NorthShoreWx

Not I. 2015-16 was kinda average. Not bad, but not that special. 2014-2015 worked its way to a very solid A starting in January, but some folks to the west of here won't agree becasue they didn't get buried in the Jan 2015 blizzard. They seem to have forgotten everything that came after it. Some of us remember multiple moderate snowfalls and long lasting snow cover, some of us only remember the biggies. I won't forget the 2015 snowcover. From when the pattern shifted in January, we didn't completely melt out until the first couple of days of April. The 20" snowpack on this same date in March 2015 was kinda memorable too. March 6, 2015: March 8, 2015:

Well, thanks for a great winter. Just curious, is your PT work wx-related or non-wx/other? Snowcover is down to a trace here, but it's a significant trace and the sunglasses still help a lot with reflection off of the remaining snow. There is still 2" at the stake and more in a lot of places, but can't in good conscience call it more than a trace with less than 50% coverage in total. The sun always wins. High temp here has been 32.0 and it's backed off a little, but I think temperature maxes in bright sun at this time of year can easily occur towards 5pm.

Same here as of 1:07pm. Smithtown NY

Still foggy and dark here, but it is 50°

Plenty of bare ground around LI. My neighborhood holds snow well, but now we have the fog. 2:30 this afternoon:

February has been very kind to the north shore of Suffolk (excluding yesterday, but I'm not complaining). My total for the month of February is 33.0" , season is 41.9". It looked like a little white rain tried to mix in here with today's showers, but you had to look really hard. Temperature did manage to drop from 47 late morning to 38 during the rain. ISP (10 miles to my SE) has 24.9" of snow for February and 33.5" for the year. The north shore / south shore disparity in western Suffolk County has been greater than in recent years this winter. The benchmark year for that sort of disparity remains 1993 - 1994. I don't have pesonal stats for that winter, but the north shore was close to 60", Upton/OKX recorded 55" and and ISP only had 33" for the season. I was living on the south shore and commuting to the north shore and it was very noticeable on a daily basis. Smithtown: http://www.northshorewx.com/ClimateData/SmithtownDailySnowfall.pdf ISP: http://www.northshorewx.com/ClimateData/IslipDailySnowfall.pdf

There were 5 consecutive moderate snowfalls (4 of the 5 reaching low end warning criteria in Suffolk County) during late February and early March 2005. Snowfall accumulations in this series in NYC were significant as well, ranging up to 7.5" on the 2/28 - 3/1 storm: http://www.northshorewx.com/20050221.html February 25, 2005 in NYC (5.7"):

Fluffy or not, the implied 1" water content is very impressive given the lake conditions. Neat stuff.

That's hyperbole.

Meanwhile, 2pm today in Smithtown. Meant to post it more realtime, but there were some YT upload issues:

He's not prone to hyperbole.

Visibility of 1/2 mile is light snow. Visibility less than 1/4 mile might be heavy snow.

This was actually more interesting than a lot of rain on the snowpack events...just watching the progression on the traffic cameras was fascinating. Frustrating too as I saw heavy snow as close as 10 miles to the southwest while it was raining here. There could have been some tweaks to the 3k NAM ptype maps on TT, but if you looked at the model soundings, it nailed this again! Now I gotta get some work done.

Not happening here. Change to snow has made it as far east as it is going to. Now the change reverses.

Checking traffic cameras, you go from all rain here to all snow about 10 miles southwest of here. There are a couple of wet flakes mixed in here now, so I guess that's not technically a shutout.

Temperature here dropped from 42.9 to 37.5 here so far since the rain began, changing the cold rain over to a colder rain. Still 11" snow depth this morning, but that'll change today.

You might be right about that. Could be my mistake.

That can't be right. I think that was the total for 1 storm. They had a 9"+ snowfall around the first day of spring and a few inches a few days before be that.

Nice. Very cool to see how the plume veers and bends with the winds yet still remains clearly identifiable. Off and on flurries here, which at this point is remnant lake effect (with an assist from a mid level disturbance)

We got a half inch of pure fluff from that.

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-Mid_Atlantic-14-200-1-50-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined Follow the remants of the eastern part of the band that was aligned along southern Lake Ontario around 02z

This area of snow tracks back to an area that was near Oswego around 10PM last night. I don't think it's strictly lake effect, but Lake Ontario was there at the beginning. Long Island Sound might have given it a little boost too. Sound fetch is only about 15 miles but might be a little bit of convergence along the north shore as well. Still snowing. Looks like a few tenths of new snow this morning. Seems to be about to end but it's snowing harder than it had been at the moment. Temp is 27.6 Smithtown, NY 9:25 AM

Still flurrying but I think we're done here. Nice day and the snow intensity varied but never stopped. 2.6 inches from the bonus round separated from yesterday's 4.4" by a 1/8" layer of ice. 7.0" storm total, 13" on the ground. I'll get SWE by tomorrow. Feels like an over-producer. 32.5" for February. 41.4" for the season. 30F with flurries at 8:55pm. Smithtown, NY

Old glacier with yesterday's snow on top of it, then a firm layer (about 1/8" ) of ice, with todays snow on top of that. We'll see how that works under the skis.

All of the hi res guidance is indicating a little burst for a couple of hours starting around 5pm. Looks like it goes in some form until about 8. I'm heading out to do a little skiing. Will probably finish with my headlamp.