LibertyBell
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Yes from your bad memories of living here, we're still looking for that unicorn historic March storm that we've been talking about for 20 years lol
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Unfortunately UHI is spreading, it's just as bad here on Western Long Island and probably similar in NE NJ and SW CT. I appreciate the moderate snows we can get in March and even April, I just find it extremely unlikely anything historic will happen.
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yes I'm a big advocate of removing December as a winter month, that's moreso because it's more sensitive to climate change than anything else though. The urban concrete factor has more to do than elevation probably. The best evidence of that is having multiple 10"+ storms in December and even a HECS with 20" of snow in December while I have not experienced anything like that in March here. March 1993 hit 11 inches here but changed to rain, since then nothing that was more than 8 inches.
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If it happened now or even in January I think the result would be much more snowy.
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there was a reason it was historically intense. also December isn't really a snow month around here
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to be fair elevation neutralizes that and sun angle affects urban areas MUCH more
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How large is this window? March 10 - April 10 ?
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it can snow here in early April too it did in 2018 and a few other years
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This wont endanger the historic nature of this season so I feel it's okay to root for this lol
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Yeah but those have temporarily stopped-- one really good thing in this pattern. They were going to majorly start rationing water if it wasn't for this winter.
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It still sucks though, California gets the best of both worlds.
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Those mountains are pretty high, there are probably places there that average more snow than we do. Elevation usually trumps latitude.
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Well, at least we have this to look forward to.
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I'm quite excited about it, the best event since that one in January when it snowed on and off all day. That was also on a Saturday.
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Is this an all daytime snow? Something like noon to 6 pm for start and end times?
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Yes that one....JFK measured 6" I think so I just used those numbers for us, but it was probably 8-9 just a bit less than the 9.2 at NYC. 20 inches once you got to Port Jefferson though and as great as the other two big ones were that season.
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Remember that middle storm in January 2011....I think you were living in SW Nassau and we had what-- 6 inches in that storm? Even less than NYC which had 9". And out where you are now, it was well over a foot, maybe 20"? It's so different compared to here, and it's not even a smooth rise, it's like the snowfall amounts take a big jump when you get to Huntington. And I specifically picked that storm because there were no mix or rain issues at all, it just blossomed late and hit that region much harder than it hit the rest of us.
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So those early April snows we sometimes get had an early September sun angle.
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North Shore of Suffolk County actually reminds me of southern CT especially with how they benefit from late blooming Miller B's. Say the area from Huntington out to Wading River.
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and they're very underrated, especially if it snows all day long with no breaks with temps in the 20s.
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Our forecasts are always the ones with the highest bust potential. I think even if you go back to the 80s and 90s, it's much easier to make snow predictions for both DC and Boston than it is for NYC. Also completely agree about Suffolk County having more of a New England climate, you can see it when you compare the biggest snowstorms there, they line up with Boston's biggest snowstorms rather than NYC's.
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Saturday will be more interesting here than Monday night will be
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why use climate averages at all? this to me is an example of pseudoscience. who decided that 30 year averages should be used? that's a subjective decision-- I'd much rather they show the actual temperatures not some proclaimed climate "average"
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This is going to be WAY more interesting than the Monday night event. Also happening during the day with temps in the 20s so all snow everywhere! I could see us getting an inch.
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Man even the Poconos were way warmer than Long Island today. So this wasn't really about latitude but how far away from the water you are?
