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Also at least in this era we can have above normal snowfall with above normal temps, I'd rather have that then below normal snowfall with below normal temps lol.

Interesting similarities between this event and the one last May.

it looks like the snow is winding down and the storm is starting to end here. What is all that blue showing up on radar in NYC, Brooklyn, Queens and Western to Central Long Island- is it actually snowing in these places?

Been snowing since 7 am looks amazing outside! I dont care if it doesn't snow for the rest of the season, you take snow when you can get it and worry about tomorrow tomorrow......

Walt, if you want to put the location on your map it's near Albrightsville, around 2,000 ft asl. Snowing, 33 F.

I'm in the Poconos for this and it's been snowing since 7 am. We have about an inch on the ground.

Looks like the best way may be to preserve the forests we have.

Yep and a chance to set some more records. Any idea when the latest is that a major made LF in the US?

Thanks, I didn't know about the licensing issue! Is only certain equipment allowed to display very high wind speeds? (Sounds like a money issue.)

Saw a great series on Nature last night about expanding forests to take carbon out of the atmosphere. Bhutan is the world's first carbon negative nation. We need to expand forests to get them to cover 60% of the world's land surface and that means a few trillion more trees. That will greatly help our efforts to get carbon dioxide levels lower and improve biodiversity.

Also isn't it true that alpine areas warm more slowly and areas close to the oceans are warming much faster because the oceans act as heat sinks? Same reason why the arctic warms much faster than antarctica

What were the highest confirmed wind gusts and storm surge with this? I looked around and for confirmed numbers found 112 mph for highest wind gust and 10.88 ft for highest storm surge. That makes me think it will be upgraded to Cat 3 in post, as the highest confirmed wind gust reported usually corresponds with the highest sustained winds at landfall.

lol I think there's a hole in this idea of tacking on forward speed to the speed of a system east of the track.

Gloria was also moving at 70

interesting that coastal Delaware and Atlantic City and Cape May have a freeze warning and long island and NYC dont lol

Looks like the cold coming Monday doesn't look like we'll get into the 20s anymore? I've seen forecasted low temps coming up- more like low to mid 30s now?

the official reporting location is the airport which is in the western part of the city, correct? so they wont get the strongest winds there. But there should be other high order stations in and around the city to make up for it. Do you or does anyone have a list of the strongest hurricanes that have directly hit NOLA and the strongest winds reported there (100+)?

the 125-136 measurements for gusts are similar to what was reported for Laura out in SW Louisiana.

very marshy areas and moving quickly, probably wont weaken until north of NOLA

what time is high tide?

not only that, those marshy areas aren't going to weaken it much, if at all.

Yeah and I'm not sure they have any official wind instrumentation near those bayous to measure wind or surge for that matter. I remember the same issues with Laura with surge as people thought surge was lower than expected because of where it occurred, but later studies showed that the surge was higher, but in a much more sparsely populated area.

I just wanted to be clear that's what you said because in the first part of the sentence you said it would be reported as 110 mph and in the second part you said 115 mph lol. This part: Not cutoff at 2.5mph and if it's a 112 major they'd say it was 110. They'd say 115 cat 3 if winds support 112. Regardless, interesting read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2020/10/28/hurricane-zeta-track-louisiana/ Flight-level winds during a midafternoon Hurricane Hunter reconnaissance flight hit 138 mph; extrapolated down to the surface, that would suggest 101 mph winds at the surface. A dropsonde, or probe, released shortly after found a surface wind of 115 mph in the southern eyewall. That would indicate Zeta is near or at major hurricane status. The National Hurricane Center did not upgrade Zeta in their most recent advisory, raising the potential that the measurement was suspect. Regardless, Zeta continues to increase in strength and could approach Category 3 intensity as it makes landfall.

New advisory has a pressure drop to 970

ha not worth the effort. It looks like it may be upgraded later anyway. We went through all this with Michael too. I remember that discussion well.