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NYC/PHL Dec 26-27 Boxing Day Blizzard Part 10


yhbrooklyn

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the past 10 years have been the golden age for big snowstorms in our area.

10" to 20" snowstorms have become almost common.

it's crazy.

19" here as of 12:30am

Gotta enjoy it while we can. You know we'll flip to a different pattern sooner or later, and have years with very few big storms. This period has been incredible.

I will go out to measure shortly. I think we probably have around 20 inches here. Nice being one of the jackpot areas for a change.

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There is literally a heaven on earth. I have found it. We have surpassed Feb 06 total here. Unbelievable...Blizzard of 1996 is the only one up higher on the totem pole. Here are some pics from a walk at about 11:30

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I'd give up half my tornadoes for what you have got out of this :thumbsup:

you are going to come close to the 96 storm total I think. how long ago did you have 20"? like under 2 hours right?

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So it looks like we have a consensus of about 14 inches lol. Did JFK up their totals yet? I just measured 14.9, you have 13.5 and JM has 14-15.

It's hard to imagine that a lot of totals aren't inflated because of the drifting and blowing from roofs. I tried to find a very rough average and subtracted an inch or two because of the roof blowoffs. We'll probably end the night with 18" and maybe 20" if one of these last minute bands nails us for a while. Overall an extraordinary and memorable storm here. I suspect the axis of heaviest snow at the end will roughly resemble 2/25/10's but of course plenty more to our south into VA. SNE looks like they largely got shafted by the mid level dryslot.

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I just read someones post on fb, he stated that he lives in Edison,Nj, "im in that band in westifled about 10 miles north and its the most intense band weve been in and we have about 32 inches arleady", he also mentioned that he would not be surprised if he hits 40" :/

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11 would be legit since LGA/JFK both have 11....they may come in with more than that, we'll know on the climo report in 15-20 minutes or so or the next PNS, whichever is first..they technically probably had 14-15 if I had to guess

11 would be a bit of a discrepancy from 20 lol. Hey, can you find the precip totals for all 3 airports so we can compare them to NYC to see how inaccurate the airports are for measuring snow on top of a roof? Theyve admitted to having problems with this before, so I think it likely that in a storm as tough as this, history would repeat itself.

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I just read someones post on fb, he stated that he lives in Edison,Nj, "im in that band in westifled about 10 miles north and its the most intense band weve been in and we have about 32 inches arleady", he also mentioned that he would not be surprised if he hits 40" :/

I'm in westfield and have just over 2 feet but probably not 32 inches. most likely a drift measurement.

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I just read someones post on fb, he stated that he lives in Edison,Nj, "im in that band in westifled about 10 miles north and its the most intense band weve been in and we have about 32 inches arleady", he also mentioned that he would not be surprised if he hits 40" :/

We have someone on this board from Edison. I wonder how much he measured?

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Someone wanted to know the total at TTN in the previous thread. I'm near the airport and have 9.1". The city probably has more, and the eastern suburbs yet more... this side of town got shafted.

hey join the club. i'm just barely over 8" here, surrounded by 10" reports to my east, west and south

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I just read someones post on fb, he stated that he lives in Edison,Nj, "im in that band in westifled about 10 miles north and its the most intense band weve been in and we have about 32 inches arleady", he also mentioned that he would not be surprised if he hits 40" :/

I wil talk to my uncle in the Mahwah Ramapo Area tomorrow. He probably has over 30 as well. incredible persistence in that NE NJ SE NY band.

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I just read someones post on fb, he stated that he lives in Edison,Nj, "im in that band in westifled about 10 miles north and its the most intense band weve been in and we have about 32 inches arleady", he also mentioned that he would not be surprised if he hits 40" :/

That was not me, however, it getting 30+ is likely. We have been getting 1-2 inches per hour for nearly 8 hours now.

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Someone wanted to know the total at TTN in the previous thread. I'm near the airport and have 9.1". The city probably has more, and the eastern suburbs yet more... this side of town got shafted.

I measured 16 inches in Princeton Junction about an hour ago. Super unofficial though as I've been randomly stabbing an old yardstick in the sea of white.

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