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28 minutes ago, Bxstormwatcher360 said:

Its been snowing here for an hour now,trees and grass are a bit whitened also.

Got a rain snow mix now, on TV I see the more steady wet snow in Manhattan as well as traffic cams approaching GWB.

.76" rain here, T snow

31 minutes ago, ILoveWinter said:

Moderate snow in the UWS, not sticking (as usual)

I havent seen a single flake, not that it would amount to anything anyway. Central Park, EWR, Teterboro reporting snow. LGA, JFK reporting rain.

13 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

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. 

They miss snow sometimes, but there really was basically nothing this time. 0.1" might be generous tbh. Maybe a slushy coating on a few car tops, but snow sticks to cars even easier than grassy surfaces, I don't think of cars as a valid measurement. Even if you did it would just be a tenth or so.

35 minutes ago, hooralph said:

Almost no snow downtown. Just moved into a new office right above the Bull. DM me if you want to know how long the line is to get a picture with his balls

 

There was some around Foley Sq and City Hall. Lots of slush and I could see shoveled snow. In such marginal events the small things make a difference. Like a steam pipe runs under one street and not another. Also high profile locations get super vigilant about snow removal. You need to leave that initial base layer alone to acclumate on top when its above freezing. Plus this was a grassy surfaces type storm. So it'll be winter wonderland in the large parks and look like a rainy day in some actual neighborhoods. At least the other boros have small backyards where it sticks and it can build out from there.

Midtown can be even worse than lower Manhattan. 

2 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

what are the numbers for all the airports? I didn't see what they had for jfk, lga, ewr, etc

7am

LGA 2.7"

JFK 1.5"

EWR ?

10 minutes ago, Bxstormwatcher360 said:

By woodlawn

Looks like a east west gradient. I measured about 2.5", 3" in a few spots. This is near Pelham Pkwy. Drove to New Rochelle and its a little less snow, at least right on the Sound. 1.5" estimate.

Heavy and wet to move though might as well be 6"

38 minutes ago, Bxstormwatcher360 said:

It never stopped bud,ive been shocked to see it keep going and going and going..im over 5.5 rn..and still going here in the nw bronx. Some sort of low level moisture transfer is going on..coming off the ocean, has kept us in snow with no echos around i suspect.

What part of the Bx is that?

4 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

On TWC the entire ground is covered in NYC. Not sure if they are in CPK.

He DID say NYC had more snow in the last hour than all winter!

Yes he did..looks like it too. Maybe an inch. Don't know where they were exactly.

7 minutes ago, tdp146 said:

Messy sleet. Coming down at a decent clip. The haptic rain sensor on my weatherflow is picking this up as heavy rain. 

I have that too, down side it doesn't detect snow at all. Mine was showing heavy rain too but it really was raining.

In the Bx Going back and forth between heavy sleet and rain. Some sleet coatings on cars but melting faster than it can pile up. 36*

Driving btwn Co op city bx and New Rochelle, light snow to light snow/sleet mix to a steady rain and sleet now

27 minutes ago, mannynyc said:

8 inches of snow forecasted is generally when they start calling school in the City. Not happening here. 

Yup, and you'd need that amount on pavement not grassy surfaces. Just about 0% chance unless it suddenly gets 5 degrees colder. Since it's remote learning they may lower the bar? 

22 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

It's good to get all the extremes in.  I used to use White Plains to gage Northern Bronx and Northern Nassau County weather and that's probably not that accurate.

Bronx Zoo is really good, now we just need something for Staten Island lol

 

Yeah, White Plains isn't very good for the Bx or even for some of urban southern Westchester either. HPN isn't actually in the city of White Plains but a wooded area straddling the CT border. The low temps can be a bit colder than downtown White Plains.

An offical site at the Zoo would be nice, or NYBG. Bx Zoo does have a PWS (maybe 2). They use it for the zip line/treetop adventure area they have now, and weather conditions are important for operations. From what I've seen it seems pretty accurate. It's very similar to LGA, which is 4 -5 miles due south anyway. Slightly cooler at night sometimes but not significantly so, which makes sense. 

9 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

whats a motion photo? I clicked on it but nothing happened

Oh..that a feature of the phone but I had to take a screenshot of the pic to make the file size fit here. Thats just on the screenshot it won't work for real here. It would of been a mini video.

