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Radar trends looking crappy for any decent rainfall totals for NNJ today / tonight.

Sitting at .04" so far today.  Would be very surprised if I get to .25".  Maybe just enough to rid us of the road salt, including what was dumped early this morning. 

Best rains going north and south for most of this sub forum.  These were the trends over the last few days so not much of a surprise.

20 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Rgem would be a nice soaker Friday .75 to 1". Unfortunately it doesn't look like the other models giving us .25"

Hope we can get .25 - .50" out of this.  Guidance has been trending to the lighter side last few days.

51 minutes ago, roardog said:

Those amounts are anomalies not actual amounts.

Sorry, mistake.  Didn't read the map title.  Scrolling through too fast.

Even so, pretty close to normal and we need more than normal to erase the departures we currently have. 

Having said that I will take anything at this point.

2 hours ago, LakePaste25 said:

On a positive note, the upcoming pattern will provide potential relief to the drought-stricken portions of the region.

 

If those amounts are all that is realized over the next 15 days - not good.

3 hours ago, North and West said:

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It Never Snows Anymore
When It’s Cold It’s Not Actually Cold Because When I Was Young It Was Colder
Baby, It’s Warm Outside (Each and Every Christmas)
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13 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Nam is a nice soaking for Friday. Rgem less so. More like .25" but still raining at the end

Anything to get rid of this road salt will be welcome in my book.  Thinking .25" to .50" is a reasonable forecast for most at this point.

Boy, the latest EURO sure has pulled the plug on the previously forecast warmup for next week.  Will be key where front sets up.  Still some time for it to adjust more northward or southward.  We'll see.

Not going to be much QPF with a flow like that.  Hopefully we can cash in on .25" - .50" over the weekend.  I'm a hard lean toward the .25" at this point.

Down to about 85% snow coverage here.  South facing locations pretty much down to bare ground.  Full coverage elsewhere with an average depth of 2.5".

This would be rainfall but man I'm rooting for it.  Need to wash this salt away.

1 hour ago, Allsnow said:

Both the gfs and euro have nyc falling into the single digits next week 

Honestly, without meaningful snow who needs it.  By meaningful I'm talking 12" forum wide.  Otherwise let it warm up and rain.  I'm done with the cold and piddly snow events.  It is dry and we could use the rain.

Let the weenies and buns fly.

3 minutes ago, North and West said:

Reading this at work in Florham Park


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Was living in Long Hill Township for the event.  Was one of my favorites!

5 minutes ago, cleetussnow said:

Every thread is a banter thread until further notice I guess.  

Yep, free wheeling discussions for the next 7-10 days. 

1 hour ago, SACRUS said:

More on 2016

 

https://www.weather.gov/okx/Blizzard_Jan2016

Great storm.  Epic!  Had 29" at my old location in southeast Morris County.

Seems CP measured good on this one!

Check out the snow swath on morning visible loop from SE Texas into SE Virginia. 

Also from the Ohio Valley into New England.

Just a little strip in between that was totally skunked.

https://www.meteo.psu.edu/ewall/PSUGOES_US/loop30v.html

With the threat of additional snow this month near nil barring any surprises I will finish January with 8.2".  Most locations south and east of here was about one half that monthly total.  This past Sunday event of  6.1" was the largest event.  The rest of the monthly total was minor stuff.   While a decent monthly total I'm not sure it was worth "buckling up" for. 

2 hours ago, SnoSki14 said:

Anything to get rid of this cold

I agree.  If no additional snow threats (and I mean decent snow threats) who needs it.

Let it warm up and rain at least to wash away all this road salt.

Low this morning of -1 here.

Again, I am at a higher elevation for my area at about 1000'.

I am sure it was colder down the "hill".

Still holding at 5" 100% coverage snow pack.

10 minutes ago, Picard said:

I go through the same thing here, as I'm on the community HOA.  I have harped on the excess salt, as it's bad for the driveways, kills the surrounding grass, and is bad for the dogs walking too.
And then I'm lectured by other board members about potential litigation.  Damn lawyers.  At some point, rain is wet, and ice is slippery.  Reasonable treatment is warranted.  What we do now is atrocious and an environmental disaster.  Sorry, Manda's post triggered me!  
 

Sent you a message so as to not derail the board.

Some interesting images and videos from down south:

https://x.com/i/status/1881807129260236837

https://x.com/i/status/1881837087865159997

My largest snowfall this season to date was 6.5" back in November.  New Orleans and other locations have surpassed that today.  Crazy.

The lack of upcoming precipitation (rainfall) for the next 7-10 days means the obscene amounts of road salt are going to linger.  Out driving on Route 80, and other local roads today and it was a literal dust cloud at times.  SO MUCH salt, what a freaking mess.  Was at a strip mall and I really felt bad for the store owners.  Excessive amounts of salt all over the sidewalks being carried into their stores.  You can tell the walks were mostly dry and snow free when the salt was dumped.  It is just sitting there doing absolutely nothing.

Carry on.  I just needed to complain.

Amazing map.  You don't see something like this that often.

Cold!

Overnight low here of 1.2 with solid 5" snowpack.

My location is quite elevated for the area and I'm sure lower elevations were a degree or 3 below zero. 

Cold and only a slow recovery next few days.

Just flurries over the last hour.  No additional accumulation.  Winds have picked up and are pretty gusty.  Snow is blowing off rooftops etc.   it looks and feels very wintry out there.

Temperature down to 16.