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0.84" rain in Smithtown. We cut the snowpack almost in half since yesterday morning. Was 12" Monday morning, 9" this morning and we lost another 2 or 3 inches under the Saharan sun this afternoon. No bare spots here, there are some on the sides of Main Street down in town. I was down in Islandia this afternoon (near the LIE) and there is noticeably less snow there with bare spots.The good news is that there is plenty left on the north shore to freeze into a nice solid base waiting to get covered up with Thursday's anticipated snowfall. I'll be back out on the skis soon enough. The bad news is I'm supposed to be leading a completely filled group hike in the Catskills on Thursday and unless there is a cosmic shift in this evenings guidance, I'm going to have to cancel it due to expected travel conditions, especially for the downstate folks.

Down to 31.6 here with light drizzle / freezing drizzle. It's the first time since midnight that the temperature has been below 32. Not really freezing on most surfaces, but the snowpack which was quite soft earlier has a very light crust on it now. Pcpn very light atm. Smithtown, NY

Little Rock's record low temperature for February 15 is 13 set in 1905. Currently they are reporting 9 degrees with heavy Snow. 32 with light rain here.

Event total, Smithtown, NY = A trace of sleet and freezing rain. Liquid equivalent = Trace

Min/max here since midnight is 25.5/27.8. Narrow range with obviously still some CAA at the surface. Currently at 26.2 so it's fallen off a bit from earlier.

Worth noting that the first week of March 1969 featured 2 additional snowfalls that totaled 5.6" in Central Park, but 10 - 15" across Suffolk County. Bridgehamton recorded a snowdepth of 13" on 3/7/69. It was definitely a period that favored areas to the NE of NYC as you mentioned.

Note: ISP snowfall for 2/26/69 is suspect: STATION NAME YEAR MN DY DTOTPCPN DTOTSNFL DSNWDPTH DMXARTMP DMNARTMP Bridgehampton 1969 2 24 2.43 6.0 6 36 31 Bridgehampton 1969 2 26 0.24 1.5 6 35 30 Hempstead-Garden City 1969 2 23 0.08 0.5 8 37 33 Hempstead-Garden City 1969 2 24 0.38 2.1 7 39 33 Hempstead-Garden City 1969 2 26 0.04 0.5 7 36 29 Hempstead-Garden City 1969 2 27 0.04 0.5 6 37 29 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 23 T 0.5 0 38 32 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 24 0.11 1.0 2 35 32 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 25 0.04 T 1 40 32 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 26 0.15 11.0 0 34 29 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 27 0.01 T 1 33 28 Mineola 1969 2 23 0.23 0.5 5 35 32 Mineola 1969 2 24 0.16 1.5 3 38 32 Mineola 1969 2 26 0.04 0.4 0 T 33 29 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 23 0.37 1.4 0.005 35 32 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 24 0.08 0.2 0.005 37 32 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 25 0.005 0.0 0 41 33 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 26 0.005 0.0 0.005 33 30 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 27 0.005 0.0 0.005 35 28 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 23 0.15 1.4 0.005 35 33 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 24 0.04 0.3 1 39 33 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 25 0.005 0.0 0.005 41 33 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 26 0.01 0.1 0.005 34 31 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 27 0.02 0.2 0.005 34 28 NY City Central Park 1969 2 23 0.41 1.0 5 35 34 NY City Central Park 1969 2 24 0.07 0.3 5 41 34 NY City Central Park 1969 2 25 0.005 0.0 5 44 34 NY City Central Park 1969 2 26 0.005 0.0 2 35 30 NY City Central Park 1969 2 27 0.005 0.0 2 36 28 Patchogue 2N 1969 2 23 0.005 0.0 2 40 30 Patchogue 2N 1969 2 24 0.8 3.0 4 36 32 Patchogue 2N 1969 2 26 0.09 0.5 2 37 26 Patchogue 2N 1969 2 27 0.005 0.0 2 35 27 Riverhead Research Farm 1969 2 24 1.21 6.0 8 36 31 Riverhead Research Farm 1969 2 26 0.06 0.5 5 35 28 Setauket Strong 1969 2 24 0.7 3.0 -99999 M 35 33 Westhamptn Gabreski AP 1969 2 24 1.33 0.4 M 34 32 Westhamptn Gabreski AP 1969 2 26 0.08 0.1 M 33 29 SUMMARY: Bridgehampton 7.5 Hempstead-Garden City 3.6 Islip LI Macarthur AP 12.5 * Mineola 2.4 New York JFK Intl AP 1.6 New York La Guardia AP 2.0 NY City Central Park 1.3 Patchogue 2N 3.5 Riverhead Research Farm 6.5 Setauket Strong 3.0 Westhamptn Gabreski AP 0.5

I went against the grain and put the weather channel on during the 2/1 storm. There was a live shot with one of the TWC woman standing in one of the squares in Manhattan and very clearly a rat scurrying around on top of the snow right behind her. Great stuff and I wondered if anyone else noticed it.

