BxEngine Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 yea... I really did measure all over the place.. It was hard for me to come to grips with it.. I thought I didn't know how to use a ruler, but that's all I got.. I think the Palisades mall magically sucked up some of the snow in between our locations and caused the mall to sink a couple more inches.. If you look at some of the radar shots...the very northern tip of the great banding that sat over earthlight for hours kinda snuck into eastern rockland a bit...Plus my 500' kinda helped. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BxEngine Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 my all time favorite.. Mine too.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 If you look at some of the radar shots...the very northern tip of the great banding that sat over earthlight for hours kinda snuck into eastern rockland a bit...Plus my 500' kinda helped. Yes you are correct, the radar showed that beautifully. that band was crazy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 If you look at some of the radar shots...the very northern tip of the great banding that sat over earthlight for hours kinda snuck into eastern rockland a bit...Plus my 500' kinda helped. You can see the subsidence over Central Westchester, I was really pissed in that storm despite loving the extreme conditions outside. Upton illogically updated our forecast to 20"+ during the storm when it was clear Westchester was going to sit in light snows with poor snow growth while NJ and Dutchess County got rocked. This was a major bust as I only measured 13" here in Dobbs Ferry, although I do believe I slightly undermeasured since spotter reports in the area were in the 14-18" range. That really began the epic stretch of cold and snow cover we enjoyed this winter. Makes me want to do it all over, although I don't know if I want to be on the coast for another winter. I am really ready to move to an epically snowy place like the Northern Greens, BC's Coast Range, or the Sierra Nevada. While I'm young and can still enjoy winter and trying to ski, I want to be in a place that gets nailed year after year. Winter to me means having a huge snowpack and multiple large storms, as I remember being in the Poconos at our house in 93-94 and having 3' on the ground at 1500'....can't even imagine what the mountains near 2500' had. I am seriously considering trying to find a job in a place that gets pasted, and the Sierras are my number one choice for the epic Pacific jet snowstorms as well as proximity to San Francisco. I do love Nor'easters but the second half of this winter got kind of painful, and who knows if we'll have such a memorable season next year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sn0waddict Posted April 1, 2011 Share Posted April 1, 2011 What's better than snow? Cute animals in snow, duh http://www.todaysbigthing.com/2011/03/21 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 nice! I'm still trying to figure out how a massive storm like that spared me with 12 inches Banding FTL *Drool* You're making me want to turn back time to December again. I wish we can go back to this storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 ftw the fence in front of my house is about 3' high (the panels, not the posts) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Forky, you got over 30", right? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 Forky, you got over 30", right? i never actually measured i'd guess somewhere in the 30" range Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted April 2, 2011 Share Posted April 2, 2011 i never actually measured i'd guess somewhere in the 30" range though i did measure a 23" depth around midnight, and we had another 3 hours of 2"+ per hour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 though i did measure a 23" depth around midnight, and we had another 3 hours of 2"+ per hour You didnt measure in the morning? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 You didnt measure in the morning? Lyndhurst NJ had 29 inches of snow at 2 AM... They didn't update it.... So, we'll never know how much they truly got... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 Lyndhurst NJ had 29 inches of snow at 2 AM... They didn't update it.... So, we'll never know how much they truly got... Do they have any kind of water equivalent measurement, Chris? Maybe we can estimate! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted April 3, 2011 Share Posted April 3, 2011 You didnt measure in the morning? there was too much drifting for an accurate measurement without having to measure all over the place, so i didn't bother here's another pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Yea, it's one of those storms where you could have 3 feet on one block and 2 feet on the next.... you'd probably have to measure over a large area to get any kind of accurate average. This past Boxing Day storm was sort of like that too. BTW those pics are mindnumbing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueSkiesFading Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Lyndhurst NJ had 29 inches of snow at 2 AM... They didn't update it.... So, we'll never know how much they truly got... I live in Lyndhurst and I think that 29" total was slightly inflated. I only took one measurement at the end of the storm and there was about 22-24" on the ground. I think 25 or 26" would be a more accurate total as I doubt it compacted that much in a few hours. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Given the winds, it was essentially impossible to get a good measurement in any urban or semi-urban area. All you had to do was look at the rooftops... was ANY snow left on them? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Analog96 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Given the winds, it was essentially impossible to get a good measurement in any urban or semi-urban area. All you had to do was look at the rooftops... was ANY snow left on them? There was a good amount of snow left on the rooftops here. Then again, where I live, a lot of the roofs are relatively flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 My location had snow good amount off the roofs as well; so I will never know how much really fell, but I said 24 inches is a solid measurement, regardless even though it was perhaps closer to 26 or 27". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 It sucks that NYC didn't break the record. I really thought there was a good shot of the record being broken. I had 60 inches by Feb 1. I never remember that much snow before Feb 1 in a long time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 It sucks that NYC didn't break the record. I really thought there was a good shot of the record being broken. I had 60 inches by Feb 1. I never remember that much snow before Feb 1 in a long time. again, if you want to blame one storm: January 11-12th, 2011. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 again, if you want to blame one storm: January 11-12th, 2011. That and February sucked big time. The blocking broke down. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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nzucker Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 again, if you want to blame one storm: January 11-12th, 2011. That was my best storm of the season with 14.5", as a nice band aligned along the CT/NY border and clocked Westchester for a while. Central Park only got 9" as the low pressure bombed out a bit late for NYC...had the Miller B formed a bit faster, we all would have seen 12+, and maybe the 20+ amounts in SNE. I remember that being a very cold, powdery snow with temperatures in the low 20s for most of the event. That and February sucked big time. The blocking broke down. We lost the -NAO after the 1/12 storm, but the MJO-induced PNA saved us for a while. When that collapsed, we went into a full La Niña pattern with the trough shifting to the West Coast, something we've seen in many other La Niña Februaries such as 1955 and 1989, so not uncommon for a strong cold ENSO to have this pattern change. The -NAO came back in late March but it was too late for NYC to crack the record. Still, 09-10/10-11 were the snowiest consecutive winter's in the area's history, no way I ever thought I would have another 70" season here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
famartin Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 We lost the -NAO after the 1/12 storm, but the MJO-induced PNA saved us for a while. Actually the -NAO came back in time for 1/26, at least according to CPC. http://www.cpc.ncep.noaa.gov/products/precip/CWlink/pna/nao.sprd2.gif Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Actually the -NAO came back in time for 1/26, at least according to CPC. http://www.cpc.ncep....a/nao.sprd2.gif It came back a little bit, but not to the extent of the mega-block we had in December and early January. There was only a slight dip into negative territory on the CPC chart. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 This image brings a tear to my eye. Normally our area would see rain with a track like that. What a storm it was. I wish we can go back and relive it again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 IF Jan 11-12 bombed 3-4 hours quicker, we would have been buried with another 20-30" snowfall. All things considered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheTrials Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 This image brings a tear to my eye. Normally our area would see rain with a track like that. What a storm it was. I wish we can go back and relive it again. decent little storm, blizz 96 still takes the cake. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted April 4, 2011 Share Posted April 4, 2011 Radar is awesome, but JAN 1996 radar is still the king. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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