NorthShoreWx

Might be true, but don't know how you'd know that from living in the city.

Truckers view of last weeks storm in Virginia. Actually kind of fun to watch:

Nice coating in Southampton:

Nice. Very nice.. Watched the eastern edge of this slide about a hundred meters to my west. We got a non-measureable coating in the street, but not as much as to the west and south. Even if it was a half inch, this type of snow will blow away and evaporate by morning. I see psv88 replying. I bet he had a nice little squall in Commack.

NW Suffolk looking good on radar, but I may be a little too far east for this one. It looks like its trying to develop towards here, but can't tell. Wouldn't be the first near miss. Still flurrying and been stuck at 25 all evening. I imagine it will drop quickly behind the squalls.

Started flurrying here. I noticed a dusting on Southampton webcam from the cell out that way.

.65 here and similar from other stations in this area.

Gunga galunga

Roughly 60-40 cover. Patchy is a good word, but it still looks like winter. Overnight max was 40 at 2am, so there was more melting after going to bed.

NJ too. OMG they're terrible on the Thruway. There was an old saying that all of the worst drivers in NYS have yellow plates. I agree that the left lane crap is an epidemic. That needs to get ticketed more often.

Still full cover here except under the hemlocks out back where its always thin. There's still time. More rain to come and it usually warms a few degrees before the fropa. Still 38°

38° Light rain Yum High 42° 1:30pm, Low 15° @ 2:30am

Got down to 15 here, up to 17 about an hour ago and back to 15.9 now. I know it's gonna go up fast when the wind kicks up. I don't use the south shore temps to gage what going to happen when the wind kicks up; I look at the temperature in Manhattan and the 100 meter temperature on the tower at BNL. It's 30° in Manhattan. On the tower, the current temperature at ground level (2 meters) is 14° and the 50 meter temperature is 28°. For some reason the 100 meter sensor has been out a while; it's generally warmer than at 50 meters with an inversion. So, a breeze mixing things up will get us close to 30°, but it'll take WAA to get us warmer than that. With temps in the mid-teens for many hours, some surfaces may ice if the precip comes in early enough even if the air temperature is already above freezing. Think of those red brick steps outside your front door, if you have them.

Temp not rising here yet but seems to have leveled off at 16. The current 15.9 is the low for the day, but it's been close to that for a while.

Temp here is down to 17. First teens of the season. Took long enough. What a little snow cover can do ...

We leave the tree and outdoor lights going until my son's birthday, which is this coming week. It's a family thing. One of the plusses is finally having snow on the outdoor tree. I have a 15 foot dwarf Alberta spruce (the kind that aren't supposed to get that big) that I wrap with white lights. Looked great last night.

Just based on my own experiences with my standard 4" COCORAHS gauge, which might not be a valid comparison, they catch rain a lot better than snow. At the time I measured 9.1" on the ground yesterday, there was an uneven (stacked higher on one side) 2" of snow in the guage (I had removed the center and top prior to the storm). I'm not sure what the physics/mechanics of this is, but I've seen it many times. I emptied the paltry catch from the guage and used it to get a clean core of the snow on the ground which melted down to 0.65", a hair under 15:1. The snow depth here this morning was 6", so that 15:1 stuff compacted quickly.

Jeez, what a start to the year. Prayers that things get better for you and family.

January 1999 was meh. There was some very cold low level air around at the beginning of the month, not much snow, and mostly rain or ice. The most interesting thing that happened all month was a localized OES band on a northeast wind off LIS that persisted for hours and deposited at least 6 inches of pure fluff in the Sands Point / Port Washington area. No place else was effected. There was a big ocean storm in late February 1999 that backed in enough to drop snow ranging from 13" at Montauk to almost nothing in Nassau County. Snow totals: https://www.northshorewx.com/19990225SnowTotals.html

Fair play. When you average them out, we do quite well. Just not as flashy as some people think.

Wound up 14.9:1 SWE ratio here from a melted core. 9.1" snowfall, 0.65" LE

I'm seldom in the regional jack zone, but I just assumed that it is statistically unlikely to be in it for any one place for a given storm. February 2003, January 2005, Feb 2006, Dec 2009, late Feb 2010, January 2015, and January 2016 all come to mind as notable storms where we weren't close to local jackpots. Notable storms where we were in the jackpot zone include 3/15/99, 1/27/2004 and 2/14/2104. There are many others among smaller snowfalls. There were a couple of notable storms where we were reasonably close, including February 2013 which was a real good one to be reasonably close to.

2N Smithtown, NY 9.1" as of 8:30am Still snowing 28°

Eyeball measurements not worth much, but FWIW, eyeballs say about 6" on the picnic table and we're about to get into a real nice looking band. We take.

There was some sort of boundary in the area that I wouldn't have expected to fluctuate towards the colder at that time. I looked at a PWS just west of ISP and it did not bear out the ISP readings, but looking at another PWS just east of ISP, it did: https://www.wunderground.com/dashboard/pws/KNYHOLBR17/table/2022-01-5/2022-01-5/daily Windshift and rapid cooldown was probably not an ASOS error. So there's how far west the initial push of warm air got before backing off. We didn't get to freezing until after 8:30AM here. It was dicey on the steps in front of the house, although the road seemed fine. Up to 41 as of 12:40.