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Jan 11th-12th Super Bomb or Super Bummed?


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On one location snowfall to represent a city... 

NWS for at least 15-20 years has been trying to get interested data seekers to use a REGIONAL approach to snowfall.

For me that would be 5 or 10 mile radius of the main observing site.  I think this smooths out data inconsistencies.  

We are so focused on one location and I understand that location's particular interest, but site specific info to represent even all of NYC (or just a couple of Boroughs) is probably incomplete with respect to the nearby region.   That regional approach might also reduce our hyper concerns for measuring in one spot.

Today attached courtesy of CoCoRaHs(LI/CT incomplete due to ongoing residual snowfall)  CP 0.5 looks decent.  My Wantage 0.9 looks like a decent fit. 

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55 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

Final season? Are you planning to move?

Not.  Though I will be away for a part of the new thread... fortunately I saw a note on TV that no storms site for the 10 day so I dont have to sweat a flight back on he east coast the 19th-20th.

Not sure what was going on my remaining brain. In a hurry for sure.

Thanks for the fact checking. Yay!

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13 hours ago, jm1220 said:

Nice Norlun type event on this run that would pop up for NE of us/Boston while of course south of us has gotten hit/getting hit. Nice kick in the teeth that would be. 

and this is exactly what happened, although we did get more here than we did in the Monday event.

Lake Hopatcong got 1.7" which is the most I've found.

We were close to an inch here.

 

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11 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

And hrrr took it all away :lol:

Yeah that was weird how HRRR took away the snow for a few runs after the 0z run. Obviously an error. It's annoying how inconsistent that model can be. 

Anyway I got 0.6" here. Not bad. We got our half inch to inch as expected, although I see some spots got lucky and got up to an inch and a half. Another nice little light snow event. Pretty out there.

We've nickel and dimed our way to 6 inches on the season here. Not too bad, but I hope we get a bigger event later January. Obviously we won't be able to continue to nickel and dime our way to near near normal snowfall all season. We need some bigger events. 

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Just now, winterwx21 said:

Yeah that was weird how HRRR took away the snow for a few runs after the 0z run. Obviously an error. It's annoying how inconsistent that model can be. 

Anyway I got 0.6" here. Not bad. We got our half inch to inch as expected, although I see some spots got lucky and got up to an inch and a half. Another nice little light snow event. We've nickel and dimed our way to 6 inches on the season here. Not too bad, but I hope we get a bigger event later January. Obviously we won't be able to continue to nickel and dime our way to near near normal snowfall all season. We need some bigger events. 

Yeah it really missed the heavier totals further north where it had nothing. It did that with the Christmas eve event too.

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29 minutes ago, wdrag said:

On one location snowfall to represent a city... 

NWS for at least 15-20 years has been trying to get interested data seekers to use a REGIONAL approach to snowfall.

For me that would be 5 or 10 mile radius of the main observing site.  I think this smooths out data inconsistencies.  

We are so focused on one location and I understand that location's particular interest, but site specific info to represent even all of NYC (or just a couple of Boroughs) is probably incomplete with respect to the nearby region.   That regional approach might also reduce our hyper concerns for measuring in one spot.

Today attached courtesy of CoCoRaHs(LI/CT incomplete due to ongoing residual snowfall)  CP 0.5 looks decent.  My Wantage 0.9 looks like a decent fit. 

Screen Shot 2025-01-11 at 9.23.59 AM.png

Walt, what is that amount just SW of Mt Pocono? That annoying CoCoRaHS legend is blocking it, all I see is .8 .... is that 1.8?

 

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19 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Walt, what is that amount just SW of Mt Pocono? That annoying CoCoRaHS legend is blocking it, all I see is .8 .... is that 1.8?

 

Good morning LibertyBell,

Try this attachment and in case I become incapacitated...

help yourself to looking at the data via this link

 
zoom in.  Go to map options and change precipitation to snowfall and then go up to the green part of the menu and UPDATE MAP.  
 
I hope this helps,
Walt

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30 minutes ago, wdrag said:

Good morning LibertyBell,

Try this attachment and in case I become incapacitated...

help yourself to looking at the data via this link

 

 
zoom in.  Go to map options and change precipitation to snowfall and then go up to the green part of the menu and UPDATE MAP.  
 
I hope this helps,
Walt

Screen Shot 2025-01-11 at 10.27.15 AM.png

Thanks Walt, looks like 1.8-2.5 out that way while we got 0.5 here!

I hope you're okay, Walt....

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1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

Thanks Walt, looks like 1.8-2.5 out that way while we got 0.5 here!

I hope you're okay, Walt....

I'm 74...  my Dad had a TIA maybe near age 80.  My Mom had dementia in her 80s.  There's always something to take us out of the ride. You just don't know, like weather and ejust about verything else.

So,  I try to leave behind something positive, in case I cant contribute or folks move on to other communication platforms. 

As of this moment---all very very good. 

 

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9 minutes ago, wdrag said:

I'm 74...  my Dad had a TIA maybe near age 80.  My Mom had dementia in her 80s.  There's always something to take us out of the ride. You just don't know, like weather and ejust about verything else.

So,  I try to leave behind something positive, in case I cant contribute or folks move on to other communication platforms. 

As of this moment---all very very good. 

 

You always do ….. and leave with this. As always ….

 

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20 minutes ago, rclab said:

You always do ….. and leave with this. As always ….

 

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Love this photo... gotta be in the Mountain West.  Rainbow and snow cover and a path to an end. 

Ive lost about 40% of my snow cover from this mornings event... and at 29.5F now. 

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Looks like a general 0.5-1.5" snowfall looking at the NWS accumulation map, below, with a few places <0.5" and a few places more than 1.5", including Cape May once again being the NJ winner with 2.2"...so certainly not a whiff and even made it to minor territory (1-2" - IMO) for many, which is a bit of a surprise. All gone from sunny spots, but still some in the shade, where we also still had some snow left over from Monday's event. No NWS-NYC reports yet, other than the 0.5" at Central Park.

May be an image of map and text

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