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33/28/ESE/SN-

It has been snowing lightly for about an hour now. Existing snow has a fresh white coating on it otherwise everything else is just wet.

40 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

Generally if you go from El Niño to El Niño or El Niño to neutral the summers are mixed but it leans warm.   1958, 2003, 2004 bad.  1953, 1969, 1977, 1987, 1991, 2015  good but generally warmer in the back half than front half 

So something like average to slightly above MJJ then +2 or so A & S? What about precip? I desperately want a drier year than '18.

Yeah what is on the ground locked up again last night. I'm thinking that the stuff that's still here is more durable than what we usually have at this time of year so I'll be curious to see how it holds up through the weekend warmth and wetness.

Poof, nearly all gone.

Rapid melt, so cool. Stuff that was completely covered before it started snowing yesterday is melted out.

Thankfully it's warming quickly with bright blue skies and (almost) spring sun angles. Looks like I avoided any tree damage this time.

Another terrible storm in the books. .2-.3" of ice on everything. 

.2-.3" ice on everything. What a mess. Again  Hope for no wind until it warms up  

.2-.3" of ice on everything. I watched my neighbor across the street crawl up his driveway to get to his car then watched him get in to start it and it slid to the bottom of the hill all the way through his backyard. It went over a landscaping wall, bounced off a tree and spun sideways. Big body damage and it's gonna take a good sized wrecker to extract it from where it's at. Lucky guy was able to jump out before it went over the wall. This warmup today can't come too quickly.

And now it's back to tiny flakes. They're literally just sliding off things and collecting in the low points as they get blown around by just the slightest breeze. I might get lucky soon though, it's up to 31 on a south wind so it will probably only be a short time before it goes to just rain. We'll see how much that accretes on already frozen surfaces before it starts to melt off.

Yeah I had an inch before it flipped to freezing rain. This is getting silly, every damn storm involves some amount of ice. The only times it didn't was the coatings in December. This is horrible.

3 minutes ago, HVSnowLover said:

Yea for the coast the story of the winter has been rain, rain, rain, a bit inland it's been ice storm after storm.   

I'm getting tired of waiting for the damage to begin. I keep a jug of gas ready to go into the generator and the heavy duty cord ready to go. While sleet is a big pain in the butt to deal with the ice on top of it has been a real winning combination 

1 minute ago, Juliancolton said:

Monster sleet.

Boom! Yeah man that's huge.

29* and moderate rain mixed with large mangled, aggregate flakes. Everything is completely iced over now. A car just went down the street and it sounded like a plow going by as it slowly rolled through the ice. I'm over this winter...

I guess you could call it 1" here now. It's compressing as quickly as it falls. Still snowing tiny flakes, 25/23/SSE2. 

Mahopac

24*, the wind has a southerly component to it when it blows, I've got tiny cylindrical flakes and mangled flakes falling, every now and then a burst of decent sized flakes will move through. What has fallen is a densely packed 1/2" that adhered pretty well to the existing ice pack so it's easy to walk again which is nice. 

It's been flurrying for a while but just picked up to low end moderate here in Danbury where I've been for the last few hours.

6 minutes ago, WeatherFox said:

Radar 1800 UTC

It's wrong. It's not precipitating in Danbury.

21/14/N3 

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

Another new and impressive weather record for the 2010’s.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/weather/2019/02/19/flight-reaches-mph-furious-jet-stream-packs-record-breaking-speeds/?noredirect=on&__twitter_impression=true

The jet stream, the high-altitude air current along which storms travel, is furious. The river of air was clocked at more than 230 mph over Long Island on Monday. That measure comes from the 250 millibar pressure level, meaning it was at a height above 75 percent of the atmosphere’s mass. It sets the record for the fastest 250 millibar wind speed ever recorded over New York and, probably, the country.

A Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles to London peaked at a whopping 801 mph Monday evening 35,000 feet over Pennsylvania. “[N]ever ever seen this kind of tailwind in my life as a commercial pilot,” tweeted Peter James, a jet captain.

 

801!! In a conventional airliner no less... 

I'd call it 85-90% snow cover here. Actually it's solid ice cover  Sunny, exposed south faces are burned out but otherwise it's complete. I did a lap around CT today and some places have real winter going on with real snowpack and snowbanks, you don't even need to go up into the hills. 

I'd give this winter a D at best and that's only because it did get cold. If we don't get a storm with snow rather than ice I'll probably drop that to a D-.

^^Bummer. At this point I'm ready for the real flip to spring.

Looks like I only made it to 14, it's 18 now. 

So tomorrows storm looks like another icy mess. This is really getting old.

I think I'm at ~16-17" so need 30 to get to average. I'm not feeling it  In fact, if it turned into golf weather tomorrow I'd be alright with it.

1 hour ago, jfklganyc said:

This isnt talked about enough!

 

I have had more days of snow cover this winter than 15-16.

Too many guys get distracted by total amounts. If you like cold weather this winter was actually better than the last two. Just never worked out for snow.

 

I think the cold last year was more impressive. I hit mid teens below 0 a couple of times and didn't get anywhere near that this year. Daytime cold was also more significant. I also had more snow in the first 6 weeks of winter last year than nearly 3 months of winter this year. If you include November I still have 8" less than I did by mid January last year.

21 minutes ago, HeadInTheClouds said:

Very true. 15-16 was a disaster IMBY north of 84. This winter has had a decent amount of days with snow cover and I'm sitting at 28 inches for the season so far. 

You have a full foot more than I do so far this year.

10 minutes ago, bluewave said:

You guys avoided the NYC Metro winter snow hole.

 

 

That map is trying to show a high spot in my area but misses by about 10 miles. Not bad on the fringe microclimates overall though.

Well that icy coating on cars and such didn't last very long. At least all of the old ice crust stuff is covered in a nice fresh coat of white stuff.