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but MUCH better now!

anything above Tarrytown is upstate to me! also whether Long Island is an island or not, it can't be argued that Brooklyn and Queens are part of the same geographical unit as Nassau and Suffolk. There is no water that separates them.

theres still hope for late March and early April

omg this is amazing its sticking to everything including the roads and visibilities are super low because it's blowing around too and coming down pretty hard

it just shows that climatewise Brooklyn and Queens are more like Nassau County than they are like Manhattan and after all both LGA and JFK are in Queens and they are much closer to my snowfall totals than they are to Manhattan's

it's fairly light here after an initial brief burst

There was a decent difference in snowfall totals between Manhattan and Brooklyn, Ed. Brooklyn received a 6"+ and 12"+ event and Manhattan did not.

Yes and if anyone was around then they would also have cursed living on the south shore since the glacier never made it down here

really? and here I figured that geographically they are all part of the same geographical structure. where I live in Nassau County it's pretty urban trust me, we get hotter than NYC does on a west or northwest wind

snow has commenced here!

this is why Brooklyn and Queens should be lumped together with Long Island (they are part of Long Island after all) and NYC should only refer to Manhattan.

it's getting dark

how much did we get on 12-11-93? I'm guessing not much since I only remember the late December snow event that year. We only had two all snow events in 93-94, the first event in late December and the final event in late March. Both were around 4" each

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Don I'm going to put an article in banter that you might be interested in, feel free to check it out.

okay but none yet for NYC or JFK? Hopefully this line coming through will change that.

yep that's what I figured. It's very rare when they don't weaken.

all forecasts busted so no measurable snowfall in NYC or any of the airports, Don, so far anyway?

I'd say about 50% of that will hold together for us, let's wait and see.

yeah as in garbage cans banging around outside

meh, I don't see why that wouldn't also dry up over the mountains before it gets here.

isn't that for the DC/BWI area though? How will that make it up here?

perchance? that's not a word you normally use lol

we are east of him but it sucks to live in the concrete jungle of Manhattan we have 26 inches on the season here, right at normal.