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wow in SW Nassau we had like 18" I think that was the JFK total?

Cant help it I'm a Scrabble purist

or all the heavy snow in Boston!

Boxing Day must've been a severe undermeasurement at ISLIP. No way they only had 14.9 for the entire month when NYC got 20" just in one storm. I never trust ISLIP snowfall stats anyway.

"WWIII" isn't a word though which is why Wordle is only for rank amateurs.

snowing 1 inch per hr in Boston though and 3 inches already

Isn't sleet ice pellets (IP)? why did they change the code for it?

Doesn't it just run off to freeze somewhere elsewhere? Here the colder surfaces are covered in white: the grass, the rooftops, all of that, but the roads and driveways look to be just wet.

Looks like JFK is close to freezing too

Of note is that it can still get lower. I wonder what the yearly minimum will be, that usually happens in March just before Fall starts there? I think it's likewise in September for the Arctic when our Fall starts.

works fine with white media ;-) that inspired an idea I had about the universe and primary colors.... if space is built on the canvas of time we can consider time to be black (it's arrow anyway) and the three spatial dimensions are RGB the additive primary colors. You could have an equal and opposite universe with a reverse arrow of time (white) where the spatial dimensions would correspond to CMY the subtractive primary colors. The arrow of time for all denizens in each universe would be forward for them (because they are "facing" the direction time moves, like being on a conveyor belt and facing the direction of movement) and it's the other universe that seems opposite. It explains why the universe is expanding because it only appears that way, because the other universe would appear to be contracting, so in effect the same total size is always maintained (like yin/yang). Further expanded upon this into a cyclic model of Big Bounce with expansion contraction cycles for the universe and its antiverse, divided by a barrier of light (luxon wall), because to the other universe we would seem tachyonic (going faster than light) and vice versa, with light forming the boundary between both universes (this could also have connections to the holographic principle and the boundary storing all the information contained in the bulk, where we live and for the antibulk on "the other side" too.)-- sort of like a bifurcated black hole inside an even larger universe with light keeping the two opposite universes apart and storing all their info on each side at the same time (like a double sided cosmic DVD.)

on the plus side we're a lot better than New England. I know there isn't a mud season here where I live, it usually goes from snow right to warm weather.

we had snow on a southerly wind in the snowicane late at night, I remember JM commented on it, like when does that ever happen lol. I think that was while it was retrograding? I love stacked storms for that reason, they do unusual and crazy things lol.

yeah they got too much media attention lol. I remember someone said (I think it was Jesse Ventura, who was governor of MN at the time), that Lyme Disease was developed there. That was a LOL but I guess they got a lot of negative press for that. I just hope that "research" doesn't include making new viruses....I know the KGB were doing that in the Caucasus back during the Cold War days. Area 51 being moved from Groom Lake, Nevada to the Rockies in Utah for a similar reason....attracted too much attention and people trying to video the weird takeoffs and landings from nearby mountains. The VTOL aircraft that fly in and out of there seem otherworldly.

I think it's the lack of Atlantic blocking. Everything has been timed poorly this winter....we had the Atlantic blocking in December but the Pacific was horrible then and January was the one month we could've done well but we lost the Atlantic blocking when the Pacific got good. In February, both have been bad. I didn't know eastern areas and southern areas could do better in a +NAO but I guess thats what happens with late developing coastals.

Yep, I don't know what your average snowfall is, but I would say you need to have at least a 50" snowfall average to get the kind of winters most of us want and preferably higher than that. My house in the Poconos at 2200 ft averages about 70 inches a year but it's only at the latitude of The Bronx. It catches both the southern storms and the inland storms. I can live with not getting the eastern coastals in exchange for constant snowcover and days of light snow that it catches from Lake Effect streamers too. It even gets a lot of rain from tropical systems.

yeah the -NAO "saved" us...but because of the Pacific it was basically snowless for us. I'd rather have the +NAO then when the Pacific was terrible, than the +NAO in January when the Pacific got better.

we have two predominant storm tracks. one is north of the area and the other is south of the area. You really saw that this year, as you're seeing both ACY and BOS do much better than us. This is actually a rather common pattern you also saw it in the 80s. The SWFE bowling ball pattern that hit us the hardest were most common in the 90s and have become rare again. It's actually better to be both north and south of here to get better snowstorms than it is to be here

60s is ideal

The only two seasons these didn't trend warmer were in 93-94 and the second half of 06-07 and the one storm in Feb 08

Manhattan is borderline, it's on an island so I would say it's coast. Bronx's southern part should be considered coast.

no one lives on Plum Island do they? Thats where the military had their horrendous virus experiment facility which was shuttered and moved to Kansas if I remember correctly.

what is it that makes some storms mostly snowy on an east wind and others arent? Especially in late February and early March when we have our coldest SST I distinctly remember the late Feb 2010 blockbuster being all snow on a southerly wind.

December was meh, honestly we would have been far better off with a +NAO in December and save the -NAO to when the Pacific was better, namely January and February.

I think the chances of 10 inches total snowfall in March is getting less and less. It would be good to get to near average snowfall in the month...5-6 inches, but I would say even that is doubtful.