NorthShoreWx

Snow/sleet mix here.  Temp 30.

2.2" new snow.  1.7" since midnight.

13 minutes ago, qg_omega said:

She’s done, pretty epic bust for most

Yeah, 1-3 when the forecast was 2-4 is pretty epic, maybe even historic.

As of midnight, 0.5" snowfall.

Temperature is 25.  Pretty, but painfully light snow continues.   Accumulating 1 or 2 tenths of an inch per hour.  To put that in perspective, the liquid equivalent of this light fluff is probably a trace per hour.

25⁰ with light snow in N Smithtown.  Only about a quarter inch on the ground, but it's covering everything and looks nice.  The max temp this afternoon briefly touched 29 and the snow began covering the street from the first flake.

22 minutes ago, SBUWX23 said:

I think the 00z nam has some feedback with convection with the low that is resulting in higher qpf out east. Not sure if I buy that 

Suddenly it's showing 1"+ qpf for the twin forks.  Not inspiring to see that doubled at the last minute.  

First sparse hint of tiny snowflakes spotted here a moment ago at 8:41.  Temp is 27.8

39 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

NAM and RGEM have consistently shown that freezing rain risk after about 9 am or so, but the globals either have all snow for 95 or a later changover to sleet or freezing rain. Freezing rain sucks, as it's dangerous and aesthetically unpleasing. Saving grace could be that it'll mostly be falling on top of snow, forming a crust and not falling on bare ground forming ice rinks.  It also could rob many of us along 95 and even a bit NW/SE of 95 of 0.1-0.2" QPF (or 1-2" of snow), which would also suck.  Hopefully the Euro is right on this.  Thoughts on how this might play out?  

 

 

But for a good part of that quarter inch of freezing rain along the north shore, the NAM forecast soundings shows a 50 - 100mb deep sub freezing layer (decreasing over time) from the surface up*.  I forget the magic numbers, but I'd imagine that some of that fzr would be sleet.  3k NAM does eventually get to an obvious fzr sounding and then a wee bit of plain drizzle before things cool again.

I'll take a stand and go with  4" in my neighborhood.  How much it packs down with the phase shifts is TBD.

*Caveat is I'm extrapolating from the skew-Ts on the free TT site.  Hard to be precise on some of that fine stuff.

1 minute ago, Rjay said:

I remember the snow backed in from the ocean. I can't remember what time that happened though. 

That's what I remember.  here's a sat pic:

42 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Pretty sure I got a couple inches from that in Nassau.  I think it was Feb 1999.  Cape Cod got like 2 feet. 

https://northshorewx.com/19990225SnowTotals.html

NEW YORK... 1130 AM EST FRI FEB 26 1999 THIS IS THE FINAL STATEMENT ON THIS EVENT.

MONTAUK SUFFOLK 13.5 730 AM

EAST HAMPTON SUFFOLK 10.0 700 AM

SHINECOCK SUFFOLK 8.5 730 AM

BRIDGEHAMPTON SUFFOLK 8.5 700 AM

ORIENT POINT SUFFOLK 8.0 700 AM

NWS OFFICE BROOKHAVEN SUFFOLK 6.4 700 AM

PATCHOGUE SUFFOLK 5.9 700 AM

RIDGE SUFFOLK 5.0 730 AM

MOUNT SINAI SUFFOLK 4.7 700 AM

FARMINGVILLE SUFFOLK 4.6 800 AM

SOUTH SETAUKET SUFFOLK 4.5 800 AM

RONKONKOMA SUFFOLK 4.0 700 AM

ISLIP SUFFOLK 3.0 700 AM

CENTERPORT SUFFOLK 2.8 800 AM

FARMINGDALE NASSAU 2.0 700 AM

OCEANSIDE NASSAU 1.8 600 AM

NORTH MASSAPEQUA NASSAU 1.5 700 AM

LA GUARDIA AP QUEENS 2.0 700 AM

KENNEDY AP QUEENS 1.0 700 AM

GRAVES END BROOKLYN KINGS 1.2 800 AM

CENTRAL PARK NEW YORK 1.5 700 AM

WHITE PLAINS WESTCHESTER 1.3 700 AM

3k NAM soundings keep my location at or below freezing.  Snow, then some sleet, a few hours of mixed/freezing drizzle, then back to snow. 

