Sundog

Truly a horrid place for snow

The funny thing is a little before the timestamp I started the video at, the guy is like, "1.1 inches?" clearly indicating that there is no way that was correct, which was the measurement reported like 30 minutes before the video is taking place.

2.9 inches my a$$ lolol Here is someone measuring the snow early in the morning at Central Park, the video was published between 7:30AM and 8AM, she already measured 3 inches on the bench and it snowed moderately and with higher ratios for several more hours afterward. I embedded the video with the appropriate time stamp. So spare me the 2.9 inches bullshit guys, it's just flat out wrong.

Yes well LGA also recorded 1 inch of snow when I had 7 inches in November 2012 just 3 miles east. I honestly don't care if the park recorded 1 inch or 10 inches. The station is completely irrelevant. I wish people didn't use it as the official record of anything. Why is it ok to say their temperarture readings are irrelevant and not reliable but their snowfall amounts are? I think they both suck.

The first half of the storm was on the wetter side. Ther second half was quite powdery. So it's highly unlikely that Central Park had a ratio of 5:1 or 6:1 which is basically slop. It could be that the high zookeeper or whoever it is measuring was scolded for measuring under a pine tree and was redone to be more accurate.

Everyone north, south, east and west of them got more snow but hey, the park didn't record 4 inches so it must mean something! We have to come to terms with the fact that the park is no longer a reliable weather station, whether it's temperatures, wind data or snowfall.

5.5 inches Bayside, Queens 1:30PM

I got between 5.5 and 6 inches of snow depth right now in an open area on packed soil (not grass.) I'm in NE Queens. And I thought I was getting shafted for awhile early this morning. I have seen video from Central Park and it clearly shows more than 2.7 inches. And this is why the arbitrary 4 inch measurement record is still alive and well (and why it's also bullshit.)

Were you the one that said +10 for October?

You should let the people at Pivotal Weather know about honest color schemes. Temperatures in the 60s there look like a heatwave.

I grew up hearing "north and west of the city" in the 90s for like literally every storm it felt like. Very frustrating for a kid who loved snow.

The record is a fluke. JFK went over 4 inches twice in 2024, one of them being over 6 inches.

I like how the GGEM has temps between 10 and 15 degrees for basically all of Virginia Friday morning but here it has us above freezing lol

Just for fun:

As long as Thanksgiving is good so that the balloons can fly high.