we get something next week with that storm.

[Brian5671]

2 minutes ago, Feen said:

i'm hoping we get something next week with that storm.

Looks cold well into March-I think we see a few more events

[Allsnow]

18 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

We still have a glacier of 3 inches of rain soaked snow that froze solid this week-lakes are frozen.  Much more of a "traditional" winter this year even though we haven't received a snowfall more than 4 inches at a time.

Your area always gets the snow 

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, Volcanic Winter said:

I now have 10 inches on the season, the upside here is it oddly fell across like 5-6 separate “events” so there were at least several ‘wintry’ days and melt happened way slower than the past few winters. 

I’ll take it as someone who loves and appreciates cold weather, winter at least has felt like winter and that counts for something. 

This works for me:

My favorite kind of snow is this, where no shoveling is involved at all, it's a very cold and dry snow and the wind just blows it to the side lol.

 

Did I tell you I never had to shovel in our last big snowstorm here, January 2022? A foot of snow fell but the wind blew it off my car and out of my driveway and no shoveling at all was needed!

 

[Brian5671]

1 minute ago, Allsnow said:

Your area always gets the snow 

We never got into the warmth from last weekend's event so not much melting here...

[LibertyBell]

5 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

Looks cold well into March-I think we see a few more events

Looks like we will be 45+ for many days in a row, any cold will be brief.

 

[Allsnow]

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

We never got into the warmth from last weekend's event so not much melting here...

We still have plow piles from the 1.5 of sleet we got to start the month. It’s a shame most of the glacier melted as it would have still been on the ground down here. Nice 0.6 overnight to freshen up the landscape 

[forkyfork]

i want out of this new climate. snow averages are tanking, cold snaps are windy and don't set records, summers are hot without hitting 100, the best we can hope for from convection is a flash flood blob, we get boring month long dry stretches and the irregular rainfall is horrible for gardening, we get blocking every april, etc etc

[EastonSN+]

21 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

i want out of this new climate. snow averages are tanking, cold snaps are windy and don't set records, summers are hot without hitting 100, the best we can hope for from convection is a flash flood blob, we get boring month long dry stretches and the irregular rainfall is horrible for gardening, we get blocking every april, etc etc

Just give it time if there's one constant in life it's change.

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, forkyfork said:

i want out of this new climate. snow averages are tanking, cold snaps are windy and don't set records, summers are hot without hitting 100, the best we can hope for from convection is a flash flood blob, we get boring month long dry stretches and the irregular rainfall is horrible for gardening, we get blocking every april, etc etc

Now you know why I want climate modification.

Hopefully we'll have a 1966 kind of summer and 1966-67 kind of winter.

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, EastonSN+ said:

Just give it time if there's one constant in life it's change.

I think it's changing right now, we're getting into a drier 60s type of pattern.

[Dark Star]

Asking for some indoor humidity readings.  Recently bought two mini hygrometers.  It was reading 10%, then rose to 18% when I turned on a small humidifier right next to it.