NorthShoreWx

3.4" as of midnight. 25⁰ S- North Smithtown

Looks like there could be a quarter inch or so after midnight.

Some truck with a big metal blade just went by here pushing snow out of its way. What was that thing?

This would be true if your ratios were 200:1

We got a quick coating from a heavier graupel shower about 40 minutes ago. Mix of light graupel and some nicer snowflakes now. 35⁰

Tee-hee

No, a lot more than that. You cherry picked a good run. Average here was 41.4"

Difficult to interpolate that chart, but it looks more like just after 18z. Plus it's the boundary layer. If it's snowing above, it'll be snowing there. A sounding would be better.

Your root cellar is empty already?

Back in the 70s they used to say the same, that NYC's coldest weather was on a northerly flow down the Hudson Valley. The difference was attributed to downsloping, rather than to lake ice or lack thereof.

A fitting tribute.

Been a bit nippy on top of the Greenland ice cap: https://www.weather.gov/wrh/timeseries?site=GEUSNAE&hours=72 Thousands of feet below, its between 0 and +10 on the beaches.

Those 3 charts illustrate the "January thaw" in the early years.

30 or 40 years ago it was probably 36ish for the North Shore. I'm old enough to be unwilling to let that go. When I see a high of 33 vs 36, I think a chilly day, but not outside of a range of normal ( +/- 2⁰C). We all perceive things different, but I think that range is reasonable.

This might be a function of the high winds. The urban heat island really shows itself when the winds drop.

Average high for this date is probably about 37 in his area, maybe 36. It isn't that far off.

I saw a decent amount Sunday on the east side of the river near Newburgh.

16.4" IMBY from that one. 2.4" fell before midnight on the 28th, 14" on the 29th. 36.2" that winter. Of the past 5 winters, two have been near or a little above average and 3 have been well below. The 5-year average has been 22.1", which kinda sucks, but it is only our second worst 5 year period in the past 30. The worst was 97-98 through 01-02 at 20.7". On the brighter side, the best 5 consecutive winters from 2013-2014 through 2017-2018 averaged 56.0" I still think the guys who were saying "don't get used to it" were wrong.

The 12z GFS remains quite cold through the end of the run. One thing that I find interesting is that the surface temperature maps imply that the remaining open water in the eastern and northeastern parts of Hudson Bay will remain unfrozen for the next 384 hours. That seems unlikely since the open waters are shallower than much larger frozen area to their west and the surrounding temperatures are forecasted (in this run of the GFS) to be below normal much of the time beginning this weekend. I imagine the temperatures in that area are overdone late in the model run.

Congratulations Gulf of Mexico (or whatever they're calling it these days)

Saw some kids playing hockey on a pond in my neighborhood on Sunday. Hasn't been much of that the past couple of years. I think the last time might have been a short window around Christmas 2022.

It's also highly unlikely there would have been any patch of ground named after Charles Lindbergh 20 years before he was born.

San Diego had an airport in 1882?

This is sadder than I thought. I have more than that. Edit: PS I wish I was lying.

We don't brag about that until May