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my area lol I thought Colin lived in PA?

wow Don, is this the least snow NYC has had when JFK had 6" plus? It has to be!

Clippers are named for the location they come from, and this did not come from Canada Also the "super clippers" that create east coast blizzards redevelop along the coast and become noreasters. The original clipper dies out and creates a Miller B. The last one we had was in January 2005. The Millenium storm of December 2000 was also one of these.

also the last time we had a surprise like this was February 1991.

again, it's not a clipper lol-- clippers don't carry this kind of moisture! It developed in the central Rockies....

wow 6 inches really? I'm at the same latitude as they are, 5 miles to the east and nothing on the roads at any point during the storm but it looks really good on the trees, rooftops and driveway and sidewalks.

Really? It seems to be about the same, 4-5 inches.

Very pretty! It looks like we'll end up with the same amount of snow we had with the last storm-- 4-5 inches or so.

About 4 inches here too and 4-5 inches in the Poconos. There's zero snow on the roads though it looks very pretty on the trees and rooftops

I think this is what February 1991 was like but over a somewhat larger area.... look that one up. NYC got 9" in it and 0 snow in Philly and Boston lol, no snow west of Newark here.... near JFK we got close to a foot, and it was all a very wet snow and it snowed for 30 to 36 hours straight, most of what fell during the day didn't accumulate (temps of 33-34) but at night it really went to town with temps in the upper 20s, it was a stalled low on a cold front just SE of the Hamptons and the entire snowfall corridor was from Newark to Long Island. The original forecast was just for some mixed rain and snow showers ending in the morning with the passing cold front.

Yeah I knew that mix line had to be somewhere close, it's been a very wet snow here all night, nothing accumulated on the roads at all, but it looks really nice on the trees, wires, cartops and rooftops as well as driveways.

For 95% of the forecast area it was a great forecast.... for that other 5% though.....

Yep, my exact location is right above that "n" in Long Beach lol

wow looks like those heaviest rates stayed just south of Long Island. Can you extend it that map a bit further to the east, Fozz? I'm on the upper right side

yes and it's a very heavy wet snow, everything is encased in it!

it's not a clipper lol clippers dont have this much moisture

Notice all the snow on the trees? This a nice wet snow, not some average dry powdery stuff.

It depends on where you live, in January 2016 we had 12 consecutive hours of true blizzard conditions verified at JFK, and in January 2018 had 6 consecutive hours of true blizzard conditions verified at JFK. That was the first time I ever saw either of those in my entire life. The snowfall was also 50% greater-- 30 inches vs 20 inches (actually 18 inches at JFK) is a huge difference. The response to December 2010 was messed up by the city, I remember that the subway situation was completely mishandled. and trains got stuck on their tracks.

hey thats going too far lol January 2016 was orders of magnitude better than any of those storms and so was the one we got in January 2018, hours of white out conditions.

why cant these bands be wider and cover more of the area?

Yeah this is definitely not a clipper lol, more like a bowling ball midlat cyclone.

wait what... 4 inches per hour? that means thundersnow is happening!

it's like a lake effect band!

the only thing wrong about this storm is it's happening at night and moving too quickly, I expect all this to be over by sunrise.

or at least the same.... it would be nice to get a second 4" storm in the same week.... that would solidly raise this winter to a C- for me.