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2.3 inches highland Mills. 31.8 and light snow. Already melting off driveway. If I measured at 6:00 was probably closer to three. Compressing and melting from underneath at an alarming rate. Beautiful though stuck to everything. Will mostly be a memory by sunset. 18.5 for the season. Whatever’s falling now won’t keep up with what’s melting underneath.

2.3 inches here brings the seasonal to 18.5. 31.8 with light snow. Already melting off driveway.

31.8 light snow 2.3 inches, brings seasonal total to 18.5. The winter of 22/23 never ceases to disappoint. Better than nothing but I’m sure it will all be gone by sunset.

31.8 now and light snow. Radar just west of here not healthy looking at all. No way it’s still snowing at sunrise. 2:00 am looks like a stretch.

32.2 steady moderate snow. Grass white nothing on blacktop yet.

Started as rain here about 6:00 with temp at 38. Changed to all snow about 9:00 when temp hit 34. 32.4 now moderate to heavy snow.

32.7 moderate snow accumulating on grassy surfaces. Radar to the west doesn’t look great though. Hard to believe this keeps up until after sunrise.

33.4 and all snow. No accumulation yet. Changed about 20 minutes ago when it hit 34.0

34 all moderate snow now. Let’s see how long it takes to start accumulating.

34.5 snow and rain mix. Just wet not white.

No just tired of everyone’s reference to this sucks, or this won’t work for anyone, it’s a big forum but you’d never know it from all the IMBY comments.

And 40 miles due west of Danbury in Highland Mills NY I have anti PTSD, if there were such a thing, from that one Still my largest one time event 35 inches. Even beat the 33 I got in the January 96 storm.

I don’t what all the complaining is about. I’ve liked every snow map I’ve seen so far. Not everyone lives in NYC or central Jersey.

Yeah HV FTW. Now can I trust it?

That’s 7 inches over the Hudson Valley would get me at least close to overcome my worst snowfall season in history. Of course there’s always Tuesday if it doesn’t happen.

This is a HV special. More specifically 30-40 or more miles north. NYC needs 0.6 inches to avoid their worst snowfall season ever. I doubt this does it. Brooklyn where MJO is will probably see 0.

You’ve taken step one to proper measurements. Only 11 more steps.

But they don't measure on the sidewalks or street, no city does. They are suppose to measure in the Park where there was an accumulation this morning on cold surfaces and it was more than 0.1 inches. It's always the same story, it gets old, but I'll never stop complaining about it. It's sloppy record keeping and data, but they've been okay with it for so long it's never going to change. When they had the Conservatory take measurements several years ago, measurements were much more accurate for the 3-4 years that went on. I wonder why they ended that? Maybe they have no tolerance for accurate snow data.

Amazing, yet so expected. I forget who said yesterday they predicted 0.6 inches for the park but couldn’t predict whether they would measure it or not. Why do they even bother. Just have someone from one of the buildings surrounding the park eyeball a guesstimate from their apartment and just go with that. It certainly couldn’t be any less accurate. Maybe there would even be an over measured event now and then.

Actually the blizzard of 1888 they recorded 21 inches in Manhattan. This could also be the beginning of the great under measurements. Brooklyn recorded 36 inches and New Haven to the north recorded 45 inches, most of the Hudson valley in New York from 40 to 60 inches, and in between Manhattan record 21. Possible but highly unlikely. Look at any pictures of Manhattan the day after the blizzard of 1888, and remember there was no snow on the ground when the storm started. There is no way anything less than 30 inches fell, and probably closer to 36 like in Brooklyn.

As always it depends on where in the forum you’re talking about. It’s a pretty diverse area winter weather wise. For NYC you only have to go back to 2017 and 2018 for substantial March storms and in the case of 2018 a significant April snowfall in the city proper. In 2017 Central Park had 7.6 inches on March 14 and in 2018 there was 8.4 inches on March 21 and 5.5 inches on April 2nd. For March 2017 and March 2018 we in the northern suburbs, Orange County in My case, had over 20 inches from both the March 14 2017 event and the March 7 2018 event in which the Park only had 3.2 inches. I realize March is fickle especially on the coastal plain, but we don’t have to go back that far for the last substantial March storms.

Yes but what people always forget is next week we get the extra hour of daylight, I believe it was Julian who made this point last week, and to make it worse it happens in the afternoon when the sun is highest in the sky. Forget about any accumulating snow after that, it’s basically impossible, the sun angle people always win in the end. I’ve always been curious how we manipulate the Earths axis to make that happen. Will have to research Kyrie Irving’s flat Earth thesis to see his thoughts.

But also highly unlikely. They recorded .26 inches of liquid from midnight to 6 Am and the temperature was 32-33 with snow the entire time, and somehow that translated to 0.9 inches of snow? I’m sure it was closer to 1.5 to 2.0 inches but it’s par for the course in the very long history of under measuring by the incompetents at the Park.

Since they received 1.8 inches from the same storm but just 0.9 inches before and after midnight this will make this another in a line of very questionable records. But I’m sure TWC will play it up to the max.

To translate, you are the Central Park zookeeper of the Hudson Valley and you can’t be bothered with measuring the smaller events and that’s why you’re not in double digits.