NorthShoreWx

NAM is a wet snow at 34, but not strictly white rain. Actually if that verified, I would expect the surface at 32 and everything above less than 32. Getting it to verify is the problem. Edit, this is 3k NAM. 12k still has us under the sea

Sleet just began here. 38.

7.9" before it got rained on.

If memory serves, the difference at PHL was between 8" on the east side and nada on the west side. Lots of understandable frustration, especially with a couple of feet in parts of north Jersey.

Has it really been 20 years? 20 years ago today at my place we had a little over 11" of snow. Decent storm, especially when we got 5 or 6" in a couple of hours in the morning. It turned briefly to rain here and then quicky back to snow as we were right on the edge of the transition. About 8 miles to the west, Northport stayed all snow. PUBLIC INFORMATION STATEMENT...UPDATED NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY 1045 PM EST SAT DEC 30 2000 ...SNOWFALL TOTALS... SNOW BEGAN SATURDAY MORNING BETWEEN 430 AND 530 AM) SOUTHEAST NEW YORK... LOCATION SNOWFALL(INCHES) NEW YORK (MANHATTAN)... CENTRAL PARK 12.0 650 PM QUEENS COUNTY... JFK AIRPORT 10.0 650 PM LAGUARDIA AIRPORT 13.0 750 PM MIDDLE VILLAGE 13.0 300 PM KINGS COUNTY (BROOKLYN)... GRAVESEND 12.7 330 PM BRONX... BRONX 11.0 445 PM RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND)... GRYMES HILL 12.5 200 PM WESTCHESTER COUNTY... WHITE PLAINS (AIRPORT) 7.0 1245 PM WHITE PLAINS 14.1 530 PM WHITE PLAINS (2) 16.0 500 PM ARMONK 16.0 500 PM YONKERS 13.5 500 PM NEW ROCHELLE 12.0 500 PM OSSINING 11.5 100 PM MAMARONECK 16.5 500 PM MOUNT KISCO 13.0 500 PM ROCKLAND... SUFFERN 18.0 350 PM AIRMONT 15.0 700 PM NASSAU COUNTY... MINEOLA 10.1 1230 PM NEW HYDE PARK 10.0 110 PM OCEANSIDE 15.6 400 PM PLAINVIEW 12.0 430 PM EAST MEADOW 13.2 400 PM GLEN COVE 14.0 900 PM BALDWIN 11.0 130 PM BAYVILLE 11.0 1250 PM LEVITTOWN 11.0 100 PM LYNBROOK 11.0 530 PM VALLEY STREAM 14.5 700 PM SUFFOLK COUNTY... UPTON (NATIONAL WX SERVICE) 7.9 500 PM (6.7 ON THE GROUND) BRIDGEHAMPTON 2.7 345 PM CENTERPORT 11.8 345 PM COPIAGUE 10.0 1200 PM ISLIP MCARTHUR AIRPORT 9.0 750 PM RONKONKOMA 8.5 1200 PM LAKE RONKONKOMA 9.0 345 PM BRENTWOOD 11.2 100 PM HOLBROOK 9.5 1250 PM WEST BABYLON 10.0 110 PM EAST PATCHOUGUE 7.0 1200 PM PATCHOUGUE 6.0 1250 PM HUNTINGTON STATION 12.0 1250 PM BAYSHORE 9.5 1250 PM EAST ISLIP 6.5 1250 PM CORAM 7.5 1250 PM MANORVILLE 7.0 310 PM ROCKY POINT 6.5 140 PM NORTH LINDENHURST 12.0 500 PM PORT JEFFERSON STA 9.0 130 PM EAST NORTHPORT 12.0 400 PM EAST QUOGUE 3.5 300 PM ORANGE COUNTY... HARRIMAN 12.5 140 PM MIDDLETOWN 18.0 530 PM NEWBURGH 14.5 140 PM WARWICK 21.0 745 PM NEW WINDSOR 14.2 300 PM CIRCLEVILLE 15.5 140 PM ROCK TAVERN 21.0 530 PM BLOOMING GROVE 15.0 140 PM WALDEN 14.0 530 PM CHESTER 17.0 300 PM PUTNAM COUNTY... CARMEL 13.0 400 PM BREWSTER 13.0 400 PM NORTHEAST NEW JERSEY... HUDSON COUNTY... HARRISON 13.0 530 PM JERSEY CITY 16.0 530 PM SECAUCUS 15.0 530 PM KEARNY 12.0 715 PM ELIZABETH 12.0 100 PM UNION CITY 16.0 430 PM HOBOKEN 12.9 520 PM ESSEX COUNTY... NEWARK AIRPORT 13.9 800 PM W. CALDWELL 17.5 450 PM NUTLEY 14.0 500 PM WEST ORANGE 17.0 230 PM ROSELAND 14.0 230 PM PASSAIC COUNTY WEST MILFORD 20.0 100 PM HAWTHORNE 16.0 530 PM POMPTON LAKES 22.0 530 PM CLIFTON 19.0 530 PM LITTLE FALLS 19.0 220 PM GREENWOOD LAKE 20.0 450 PM HEWETT 25.0 430 PM BERGEN COUNTY... RUTHERFORD 17.0 530 PM LYNDHURST 14.0 530 PM PALISADES PARK 13.0 530 PM TETERBORO AIRPORT 13.0 650 PM RAMSEY 16.0 400 PM HACKENSACK 11.0 1200 PM CLIFFSIDE PARK 11.0 1200 PM FAIRLAWN 16.0 430 PM CLIFTON 14.0 100 PM HASBROUCK HTS 15.0 530 PM N ARLINGTON 14.0 530 PM DUMONT 13.0 100 PM UNION COUNTY... ROSELLE 18.5 130 PM ELIZABETH 14.0 530 PM UNION TOWNSHIP 15.0 1200 PM SOUTHERN CONNECTICUT... FAIRFIELD COUNTY... BRIDGEPORT 10.0 715 PM GREENWICH 15.5 430 PM NORWALK 15.0 430 PM DANBURY 13.0 900 PM DARIEN 12.5 900 PM NEW CANAAN 13.0 900 PM REDDING 17.0 430 PM WILTON 11.5 430 PM STRATFORD 10.0 430 PM NEW HAVEN COUNTY... GUILFORD 9.0 800 PM MERIDEN 10.3 900 PM WATERBURY 10.5 900 PM OXFORD 10.1 248 PM MILFORD 9.0 900 PM NEW HAVEN 8.8 900 PM BEACON FALLS 10.0 900 PM NAUGATUCK 12.0 715 PM SHELTON 8.0 500 PM CHESIRE 8.0 500 PM MIDDELSEX... EAST HADDAM 5.0 500 PM HADDAM 4.0 900 PM HADDAM (2) 6.0 400 PM OLD SAYBROOK 4.0 900 PM CLINTON 3.5 500 PM WESTBROOK 4.0 400 PM CHESTER 5.5 400 PM DEEP RIVER 4.5 400 PM NEW LONDON.... COLCHESTER 4.0 900 PM COLCHESTER (SKYWARNSPOTTER) 5.5 400 PM GROTON 2.5 900 PM NORWICH 4.0 900 PM NORWICH (2) 4.5 530 PM THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WISHES TO THANK ALL SPOTTERS AND OBSERVERS FOR THEIR VITAL INFORMATION DURING THIS SNOW EVENT.

