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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.

I'll be shocked if it does but would be a great sign if it was.

Through several weather boards.

So true RJ I just didn't want to go through the whole history of decades of under measurements for one disgruntled poster. You know my history all too well.

Sure that's the problem. They've under measured for five years and now we're worried about one that seems correct. So ridiculous.

Don when was the last 4 inch daily snowfall in the park? A dubious record for sure, you could technically have 7.8 inches of snow from one storm and still keep that record intact.

What's your season to date now in Saugerties?

Ended up with 5.6 here, 17.2 for the season. A litle less than forecast but an overall excellent December. Lets see if we can keep some snowpack after Mondays upcoming debacle.

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Ended up with 5.6, 17.2 inches now for the season. A shade under the 8 I was expecting but no complaints

Ended up with 5.5 inches here although very light snow still falling so I can't give up on 6 yet. A bit of an underperformer here.

5.2 inches as of 1:30 in Highland Mills, Orange County NY, 16.8 inches for the season. Light snow and 20.1°. Maybe we can still eke out 6 inches by morning.

The Central Park 1am measurement of 2.3 inches appears in line with the surrounding area for a change. Maybe enough people complained, however from experience, it rarely lasts.

Looks more like 6.

4.2 inches as of 10:00 PM. 20° with light snow. By looks of the current radar I'm doubting we make 6 inches which I was figuring would be our minimum threshold here. The morning will tell.