IrishRob17

They were using bulldozers and road graders on the parkways up here trying to scrap the ice off.

That’s some nice winter footwear you have there

Wish I kept records back then…anyway, we had a snowfall in the morning up here, I want to says something like 6”-8” in bitter cold temps before the warm front blasted through changing it over to plain rain. Then that evening the arctic front barreled through changing the rain over to snow and everything froze. At the time NYS was trying to save money and NYSDOT had cutback on night and holiday plowing. As a result the roads became blocks of ice that were impassable for days rock salt was pretty much ineffective during the cold snap that followed. NYSDOT then developed a policy that the plow should be dropped if there is any snow between the white lines on the road. This link talks about the dramatic temp swings that occurred in NYC https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2012/02/new-york-weather-highlights-1994.html

I’m not a jackpot guy but the fact that its so cold is a bit of a bummer because I’d have days of drifting here with more fresh snow. 1.9” on the board, in the old days it would be boarderline plowable as 2” was the threshold until the rules changed after the Martin Luther King 94 storm debacle.

December 30, 2000 is definitely one of my favorites!

It’s easy to see that geography isn’t a strong suit for some as they use minutes away instead of miles. Then there are those that use road miles away rather than as the crow flys. Riverhead is about 15 or so miles further away from Central Park than I am to @BxEngines point.

30 minutes away in these driving conditions? Dry pavement conditions? Rush hour? Off peak? What kind of 30 minutes away are we talking here?

So you can easily post here that you have a foot of snow

Gold! Solid gold!

At what point do we want to be in the models jackpot zone? Asking for a friend.

I have a number of them in the beer fridge

Violently agree LOL

That seems reasonable to me, I wouldn't go above 4" even down there.

Enjoy!

Damn, I hope they can get you up and running ASAP

My dry January will cease in about 2 hours now, my wife and I made it long enough LOL

I'm thinking you'll be putting @BxEngine to work. I didn't even look at next week, which had something yesterday I think on the GFS.

Let the whining increase further after that Euro run, LOL

Good storm but also a giant pain in the ass for me, lost power for 4 days with that one and it wasn't nice fluffy powder like this one will be be. Well, it did get fluffy towards the end. First world problems.

Yup, there is something to that. I guess I need to lay the sarcasm on even more. This ain't our storm over this way. @snywx and I overperformed earlier this month so it'll likely be several years before that happens again for us unless we are talking high dews in the warm months...I'm sure we'll crush those for the foreseeable future.

Good Morning! And after reading your post above, thank you for your service.

We have flakes falling...the big ones always start early...something like that LOL