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Interesting Satellite visible loop with the clouds / snow / showers-flurries east, clearing west into EPA/NW NJ and clouds beyond further west

I got four just based on sticking the ruler in the snow this morning after the fact, probably closer to 5 if I'd done it properly throughout the storm. I believe the 7 in Babylon 20 minutes east of here. The NW to SE gradient shown in virtually all the forecast maps verified, at least in my neck of the woods.

Looks like you’re still in a good spot for snow. It’s really south of the LIE that drops off.

It's their first 4+ snowfall in several years, so I am happy for them. I root for everyone to get snow as long as it doesn't directly steal from MBY which is not usually an issue.

Well since la nina isn't doing us any favors.. I'll gladly take a more El nino look lol

What is this that we are looking at for Monday = looks like rain yuck

Finished up with 2.8" here. Had about .70" crusty crap when I went to bed at around 11:15 but radar had filled in nicely and was expecting 1-2" additional based on that. Fell just short of the low end of my forecast of 3-6". Melted total was exactly .5" and that was right in line with the model consensus. Was thinking .4 - .6". I knew we were in trouble very early on with sleet all through EPA, including Scranton and most of western NJ starting out as mostly sleet. No matter it looks nice out there this morning. My street is a mess from the sleet being covered by snow and temperatures in the upper teens. Kind of an ice sheet even with salting. Compressed sleet in cold temperatures covered by snow never a good thing.

And seeing eagles that frequently is an amazing conservation success story. When I started birdwatching as a teenager in the 90s, you pretty much only saw them around Conowingo dam in Harford county and a few other select spots in central MD with any regularity. Now it's totally normal to just randomly see them around, sometimes far from waterways.

Picked up .7” overnight to end with 5.2”. Areas just to my south with 6-7” from that ocean effect snow. 14” for the season. Great month.

I’ll let Ji handle this one

It is. The EPS does show that a lot of Canada is AN or well AN. But it's January. That's still plenty cold air. It's not like central Canada is in the 30s/40s during that period, which is when we're really up shit creek.

Long Island sound enhancement seems to have helped a bit.

Light snow falling right now here, 31/29.

Still going here. Just lt, non-accumulating stuff that's not on radar.

Never said that about December. I've said these type of years tend to have cool Decembers in the East, but very warm Januarys and Februarys. The beginning of January may be cold, but I can pretty much guarantee you that we won't go all the way through the month cold. That doesn't happen anymore, let alone in a -ENSO/-PDO/-IOD winter. Even in January 2018, the pattern flipped warmer in the East during the 2nd half of the month.

To be frank it makes me nervous. We want the pac jet to extend enough to keep the Aleutian ridge at bay but too much and North American cold goes bye bye. It's a delicate balance.

A cool as hell thing for me anyway - there is an eagle who clearly has a nest quite close by the farm - seeing him/her several times a week now - just a stunner living in this proximity to an eagle - hopefully will never get used to seeing it in flight. Stunning.

It was a fairly crappy week weather-wise (especially if you wanted whiteness for Christmas), but after the first half of Dec and now 1st half of Jan looking better, I be happy. Super rare we go wall to wall with cold and snow, there's always a warm/dry spell at some point, sadly it was Christmas week this year.

Yes he was

He was touting warmest Jan ever or something like that? lol.

Hopefully the cold air is stubborn and we get a good glaze on top.

Last storm was more for me too.

That's why I told you to look out the window late last night lol. It was odd that you kept calling it over when snow had moved in. Thank goodness for the back end of the storm to at least get our area to a respectable amount, even though it was still an underperformer.

That's the scientific reason not to worry about them, but what do you suggest for weenie paranoia?

I like some of the trends for later in Jan on the "weeklies", but the low heights currently progged for AK on the EPS leave me unenthused for the first 10 days or so.