NorthShoreWx

8" here as of 5pm. Still snowing...maybe another tenth or two. I'll remeasure in a bit. Back up to 17" on the stake, but it's tilting slightly for some reason

Nice color! ESB sounds good. I'm suddenly feeling a little parched.

Satisfying my curiosity, I looked elswhere. The northeast extension of the band we have been enjoyiing on LI is absolutley crushing downtown Boston. Past 5" here and approaching 6" (estimated) Smithtown

Looks very good for >6". This is 2"/hr stuff at the moment. Slight mitigating factor is that the wind has been quite gusty at times here. The mainland peeps have been talking about how calm its been with the falling snow.

S+ poundage now. 30 degrees. I haven't measured yet, but started the morning with 8" at the stake and it flirting with a foot now. That's good for a rough idea only. Smithtown, LI

Finally moderate to heavy snow here and the temperature which had dropped from 37.7 at 9am to hovering a couple of tenths above freezing most of the morning has dropped to 30.9 in the past 15 minutes. The parts of the blacktop that were still melting are now snow covered. Probably about 1.5" total so far. The wind has also been getting pretty gusty. Smithtown, LI

The top of the bluffs on the east end of Sunken Meadow look like that in places. The bluff top trail is alternating between blown bare and deep drifts. Some of the drifts are covered in a layer of blown sand that looks just like that. I did a 6 mile hike around various areas of the park this evening, half of it in the dark with a headlamp. The headlamp part was the best. There was no one else out, the wind had died and the snow was freezing up and getting quite supportive: https://www.facebook.com/MyMountainFamily/posts/2377036792420117

Ah. LB will do fine. A little light rain at the start won't eat much of the qpf.

When did you return to LB?

That is wording carried forward from 4am. The 1:33pm AFD updated the near term but not the rest.

Light rainfall here Friday morning totalled 0.04" If no one saw it, did it really happen?

Surprised there wasn't more buzz from LI'ers about the 0z NAM. Maybe it's wrong, but that 5" of snow in an hour at 19Z on Sunday would be memorable.

They're both still alive.

Thanks. That works for me. Every storm is different, but we often did a little better than Mineola, so 30" or more in Syosset in 1961 is definitely possible. Pretty sure that 1961 snow depth hasn't been matched since. 78 best efforts measurement (so much wind!) was 24" which was what was on the ground at the end of the storm. So that would have been our max snow depth that year. Wiping a board, that storm could have been 30" and NYC would easily have been over 20" possibly well over given that it snowed for 36 hours. That's the problem with comparing individual older storms with more recent. We're definitely getting more big storms, but the big ones aren't really bigger than the old time biggies.

A little too young. I never heard any mention of sleet in Syosset. It doesn't mean it didn't happen. Having grown up in that house, I'd estimate the snow depth could easily be 30". That drift in front of the bay window was about 6 feet.

I think the real temperature was in the 90s. The sensor was picking up heat radiating from the garage roof.

One of these days I will need to upgrade. I don't have a fan, just the layered plastic shield. I think sun off of the snow makes it worse. I'll write down 50 as todays max, becasue that's all I know, but I think it was slightly cooler. Down to 33 now (6:50PM). Also, down to 9" at the stake.

45 now (Smithtown). I never trust my backyard setup in strong sunlight, despite the radiation shield. I think my night time temps are accurate and the daytime are on average a bit high. Not bad when its cloudy during the day. When I dip the sensor in ice water it says 32. Doesn't get much better than that, although it's just dumb luck with an inexpensive sensor. It also doesn't prove accuracy when its much warmer or colder than 32. I still have an old one several feet over the garage roof. Thats the one that once recorded 112 on a hot July day.

It's 50 degrees here. Warmest day in over a month. Seems high, could be the sun but I do have a radiation shield around the sensor.

They all live on. This one was a goodie: https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=AFDBOX&e=200501230247

Not double digit for NYC, but I always think of this one for a quick hitter, Miller A : https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=SPSNYC&e=199602030203 https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=NOWNYC&e=199602030349 https://mesonet.agron.iastate.edu/wx/afos/p.php?pil=PNSNYC&e=199602031520

NAM is also showing another squall along arctic front Sunday evening. Would be an aftershock to the main event.

Syosset, NY, February 4, 1961 Some of you long timers may have seen the first photo years ago at an EUSWx conference when Paul Kocin used it in a slide show. I was in the audience and not expecting it. That's my mother and cousin. I missed that one , glad dad took some photos. (more: http://www.northshorewx.com/19610204.html more: http://www.northshorewx.com/19610204.html

It was a map of the area around Logan. I tested the link before I posted it and it worked at the time, maybe because it was cached on my machine.

Here are final stats for 1.5N Smithtown. well, sort of final. It's still flurrying. Snowfall: 16.5" LE 2.50" Part 1 (1/31 - 2/2 Snow, sleet, drizzle): 14.9" snowfall, 2.37" liquid equivalent Part 2 (2/2-2/3; last night's snow): 1.6" snowfall, 0.13" LE