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Peak of the storm

In front of my house, by the time the wind died down, this drift was around 40” high

24 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I felt like we had higher snowfall rates and stronger winds in 1/4/18 that day was an all day white out and full on Blizzard conditions?  This one didn't verify as a Blizzard like that one did at JFK did it?

JFK had 6 hours of true blizzard conditions so it was actually a double blizzard lol.

Know what I call that storm?  The HALF GOAT lol.  Because it had true blizzard conditions for 6 hours vs Jan 2016 (the GOAT), which had it for 12 hours (so a quadruple blizzard lol), and there was 15 inches of snow vs the GOAT's 30+ inches of snow.  The duration was half that of Jan 2016 too.

 

 

Imagine the January 2018 blizzard with its 949 mb pressure made a loop south of montauk instead of speeding away just east of the benchmark? That would of been the blizzard to end all blizzards. I have to agree in regards to wind that January 2018 was stronger, I remember getting frequent gusts into the 50s with that one, this one was still obviously a blizzard out here in western suffolk but gusts were mostly in the 35-45 mph range besides a few isolated around 50. Snowfall rates 2018 wins too 3”/hr here then, today was 2”/hr at worst, but the duration of this event allowed it to still pull ahead in the final snowfall totals department

19 minutes ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

I can’t give a proper measurement. Too much wind, blowing, drifting. If I was a betting man, we hit 20” in Babylon. 

Yeah I’m leaning towards about 18-20” in lindenhurst, that final band really pushed us to bust high after it sat over us for a couple of hours

Almost impossible to measure due to all the drifting, (some spots are literally bare while some drifts are nearly 4 ft high) but Im thinking I got somewhere around 14-16” (maybe as high as 18”) of snow here. Definitely worth the (literal) price of admission. 

Still getting some pretty strong wind gusts here, one to 49 mph not to long ago. 51 mph was the peak here around daybreak

17 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Jan 2016 here, a super blizzard that dropped 32 inches of snow

Jan 2016 is the king for the south shore. Only storm I’ve gotten more than 2 feet of snow in

1 minute ago, shadowsintherain said:

I’m in copiague currently. My apt in Babylon is now under 18.5 inches. They reported 13.5 3 hours ago. 

 

They’ve been cranking under the core of that little band for a good couple hours now, probably had 2”/hr rates

I’ve been choking on subsidence for a couple hours now 

Temp 14, wind chill -4 right now

Last time I checked I had about 7.0” of snow here, that was maybe 2 hours ago

Just came in from measuring, 6.4” total snow so far. Expecting another 9-12” here, winds aren’t too bad right now. Strongest gust in the past 30 min was about 34 mph, but I did have a gust to about 44 mph around 4:00 am, and that remains the peak so far for this storm

As of 2:15 AM: Nice moderate snowfall here right now, along with winds gusting to about 35 mph. 4.3” on the ground with drifts maybe twice that height

Whatever model drops the most snow in my backyard is correct

23 minutes ago, Chrisrotary12 said:

Do you like wind? 

As long as I don’t lose power, yeah… I’ve been kind of a wind weenie since Sandy happened when I was a kid (well not that im exactly old lol). I would take snow rates over wind though any day

Ok I got my ticket and I’m on my way back to LI, if I get anything less than a foot this trip wasnt worth $90 

6 minutes ago, tim123 said:

To where. 

Lindenhurst, in western suffolk

Im up in albany rn for school, would it be worth it to buy a train ticket this afternoon to go back home for this storm?

3 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I get those confused lol, I knew it was either 6 or 12 haha.  Jan 2016 might have been 12 and Feb 2017 might have been 6.  Jan 2018 I dont remember at all.  Which was the one where there was a white out all day and you couldn't see anything outside and Boston set their surge record?

 

That was Jan 2018 im pretty sure

4 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Thats why I consider Jan 2016 a super blizzard JFK met blizzard criteria for six straight hours so it was a 2x blizzard.

Out here on LI it was like 11 hours straight lol

The only other ones that even came close to that was February 2017 with 7 hours and January 2018 with 8 hours

44 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

It's not that, it's purely statistical based on how rare double digit snowstorms are in a hostile pattern.   And where I live double digit snowstorms no longer happen in March.   I would say that from now until the end of the season the chance of a 10 inch snowstorm are less than 10 percent.  6 inches?  Maybe 25 percent

 

4-6 inch storms are a different beast altogether and can happen in any pattern.  It's why I specifically referred to double digit snowstorms as being extremely unlikely, not the smaller ones.

 

 

 

We had an 18” storm only a few years ago in suffolk, march 2018. Did western Nassau get shafted in that one?

Had a dusting in Lindenhurst only on the coldest parts of the grass and trees, all gone now. My expectations were low though since we rarely score on these frontal situations so I’m not exactly feeling any dissapointment

39 here, temps have been struggling to drop 

Finished with 1.17” of rain here last night, highest gust was 54 mph.

Wind has died down quite a bit here, rainfall total at 0.72”