Freezing Drizzle

Light sprinkles of rain at 37 F here.

Does anyone remember Tex Antoine from ABC? One of the first weather guys to explain some meteorology, with a little personality. At the time, most weather was simply presented as a forecast. He was drunk on air one evening, said something distasteful, and was summarily fired.

and 1979, PDI; 78 January too.

Great article! Love the historical research, as always. Now I can amaze family and friends.

Now, that's NJ....

16 to 28 inches, in Sayreville....crikey.

NWS shows 2-4 inches, for now.

You gotta' read all of the 20 pages just like others do.

Thanks for looking further Don, the late-"Icehater" had an amazing memory of details for weather events.

In the blink of an eye you'll be attending his high school graduation. Trust me, it's that "quick."

Much obliged. Perhaps he meant that it was above freezing for an extended period during the snowfall before the lows for the day were reached.

@donsutherland1 Good morning, the late-"Icehater," a great poster on the old NYC Metro forum wrote that the temperature during the "Lindsey Storm" of February, 1969 hovered around 34 F and never went below freezing. Would you have temperature data for that storm for CPK or other points? FD

I think our wives are twin sisters separated at birth.

Yeah, it happens that I live several hundred yards from the dividing line of Upton for Staten Island and Mt. Holly for northern Middlesex County. Over a few decades, Upton, for Staten Island, has been most accurate for me. Mt. Holly seems to include my town with the area just to my south in northern Monmouth County. Thus, Mt. Holly forecasts for me tend to be a bit warm.

He's good. I remember him, still a student, on the old Evans AW page. Glad he's successful.

Maybe Steve tried playing the anti-weenie and got burnt? It happens.

Dave Curran? He's been a sole "keeper" with them. Others from years ago, including Jim Gregorio and Michelle Powers are long gone. An annoying thing about News 12 weather -- they broadcast old weather spots without indicating so, for years now. It's really irresponsible. You'll see what you think is current radar, for example, and realize, "that's from hours ago."

I know; I live with one. lol Seriously though, my town's streets have not recovered from the solid embankments of snow, which encroach into the roadway and are very difficult to remove. More snow is going to be a problem.

Dollars to doughnuts he's waiting for more consensus, based on the next Euro run(s).

Still measured/conservative amounts. I don't blame them, really. They are broadcasting to a huge public audience, not to a forum. They almost always leave room to increase amounts as they look more certain.

My original point got a bit lost. I was only showing what AW and the NWS were telling the public in their (measured/conservative) weather discussions in text/writing. The public does not know what we do about maps, etc. You are right though; they seem to have a standard time forward where they will show inches in writing. Looks like about 60 hours. For example, still no inches shown in writing for Sunday night for my area. Ok we're good.

For the record, January 7-8, 1996 started late on Sunday morning.Carry on.ps - If the GFS verifies, I would love a post-mortem read from you guys on what the GFS detected, that the others missed.

I believe you are technically correct. After a fluffy snow, if sustained winds occur at blizzard level, but the sun comes out, it's likely still a blizzard, by definition. In a recent discussion we discussed the "one inch blizzard," don't recall fully, but the sun may have indeed come out after that snowfall ended.

Hi RU, I like your posts, and the fact that you are just to my NW. The forecasts in text this morning for the two areas were exactly as I wrote. Since then, Mt. Holly downgraded it to this for Perth Amboy: Sunday Snow likely, possibly mixed with rain before 7am, then snow. High near 38. East wind 5 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of around an inch possible. Sunday Night Snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 30. Chance of precipitation is 70%. However, Upton, for Staten Island, has increased the inches in their text forecast: Sunday Snow likely, possibly mixed with rain before 7am, then snow. High near 37. East wind 10 to 15 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New snow accumulation of 1 to 2 inches possible. Sunday Night Snow likely. Cloudy, with a low around 30. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New snow accumulation of 2 to 4 inches possible.

AW is also going with a broad 1-3 inches away from the immediate NJ coast. Their write up has plenty of (reasonable) caveats for an upside, however.