In other news, the snow gods are violently tossing their cookies right now. S+ 30/29
Looks like about 8" at the stake, which means roughly 3" new. I'll do a proper measurement and wipe the boards at midnight.
I must have been feeling a little giddy when I failed to mention that is new plus old snow. However, if this rate keeps up it won't take long to get to 7"
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.
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.
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