NorthShoreWx

I used to work a couple of blocks from there.

No but they would be prepared for anything and would have stocked up on ice-melt weeks ago.

Unlikely that the latest globals will beat the latest mesos now that the snow has begun. Someone is getting buried with extreme prejudice, it's just really hard to pin down who until the best bands set up. Even the losers will probably get close to a foot of snow.

32⁰ with steady light snow here. It's starting to accumulate, mostly on colder surfaces, so I went and checked the amount that had melted in the 4" gage. Just a trace, nothing measurable, so nothing has been lost to melting.

If you can't be here, that's the next best thing.

Pretty mood flakes now. 35/29 Current snow depth is 4"

Except for when they tick west at the last second. You get an uncomfortable feeling remembering 2015, I get one remembering 2010 and 2016.

https://forecast.weather.gov/showsigmz.php?mz=ANZ920&product1=Hurricane+Force+Wind+Warning

Where's 1888?

Highly dependent on location. If you're on the downwind shore of a large frozen lake, you might get buried in a drift...or not depending on what is upwind of the lake. There will be several foot deep drifts in spots on top of the Kings Park bluffs, but that's relatively common. A slight tweak is that the winds might be more northerly than northeast.

Light snow began in Smithtown at 7:50am. 34/31

Light snow began in Smithtown at 7:50am. 34/31

February 1978 looped! That's still my benchmark storm (no pun intended). I wouldn't mind experiencing that one again.

I think it started out near freezing early that Sunday morning. At some point it dropped into the 20s. Some of the old newspaper photos from western LI show insane drifting. Woke up to about 5" of fresh powdery snow this morning near Jackson, NH. About to head for the LI ferry; we're catching both storms

Some of us might. My mom had a few standard admonitions.

Very sorry JM.

No rain or freezing rain during the February 1978 blizzard (except possibly right near Montauk for a bit, but I'm not sure). You might be thinking of the big January near blizzard that year which ended as a mix. Temperatures prior to the Feb 6 storm were very cold (near 0 on LI the morning of the 5th) and well below freezing except for a couple of hours late on the 6th from ISP south and east as they got involved with a coastal front and the temp rose to around freezing. We had snow up to my keester but my most vivid memory is the wind; it was insane.

The bambino will sleep through the night because you'll be up anyway. Murphy's law.

Only need gusts to at least 35 for 3 consecutive hours. There's a visibility parameter as well. That's why there can be blizzard conditions without a cloud in the sky.

That would be a disappointment out here.

Nah, we like Lee.

But that's very valuable

Perspective; affects of this storm won't start to show up in the far reaches of the short range models until tomorrow...and many like to say how worthless they are at that range. So having canceled and/or uncanceled this storm multiple times in the past 24 hours is head-scratching stuff.

42/23 today in Smithtown. 29 now

If I had a dime for every time I've seen language like that posted in this forum over the years...