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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

Maybe he broke it over one of those warminista groundhogs.

25 year average here is 39". I think Upton is similar.

February 2015 around here. We were building snow pack from January into the second week of March. Pretty much every snowfall that winter fell onto previously existing snowpack. 20" snowpack of mostly old snow a week into March isn't typical around here. /understatement

1.6" new here since last evening. This storm is the Energizer Bunny; snow intensity is increasing again. 16.5" total since Sunday. 13" at the stake. Smithtown, LI

Been snowing continuously here since 5pm yesterday. Mostly very light with an occasional burst.

Snow showers in the area seem to be expanding coverage and consolidating. Could get interesting for the overnight if this continues, but sometimes they fizzle just as fast as they flared.

0.9" more this evening, so 15.8" since the storm began Sunday night.

That or some swfe was probably the last time.

About a half inch so far from the current snow shower. 30F (Smithtown) I was out and about and the roads are snow covered and slippery. I was suprised how eager the anti-lock brakes were to engage and I was babying them. Lesson is...the ground was frozen before; 12 hours at 33 or 34 isn't going to keep things liquid on the roads once the sun goes down.

It reminds me of when I was a slightly younger adult reading Walt's AFDs. Good times!

It's "interpolated" data and only uses official NWS measurements. So all of western Suffolk County is represented by ISP which reported 11" and central Suffolk is represented by Upton which reported 14".

Did I do this correctly?

14.9" storm total in Smithtown. May or may not be some additional bonus snows on Wednesday. This was a storm when we might have recorded close to 20" by wiping a board every 6 hours. I wiped at midnight Sunday and at midnight Monday. Total as of 7:30 PM was 14.6". An additional 1.7" of snow and sleet accumulated on cleared surfaces between 7:30PM and midnight but the depth on the snowboard only increased by 0.3" and I recorded the 14.9" total. Since this was a long duration storm, wiping once per 24 hours was appropriate rather than waiting to the end. I use midnight for snow totals; most Cocorahs types use around 9AM but it can vary. Of course I measure more frequently than once per day...hopefully no Central Park-type measurement hijinx here. I know a lot of people still wipe the board (or picnic table or deck) more frequently. I am not philosophically opposed to wiping the snow board more frequently, but I am doing it the way we are currently supposed to. I do believe that it would be more appropriate to wipe the board at a phase change, which is also not currently part of the protocol. So if someone wants to say we got 16", I won't argue it, but 15" goes in the books (plus any bonus...). Splits were 1.3" on January 31 and 13.6" on February 1. Temperature went above freezing in the past 30 minutes (~1am 2/2). Currently 32 with the barest hint of drizzle. Freezing drizzle and very light IP occured before that.