IrishRob17

@The 4 Seasons picked up 1.1" here today as this winds down giving me 4.5" for the season. 33/31 currently with just some light flurries lingering. 

2 hours ago, NorthShoreWx said:

I'm heading up to Kingston for an event this evening.  I assume the thruway will be no worse than wet.  Any intelligence to the contrary?

It's sounds like traffic is moving fine on 84 ( I can hear it from my house) and on Google Maps most major roads are still green around here. That said, a winter wonderland in my yard, snow sticking to everything with .8 on the board so far in light snow 34/30. 

29/23, hoping that light precip just to my west makes it in here as frozen. 50s on Christmas Eve and a cold rain on Christmas Day, a true holiday of yore being projected at this point.   

3 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

I don't see a high temp above 36 for the next 14 days on my weather apps. Haven't looked at any new model runs today.
 

Is this something some of the model runs are showing not showing up in the apps yet or are you mocking the warm mongers among us?

I'm looking at the models and they've been showing above normal temps around the weekend before Christmas going into Christmas week. Its way out there, can and will change so lets hope for the best.

Looks like 4 will do it for the low here. 

4 will do it for the low here. Sucks to see that warm up heading out way next week. 

12 minutes ago, NEG NAO said:

are you talking about your area in Northwest NJ or the entire NYC metro from Ocean County up to Ulster County in NY  ?

It’s impossible to predict anything with confidence past 5 days in this fast flowed pattern………………….

7 hours ago, psv88 said:

We have 1.30” of rain already in December and it was a pretty wet November with 2.50” of rain. The ground is muddy and we aren’t in a very dry pattern.

What's your average November precipitation there? 2.50" seems like it would be below average to me, it would be up here. 

A fresh light coating of snow, a trace, out there this morning, 25/21.

Low of 19 late yesterday, low of 7 this morning with 3" of snow at the stake. 

Low of 19 late yesterday, low  7 this morning with 3" of snow at the stake. 

2 minutes ago, North and West said:

You have to throw out this year and come back next Thanksgiving.


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Seasons ovah. 26/11, gonna be a cold one with that bright moon bouncing off the snow. Gonna lock up my first teens of the season, looking like before midnight. 

1 hour ago, the_other_guy said:

Of course it is upstate NY.

 

Just sharing a photo…as I often do when conditions warrant 

The season is already getting to some, hate to see it. 

Another day of flurries, maybe a heavier squall in a bit, 38/26. 

4 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

@NorthShoreWx, and anyone else with knowledge, I need a ruling here. The snow changed to sleet, I measured 3.1" at that point, and then eventually a bit of freezing drizzle before stopping around Happy Hour when I cleared my board. Then in the evening I got some back edge snow showers and I had .1 on the board this morning. I believe that I count that, which would bring storm total to 3.2". Do you agree?

13 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said:

TLDR: Yes, that's what I would do.  

To my knowledge, but with low confidence, there is still the "greatest depth in 24 hours" thing. There's so much noise and conflicting guidance on the web, including between different NWS pages, that its near impossible for us mortals to be definitive. Plus, there's different standards for airports/ASOS sites and other users.  Not sure if COCORAHS, coops, mesonets, and spotters get the same guidance either.  And then there's the measure only at set times sites (cue cpcantmeasuresnow).  It's mayhem.

I've gone back to resetting at phase changes or between unusual events like separate snowfalls in the morning and evening.  Just seems like common sense to me.  Otherwise, I do wipe the board at midnight (once per day).

I'm amenable to updating my methodology if someone can convincingly show that I'm not doing it correctly.

 

 

@The 4 Seasons as a result of the above I'm going with 3.2" total for yesterday. That said, ay insight you can bring to this conversation is appreciated. 

@NorthShoreWx, and anyone else with knowledge, I need a ruling here. The snow changed to sleet, I measured 3.1" at that point, and then eventually a bit of freezing drizzle before stopping around Happy Hour when I cleared my board. Then in the evening I got some back edge snow showers and I had .1 on the board this morning. I believe that I count that, which would bring storm total to 3.2". Do you agree?

12 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

Not last year.

We had a white Christmas, some of us, snow on Christmas Eve and sub zero morning two days before Christmas day. NYC was 13 degrees on the 22nd and 23rd.

10 hours ago, NorthShoreWx said:

Last year was an exception, but that torch thing has been amazingly consistent most Decembers recently.

Yeah, which means we're due for T-shirt weather this Christmas...but hey, if we can pull off more seasonal Christmas weather two years in a row then that starts a streak...(reference to the movie Major League)

14 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

@The 4 Seasons .2"on 11/11 and 3.1" today, 3.3" season total thus far. 

Anyone wondering about the specific tag in this post and may have missed it, I think many of you will enjoy the fine work here:

A back edge additional dusting of snow. 31/29

59 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

Yeah, if even that. It was funny to see cars coming down the hill from Woodstock the other day caked in snow while I was raining

I remember that from my college days at New Paltz. I’d drive up with a clear car, cars on campus were clean with no snow on the ground there there would be a few cars that rolled in covered in snow.

3.1” today melted down to .45 liquid. 3.3” snowfall for the season. 

2 hours ago, IrishRob17 said:

@The 4 Seasons .2"on 11/11 and 3.1" today, 3.3" season total thus far. 

Today’s precip melted down to .45”

15 minutes ago, snywx said:

I’m a snowpack guy myself. I think we keep the grass covered for December 

As am I so from your mouth to Old Man Winters ear. 

@The 4 Seasons .2"on 11/11 and 3.1" today, 3.3" season total thus far. 

9 minutes ago, Juliancolton said:

Getting into some really heavy stuff now with a couple new inches in the last hour. Roads are pretty atrocious

I got into a dry slot down here, starting to fill in again now but I can also see the back edge of the precip approaching.