Volcanic Winter

13 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Should have waited to clear the snow.  It's a lot easier to crack the ice off of powder snow than off the pavement.

Yup, was a mistake in hindsight. There were other factors though including my car acting up, was just frantically trying to get something accomplished at their place during the height of it - and then get home safely. I was worried about exactly their conditions now, figured it would’ve been more difficult letting everything fall before shoveling the next day. 

Regardless they got the worst of the ice for sure, we had about half of that where I live about 10- 12ish miles inland of them. 

Pics of the glacial conditions… in Seaside Park (my parents). To clear their driveway I’ve had to, no joke, use a metal framing hammer with a pointed end bit by bit and a metal shovel.

This is ONLY the accreting ice that had fallen the last 4-6 hours of the storm, I had cleared away the 6ish inches of snow that fell first during the storm. 

This is wild. I’m sore. Salt has been effectively useless. Crazy!

My pack at home hasn’t reduced more than a half inch - inch since the storm, about as perfect retention as it gets. 

10.5 storm total

21 season total

Toms River, western border within a mile of Manchester

Memorable for sure, I rate and enjoy cold so even without snow I appreciate the contrast to other winters this decade. 

Gonna be planning a hiking trip in CT for my bday in a few weeks, love getting out in cold air and snow. 

10 hours ago, WeatherGeek2025 said:

This is bang on for what I have down here, about 20-22ish inches. 

1 hour ago, EasternLI said:

24" here on the season at this point which is pretty damn good for here. With future prospects too, this is a fun winter we have going on.

As someone who rates cold, I’m loving this winter. It’s not a prolific snow winter as in the region’s best, but it’s a throwback winter in summation I would say. 

Even during the warmup this month I wasn’t getting stressed and thinking “what the hell season are we in?” UnLike most of the 2020’s, it never went extreme and it was brief with respect to how we’ve had near full months wildly AN. 

Now we all have a literal glacier for the foreseeable future. Good in my book. 

How is the ice situation up through Middlesex / Union / Essex / the city etc? 

Down here it’s an ice skating rink; bad. Be safe all. Temp crashing too, 23F and falling. 

5 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Crazy bust by all models on the surface temps. Most had my area getting to around 30/32 at 11 pm. It’s currently 22!
 

10 degree short term model bust by all mesos. Doesn’t matter for shit, but still a lesson to be learned when it comes to surface temps in a SWFE, always over estimated 
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I was supposed to be above freezing by like 1-2pm and stay there until midnight. I only went above 32 at 5ish and was back below by 7:30p. 

26 now and steadily falling. 

Also only had about an hour of actual rain, the rest was accumulating frozen precip. Storm was a crazy positive bust IMBY with respect to winter weather. 

I now have an absolute glacier, thinking about naming it. All the best glaciers have names. 

It’s literally raining diamond dust you can hear right now, and it’s still accumulating. This is pretty cool. What a day. 

Still accumulating, back out to shovel. Very fine ice, heavy as hell. 

My neighbor is a big snow quad weenie, measured 10.5 on a flat untouched surface somewhat wind sheltered. I honestly thought it’s higher. 

Had to be a major QPF jack down by me, I had definitely more than 6 by 10am with pics to prove it. 

Great storm. So about 10.5 at my location along the border of TR and Manchester. Still coming down and slowly accumulating just shoveled again, but obviously wet and compacting now. I’m eyeing spots in my backyard that look more like 12 but may have been wind blown somewhat. Still I think we maximized down here, surprisingly. Mt Holly bumping back to 6-10 was the right call. 

This juicy storm with a better track for the  central / southern metro would’ve been pretty top tier I think. 

I’m happy

Just now, TJW014 said:

Right along the bayfont. Not as powdery this way. 

Interesting yeah, my parents had 5-6inches in SSP when I got there around 11ish. Must have been more of a lull by you? It can be spotty in this area for sure. 

Yeah I went from super fine snow to like tiny ice shards that came down hard and continued to accumulate. Little more aggressive than graupel I’ve seen in the past, hard to articulate. But this was a fun event and seemed to do very well by me, but less from me to the actual shore / coast. 

It’s interesting because we never went to sleet, it was super fine snow to like almost little ice shards or graupel that continued accumulating. And the snow lingered longer than expected. It was honestly awesome, been outside the whole day in it. Sore already. Still coming down though for the first time as true frozen rain / rain. 31F

10 minutes ago, TJW014 said:

Transitioning to freezing rain. 6" OTG. 

Where are you located again? I have way more than that, I had six around 930ish. 

I gotta say this seems more impactful for my area than even 1/29/22 with 16-20ish, roads etc are a MESS. Clearing is a tremendous pain in the ass. Never had any moment not accumulating which I certainly didn’t expect. The ZR / frozen pellets are a PITA in the extreme. Instant glaze over everything and happening fast. 31F

I have at least ten, never had any sleet - just transitioned to like frozen sand pellets. The accumulation has been wild here. 

Welp that can’t be right lol, the wind is more prominent than expected and it’s been quite a lot of blowing snow. Just made it back home after Seaside, where a pretty significant surge of ZR hit. I believe something is going on with the bridge into Seaside. 

Just now, weatherpruf said:

wow looks close to blizzard conditions out there....damn this is dangerous weather, no question...

37 in Ocean was pretty bad. Im sure East Brunswick area / 18 / R 1 is a mess. 

Can confirm still SN+ in Seaside Park. Coming down hard. Thoughts of little to the coast were def incorrect on this, at least six with sizable drifts. 

33 minutes ago, oceanctyguy said:

Is that Ocean or Union County? I'm near Brick but watching from afar in Florida via my RING camera. 

Ocean, Toms River / Manchester border. Union was my work / commute for 15 years. 

Seaside Park has about 6. Just got to my parents. 

Snowing so hard I can’t even focus!