I'm thinking maybe 2 inches on the north shore, 1 inch middle island, and less than an inch down here (and similar in the city), hoping for under 0.5 inch to preserve that record.
it's important to remember that many of these models got worse after their "upgrades" maybe that will be considered and the models will be tweaked back to what they were before these "upgrades"
the only model that got better after its upgrade was the Canadian.
12"? Only expecting maybe 6 inches in the Poconos.
For NYC that 1-2 inches looks so meager I'd much rather less than half an inch and preserve the record.
I remember when that happened in the snowicane in late February 2010 the snowpaste was stuck to the sides of houses too and made them look like igloos lol
west/east rain snow lines do that, they're not extremely rare, but not common either.
It's more common between NYC and Boston, I don't remember the last time it happened between ACY and NYC because they are at nearly the same longitude.
I can only theorize that the 3k nam has a lot of "fake resolution."
It's like using digital zoom on a camera, something I'm well familiar with. It looks like it's picking up a lot of extra detail not seen in optical zoom, but that extra "detail" really isn't there and can result in an inaccurate image with false detail.
Just say that the NAM itself is the digital zoom of weather models and call it a day/week/month/season lol
Looking at that does beg the question....when was the last time both Boston and NYC got 2 feet or more of snow (or even 20"+ each), while Philly, DC and Baltimore got 0" (or even less than 1" each?)
Yep I've often seen storms passing over Nantucket or the Cape give us rain because the way they got there and how they strengthened (or didn't) wasn't what we needed for snow.
I wonder if every set up is fragile for someone somewhere-- it's just that the geographical location of fragility changes...it just happens to be us now.
Yep Suffolk is an amazing place to be for late developing Miller B's, I think there was close to 18 inches there? We had 8" here which is an MECS any time but especially in March.
Yes and we only have a 40-50 year sample size to base it on, but it works.
The one 10"+ storm was March 1993 which also changed to rain after dumping about a foot.
4-6 is perfectly fine for March for here.
I like this solution too and it goes along with my thinking of 3-5 for NYC and Long Island and up to a foot inland (including my place in the Poconos.)