CPcantmeasuresnow

by CPcantmeasuresnow The snowpack survived this week but there are a few bare spots now in the usual areas but still 75% coverage. Amazing how 4-5 inches of solid ice and snow held up to the onslaught of sun and 50 for four days. A fresh unbattle tested 5 inches of powder would not have lasted a day. So the streak lives on but on life support. 37 straight days and counting.

The term upstate in NY seems to be used by everyone in the state to refer to the area north of them. I’m in Orange County and in no way do I consider this upstate. Geographically Albany is the middle latitudes of the state. Binghamton is the southern tier of NY. Of course since 80% Of the residence live below the Tappanzee Bridge everything above seems to somehow become upstate to most people. And yes I said the TAPPAN ZEE bridge. Enough said.

We welcome everyone in Orange County and you stated our case beautifully. I’ve had only 22 inches of snow this winter so far, which is below normal, yet I’ve had a solid snow cover for 33 straight days and counting. That may end by Friday or Saturday but still a decent run. And we still do well on most coastals. Just need inside the benchmark in most cases to jackpot, instead of on or outside it.

17° and the snow pack lives on. 33 straight days and counting. It will be interesting to see if this snow, ice, and sleet encrusted block of snow and ice can make it through 3-4 days of highs in the 40's. My money is on the snow pack.

22.6° pretty much sleet now and even the first few flakes of the day. This is the worst accretion of ice I've seen in a long time. Usually I try to block these out so I can't even think of the last time we had this much. The only positive, it does have a magical look. At least until I inevitably lose power.

That's ridiculous

23° with sleet finally in Highland Mills Orange County. Everything bending under the weight of the ice. Still astonished we have power, hopefully I didn't jinx it. Snow pack at 6 inches with a LE of I'd guess 2 inches +. It's not going anywhere soon. Solid cover since January 7th and counting. And Boston lost their two foot cover in five days. I can't help but chuckle.

Yes as soon as I can. Would you like any other pictures, my wife, kids, my car? I'll send anything else you want that will help you justify what you believe. Don't hold your breath

The misinformation you give can actually be dangerous to some. I’m only 50 miles NNW of midtown and it’s 27 degrees and everything is covered in ice. I could ice skate on my driveway and tree limbs are already bending from the weight. Can’t believe I still have power.

The beauty of the HV in cases like this, Snow pack still a solid 6 inches, 30° and freezing rain. Trees are ice covered and I'm only 50 miles NNW of Midtown. The bad part, driveway is like an ice skating rink and nearly killed myself taking garbage to the end of the driveway.

32.3° here. I've never found freezing rain to be much of a problem above 30° it's below 30 that the issues begin. Looks like we will be in that territory around the 7am commute.

32.3° at 1:50 am The temp drop has slowed considerably, about a degree in the last hour. It could be pretty nasty tomorrow morning.

33.3 should be an interesting commute north of the city.

A 3.4 degree drop here in the last hour, interesting. 40.7 with light rain.

Snowpack 6 inches. Will be reporting again tomorrow morning.

This map does a poor job of southeast and central east Orange County. Trained spotters in Monroe reported 6 inches Greenwood lake 6.9 and highland Mills 8.4. I live in highland Mills and measured 9 inches. I thought I was wrong until I saw the reports. I’m not sure what happened in that line but I witnessed it and just figured we were over performing in most of Orange County and not just a localized 5-10 mile stretch.

I’m still not comfortable with any area in our sub forum referenced as the Mid Atlantic. When you look at the geography of the East Coast of the United States it’s just so far from off. You could maybe call the southern quarter of New Jersey the northern most extreme of the mid Atlantic and it would run down really through Central North Carolina. Weve had this discussion here before too So it’s probably pointless to bring it up again. Yet I did.

So you’re saying in 2022 we have at least another six discussions to go?

And that’s why we love Walt he’s the only one that does. I’m about 12 miles south of 84 and I often times don’t feel like I’m part of the subforum either. Yet further away from New York City on the East End of Long Island they still seem to qualify. Never quite figured that one out yet. You could even add to that some parts of South Jersey and West Central Jersey. They also seem to make the cut and they’re further away than we are.

I' m not saying their total was egregious just off. Let's first start with the basics, the Park reported 1.2 inches of snow on the 28th and 7.3 inches on the 29th which equals 8.5 for the storm. Simple math right? Yet they recorded 8.3 inches as a storm total. It was at least 9-10. If they can't even add 1+1 I don't trust they can stick a ruler on a snowboard and record amounts, a lot of times they don't. Years and years of experience with them has taught me this. The Conservancy helped for awhile but I'm not sure who's recording totals there this year. And I think the 5.8 from the 7th was a bit low too. Most likely in the 6.5 to 6.8 range.

Seriously? So where you lack for snow the past several storms you make up for in bitter cold.

It was more like 10.3 in NYC in the park but as usual the NWS dropped the ball and decided to just throw out a bogus low number just so it would look like they actually measured. It happens all the time and people just accept it as gospel.

No, that's what was reported, that's not what actually fell. People just accept any number the NWS throws out from the Park even though they don't have anyone that actually measures there. It's been a problem on and off for decades.

I'm sure there was more in Brooklyn than in Manhattan, but are we just going back to the days of the Park just reporting half asses totals again. That's the number everyone looks to for NYC totals. Can't they ever get it right? Everyone I've talked to says there was at least 10 maybe 10.5 inches in the Park, where did they come up with 8.3?

Are we really buying that, or are we just back to accepting bad totals from whomever does or doesn't measure at the Park nowadays. There was the debacle of the Central Park Zookeeper for many years, until they finally gave it to The Conservancy which wasn't perfect but much better than the Central Park Zoo, now who's not taking the measurements these days? I've talked to people in Manhattan today, 8.3 is just another in a long line of under measurements the Park is famous for.