Discussion-OBS Weekend Feb 8-9 Another mainly 12 hour snow-ice event possibly changing to rain before ending Sunday. NYC-LI-S of I78 on the edge?

[NorthShoreWx]

2 hours ago, weatherpruf said:

Went for a walk in Roosevelt Park in Edison and hoo boy, it was hazardous. Even with hikers designed for ice.

Unless they have built in spikes, thats marketing BS.

[weatherpruf]

10 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Unless they have built in spikes, thats marketing BS.

I think so too, but at least I buy the stuff for cheap at the end of the season. 

[L.I.Pete]

Definitely got some sleet at the start/end but close to 5” in Port Jeff Station. Got to spend a lovely hour in the hot tub at the height of it.


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[NorthShoreWx]

5 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

I think so too, but at least I buy the stuff for cheap at the end of the season. 

These are cheapo knock offs that I wouldn't trust in the mountains, but they might be good in local parks and icy driveways. 

https://www.amazon.com/Traction-Crampons-Stainless-Climbing-Mountaineering/dp/B07H4H7MKR/

Beats a broken wrist and is much cheaper than an ER copay.  

[NewRoGuy]

Three inches for New Rochelle

[steve392]

Had maybe 3" of snow before sleet took over and coated it about an 1/8th of an inch.  Really compacted it all down.  

[psv88]

Bunch of 5” reports from Commack/hauppauge/smithtown area.
 

Verifies my 4.8” measurement perfectly. This area usually finds a way to clean up.

[WestBabylonWeather]

21 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Bunch of 5” reports from Commack/hauppauge/smithtown area.
 

Verifies my 4.8” measurement perfectly. This area usually finds a way to clean up.

Around 4” here in west babylon. If I ever move I’ll be moving to commack 

[LibertyBell]

21 minutes ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Around 4” here in west babylon. If I ever move I’ll be moving to commack 

It's not a big move.  Smithtown, Port Jefferson or Mt Sinai might be even better.

 

[WestBabylonWeather]

Just now, LibertyBell said:

It's not a big move.  Smithtown, Port Jefferson or Mt Sinai might be even better.

 

I miss Nassau sometimes but somehow the traffic is worse lol

[NorthShoreWx]

25 minutes ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

Around 4” here in west babylon. If I ever move I’ll be moving to commack 

I lived for a few years in the Arnold Ave area of West Babylon before moving back to the north shore.

[donsutherland1]

The clouds began breaking around mid-afternoon. From Tarrytown, NY:

[psv88]

1 hour ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

I miss Nassau sometimes but somehow the traffic is worse lol

There is nothing to miss about Nassau. I lived there for 5 years. Suffolk kicks its ass. 
 

Smithtown area also great for snow. One you get further northeast east you are in no man’s land and getting to the city becomes a real hike 

[LibertyBell]

7 minutes ago, psv88 said:

There is nothing to miss about Nassau. I lived there for 5 years. Suffolk kicks its ass. 
 

Smithtown area also great for snow. One you get further northeast east you are in no man’s land and getting to the city becomes a real hike 

Port Jefferson is a good place to be if you want to get into the city.  You can get to the city from there in about an hour on the LIRR.  Further east it's too much of a hassle.

[psv88]

4 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Port Jefferson is a good place to be if you want to get into the city.  You can get to the city from there in about an hour on the LIRR.  Further east it's too much of a hassle.

No way. Port Jeff is well over an hour on the train. It’s 65 minutes to Penn from Huntington which is well west on the same line. I think it’s a 90 minutes train ride 

[LibertyBell]

9 minutes ago, psv88 said:

No way. Port Jeff is well over an hour on the train. It’s 65 minutes to Penn from Huntington which is well west on the same line. I think it’s a 90 minutes train ride 

Sorry yeah, 30 min to Huntington and then 1 hour to Penn.

Huntington and Babylon are both about the same distance from Penn (one hour). I used to go to Penn from both. It was awesome taking a one hour nap on the train and wake up at Penn lol.

 

 

[NorthShoreWx]

1 hour ago, psv88 said:

There is nothing to miss about Nassau. I lived there for 5 years. Suffolk kicks its ass. 
 

Smithtown area also great for snow. One you get further northeast east you are in no man’s land and getting to the city becomes a real hike 

It's a hike from Smithtown.  Did it for a few years 

[NorthShoreWx]

1 hour ago, LibertyBell said:

Port Jefferson is a good place to be if you want to get into the city.  You can get to the city from there in about an hour on the LIRR.  Further east it's too much of a hassle.

You're dreaming.