Better than here. Just enough for a few minutes to see fragile filaments of pixie dust shifting through ephemeral pathways down the street.

I'd be content with rounding 29.9" (29.96"?)" to 30". Splitting hairs at this point (almost literally... 1/25th of an inch). On a slight tangent ... Media will cite whatever number suits them depending on the point they want to make and another inch of snow in December 2020 won't change that.

You can see low clouds blowing rapidly across the moon from south to north even though its still calm at the surface. However the temp is up to 32.7 (11:45PM). It's still very frosty (cars, etc) and the snow is frozen solid, but the temperature is all up from here. The cloud thing with a calm frosty surface is pretty cool.

Approx a 10 - 12 degree difference between the north shore and south shore tonight. Below freezing all evening here (30 now and slightly rising) and the snowpack is fully refrozen. Southerly wind off the water has south shore in the low 40s. Nightime thaws are the death of snowpacks (one of the main reasons NYC can't keep a snowpack), but in 24 +/- hours it won't matter as the annual Grinch storm will be raging. The Catskills are going to take a big hit with snowmelt, rain and flooding. It's a shame that they'll have to reset too; it was fantastic when we snowshoed the bushwhack range on the solstice on Monday: https://photos.app.goo.gl/ZmsYCNkQKqah6hQF9

Yup, too expensive especially the taxes; I'm gonna miss this place one day. Both of my kids went to West, the younger was 2017.

Near Sunken Meadow. Did you go to West?

Very nice! Did the Turkey really let you get that close or did you use a zoom?

I took advantage of the snow for a little skiing in the neighborhood. Even got a little downhill section in yesterday:

30.9 with freezing fog here. There's nothing vague about the fog anymore. Visibility is 1/4 mile or less but you can still make out the waxing crescent moon through the fog. It is surreal out there. Great night for a walk if you have traction aids for your feet and don't mind getting run over by a skidding car. Be careful if driving.

Weather Service doesn't seem to be hitting the idea very hard, but this is a textbook black ice scenario on the north shore right now. 0.4" snowfall today, current temp is 31 and its vaguely foggy. Or is that foggily vague. No, the first one. Its icy out there.

This isn't a snowfall mecca, but one area where we do well compared to some regions with higher average snowfall is the big snow events. The ocean taketh away, but it also giveth. And here on the coast where it is often windier...I haven't done any research but it feels like we verify a lot of blizzards.

Nice way to make the point about numbers. The 70s and 80s were highly anomalous too. Show me another 20 year period with snowfall as low. The new 30 year climo is going to be within about 1.5" of the POR average for NYC (including some good decades and some bad ones).

Nice mood snow. Tempted to go out skiing for the third day in a row. 12:33PM:

Steady light snow here with viz down to just over 0.5 miles. Cleared driveways are recoated and some of the side roads are starting to coat. About 1/4" new. Temp is 32.

So much for a December shutout. This is not a criticism. I was leaning that way too.

Is there a problem with my connection or is the new NWS Radar landing page an abomination? Difficult to see, difficult to select/configure, and great big gobs of latency. By the time it updates, the storm is over. For those of you already with your fingers on the keyboard about to respond 'I never use that you should use such and such', save it. The question is about the NWS radar landing page.

Smithtown. First flake spotted 10:52 AM. Snow is showing up nicely on traffic cams to our southwest.

That's really close. I think mine catches very little snow when it's windy.

Understood. Was more than I was expecting but not impossible. I thought I picked a good spot but who knows I don't know a better way to do it. Even NWS climo stations report some unlikely stuff when it snows.

The Grinch usually isn't denied, but this snowcover won't dissapear from a few 40 degree days in December sun. Our 6.7 inches of snow here (now 6" snowdepth) contains 1.61" of water. I melted the catch in the rain gage and it was only 0.64" so I took a core which melted to 1.61".