At least you saw some flakes, I only got just over 1/4 inch of rain on the south shore of LI, we dry-slotted the entire event lol. The wind is strong but we get wind this level at least once a year. The coastal flooding was pretty bad though, worse than Irene levels in some spots on the south shore
I just woke up to check out the winds and rain here, not even a tenth of an inch for me yet, I would be on suicide watch if this was all snow. Winds are gusting 35-40 mph now though
Winds haven’t really increased much here yet, still gusting in the 25-30 mph range. Is currently moderately raining but the radar looks pretty dry behind this batch. I suppose the rain should ramp as the LLJ does later tonight
Winds are starting to pick up a bit now, maybe gusts to around 25 mph or so, strong enough to hear from inside my house. Only 0.03” of rain before the dry slot moved in
We definitely had a bit of a secondary jackpot in sw suffolk, I came home from Albany for that storm and it was well worth it, I got about 20” or so in Lindenhurst. It still annoys me that we never got an reported snow totals from the south fork. They probably were approaching 30”
I was going to check the wpc surface analysis page to see if it was a miller b or a clipper but for some reason they don’t have any archives for January before 2006. All the other months work fine though it seems
Does anyone know some 5”/hr or higher snowfall rates we’ve had in the region? maybe March 2018 #4, February 2013, and January 2011? Are there any others?
Where I lived in Lindenhurst you would probably need gusts approaching 80 mph to get widespread power outages (Sandy, Isaias, a couple of severe t-storms a few years back). While there are still a decent amount of tree’s left, the mass majority of weaker trees that would cause issues at lower wind speeds are gone now.
Sandy was the big event that convinced me weather was my passion, I was 12 years old at the time lol. I always liked storms before that, starting from when I saw my dad watching coverage of Hurricane Ike on the weather channel, but that was the first time I more or less tracked something from days out
Accounting for all the days, I’m still at 2.36” maybe some leaves are blocking the rain gauge or something, I’ve had that issue happen before. I have fall break this weekend so I’ll have to check when I’m back home
I thought shear was supposed to ramp up big time by late tonight? If Ian doesn’t close off the new eyewall by then, the shear is going to inject a ton of dry air and erode away the southern periphery of the hurricane. Or so I would think…