LibertyBell

Yep just like the Blizzard of 1888 lol-- except that one stalled out for 3 days!

35 degrees here with a mix of light snow and sleet I guess but it's been mostly snow here in SW Nassau since about 3 AM

It started to change fully to snow at 3 AM and by 3:14 (PI TIME!) it was almost 100% snow.

Looks like it's changing over right now, there's large melting flakes now mixed in with the rain and sleet and the temperature has dropped to 36 now.

It's raining here but the temperature is slowly dropping. The rain is falling pretty hard and it's getting windy.

Yes I actually slept this afternoon and because I knew snow was coming it was the deepest sleep I've had in 2 weeks.

Yes it's night time when people sleep lol this is why we like day time snow (at least this will be heaviest during the morning later.)

There's been periods of sleet here too. I couldn't see anything outside the window so I thought it might be rain but it was so loud it had to be sleet unless it was really heavy rain, which I would have seen.

1958 - Snow blanketed northern Florida, with Tallahassee reporting a record 2.8 inches. A ship in the Gulf of Mexico, 25 miles south of Fort Morgan AL, reported zero visibility in heavy snow on the afternoon of the 12th. (12th-13th) (The Weather Channel) 1960 - A snowstorm in the Deep South produced more than a foot of snow in Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama. (David Ludlum) Wow there was heavy snow in the Gulf of Mexico as late as 1958? I thought this was something that only happened 100+ years ago.

1784: Ice floes were spotted in the Gulf of Mexico after passing out the Mississippi River in February 1784. Ice blocked the river in New Orleans, Louisiana. The ice in New Orleans is one of two times that this occurred during the Great Arctic Outbreak of 1899. The eruption of Laki in Iceland from June 8, 1783, through February 7, 1784, is the likely cause for the severe winter of 1783 - 1784. 1899 - Texas and the eastern plains experienced their coldest morning of modern record. The mercury dipped to 8 degrees below zero at Fort Worth TX, and to 22 degrees below zero at Kansas City MO. The temperature at Camp Clarke NE plunged to 47 degrees below zero to establish a record for the state. In the eastern U.S., Washington D.C. hit 15 degrees below zero, while Charleston SC received a record four inches of snow. (David Ludlum) 1899: The bitter cold outbreak of February 1899 continued across the southern Plains, Texas, and the Deep South. The mercury dipped to 8 degrees below zero at Fort Worth, Texas, and 22 degrees below zero at Kansas City, Missouri. Nebraska’s temperature at Camp Clarke plunged to 47 degrees below zero to establish a state record. The all-time record low for Oklahoma City was set when the temperature fell to a frigid 17 degrees below zero, breaking the previous record low of 12 below zero, set on the previous day. Washington D.C. hit 15 degrees below zero, while Charleston, SC, received a record four inches of snow. Snow was also reported in Fort Myers, Tampa, and Tallahassee in Florida. Click the links for additional information from the National Centers for Environmental Information and Florida Memory. Wow it's interesting that a volcano in Iceland named Laki is listed as the reason behind the very severe winter of 1783-84. I wonder why the volcanoes that erupt in Iceland now don't have that kind of effect? And why do people say we need volcanoes in the tropics do it when Laki quite clearly was not and had a much larger effect than volcanoes like Tambora, El Chichon and Pinatubo? Also what caused the extreme arctic cold of 1898-1899, 1917-1918 and 1933-1934?

The snowfall is 6x higher than last winter but it's more than half a degree warmer-- we had two big single degree arctic shots last winter which we've not had this winter.

Maybe the storm is just trying to figure out where to go to hit the most densely populated area the hardest lol

thats weird the flight tonight got canceled, the weather is fine until early in the morning

It doesn't lol, you never see a zigzag changing amount like that on the south shore, it's usually a gently sloping curve.

He's likely a perfectionist, what was described is the behavior of someone who tries to make everything "perfect" forgetting that no one and nothing is perfect.

It does seem quite ironic doesn't it? The universe, it seems, has a cosmic sense of humor....

The guy that grew on me was Gronk. Dont ask me why but he's just a fun loving goofball lol. I think because he retired and came back and did so well again is probably why.

It does seem our biggest snowstorms moved to around January 20th for a few years there, it's been awhile for one of these big ones around the middle of February. I'm trying to remember the last time we had big 10 incher after February 10th....I can't recall. I guess it was 10 years ago?

and very unexpected, I sure wish I had a camera back then! The ground went from 0 snow to 8 inches right in front of our eyes and it was the first time I actually heard thundersnow!

Question is can anything happen to the Gulf of Mexico to stop the Gulf Stream? And can climate change eventually affect the earth's rotation somehow-- or would we need an even bigger disaster, like a meteorite/asteroid strike or big earthquake or tsunami to alter it?

Yep, Mt Holly went with my old fart thoughts. We actually got our warning in the LV before the snow event Time to celebrate- the warning drought is over LOL I also feel much better after reading their forecast discussion about the explosive snow growth too as the temps fall to near or below 30 degrees adds to the accumulations. Folks, with this much dynamics in play now, can we get some thundersnow too? That would be the icing on the cake. Will Jim Cantore show up somewhere in the LV? Analogy storm Feb 1983 snow storm fits well at this time as I remember the LV received 3-5 in an hour snow rates with 24" of snow. My parents were stuck in that storm and was their first taste of a blizzard in the LV. I was in my 20's at the time and did not mind. Seems plausible at this juncture that this storm will somewhat similar with its formation with the LP sitting near the sweet spot at the Chesapeake after the transfer and getting stronger. Snow accumulation amounts should be much less for this storm but the snow rates will be up there for sure for a few hours. Visibility will be down for sure with the monster flakes. Been long time since we have seen this type of snow storm event unfold in the LV. 1996 and 2016 LV blizzards were different as the they were both much longer in duration, the temps were much colder and the size of the flakes were smaller. This storm event may unfold like 1983 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1983_North_American_blizzard#:~:text=Twenty-four-hour snowfall records,snow fell in one hour. This actually reminds me more of the February 1994 storm-- the first one-- with very heavy snow for 3-4 hours with thundersnow during the day in which we accumulated around 8 inches of snow.

This is 10:1 so might need to halve this.... 6-7 inches is still really good.

nooooo we really need a big one down here it looks like the pattern gets boring after this. this is actually the peak of snowfall season. most of our historic snowstorms occurred in this week.

wow 12-18 is a lot for such a quick moving storm!

No snow on Saturday now?