NorthShoreWx

A little snow is mixing with the rain here. 11:50 am

You were a freshman in 1869?

Decent burst of snow off and on here for the past hour. It's all melting on contact.

This is an 18" Slide Mountain Summit Spring Special.

March 17, 2007 :

Getting a light rain /snow mix here

From mid January through early March 2015 was a respectable attempt at a synthesis between 76-77 and 77-78 on the north shore. Less snow than BOS but the sound froze and we still had a 20" snowpack as late as March 8. That stretch of winter ranks pretty high on my list.

Just had a nice snow squall near Jackson. My son noticed it first as the mountains across the valley started disappearing.

Thanks. Great snow today but it's getting redistributed. Wind is howling right now with tons of blowing snow. I'm on a hilltop so hopefully it's calmer in the trees. Thinking of backcountry xc today.

Wasn't planning to today, but maybe I'll reconsider. Skied there on Monday and it was excellent.

Glen, NH 1200 feet, 10:45 pm, 8.7" light snow continuing. Temperature is up to 28. It was near 20 for most of the event.

Beautiful night in Jackson. Was nice all day.

It doesn't always do better. However, the north shore of Suffolk County is anywhere from 8 to 25 miles farther north than central park and a SE surface flow is coming over land for up to 25 miles. That and a lot less UHI, I'd expect average annual snowfall to be higher here. But there's always going to be the March 1914's and December 2005's (among others) to break our hearts. I haven't gotten over 1914 yet Orient Point isn't a good example because it is very much maritime, but as the farthest north part of LI, it is farther north than West Milford (NJ), New City (Rockland), Armonk (Westchester) and New Canaan (CT). In some setups, that matters more.

0Z NAM soundings over the north shore only get near/above freezing in the boundary. Still shows it ending as rain but no hint of sleet in those soundings.

13:1 ratio is pretty decent on the coast.

Indeed. Specifically, that record is from BNL (Upton): https://www.bnl.gov/weather/4cast/MonthlySnowfall.htm Mine are roughly similar with year to year variations (distance between the 2 locations is about 17 miles): http://www.northshorewx.com/ClimateData/SmithtownDailySnowfall.pdf

I was a bit young then, but I recall a storm that I think was the same February storm where we had about 6" of snow in the morning, then most of it washed away in the afternoon, then it flipped back and we had another 6" in the evening. I'm pretty sure it was on a Saturday because I remember dad taking us sledding the next day (Sunday). Could be a different time, but I also recall another 5 or 6" overnight a few days later from what a radio met (Gordon Barnes?) described as an "upper air disturbance".

68 was a popular number regionally. The max in Smithtown was also 68. I spent the day in Oakland, NJ where it was quite nice. I would consider anything past Montreal to be outside of the NYC Metro area. Plenty of room for PoTown.

Touched 63 here just after 1PM. 59 now.

There's actually still a pretty good pile of snow in a parking lot of an office building on main street in Smithtown. I go by it about once a week and it always surprises me. I had to go poke at it the other day just to confirm it really is snow. I have no idea where they found enough snow on pavement to plow into that pile or how it has survived this long.

0.8" snow total here, liquid 0.17" The initial snow melted for a while and I think the ratio once it started accumulating was likely close to the traditional 10:1 I was expecting no more than a few hundredths liquid out of this event with no more than a dusting of snow, so in the glass half full category, for me this was an over performer. Total seasonal snowfall in Smithtown is 6.4". This puts us ahead of 1997-98 and 2011-2012, but we still have an inch to go to move ahead of 2001-2002 in the least snowfall category. 2001-2002 would have been even worse but we had one unusual local event to add a little interest during the brief wintry spell in January 2002: http://www.northshorewx.com/LES20020107Case.html

Looks better than it is. Under an inch. 0.8"

I was honestly expecting nothing.

Light snow flurries in Smithtown. 38.

Edward Lorenz is fluttering in his grave.