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6 hours ago, psv88 said:

Suffolk got 4-6”, no WWA, nada. Inexcusable in 2018

I wonder if this is the shortest gap between the last 6" snowfall of a season and the first 6" of the next season.....6" on April 2 2018 and 6" on November 15 2018

ACY winds gusting to 60 mph and the center of the low is headed up this way

4 hours ago, Rjay said:

 The dummies will most certainly torch them tomorrow.

They said this kind of horrible situation hasn't happened before but didn't we have people stuck in traffic and on mass transit for 24 hours during the Boxing Day 2010 blizzard?

Also is this worse than the post Sandy snowstorm? I remember lots of accidents and trees down from that too.

Just now, David-LI said:

Probably a transformer. Just checked the live lightning map and it doesn’t show anything nearby. 

Yea it actually reminded me of the March 2010 storm when I heard the same kind of popping, and it ended up being transformers going off.  Going to be a long night!

33 minutes ago, David-LI said:

Anyone here? Those winds in the morning will blow up any transformer that hasn't yet. 

I think I just heard thunder

5 hours ago, forkyfork said:

all those things are already incorporated into the models

Thats interesting, I wonder why models tend to often have to correct back north (it's been happening from the 90s from what I remember, first one I remember that with was the Blizzard of 1996, and I remember Messenger's excellent prediction of 2004-05).  Statistically, the number of storms that correct either north or south should be similar but it seems like the storms that verify further north has been higher.

3 hours ago, raindancewx said:

Shouldn't the weather start looking what you expect for winter at some point? December is right around the corner. That is my point. You seem awfully convinced I'll be wrong on everything, that is why I keep pointing out how close everything has been so far. There has not been an El Nino in Boston with low-solar that produced 80-90 inches since 1892. That is all I'm saying. It's not that it will be 55F every night in Boston. It just tends to be somewhat dry. The new Jamstec, Euro, CFS, Canadian all show that now for the NE.

Anyway, no reason to flame the hatred. I'm not a meteorologist, but I work at a casino and I am essentially a professional forecast in that arena, so what I find is my methods are fairly transferable into other areas. I'll check back in April, I suspect you'll be around 35", give or take 10" in Boston officially.

Also got 6" here in NYC and the city was basically shut down because it all fell during rush hour....from Twitter

People called us @WCBS880, saying they’ve been sitting still on the George Washington Bridge approaches and elsewhere for more than 5 hours. They are demanding answers for rightful reasons. How does 6 inches of snow paralyze NY and NJ? Disgraceful. @NJTRANSIT bad on a good day.

2 hours ago, michsnowfreak said:

2002-03 was a much better winter for sure. 2001-02 managed 43" from several good storms thrown in but the ground was never covered for more than a week at a time. 2002-03 had 67" and was wayyyyy colder.

That was our last wall to wall winter that I remember being great for everyone, hopefully this one will be similar.

The city was shut down tonight from a 6 inch snowstorm that fell during rush hour.  And I just heard thunder outside lol.

5 minutes ago, weathafella said:

I have to pinch myself to remind me it’s 11/15 and not the middle of January...

6 inches of heavy wet snow this reminds me a bit of the storm after Sandy.

Both were completely unexpected and caught the roads people unprepared.  From Twitter

People called us @WCBS880, saying they’ve been sitting still on the George Washington Bridge approaches and elsewhere for more than 5 hours. They are demanding answers for rightful reasons. How does 6 inches of snow paralyze NY and NJ? Disgraceful. @NJTRANSIT bad on a good day.

5 minutes ago, forkyfork said:

co2 doesn't affect individual storms

No not that, the whole package of changes, like warmer sst affecting storm tracks, bringing what would be offshore storms closer to the coast, more blocking, slower storms, more precip with higher precip rates like we have been seeing for a few years now.

8 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Finally got home to Long Beach. I’d estimate 5” here. Snow mixed with sleet and a little rain now. 

About the same here, close to 6", how do you compare this to the storm after Sandy?  About the same amount of snow at your home?

39 minutes ago, hudsonvalley21 said:

This will be a traffic nightmare . Snowfall at this rate will accumulate on all road surfaces 

closing in on 6 inches down this way with no salting or plows all the roads are like parking lots

1 hour ago, forkyfork said:

another climate change storm in progress

when are they going to fix the models to factor in climate change and the new climate we are now in

1 minute ago, Brian5671 said:

5 inches in the city?  Wow

closing in on 6 inches here on the south shore, looks it might dryslot rather than going from heavy snow to heavy rain

Just now, mranger48 said:

Behaving like a SWFE in some ways. We could dry slot after the full transition with not as much rain as we thought


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thats what I was thinking, with a low track that close there's usually a dryslot not a heavy snow to heavy rain scenario

2 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

Note, my comment above was regarding you PA taxes; your NY taxes may be higher than mine

yep PA taxes are about half of NY taxes

16 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

Oh I remember it alright. This one is performing better for us over here. Also not as heavy a snow as that one, which was the last snow until Feb that year...

13" in Freehold with that one that was definitely historic

2 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

Whatever you are paying there, it is less than what we're paying here, believe me. 

well before this increase whatever it ends up being it was already around 12K a year.

33 minutes ago, Rjay said:

So bad.  An hour to go from Massapequa to Merrick.

haha I know we all love this - except if you're stuck on the roads in it

41 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

HORRENDOUS road conditions. Heading back to LB and pulled over in Wantagh. Still puking snow here. 

approaching 6 inches of snow on the south shore

37 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

They are out in my town and they did pretreat. Our property taxes at work...

Got a nice little "gift" in the mail saying the property taxes are going up

23 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

4pm snow measurements were funky.  LGA reported 1.2 on .19 and JFK 3.2 on 2.5.  Central Park didn’t report 

closing in on 6 inches here in sw nassau as of 5 pm

26 minutes ago, Ericjcrash said:

The other night I was bored and did some research math, when NYC gets 3" or more they average like 36" it would've been higher but I had to exclude 95-96 when 2.9" fell.

So start with 2.5" haha since that rounds up to 3"

2 minutes ago, NycStormChaser said:

I'll admit I was wrong. But no one said it can't snow in November. It happened 3 times the past 6 years. 

They must be forgetting the storm after Sandy when we got 8-10 inches of snow in Nassau County and over a foot of snow in Central NJ, and that was more than a week earlier than this storm.

1 hour ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Looks to me like it hasn't budged in central NJ over the past hour.  Definitely not "racing".  Someone on that r/s line is getting frustrated with the back and forth p-types.

Snow started here about 45 minutes ago.  32 S- with a light coating.

 

 

this is a nice overperformer for the south shore of nassau county, looks like 3-4 inches already the plows need to be out