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NorthShoreWx

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  1. Not here either. I did see some graupel bouncing off my sleeve briefly earlier this afternoon, but nothing that isn't a form of snow. Viz flirting with 1/4 mile again here now. I'd call it moderate snow, but it's close.
  2. That pivot on radar is a thing of beauty. I can see it, but I can't touch it; yet its still pretty to look at. 3:30PM: That being said, we just keep firing up more light to moderate to briefly heavy snow here. Temp is up to 30.3 Snow stake has edged past 13" (Smithtown, NY) I was looking at 18z NAM soundings right over my head (40.88, 73.21). Despite precip type maps showing in green overnight (rain), the only place that gets over freezing is right at the surface ... and just barely. We are currently 2 degrees (F) colder than modeled. I can see some drizzle or snizzle being the main p-type for a few hours. All levels cool to freezing around sunrise and after that the 18z NAM keeps light snow going until almost July. We may yet wind up with a very impressive total. But that crazy band that has pivoted away from us sure is pretty.
  3. Still S+ here. Radar looks like it is trying really hard to dryslot and at the same time trying really hard not to and it seems we are about to step it up another notch. Lots of potential being right on the edge. So far we keep pulling the lever and coming up all cherries. On a roll. 1:30 temp 29.1. We've gone past 12" on the snow stake. Official total measured on the snowboards was 11.6" at 1:00pm.
  4. Smithown, NY 1PM 2/1 28.9F S+, 11.6" measured on the boards. Note, as of 1:05p mostly nice dendrites, but some graupel/rimed snowflakes observed to be mixed in. No observation of any sleet so far.
  5. Dropped by a half degree here since noon and another inch of snow. 11" as of 12:30. The snowflakes are smaller but nicely formed dendrites. They are filling the air bigtime, kind of a "suffocating snow". I like the look. Smithtown NY 12:30PM 29F, S+, 11" OG
  6. Temp maxed at 29.4 at 8:30 here and back to 28.9 a half hour later. 6" on the snow stake but that isn't "official" measurement due to the grass. Official could be slightly less.
  7. Smithtown, NY 1.3 inches snowfall as of midnight. Temp 25.7 (up 3.5 degrees since shortly before the snow started falling earlier this evening.
  8. Going by the radar I am looking at (CoD) not even virga here at the moment. The echos to the west (presumably virga) are hitting a wall in Nassau and getting beaten back by the dry air in place. DPs locally seem to be around +8 or 9 with surface air temp steady at 22 (Smithtown). For the places where the snow has been reaching the surface for a little while, has there been any wetbulbing of the surface temps or is the WAA offsetting that?
  9. Not sure what the actual jackpot percentage for LI would be, but it's a bit of an apples to oranges comparison to the rest of the region due to the size of LI. What other part of the region stretches nearly 120 miles as the crow flies from end to end? Fun stats (all mileages "as the crow flies"): From the Brooklyn side of the Verrazano Narrows Bridge to Montauk Point, 119 miles Center City, Philly to Central Park, 88 miles Central Park to Montauk Point 113 miles Montauk Point to the Boston Common, 97 miles Also max extent of LI from south to north is a 40 mile difference (i.e, Long Beach vs Orient Point, which are at about the same lattitudes as Iselin, NJ and New City, NY respectively). Point is, even going with the political LI rather than geographical (I'm always happy to drop Brooklyn and Queens from the designation), it probably covers as much linear space as anywhere in the rest of the sub-forum combined.
  10. I think snowdepth was about 27" total when that one ended.
  11. It might, and it mightn't. An absolute declaration like this isn't useful for forecasting for the beaches. By the way, compared to New Jersey, there is much less development on ocean beaches on Long Island. A tiny fraction of the population lives on the ocean.
  12. Wet snow shower here now. Most of the 0.3" has melted, but almost nothing fell as rain or sleet. Maybe some drizzle whan I wasn't looking, but there won't be much in the rain gage at all. Ironically, this is better than expected. It was always supposed to dry up on our doorstep except for the models that had a higher percentage of rain/sleet. Tuesday Low/High temp was 30.2/33.9. It was 33.8 before the current snowshower started and 32.9 now. Bouncing around a narrow range.
  13. We keep getting little bursts of heavier snow with nice well formed flakes. Temp has also dropped slightly below freezing after being a degree or two above all day and the snow that was having trouble sticking to the grass is now starting to stick to the pavement. There does appear to be some ocean enhancement going on.
  14. Steady light snow here; nice dendrites. Had some graupel mixed in before. Just a light coating so far and not everywhere.
  15. Wave 1 and 2 have heartbreak written all over them for here and points NE as currently modeled.
  16. I am not understanding how your suggestion would make the world a better place, or for that matter how it would not detract from the value of this forum. Perhaps if I understood what it is you are trying to accomplish I would feel differently.
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