Dark Star

It has gotten complicated. PSEG sold off a lot of their power plants. They kept the transmission end of the business. Natural gas is the cleanest of the fossil fuels, and is now renewable.

My favorite storm of all time. 31" here in Garwood NJ. It just kept snowing and snowing, and when the intensity dropped off just a smidge, it ramped up some more!!!

Nary a flurry here in Garwood, cental Union county NJ. Sun just popped out...

My parents were from Shenandoah, PA. Spent many a night sleeping in my Grandparents house upstairs. No insulation, heated only by a coal stove and a coal heater downstairs. No bathtub or shower, just a toilet in the cellar. My parents would tell me of nights where there was frost on the inside of the bedroom walls upstairs. That's why they all had goose down comforters (feather-tiks)...

I never said it was. I was disputing that very fact...

Yex, except Union county, NJ

or perhaps that the system was just a tad too far north and the stronger dynamics allowed for less precipitation, leading to the warm nose to win out?

That's why you can "cancel" winter around the 3rd week in January after already experiencing mostly un-winterlike conditions. By the end of the 3rd week of January, if no cold air is apparent in the 2 week long range, you can be pretty sure winter is over. February is regarded as the snowiest month, and you can have snowstorms in late February into March, but winter is normally waning by the end of February. To many, winter is a period of at least of 6 weeks of seasonably cold weather with some systems that produce(d) frozen precipitation. Any snow that does fall is slow to melt. Local small ponds freeze. I know, we have this "discussion" almost every year.

It was spectacular...

Pleasant dusting in Garwood NJ...

Sounds like you are ready to retire to Florida?

I've heard of deer running into cars, but horses running into Slavs?

A Snow squall warning for NYC 10 mile radius? Really? You know people living near the Great Lakes are laughing right now? To me, some things are not relative. True whiteout does not mean visibility is reduced. It means there is no visibility (okay, maybe up to 10 car lengths). Just a pet peeve.

A quick coating of snow is not a snow squall. NYC folks don't really know what a whiteout or snow squall actually looks like.

No actual squalls within 10 miles of NYC anyway. Maybe Susses County if they hold?

I know what OPS is, but anything newer, I have no idea. At one time, it would all have been in my brain.

True dat. The January Thaw is not a myth.

I can't forsee what will happen in 2 weeks, but I am optimistic based on the relatively cold and active pattern that we are presently experiencing. Of course, the ugly Pacific jet just doesn't quit...

Ouch, March 29, 2025 wins the game!

Though light, snow kept falling Saturday, even though the main system was already offshore...

I don't know. I feel that all recordable history events are valid and relevant. I am in the minority that average temperatures should factor in from whenever we first started recording. We use maximum and minimum temperatures from inception...

Every 6 hours was silly. The actual snowfall is what is on the ground (or measuring surface), rather than a theoretical depth not accounting for gravity or other physical properties. And I believe there is an average based on a differernt number of spots, so as to account for variations due to drifting, or is this just for larger snow falls?

I received 2.5" (maybe 2.8" figuring in compression), so I would naturally assume Central Park was not going to excced central Union County NJ (about 10 miles south/southwest of Newark Airport). But the storm was farther north and east, so the CPK measurement is not suspect, in my opinion...

I still contend that the lack of snow in areas such as Union county NJ was that the center for the storm was too far north. Areas north and east of NYC got the jackpot. Without enough lift in my area, the storm dynamics fizzled. Had the storm been more intense, it would have easily overcome the "warm nose" and "dry slot". To reiterate an earlier post, we are mainly disagreeing over semantics.