NorthShoreWx

Hearing 30"+ amounts from a couple of people I know in the area. One is at 2200'. Widespread power outages and roads a mess with fallen trees.

Glad to hear it. At Slide Mtn Motel or somewhere else? FYI, just spoke with my friend and he also has vacancy for Friday and Saturday nights. I've stayed there many times. He takes good care of the place. Room tonight is $85 including tax. If I head up for some snow shoeing it will be Sunday morning.

You should check if my friend has any vacancy at his place in Shandaken: https://www.facebook.com/pg/slidemountainmotel/about/ Tell him Ed sent you.

Partial to the Old Man Stout myself.

I don't know anyone who takes the Horace Harding Expressway into NYC. And the TZ will always be the TZ.

The weather channel is sharing obsolete information. That change occurred a few years ago.

I don't think so. I am pretty sure measuring peak depth of new snow was the snowfall standard through most of history, not wiping a board during the storm. A lot of the old coop reports are inaccurate because they only measured once per day at the same time (assuming they didn't fail to measure snowfall completely on a given day) and were measuring compacted and/or melted snow. But wiping a board every 6 hours was never protocol. TWC putting out inaccurate information to the masses could explain a lot.

This may be the official version (or not, it is from 2013), but it is a NOAA guideline (from a NOAA site) for coops that references 1x/day: http://www.nws.noaa.gov/os/coop/reference/Snow_Measurement_Guidelines.pdf This NOAA publication is only a few months old ( http://www.nws.noaa.gov/directives/sym/pd01013005curr.pdf ) and points to this source for snow measurement guidelines: https://www.cocorahs.org/media/video/measuringsnow/default.aspx

There is conflicting stuff all over that never gets updated. This is from the ATL NWS office and is 6 years old: https://www.weather.gov/media/ffc/snow_measurement_guidelines.pdf People will read that and not notice the date. As if they get much opportunity to practice in Atlanta. There should be a central location for the latest guidelines.

I searched and couldn't find anything about another change in the guidelines back to 6 hour clearing. I think one person thinks that, tells someone, who tells someone else, then it's all over that "they went back to doing it some other way". When in reality nothing has changed. But since there doesn't not seem to be a central clearing house for the latest methodologies, it's hard to make a definitive case. What I did find indicates that we wipe the board no more than once per day and measure snowfall at the peak depth before it compacts.

Wasn't there also an earthquake last year? Next comes locusts.

The tough one for ISP is the tornado. The other two happen, athough within 6 months of each other is uncommon; the last time was probably 1960-61.

Is it leaning to the left or to the right?

I hope you had a beacon and avalanche probe with you.

A few seconds of 1/23/2005 here: http://www.northshorewx.com/images/winter2005/Blizzard05/Blizz0501-1500k.wmv

12/13/2007 started as snow but was mostly another sleet-fest here (the third one that calendar year) with a little zr thrown in for good measure:

Ok, I'll bite... never before seen photos from PDII. Yours truly trying to do a front flip on the lawn. I never was a gymnast