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JFK had 2.0 of snow too. LGA also just missed 2", as they ended up with 1.9
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in 2015 February was also colder than January. Back in the old days, February used to be our coldest month.
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Here's an interesting thing about 15-16, popular opinion is that it was a one storm wonder, but it was really more than that. Long Island got hit with a storm that dumped a foot of snow in February and even the city got 4-6 inches and a crane fell in Manhattan in that storm. There was another storm in February that year too, around the superbowl I think? And NYC went below zero on Valentine's Day! Besides the torch in December, we had a nice winter, much better than the last 2 that's for sure. JFK had over 40" of snow and parts of Long Island had 50" and I remember a few things about 82-83, besides the February 1983 HECS, we had our latest accumulating snowfall on record on April 19-20, 1983. JFK got 2 inches in that storm and inland areas got 1-2 feet! So even if the el nino is very strong, you can count on either getting hit by a snowstorm late in the season or having a close call. Pretty much all you can ask for. Very rarely do we get winters that are snowy beginning to end, I think the last one we had was 2002-03 and 1995-96 and 1993-94 before that. I have not had any others here in my lifetime.
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It did dust up my driveway where I had cleared it off earlier and a bit more on trees and cartops now, but not worth measuring because it's probably not even a tenth of an inch lol -
those winters weren't lucky so much as we had better blocking (a Kara block in 15-16 and the 80s were colder in general than we are now.)
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it's ironic that it changed back to snow here and yet it's not sticking even though it's below freezing again (it's a very light snow)
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it's very light snow and not really sticking though
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It makes you wonder what kind of storm would have to occur to keep this from happening-- this storm even tracked south of us and wasn't a coastal hugger. Perhaps the SST are simply too warm for this time of year?
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it changed back to snow here at 3:55 but it's a very light snow, none of this is going to accumulate even though the temps are now below freezing.
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I know Chris said with time we are getting used to the above normal temps, but one thing that should also be added is that with time we are also getting less used to snow. I envision in a few decades we WILL be like Atlanta when it comes to snow and 1-3 inches of snow will cause school closures and major traffic situations.
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looks like south shore and east end
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Nice 1-2 inch regular snowfall here lol. We had these kinds of storms a lot in the 04-05 winter too, but with more snow.
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Maybe it got here now, it was large flakes at 8:05 and now I don't see anything falling outside lol.
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I hate that too, especially because starting a new day at midnight is so subjective. Why don't they measure storm totals instead of daily totals? The daily totals should be completely done away with.
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maybe the rain/snow line is further north out east, but here it's been all snow so far.
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maybe thats why it's still all snow here, really large flakes too
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this is weird because here it's been all snow, large flakes too, around 2 inches
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weird, still all snow here on the south shore of western nassau, we have about 2 inches so far, it's been snowing here since 4 PM yesterday
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It reminds me of what they're saying about the Alps, bare ground, no good skiing for years now.
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Yes, it was a very bad (meaning very good) winter for us lol. I remember not being able to shovel the snow because the sleet and freezing rain had packed it in very hard. I could walk on it without leaving any marks in it (which is fun) but there was no way to shovel any of it. We had a thaw later in January when it was in the 50s but we went back to snowy in early February with those two big storms. Then we had another thaw a week after that and then back to more snow in early March. That was the first season that I measured snowfall and it was close to 50" and that's very similar to JFK's numbers for that season. I was about a 5 minute drive south of Sunrise Hwy back then. The first snowfall that season was in December, we had two snowfalls that month and then the icy/sleety/snowy January and then the big thundersnow events in February and then the snowy early March.
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Feb 9-14 is a famous period for historic snowfalls.
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This is close to the ideal location for a coastal storm for us. If you want to know what the ideal location is, it would be due east of Cape May and due south of Cape Cod. Draw those two lines and where they intersect is where we want the center of the low to be.
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and 1989 would be an ominous analog lol
