I think it has more to do with the banding nature of the storm, with the temp what it is, we need heavier snow to accumulate quickly, which is why we started to add up when the heavier bands moved in around 7 AM here.
Yeah see you just needed the heavier snow to get in there. I woke up to a coating at 6:15 after it had just changed from a snow/sleet mix to all snow and then it went to heavier snow around 7 and thats when it started to accumulate more rapidly.
Maybe the heavy banding just moved in there. There was a coating here on all surfaces when I woke up around 6:15 because before then it was mostly a mixture. Since then it's been all snow and it got heavier so it's at least 2 inches now and a very wet snow because tree limbs are sagging down now.
Yeah but they will be the ones who will probably get close to 8 inches.
Since it was mostly a mix all night for us near the south shore, places like JFK should end up with more like 4-6.
roads are covered here too with a layer of ice and snow on top of it, now that the snow is starting to fall more heavily the coverage should increase and not look translucent.
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.