New York City, Northern NJ, Long Island, Southeast NY, Connecticut OBS

[NorEaster27]

NYC will almost certainly be in the 50's over the New Year's holiday.

GFS shows a pretty strong temp inversion which doesn't warm us up as much as one would think given the 850s.

[Isotherm]

I'm literally watching the temp drop a tenth every 5 seconds here. Was 37.4 at 430 and I'm down to 27.3 already. Deep snow pack can do wonders w/ radiational cooling.

[nzucker]

GFS shows a pretty strong temp inversion which doesn't warm us up as much as one would think given the 850s.

Yes, this is one case where you really need to look carefully at 2m temps because of the onshore flow and the deep snowpack. I could see NYC staying in the upper 40s with the suburbs in the mid 40s. Temperatures should drop quickly behind the front with rain showers changing to flurries/-SN.

[Sock Puppet]

Lol how's he gonna have the streets plowed if there are still numerous plows stuck and the streets are now ice so plows wont help anymore?

Im glad the media really put Bloomberg's feet to the fire. And the MTA commissioner also. Did you know they said theyre going through with a fare hike tomorrow? This guy is a THIEF he steals our money and uses it to fatten his wallet (numerous media exposes have caught him red handed) -- NYC is going back to the days when Boss Tweed ruled. This is why the MTA needs to be dissolved.

Bloomberg said he will have the roads plowed by tomorrow-- he was getting very defensive lol. It wasnt just the fact that some of the roads werent plowed-- according to residents (and media witnessed this) NONE of the roads in Brooklyn, Queens or Staten Island started getting plowed until TODAY !

Oh, did you hear about the 911 Operator who told the pregnant mother her going into labor wasnt important enough for them to respond to? Her baby was still born Three deaths in NYC so far because of EMS failure.

[Sock Puppet]

Brooklyn Council member David Greenfield rips into Bloomberg and BTW notice the bike lane he is talking about which I mentioned yesterday here. This is the road I live on (few blocks from where he's speaking)

[mahk_webstah]

You guys should loop this RUC analysis of the system while it's still available. Just awesome to see how the phase unfolded.

http://www.meteo.psu...NL/rucloop.html

It is like the big bad northern stream dropped down and gobbled up that tight little ss shortwave! Pacman!

[ict1523]

My street as of noon today remained unplowed. I was able to somehow make my way out with my car though.

[Absolute Humidity]

Looks like rad cooling and deep snow pack is driving temps way down. Got 9.1 to 15.5 spread in western Monmouth. Roads are slick, saw accident rt. 9 south off rt 33 off ramp.

[Sock Puppet]

31 here. Snow pack isn't doing much

[nzucker]

24.1/21...temperature has been bouncing around for a while and was down to 23F earlier, weird. The developed suburbs in Westchester just radiate horribly, it's really amazing the difference you feel on a clear night when you drive 10-15 miles to the north.

[patrick05]

we're now down to 19F... and yes, temps bounced here for a while as well (based on KISP obs)... from 27F to 24F back to 27F then to 20F and finally 19F...

[Isotherm]

Coldest of the season 7.1F here last night, with rime ice everywhere.

[Chris L]

Low was 11 here. I wonder what tomorrow's morning low will be like.

[hudsonvalley21]

9 here for the low. Went down to +3 in the western portion of Orange county. Up at Saranac Lake, NY, it only went down to +24.

[IrishRob17]

9 here for the low. Went down to +3 in the western portion of Orange county. Up at Saranac Lake, NY, it only went down to +24.

I got down to 4, I was rather surprised by that!

[blazess556]

Low of 12.5 degrees

[hudsonvalley21]

I got down to 4, I was rather surprised by that!

What that snowpack can do.