the_other_guy

50F at 7am Brutal end to a mediocre winter

Why the snarky response? You’re talking about a phase with hopes of cold and snow. Mid March, climate-wise, we are just about done. I think that is a very relative point. Sorry to rain on the mid march snow parade

Mid March? What is the point though

Beyond this little interlude Sunday-Tuesday it looks warm. Im a mets fan, I see a loser coming very early on… Warm up the Fat Lady…this winter is coming to a close

Then those people are morons. No offense. That societal statement aside, I always hated that NYC and its residents are so detached from the water around them. Perhaps its greatest asset and so little access

Im fairness, late Feb highs are low 40s already.

Mud season being the worst…

Sun Angle comes up finally!! 10F at 8 am in Hastings

This upcoming week looks warm… You can write that off. After that, 4 weeks to go Now every week we lose you start picking off time. Frankly if it all ended tomorrow, most of us got a nice taste of winter with the cold and some scattered snow events This Ice Event north and west yesterday saved what Would have been a boring cold rain. 20F at moment with a dangerous layer of ice on everything in Hastings I salted the hell out of the driveway last night but I still left the car on the street because I had no faith that I was going to be able to stop it before I hit the garage

So I just went down my driveway. Starting to accrete on roads now… And plenty of rainfall left

28F Light Rain This is about to become a major problem in two hours or so… For now trees/signs/cars coated Ice Accretion begins at the Cross County

That really says it all. As anticipated and predicted frankly

Biggest threat today in the city are the garbage highways with ponding in the left lane. Lot of that this morning 52 at LGA

42F Temp dropped from 44 at 5 am Unless its heavy precip, we needed these pre dawn hours for significant icing

I dont like what is happening in this forum with the weenies and personal attacks. spiraling out of control pretty quickly

I’m at 44° right now. Somebody in the region is making a run at 50F This is coming in much warmer than modeled which will have implications for any icing

This makes perfect sense to me given the setup

If you approach each potential ice storm in NYC with the bias and knowledge that due to geography, topography, and urbanization, the coastal plain is unlikely to see a major icing event, you will be at a good starting point. Shoutout to Snowman19 who accurately called this NYC event to many weenies

a good chunk of snow in the city is gone. I was quite surprised to see that when I landed

There is your problem area in this scenario. Prolonged temps in the 20s with topography

Yeh, I get the personal issues. But if there is possible validity in the statement, that has to be acknowledged

You got 4 weenies for this. The statement may be overly simplistic given the complexity of the phasing with this system But…when push comes to shove from these models, high probability of validity for the 5 boroughs

Amen. Not in the cement jungle during daylight hours

Also, population density. The area around 84 is vast and sparsely populated. Eastern Suffolk (say William Floyd on East) is tiny with more water than land. But even in its most rural parts, has more density than the 84 corridor does…so it gets talked about more.

Truth is, if you live south or east of 287, ice storms verify. There is no topography to hold the surface cold and, in NYC , too much cement if its marginally cold. 1994 comes to mind. The prolonged sleet storm Valentines 2007 also comes to mind. It is rare. NYC metro is likely looking at a cold rain with some icing N and W.