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1 hour ago, Brian5671 said:

Wow-only 46 here

Could my car be that far off??

Was it supposed to get this warm today? I had a forecast high of 46. I’m now up to 54.

9 hours ago, ILoveWinter said:

Drove up to the Berkshires today and was also impressed with the snow cover - especially in northern Westchester into Putnam. Funny enough snow cover dropped to almost nil once I got into central Dutchess county and it continued that way the rest of the drive up! The far northern areas did not cash in at all during the past two events. It is quite eery to be up here in Feb and not see much of any snow on the ground.

I noted the same thing on Sunday. There’s a hard line just north of Duchess and the snow doesn’t start again till Lake George.

Crazy winter. Im glad its over.

Sad state of affairs

Im impressed with snow cover remaining in Westchester. Granted we have hills. Enjoying last licks. 36F light rain

7 minutes ago, brooklynwx99 said:

some places in central NJ got 20” of snow in a week. stop it lmao

so what though? Whole winter has been running 5 above normal.

Don’t you find that alarming? 

most of us had a snowy week in January and a snowy week in February.

That’s your winter

1 hour ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

I’m sure you would have said that in 97/98 when NyC was at .5” and on the way to the record only to have that 5” storm in March. March is volatile and probably the hardest month to forecast far out due to the shortening wave lengths. It’s not over yet. 

I dont like the opening week. Too warm. But we shall see. Start to run out of innings

13 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

At least the 2 inch rainstorms with temps in the 50's have stopped...it's one thing to be warm and sunny and 50 and one thing to have it all washed away. Hopefully the mountains can get something like they did in mid March last year-those were the best conditions of the season.

Yes. you can write off NYC metro, but mountains have time yet!!

7 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Right, 2001-02 also holds the high min record at NYC-- 19 degrees.

We've never had a winter where it didn't get into the teens at least once, but 2001-02 was very close (and also had the shortest freezing season of any winter.)

I was convinced then, and now that that was a gift to the rescuers at the World Trade Center.

They had originally planned to build a giant tent over the site so they could continue recovery. it was never needed due to the warmth

8 hours ago, qg_omega said:

Last year was better for the mountains 

yeah, this hasn’t been a great year for skiers in the northeast.

The Catskills have done alright. The Adirondacks have just been out of the storm track and it’s kind of sucked.

The big guys that could blast snow everywhere were OK after Christmas week. If you don’t have the ability to make snow on all terrain, you are just fucked at this point in the northeast.

i’m at Gore right now and they have a nice amount of snow but they have a big warm-up coming and rain this week. Down at the lower levels near Schroon Lake there’s a few inches of snow and 8 inches of lake ice. It is all a very sad state of affairs.

8 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

No. 17 is the low so far.

That is very warm for the season low

what will be our low temperature this year? It was pretty mild. Did it get down to 11 or 12 in NYC?

The winter is over for NYC after this week.

Dont need a chart or a model or an MJO number to tell you that.

Look at the date, look at the weather over next 10 days and youre down to one off events in mid March. Given the warmth this winter, it is unlikely

Game over

4 minutes ago, EastonSN+ said:

What I find interesting is the fact that both coasts are the only locations to increase snowfall - even down to coastal North Carolina!!

I may be over simplifying, however, this must be due to higher moisture and proximity to events which are continually increasing in intensity. 

that was the theory in the 2010s. I’m sure it holds today. You do see a tipping point though. whether we’re at that point now or not is another discussion. we have plenty of moisture just no cold air.

51 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

Is this the main reason NYC has only 7.5 inches total snowfall this winter and surrounding metro areas have more and much more in other areas including mine with close to 2 feet so far this season  and we are south of the city?

The Warming affects the urban heat is more. I think that is what is lost here. I would like to see the park compared to a place like corona Queens.

Based on my friends observations living in Manhattan, I think the parks measurements are on, or perhaps high

for the people who declared winter over on January 20, now you could redeem yourselves by declaring it over save a one off mid March event.

2 hours ago, Allsnow said:

The park at 7 is so embarrassing 

No. It is quite accurate give or take a couple of inches

33 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

It's ridiculous, and it's what's reported as how much snow NYC has. Maybe some private company should start doing measurements at the Park if the regular observer keeps screwing up, or choose an airport to have official NYC obs, probably LGA. More often than not it's snowier IMBY than the city but I supposedly have more than double that (which is BS).

what is so embarrassing about it?

They haven’t had more than that. There hasn’t been one day where I looked out at what they had, and said geez they measured to low. Maybe 8?

Let’s cut the garbage here with CPK already. It is ridiculous. A bunch of 2 inch storms that melted as soon as it fell. That has been their season. The 7 reflects that

3 hours ago, MJO812 said:

We are still below average 

Like -20. Not even close. 1/3 of normal

1 hour ago, snywx said:

2.4" here

35.8" ytd for the season 

You need to be in striking range of normal to date right?

1 hour ago, dWave said:

2" here. 8.5" for the season. The slow climb to double digits continues.

Like an exciting season in Durham…

18 hours ago, forkyfork said:

he's salty about being too far north just ignore him

or it’s still 32° in Central Park and never got back to the 20s as forecasted. 

It will be interesting to see what the totals will be in central Park today versus the airports

Nice 2-3 inch event in Westchester. Freshen things up.

2 minutes ago, SBUWX23 said:

The dewpoint is 12. There will be no problem with snow fall on a colder surface once the steadier snow arrives.

That’s fine. There seems to be a concerted effort here to make 38° sound like it’s a normal overnight temp in February and cold enough for snow. The snow is gonna have to start falling and the temperature is gonna have to cool down. And all that has to happen in an urban environment.

And that will affect total accumulations. That’s all I’m saying.

1 hour ago, MJO812 said:

You didn't call anything.  It's going to snow and stick.

I never said it wasnt.

I said temps would be marginal to start. 

And here is a newsflash for those reinventing the wheel: 38F at 10pm is a marginal for the start of a snow storm

28 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

We have snow cover to help radiate plus out of the UHI. 

Called this situation this afternoon. Marginal temps in city