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That could quite possibly be more historic than 2001-02 but I wasn't alive then lol. Were you in Oceanside for 1997-98 and 2001-02 too? How would you rank the three? I guess I would toss 2011-12 in there too but we had over an inch in October so I keep that apart from the record low snowfall winters.

It's probably more like 01-02. Some notes about 97-98, from what I've read from others who remember that year better, it was actually more than 0.5 in DJF but Central Park as usual didn't measure properly. Both LGA and JFK were higher than 0.5 in 1997-98 for DJF. This winter was probably more than 0.4 too, we had two measurable snowfalls, one in December and one in February, the total was probably closer to 0.6 to 0.8 between those two events. This winter is more like 2001-02 anyway, a lot warmer than 1997-98 and almost as warm as 2001-02, which is the low benchmark winter of my lifetime.

Hell no, it's too cold plus nothing really to take pictures of in the dark. I'll go outside in the morning to take pictures.

But a lull would be expected. I'm happy with this initial burst. Whatever we get later is gravy.

I just see so-called meteorologists say that on TV and then I neg them on Twitter and tell them they should talk more intelligently. I dont really mind when you use it, but when people on TV use words like that it makes me wonder why they got those jobs.

energy you mean I hate when people say "oomph"

People diss la ninas but the fact is that la ninas are almost guaranteed to give you at least one 4-6 inch snowstorm, especially late in the season. I dont believe any of the bottom 5 winters in the city were la ninas, they were mostly either el ninos or neutrals. La Ninas are always good for at least one nice snowfall, even if it's very late in the season.

Too bad this isnt happening during the day, I can see the snow is pretty heavy in distant streetlights, but other than that I can't see anything. I guess it's enough to know it's snowing without actually seeing it outside of looking at streetlights lol

Dangerous

I hope this doesn't mean warm air is moving in. I remember when that did happen and completely busted a forecast.

While not heavy snow here, it's at least moderate, which is good enough and also really windy with blowing snow.

22/33 huh? ;-) 11 year snow drought?

That joke will never grow old lol

Why Montauk may do better than JFK and they will also have northeast winds from the coastal. Though it's snowing here pretty well now and accumulating on rooftops. Windy too.

water temps are 45, way above normal

yup on WABC. New estimated totals JFK 0.7" LGA 1.9" Central Park 2.2"

what about for the Poconos? I may be headed there that weekend

What does the CFS say? I heard that you shouldn't look at any of these models for a monthly forecast until the last week of the month, well that's here now lol.

They're predicting 0.7 for JFK, 2.0 for LGA and 3.0 for Central Park

Interesting Lee Goldberg said that Montauk has a higher chance of all snow than JFK does because Montauk will get more influence from the coastal and will have NE winds while JFK wont get as much from the coastal and winds will be more easterly there.

They might have been visible here too then if it wasn't for the light pollution =\ Do you think they could be visible tonight too? I mean if it wasn't cloudy lol.

I'm not at the beach obviously, but I'm 2 miles north of there. Does it look good for here?

Damn it! I heard there was a big solar storm! Were they visible in the Southern Poconos south of I-80 do you know?

that will matter in term of surface temps though, snow will not stick to warm ground unless it comes down really hard

well I'm 2 miles north of the beach so I'm safe lol