CPcantmeasuresnow

Some town in between Oswego and Syracuse is going to exceed six feet from the event going on there now. Winter storm warnings there tonight for 1-3 feet and snowfall rates 3-5 inches per hour. This is on top of 3-4 feet that has hit this area the last couple of days.

Yes Syracuse and Oswego throwing us their table scraps. Some towns in between both will end up with over 6 feet from this. Snowfalls rates there tonight are 3-5 inches per hour. One of these days I have to drive up before a big one.

Did any of the local airports or Central Park report any measurable snow from last night?

Im not sure all areas will go green during that period but I'm curious why you view that as better?

This is a bucket list item for me. We live 200-250 miles from the greatest lake effect area anywhere and I still haven't been up there to experience one of the classics.

Forecast low was 15 it's now 10. Cloud cover expected around midnight. I would expect temperatures to level off or rise after that.

Yes, in the next 14 days I have four forecast days above 40. I may fill up the pool.

LGA is usually pretty reliable with measurements. They must not have bothered to measure. It seems unlikely they didn't get something measurable.

Any data for that criteria, no days 50+ in January, in Orange County airport in Montgomery NY?

You know what would be even better? An entire January where 50+ never happens, but to each his own.

The LGA number is a little suspect, especially when looking at the radar. It's nice to see the Park getting two measurements in a row correct. They have been especially bad the last 4-5 years on the under 1 inch amounts, often times ignoring them or recording a T.

0.6 inches here, 17.8 inches now for the season, and 27 days after today with snow cover. 20.8° and feels great.

The past four winters have been so bad, especially for those in the urban areas and coastal plain of this forum, people forgot what winter is supposed to to look and feel like. December was a solid A- here in Orange County. 17 inches of snow and temperatures 3 degrees below the now inflated 1991-2020 30 year average. Gangbusters is a little strong.

Missed it falling but 0.6 inches of new snow. I7.8 for the season with 26 days of snow cover.

December will come to a close today with 26 days of snow cover out of 31. Temperatures will average about 3.0° below the new high normal, and snow fall for the month will close with 17 inches. Other than Christmas being barely white the month closes as a sold A-. A white Christmas like last year, with a 4-5 inch snowpack on the ground Christmas morning, would have made it an A.

I don't see any days above 30 for the next week. Oddly no nights in the single digits either during that time. I suspect with the snow cover and some calm nights we have at least a couple.

Same here. Snowpack is 100% coverage and the 3-4 inches which covers the landscape probably contains at least an inch of absorbed rain, snow and ice from last night. The sun angle this time of year won't make a dent in this stuff below 38 degrees. I'm now at 23 days of snow cover and counting and we're not even to January. Last year with only 33 inches of snow I had 51 days. Normal to below normal winter temperatures can do wonders.

41 and cloudy. Precipitation done and only two hours of daylight left. Looks like this snow pack is going to be around well into the New year.

35 degrees light rain continues. Amazing when it's liquid how the radar keeps filling in to the west. Snow pack still pretty solid. If it can get through the rest of the day we should have a solid chuck of snow and ice that should withstand the December early January sun.

32.5 here with dense fog, Snow pack pretty much intact so far.

28° freezing rain.

27.2 and precip on the doorstep.

Declaring the second White Christmas in a row is much more complex than just measuring snow. At 7am Christmas morning I would say for sure it was a white Christmas. The viewable area from my house had at least a one to two inch snow cover over 80% of the land mass which is my criteria for snow cover. However as you yourself stated our current snow has staying power, the snow consistency from the 23rd did not. By noon on Christmas Day snow coverage was less than 50% and by sunset 20%. How is that really a White Christmas? And there we have the White Christmas Paradox. How is it a white Christmas when more than half the day is green? The Fermi paradox may be answered before this. I'm considering changing my declaration of this year being a White Christmas. No question about today's snow cover. After a morning low of 9 snow cover at 5.5. I believe the consistency and LE of the current snow pack will easily survive our rain tonight and mid 40's tomorrow.

Morning low of 9 currently 12.4 in the HV. forgot to mention the weird aspect of this morning it's 13° and there is fog.

Newark airport measures 4.2 inches and LGA also 4.2 inches and right in between the two Central Park, for once, correctly measures 4.3 inches and now someone on social is suddenly concerned Central Park over measures. Amazing.