I did just get a dusting of snow on grassy surfaces here from a nice band of snow.

O snap..moderate snow, and starting to dust the grass.  Already biggest snowfall of the yr

1 hour ago, TugHillMatt said:

Saw this map...do you guys really have "leafout" there in NYC already?

Lots of budding for sure. Some Cherry blossoms have bloomed too. Lasts night low 20s, dropped some though. Any flowers you'd typically see sprouting up in March to early Apr started showing up soon after that brief early Feb artic cold shot. Around the city, this winter has been almost devoid of freezing lows temps outside of 2 short cold shots

Here's lower Manhattan near 1 PP yday.

1 hour ago, Gravity Wave said:

The struggle to reach 70 today just makes the 80 from February 2018 even more impressive. Easily the most incredible temperature event I've personally experienced.

I touched 70 under cloudy skies all day, that might be more impressive than Feb 2018 which was later in the month and under full sunshine all day if I remember right.  It sounds like some places are getting decent sunshine today which must really feel good with 70+. 

It's splitting hairs anyway...warm or more warm

Cloudy skies..some brightening coming through, 67.

32 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

that late march fluke storm is what screwed it out of the lowest snowfall record, otherwise we would be competing with it instead

Did you look at how crazy snowfall amounts were in the 90s-- 3 out of 4 years with less than 10 inches of snow sandwiched by two historic years with over 50 inches each lol

 

It was just normal to me then because that's all I knew. That's partly what made the blizzard of 96 so epic. It truly felt like a once in a lifetime event, and was the only time many NYC students experienced a "snow day"...which turned out to be 3 I think." For people who's basis of normal is the 2000s, the bar is so high and the sting of dud winters feels even worse. When the unprecedented (at the time) 4 straight 40"+ winters came it was an era of snow heaven lol, but growing up in the 90s I was too scarred to get comfortable, it always felt like living on borrowed time. I enjoy it but try not to expect it.

After 95-96 winter, was the first time I noticed people getting snow blowers in the city, only for them to sit dormant the rest of the decade.

Looks like most trees are budding now and some forsythia are blooming. The pink magnolia trees have large buds and look about ready to bloom too. I've seen early starts before but forsythia before Valentines day or the Super Bowl is a first. Besides the 36 hr cold snap I don't think I've had any period of several consecutive hrs below freezing since Dec. Looking at the early/mid Feb sun reflecting off the yellow flowers is relaxing and horrific at the same time lol.  A college trip to Buffalo was my only jarring taste of winter this season.

May set some record highs this am.  Up to 61 here.

Big temp range..60 in Central Park, 42 at TEB, 51 at EWR

20 hours ago, Dark Star said:

Idiots salted, even main roads were okay.  Now we have salt on the roads that can be plowed.  I mean, 0.3"?  I get it, the children going to school? Afraid of lawsuits from idiotic drivers?  Somebody has to step up and make adult decisions...

This over salting has really become a trend over the last several years. I think it really took off after that early Nov snowstorm that dropped around 6" and lead to disastrous paralyzing gridlock with people stranded overnight and even longer.  After the heat some govts received its just self preservation to err on the side of caution even if it's extreme. 

I think Jan set a record for warmest monthly min in Central Park. I believe the record was 25.  We definitely didn't get that cold. 28 was the lowest?

1 hour ago, wdrag said:

So far, as I know it, NYC and PHL first measurable of the winter.  Waiting on DC and BWI for which I have yet to find out. 

 

EC much too heavy with its good axis (18z/31 op) and Canadian models a bit too robust and too far north to I84.

This'll be our blockbuster east coast snow storm. Good old fashioned I-95 special.

Philly and DC might get measurable snow too. DC really got into the most steady snow but had slightly above freezing temps. 

Despite temps in the 20s didn't stick to pavement here. Still nice to see a coating on cars and trees. 

1 hour ago, RU848789 said:

Looks like NENJ (Union to Bergen) and NYC/LHV got a period of snow around 3 am or so, at least by the radar, unless it was heavy virga.  Any reports?  Looks like a band might hit my area shortly - hope it's actual snow...

Coating of snow on grassy surfaces, cars, trees here in the Bx. Pavement not so much.

I forgot what it looks like for a min.  The Park may finally get a couple tenths of an inch on the board.