I don't want to loose power for a week in the dead of winter. However an ice storm would be cool. Make lemonade.

Northshore Ski Bowl was open for business this afternoon and evening. Backyard skiing with a few inches of powder over a 12" base. I will learn to ski those trees, I will learn to ski those trees, I will learn to ski those trees...

Good catch in the rain gage for a change with no wind the other night. 2.1" snow melted down to 0.17" liquid which is a little over 12:1. Was great skiing on it yesterday.

Islip LI Macarthur AP 2013 2 8 2.21 16.7 0 36 25 Islip LI Macarthur AP 2013 2 9 0.74 11.1 25 29 20

That's supposed to be z's, not 9's. The observer was sleeping instead of measuring snowdepth.

STATION NAME Year Month Day Daily Precip Snowfall Snow Depth Max Temp Min temp Bridgehampton 1969 2 9 1.89 1.0 1 37 31 Bridgehampton 1969 2 10 0.46 2.5 3 33 28 Hempstead-Garden City 1969 2 9 1.66 15.5 16 36 29 Hempstead-Garden City 1969 2 10 0.44 6.5 18 34 23 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 9 2.00 15.0 0 35 27 Islip LI Macarthur AP 1969 2 10 0.20 2.0 15 30 22 Mineola 1969 2 9 1.85 15.0 15 36 27 Mineola 1969 2 10 0.40 5.0 20 -99999 M -99999 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 9 2.46 19.9 9999 35 26 New York JFK Intl AP 1969 2 10 0.03 0.3 18 33 23 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 9 1.82 15.7 1 33 26 New York La Guardia AP 1969 2 10 0.04 0.4 16 33 25 NY City Central Park 1969 2 9 1.64 14.0 1 36 26 NY City Central Park 1969 2 10 0.18 1.3 15 36 24 Patchogue 2 N 1969 2 9 2.00 14.8 14 34 28 Patchogue 2 N 1969 2 10 0.01 0.0 13 32 19 Riverhead Research Farm 1969 2 9 1.28 5.5 6 32 29 Riverhead Research Farm 1969 2 10 0.25 3.0 9 31 23 Setauket Strong 1969 2 9 1.80 12.0 12 34 29 Westhamptn Gabreski AP 1969 2 9 1.07 0.4 M 40 29

Smithtown, NY 2.1" new Refreshingly easy to measure. Definitely not 2.0, definitely not 2.2. Compared to all those windy affairs this was "a breeze". 15" at the stake.

As luck would have it, the records I have for New Haven begin on 5/1/1969. Here are snowfall reports from some other coops in CT for 2/9-10/1969: Stamford 21.5" Bridgeport 18" Danbury 18" Woodbury 17" Hartford 16" Shuttle Meadow Reservoir 18" Middletown 22" Colchester 19" There was less in eastern CT: Groton only reported 5" but a few miles north Norwich had 12"

Snow isn't frequent in Ireland. Bathed in warm air from the north Atlantic, they get their coldest weather with east or even southeast winds off of the continent, which has been the case the past several days. Most of their limited snowfall is OES, although parts may get significant synoptic scale snowfalls Thursday (Tersday) - Friday. I found this guy's discussion fascinating, although he does seem to be hugging the Euro

Don't know, but there were unofficial reports in old newspapers of -20F or a little lower from several towns in Suffolk County in February 1934.

Short version: Complete non-event here. Longer version: It drizzled a little yesterday max t 33. Also a tiny amount of freezing drizzle later in the afternoon. It was very light...not a particularly noticeable mist. Nothing in the bucket. It's almost fair to say the day was dry. If only it had been colder we might have seen some fairy dust if looking really closely. Most interesting wx of the day was temperature rising from 12.9 at 4am to 33.4 at 10:30am then slowly falling after that.

It would have to be within 12 hours. 3" in 24 hours would not get any advisories.

January 1961 lowest temp recorded on LI at Upton -23F. Crazy stuff.

The precip band from the south appears to be falling as wet snow over the south fork (12:20pm). Pretty sure that was modeled as rain. https://www.hamptons.com/Montauk-Cam#.YCLGauBOl-E

The biggest reason for variation in how fast snowmelts around here is nighttime temperatures. If one place radiates below freezing and another stays above freezing all night, the difference is substantial. In the morning when snow that has been softening all night in the city starts melting even faster, the frozen snow in colder areas takes a while to start melting even as the temperatures go above freezing. It is a very large difference when the UHI holds court in NYC.

Yeah, superbowl Sunday was crazy warm, then Monday morning we had 9" of heavy wet snow.

Except it wasn't 60 degrees yesterday.