LibertyBell
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Not in mid March
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Thanks, I was getting crap yesterday for saying that 0.3" was probably the most the city got, people need to understand late season marginal event dynamics, especially in an urban environment.
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Nice work....I wanted to make sure I got these numbers right 1.0" Brooklyn (is that near Coney Island)? 0.2" Queens (is that near Jamaica?) T LGA 0.3" JFK 0.8" Bronx 0.9" Staten Island 0.2" EWR 0.1" NYC So basically out of the four "official" New York City area observing sites, JFK had the most with 0.3"?
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what's causing it to loop around?
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We do here too, it has even happened in la nina winters like April 2018. I think it snowed here in April 1956 too. Honestly la nina el nino has very little to do with how much snow we get. It's only about 20% of our weather. The PDO is more important as it is what puts the trough out west when negative.
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1966-1967 was an amazing winter, from Christmas Eve snow to a historic February and March. That was our last truly cold March.
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It's more about time of year....I don't get my hopes up for March events anymore. In January or February this would have been MUCH better. You don't have a winter when January and February are so warm, those are our snow months. Other la ninas have had much better March snowfalls, like 1955-56 and 2017-18 of course. ENSO is only 20% of our weather, people blame it for way too much.
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I'll believe it when I see it lol. Central Park usually gets lower numbers in late season events and matches the coast quite nicely. So I'd guess half and inch or less for Central Park and you have to be in the Bronx to get 1"+
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a horseshoe cloud? I wonder where that came from? I don't remember the early season heat in 1987....did JFK also make it into the 70s Tony?
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Yep this is very normal for us.
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Probably yet another under 1 inch event. 0.5", which is normal for very marginal late season set ups with no cold air around. 2/28 we got close to 2" on the south shore though, this is probably more like the 2/1 event.
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Looks like JFK 0.3" was right on target.... did LGA really only get a T?
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My Beaufort Scale for Snowfall Coatings worked, my 0.3" estimate for JFK was right on target! LGA only got a T?
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That really does look like it got a very close shave, a Low with a mohawk!
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So close to the March 1992 6.2" storm. It's interesting that LGA in March 1992 actually went over 10 inches on the month because that storm was 6.7"? Don what did EWR have in those two storms in March 1992? Also do you have the totals for MPO for those two events? Thanks!
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and inland elevated areas seeing the most snow which is quite normal for this late in the season.
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Are those purple crocuses I see?! I love them
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New York City:Mean March Snowfall: 3.5"Median March Snowfall: 2.5"Highest March Snowfall: 17.1", 1890 Don did this 17.1" storm happen when the rest of the winter had less than 10" of snow?
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Yes I already see people criticizing the weather channel for focusing on all the rain that is going to happen in the middle of the country and not talking about the "big" snowstorm headed for the megalopolis lol. They saw the edge of the map on TWC and got angry that TWC didn't talk about the snowfall map for the east coast which is on the very edge of the map and focusing on "boring old regular rain" that's going to happen in the middle of the country.
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I wonder how long it snowed for in that second batch? 30 minutes?
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That may have helped it accumulate better though.
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Yes it mixed with snow here around 1 PM and changed to all snow around 4 PM but the really heavy stuff with the high winds came in at night. I saw it was raining all the way up to Maine with 100 mph winds....what a weird storm.....I think March 1888 was like that too (and New York City had similar totals, 21 inches in both storms!)
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Yes I remember that one well, started as rain and changed to snow halfway through the storm! Is this one supposed to do that or go the opposite way? We had over an inch of rain on the front end on the south shore and then over a foot of snow on the backend as the storm stalled out and did a loop! That night it was like blizzard conditions on a southerly wind and all the houses here had snow caked to their sides!
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It didn't help to wake up several times. I woke up at 5 am and most of what had fallen was already gone here.
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I missed that second one....or maybe it missed me lol. I stayed awake from 5 am to 6 am and fell asleep again after that and finally woke up for good at 8 am. Did that second one accumulate? It was a tough one to measure because what had fallen by 4:30 had already mostly melted by 5 am, even with 32 degree temps....which are air temps....the ground was warmer than that!