It's 4+ hours a day commuting 

[vegan_edible]

3 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

The clouds began breaking around mid-afternoon. From Tarrytown, NY:

one of my favorite walking paths in westchester. did you go through the woods at all? absolutely amazing after a snowfall

[donsutherland1]

1 minute ago, vegan_edible said:

one of my favorite walking paths in westchester. did you go through the woods at all? absolutely amazing after a snowfall

No. I started, but there was a lot of ice under the snow.

[Santa Claus]

10 hours ago, wdrag said:

Hope we agree that the NAM and SREF are not always best... certainly not last night.  This time the EC-EPS kind of nailed it, Canadian and GFS not too bad either, as opposed to last Thursday when the NAM/SREF prevailed. 

That is why pronouncements need to be counted in uncertainty.  

CoCoRaHs for last nights snow attached. Please click for clarity and unless your amount differs by more than 20% from these numbers, please accept this as reasonable. 

is this snow + ice?

i think there's simply no way new brunswick got 1.2 inches of snow, i don't think it ever changed over.  i jebwalked the first hour and half and continued to monitor thereafter and it was ice the entire time

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, NorthShoreWx said:

You're dreaming.

It's 4+ hours a day commuting 

Trust me it's way better than the south shore of Nassau County, where it was 3 hours a day commuting because of poor placement of highways (and still over 2 hours using mass transit.)

[NorthShoreWx]

14 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Trust me it's way better than the south shore of Nassau County, where it was 3 hours a day commuting because of poor placement of highways (and still over 2 hours using mass transit.)

Could be worse, could be raining.

I assure you we don't live there for the commute.

[LibertyBell]

6 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Could be worse, could be raining.

I assure you we don't live there for the commute.

I think somewhere around Oyster Bay to Glen Cove to Roslyn to Manhasset to Great Neck would be the ideal place to live for snowfall + commute.  The hills up there are truly amazing and it's less than an hour from there into the city. Some of the nicest houses on Long Island too.

 

[NorthShoreWx]

4 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I think somewhere around Oyster Bay to Glen Cove to Manhasset to Great Neck would be the ideal place to live for snowfall + commute.  The hills up there are truly amazing and it's less than an hour from there into the city. Some of the nicest houses on Long Island too.

 

If you've got $50k/month for a mortgage, go for it.

[wdrag]

31 minutes ago, Santa Claus said:

is this snow + ice?

i think there's simply no way new brunswick got 1.2 inches of snow, i don't think it ever changed over.  i jebwalked the first hour and half and continued to monitor thereafter and it was ice the entire time

It is snow and ice. I've attached NWS storm reports also showing multiple 1.2" near New Brunswick.

Is it possible you missed a 45 minute period of heavy wet snow?

Best I can do for you... I'll accept CoCoRaHs any day, except if a decimal point mess up or combining two days in one. CoCoRaHs is accepted for Climate reports.

This may not help, but best I can do in a hurry.

 

 

[The 4 Seasons]

Snowfall totals for this event

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/past-storms-24-25

 

[RU848789]

5 hours ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Snowfall totals for this event

https://www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/past-storms-24-25

 

Thanks, but why wouldn't you include Warren County on your maps?  i get it's not part of the formal NYC MSA, but it part of the larger CMSA and just looks funny, geographically to be omitted, as it's closer to NYC than a bunch of the counties in the DMA.  Just my $0.02.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

 

[L.I.Pete]

Sorry yeah, 30 min to Huntington and then 1 hour to Penn.
Huntington and Babylon are both about the same distance from Penn (one hour). I used to go to Penn from both. It was awesome taking a one hour nap on the train and wake up at Penn lol.
 
 

Yeah 2:05 - 2:20 typically from Port Jeff to Penn. I live five minutes from the station and still drive 20 minutes to Ronkonkoma.


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[The 4 Seasons]

9 hours ago, RU848789 said:

Thanks, but why wouldn't you include Warren County on your maps?  i get it's not part of the formal NYC MSA, but it part of the larger CMSA and just looks funny, geographically to be omitted, as it's closer to NYC than a bunch of the counties in the DMA.  Just my $0.02.  

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_metropolitan_area

 

Simple. It was the best looking/clean map of the tri-state area i could find on google that i was able to edit in photoshop. It looked just like that map that you linked from the wikipedia article, it had Pike county in there but i deleted it because it looked weird.

Also that link you sent literally has warren county ommited in the picture on that page LOL

"Map of the metropolitan divisions (MDs) of the New York metropolitan area and the additional counties that make up the New York-Newark, NY-NJ-CT-PA CSA, as defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in 2021^[6]"