NorthShoreWx

Up to 4.0" as of 1pm.

3.5" so far in Smithtown. Temp 30. Steady light snow continues.

PS Eyeball method indicated 4" on the stake, but board measurements were 2.9". I'm not a fan of "eyeball" measurements. Seasonal total is now 30.2"

2.9" measured on snow board as of 9:30am. Current temperature is 30. Street has about an inch + of snow on it except a few spots that tilt south and have little shade. Radar is reorganizing nicely over NJ. Gonna be a snowy day. N. Smithtown, NY

The idea of quickly wet bulbing close to freezing isn't working out here. Temp is falling slowly;.down about 1.3 degrees in the first 20 minutes of light to possibly moderate snow (I didn't go out to confirm visibility). 37° now and snow has lightened. The "dusting" is melting. Radar looks good though and slow temperature drop will get it done soon enough...just not immediately.

Boom. Snow just started here and it came in hard as all snow. Already a dusting. Not a coating, mind you as the temperature is 38 and the snow is melting pretty quickly, but definitely a dusting on the grass and tables. Melting fast, but sticking a little faster.

Gutsy call.

Yeah, try having to go through the NYC bottleneck to get anywhere off island. I'll be sucking it up and doing it for the millionth time tomorrow.

The Bronx is upstate. If you live in Brooklyn. Not kidding.

It's easy to forget what thread you are in when reading it on a little phone. Especially if you've just read a bunch of banter posts. At least I've been guilty of that.

True. To make a technical point, your part of the Island is pretty close to the same latitude as Mt Kisco.

If you look more closely at those stats as presented in the original post, they aren't saying that there is a greater chance of a 4" snowstorm with AO+ as you go south (the likelihood is similar at all 3 locations), but rather it makes up a larger percentage of the 4" snowfalls as you go south. Put another way, it implies that NYC is more likely to see a 4" snowfall than either PHL or DCA when the AO is not positive.

School in Syosset, February 1978

26" at ISP in 2/78, similar elsewhere around the island. 2016 wasn't anywhere near twice as much snow at JFK as 1978. Different measuring techniques. And a few miles east of JFK in 78 had 20". The closest thing to '78 was 2/8/2013. Similar snowfall in spots, but less on average and with a lot less wind.

Blizzard of 78 on LI. After all the storms since 1996, '78 is still the benchmark for LI blizzards. https://northshorewx.com/19780207.html https://www.longisland70skid.com/blizzard-of-1978/ Really cool to see the back and forth with the coastal front on the ISP obs during the evening/overnight on the 6th. Snowfall measurement in those days was depth at the end, so that 26" was massive compared to the same measurements today (sum of 6 hour snowfalls at airports).

Happy Celtic spring. Trivia: The Low in Lowville rhymes with Oww (as in ouch) Lau-ville

NBD for Hamptons. Similar to here, except less on the road. https://hamptons.com/village-main-street/ Coopers Beach looks nice, but it's still just a coating: https://hamptons.com/coopers-beach/

28 degrees and just started snowing. Because everything was iced up, already have a light coating in the street.

Just freezing drizzle now (down to 30°), but the next batch of showers in a half hour or so will really get things icy on a good chunk of the island west of roughly PJ - Patchogue, and maybe by then a little east of there too. Caveat is west end could start to see some sleet.

I'm not so sure that it is.

Down to 31 here. Don't think its freezing on much yet, but with several more hours of showery weather to go, it's a good night to stay in.

Meanwhile, this has been trending a little closer, although in baby steps. https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=gfs&region=eus&pkg=z500_mslp&runtime=2022020418&fh=66 https://www.tropicaltidbits.com/analysis/models/?model=ecmwf&region=eus&pkg=z500_mslp&runtime=2022020412&fh=90

32.1° Colder rain has transitioned to the coldest rain.

This usually works: https://www.wunderground.com/wundermap

Jealous. Haven't been there since October.