The track was literally perfect for everyone to snow, if that storm had occurred in January or February it would have been a 2 foot plus HECS. It still was a HECS because of how cold it was and the extremely heavy snowfall.
Yep, and I think there will be multiple gradients at play here, a north/south gradient and an east/west gradient and an urban/suburban gradient also lol
I'm not sure why anyone would be calling for rain, in April 1982 the NYC mets were already talking about the city being shut down in a foot of snow. I stayed up to see the first flakes at 3 am.
It always pays to be very cautious around the lower borders of those snowfall totals, note how quickly it goes from 3 inches to 0 lol. It's much better to be under those purple shadings of course.
Well that damage sounds horrible, but aside from that it sounds exciting.
Just keep in mind you don't get that kind of thing in late season events down here.
An inch or 2 max is probably the ceiling for this down here.
Yes, I think that's why it happens in those places, the same reason why the big snowstorm last year hit those areas much harder than NYC, NYC is too tucked in for its own good.
I would put the chances of a norlun hitting NYC or here at under 1% they always happen either south or north of here. In 40 plus years we've never had one here.
This is excellent Don, but wouldn't this apply to the entire winter?
I made the following chart
37 or above-- doesn't accumulate
33-36 5:1
30-33 10:1
28-30 12:1
25-33 15:1
20-25 20:1
15-20 25:1
under 15 40:1
Only the January 2004 event fulfilled the highest snow ratio category.
what do you think of the 2-3 inches right down to JFK lol
it reminds me of January 2008 (but that was in January!) when we had snow here but all sides of us were raining lol
Busted heavy snow warning, the last one ever issued.
Lee Goldberg on what happens after the March 13-14 noreaster, he just said "This is winter's last chance to do something. After this big storm, the weather looks benign and will warm up."