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30.5°, dark gray skies, intermittent flurries, trees still encased in white and a foot of snow on the ground. It's hard to believe people get depressed by weather like this. If it were sunny and 50° with no snow anywhere in sight, now that's depressing.

Boston ended up with 5.9 inches for the three days, still within your range. Albany ended up with 22.6 inches which is their 8th largest storm of all time.

If the 1.6 total holds, and I did see the same on the 5PM update, 1.3 on the second and 0.3 on the third, Central Park now needs only 16.1 inches of snow between now and December 31, 2020 to get the 30 year average to 30.0 inches per season when they are calculated again in Jan 2021. This would be much more in line with the 150 year average of 28.9, and a nice recovery from the all time low 22.3 average from 1971-2000. Will they nickel and dime their way there, or do it in one nice big event ? Or God forbid do they fall short?

12.0 inches on the ground and about half of that after sunset yesterday. Very surprised I figured this would top out at 6-8.

12.0 inches on the ground and about half of that after sunset yesterday. Very surprised I figured this would top out at 6-8.

12.0 inches on the ground and about half of that after sunset tonight. Looks like snow is Finally done here. When this first started I said I’d be satisfied with 6-8 and ecstatic with a foot. As late as late this afternoon I never thought I’d get anything close to a foot. Label me ecstatic.

I did a write up on that on another forum several years ago, looking at the 1986-2015 time period It seems any Decembers with 3.0 inches or less of snow in Central Park had under performed for the rest of the winter and any Decembers with 6.0 or more inches over performed. The other oddity, since the historical average in NYC for December is right around 5 inches, is there were no Decembers during that period with between 3.1 and 5.9 inches of snow. Most likely it's coincidence more than anything, but if its not we need another 5.1 inches in Central Park this month.

This would have made a nice 1,000th post. You're two away, the next one is meaningless, but the one after that has to be memorable.

Passed the 8 inch mark. 29.1 and moderate snow

6.8 inches and moderate snow falling again. Very frustrating the way the whole thing went, but I have no complaints about the end result.

Yeah, as if it's really gonna happen as depicted. Trenton goes from 11.1 to 1.3 from one 18Z to 0Z and we're suppose to take any of this as gospel. Had enough for today, and not expecting much tomorrow or tomorrow night.

1.5 inches of snow, sleet and freezing rain today. Temperature never got above 30.4 today, 27.8 now. Expecting disappointment tomorrow.

So Trenton went from 11.1 inches to 1.3 inches in one run, 6 hours apart, crazy. If that doesn't tell you this is a nowcast tomorrow nothing will. Forget the models, all they're telling us is some people within a 75 mile radius of NYC will do well tomorrow and some will get screwed, they don't know exactly where yet, and they won't even after it begins. Insane.

12z for now is 7am when we move the clocks ahead in March it becomes a four hour difference again and 12Z then will be 8Am again.

NYC needs 17.7 inches of snow between now and December 31, 2020 for the new 30 year average, to reach 30 inches per year, when the new 30 year averages are calculated 13 months from now. The current seasonal snowfall average in NYC since January 1991 is 30.6 inches. The 150 year average is 28.9 inches. It will be interesting to see if the upcoming event can produce. Decembers have not been overly generous along the coast the last several years. December snowfall totals Central Park (NYC) the last ten years. 2009... 12.4 2010... 20.1 2011... 0.0 2012... 0.4 2013... 8.6 2014... 1.0 2015... Trace 2016... 3.2 2017... 7.7 2018... 0.0

22.2° quite a run of teens and low 20's for early to mid November.

Central Park tied todays (13th) record at 24°?

17.1° I was expecting a little colder.

I didn't hear about it until after the fact. And I was in Saratoga Saturday night too, and the skies were clear. Another opportunity missed. Was it visible?

97-98 and 11-12 were true F- as was 01-02. This year is a D- for the reasons I stated. I was joking about the F- as compared to some predictions this year which were in hindsight ridiculous. A late season storm that would bring the seasonal near our average of 50 would get it to a D. Only 36 days of snow cover makes a passing grade impossible this year, even if we see an April 6, 1982 repeat this year followed by a May 9-10 1977 replay. So let it be written, so let it be done.

I still have a few spots in the deep shade with snow that may last a couple of more days. I officially called an end to my snow cover on the 13th making March 1 through the 12th my longest stretch of continuous snow cover this season. 39.1 inches for the season now and 36 days of snow cover. The biggest snows of the season 10 inches on November 15-16 and 8.1 inches on March 3. Throw in the 1.8 inches on March 1 and the 3.5 on March 2nd and do the math, that's a really bad stretch from November 17th to February 28th. Despite this mornings low of 19.6° the rest of March looks tame and April will usually deliver at least one measurable event but who knows this year, so my early grade is a D-. When you throw in all the hype I saw in many places and from several pros about this epic winter coming it's an F-.

10.2° single digits seem a safe bet, 0° will be tough. My next post is number 1,000, party at my house.

Nice, I feel cheated. Looking at the driveway it doesn't look like a flake fell here overnight, but the landscape looks great, just like it did all of last March.

Bottomed out at 7.3°, 11.3° right now. It will be interesting to see if we can make a run below zero one of these next several nights. A very January look and feel. I'm old enough to remember the May 9-10, 1977 storm which dropped several inches of snow in areas of the HV and 27inches in the Catskills. I bring it up because I enjoyed the snow in May, I love a good April snow storm and I love a solid snow cover through most of March. However if I had my choice this recent trend of dud Decembers and February like March I would reverse if I had the choice. I'd much rather have December the cold and snowy month for many reasons, Christmas season, the sun at it's weakest point, the coldest parts of winter coming up to sustain snow cover etc;. Since I can't do anything about that, I'll enjoy this.

8.1 inches here, actually surprised we didn't make 10 after measuring 7.0 at 12:30 pm. I sense it's already compressing on it's own weight. Thinking the same as Gravity, was probably over 9 inches around 3-4 am when it stopped. Approaching 40 now for the season, beautiful out. 29.6°