About .5" liquid on the NAM.

Up to now, we've only had 1.2" of snow this season.

8 minutes ago, uofmiami said:

I’m sure they’ll get 3”. I wouldn’t worry about being under the advisory really. We are getting measurable snow & it’s long overdue. 

Snow is better than advisories 

49 minutes ago, psv88 said:

 NW Suffolk should be in WWA in my opinion but the criteria is 3” of snow so I get it. 

NW Suffolk has a shot.  

2 minutes ago, SI Mailman said:

.9 before midnight and another .9 after

Good point.  .8 before midnight and 1.0 afterwards and we see headlines about the snow drought ending.  The exact same snowfall starting a few minutes earlier and the headlines are the opposite.  Where'd they put that old face palm emoji?

11 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

What happened on 9/12/60? I thought December 1992 was first until Sandy superseded it.

 

Hurricane Donna

Nice photos Don.  I hope your house wasn't flooded.

Ended with 1.11" rainfall here.

1 minute ago, LibertyBell said:

Optimum has a new thing called the "wireless cable box" which is sort of like a halfway point between streaming and an actual wired cable box, but I'm not sure how well it will sell (on the positive side, one box covers all your TVs, but I'm not sure how this works if you want to have a different show or game on each TV.)

I like Sling TV I was considering them, especially since they package the same networks I get on cable.

The wireless cable box sounds like the same thing Spectrum is doing.  It's just another streaming device, like a Roku stick 

26 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

phones have advanced technologically by leaps and bounds, but it seems like the people who take pictures still want to hold them vertically when you're supposed to hold them horizontally when taking a picture (unless you're trying to take a portrait.)

For when you're away from home and watching a game-- there really is no substitute.

 

Do you scroll americanwx on your phone vertically or horizontally?

10 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

wow 117 is pretty good, who do you get your service from at 117?

for that price I might consider switching too.

calling them every year is tiring... especially since I usually have to make multiple calls since the first person I talk to usually says they don't have any current "plans" to offer me.

Verizon.  They're evil too, but the deal was pretty straight forward and it's not a 'temporary/promotional' rate.

I read that other cable companies (I think Spectrum) are dropping the cable TV and soft-forcing their their customers to stream the cable line-up.  At least then you can lose the cable box, but it has been a hardship for some elderly people confused by streaming navigation.  Other than the box, it didn't lower their cost

You do have to factor in the cost of any streaming services that you might want to add.  I had a couple already, so those costs were a wash. I did add sling.

7 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

No, but they tried to get me to pay 220 lol.

But at the end of every year I call and threaten to cancel and they reduce my bill back down to 160 lol.

I read that on a cablevision forum, call them and tell them you'll cancel their services and they'll lower your bill back down to what it was before.

I did that and got no satisfaction.  I told them that the next call would be me cancelling, and it was.  That 2nd call they tried to make a deal and I told them to pound salt. 

Went from $307 to $117. For $117 we still have our VoIP  "landline" and better internet than we had.

$190/month savings is a lot of craft beers 

4 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I have a smart TV it doesn't work for some reason because wifi here is bad and it doesn't detect a connection.

There are major advantages to cable-- mine is packaged (phone, internet, TV), so with just one bill I get 200 channels of TV, gigabit internet and flat rate phone service for all the US and Canada

That's 1 bill somewhere north of $300 is my guess.  I used to pay that too.  Less than half as much for almost the same stuff now.  I don't get TWC any more, but had rarely been watching it before.

2.64" total here last night (plus 0.55" from the weekend snow and rain).  A few broken branches scattered around Tara, but nothing major.  Power was out for about 4 hours.  All of our snowpack is gone 

PS Happy Birthday Rjay and others.  Definitely an interesting start to the day.

Well, the sick part of the storm is over, the power is out, and in a moment I will be too.  Won't know rainfall until the morning.  Tuesday's max T was 56 at 11:59pm.  Morning low was 25.

And there goes our power.  I was this close to posting that our third world power grid held up for once, but no.

Been in the car wash for longer than I thought that thin little line would last.  Wind at the first part.  Wind has calmed a little but not yet the rain.  I think it's about to.