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.17" rainfall overnight. No icing. Temperature only briefly dipped to 32 overnight. Currently 40. Average snow depth 1/2" with 50% coverage. Expect only plowed shoveled mounds to remain by the end of the weekend.

Guidance / ensembles in good agreement and persistent in dumping record or near record cold into the central and eastern U.S for second week of January. Very strong cold signal developing. Evolution and exact details uncertain. Some of the guidance developing intense high pressure from the high arctic southeast into the U.S. Depending on how things evolve could be accompanied by some snow around here. How much? Far away but the bitter outbreak signal is strong. Often times intense cold is dry but there are exceptions. If there is anything noteworthy around here as far as snowfall I'd say the window is January 7-12. Intense cold without snow is annoying and a waste of cold air.

.17" rainfall. No icing here. Temperature only briefly dipped to 32 overnight then rose slowly during bulk of precipitation event. Currently 40.

The road crews in my area are sure ready. Salt literally dumped on the roadways in very significant quantity. Really nuts. Brine would have handled this very well.

Snow cover status: 75-80% coverage with an average depth of 1". South facing exposures patchy coverage to bare ground. North facing and shadier locations holding onto 2" or a tad more this morning.

Mt. Holly has just posted Advisory. Not much but it doesn't take much light freezing rain or drizzle you send you sliding.

Solid white Christmas here. 100% coverage at 8am with average depth 3". This morning 85-90% coverage with average depth of 2".

Great pictures of 1947 event! Vintage! Was a solid white Christmas here yesterday with 100% coverage and average depth of 3" at 8am. Lost coverage mid and late afternoon and by end of the day (7pm) was about 85-90% coverage with average depth of 2". Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah to everyone.

1.2" new snow here. That fell in just about a 2 hour period. Average snow depth is 4". Melted total today is .09".

That's ok. We had snow to whiten Christmas and a decent cold snap. We still need the rain so I'll take it. Drought Monitor has only made little progress with the recent rains.

According to some accounts I've read on this storm there was thunder and lightning in the hours around and just after mid-night (12/24-12/25) in the metro area.

I really have trouble biting on anything outside of 7-10 days. Beyond day 10 and especially day 15 it has been pure speculation last several years. Modeling has been very "jumpy" it seems to me. Taking OP runs surface features as anything more than "interesting" is foolhardy.

NYS minimums.

Overnight low here of +2 (1.9 to be exact) and still a solid snow cover with an average depth of 3.5". Well below zero in the usual NJ cold spots.

Overnight low of 8 here. Some mins across NJ and a satellite pic that shows the extent of the snow cover.

Very happy for you ! Nobody wanted this more than you. Glad you got it finally.

Yes. This snowfall will stick around for several days out here as opposed to the prior ones. For the season I'm at 14.3". No complaints.

Snow and melted totals. Click to enlarge.

Total here was 5.2”. Water content of .37” is 14:1 ratio. Over performance for many this event. Seems like areas models were targeting for max amounts received the max amounts but they were higher than modeled by 2-3” in some cases.

Will measure at 7am but eyeballing 3” to 3-1/2”. Wind getting a bit gusty. Looks really wintry! Snow is very dry and blowing off rooftops. Still steady light snow ongoing. Temperature 26.

I was only going with about 1-2” here so I am going to be “busting” low if this continues much longer. Going to look and feel wintry here for several days that’s for sure.

Still hanging at 27 - 27.4 degrees. Been steady in that range since sunset. Just measured 2” on the nose. Steady light snow continues. 75644219665__537877BA-D614-42F8-81E8-020E545CC4AB.MOV

Currently 27 and steady light snow ongoing. Total 1.2".

Steady light snow here. Down to 27. Once we got past 4:00 it almost immediately started to stick on my not well traveled street. Street was just wet all day, except along the edges. Looks pretty outside especially taking into account the holiday season. Will take a measurement at 6pm.

A quick video before it gets dark. Currently 29 degrees . 75642090659__FB5E00DA-A2ED-494E-AC12-D2ECAA86C0C8.MOV