LibertyBell

yes everything before 7 am was light and before 6 am it was a sleet snow mix.

it's okay, I guess you can say it's moderate snow now, it was just light snow and sleet up until 7 am.

why is there a big hole right near NYC lol

that has to be sleet and snow mixed together, we have layers of both here

No one is going to be happy unless it snows all day. It can stop just before sunset.

snowcovered yes, but less than an inch and you can see through that snowcover lol (it's a mixture of snow and ice cover).

It actually feels like one of the storms from February 2010, we had a couple of storms then that started out as heavy rain and ended up with double digit snowfall totals.

It has me in the jackpot zone.... where is this 14.5 inches of snow coming from lol?

yeah it's less than an inch lol

To elaborate on the timing it was a mix of light snow and sleet from 3 AM to 4 AM and then just light snow from 4 AM to 5 AM and then back to a light snow and sleet mix from 5 AM to 6 AM and light snow again after that. At 3 AM it was 35 F and dropped to 33 F by 4 AM and then back up to 34 F by 5 AM and then back down to 33 F by 6 AM.

Now that it's after sunrise I can actually see what happened last night. From 3 am onwards it alternated between light snow and sleet. Sometimes snow and sometimes sleet. The last heavy burst of sleet came in around or just before 6 am and since 6:15 it's been all snow, but it hasn't ever snowed hard, it's just light to occasionally moderate snow. There are two layers on the ground, there's a translucent layer of sleet at the bottom and a layer of snow on top of that and those two layers cover the streets, the driveways, the grass, and cartops and rooftops. It's less than an inch thick (both layers combined) and the temperature has been at 33F since 4 AM

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.