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Surprisingly enough, sticking to streets as well now. 

2 minutes ago, HVSnowLover said:

The temp difference between coast and interior a bit more extreme than expected, usually better temp gradient is more intense precip. Just hope it’s not mixing on coast but if it’s already flurries then nyc/LI should be fine.

Temps aloft are pretty cold and winds are all northerly, once solid precipitation engulfs the entire area temperatures will be somewhat more uniform. 

Steady snow here and 34 degrees. 

1 minute ago, Greg g said:

That’s still an advisory type situation though 

That'll likely change if more models come in NW. In fact, I think it's quite likely that Rockland County sees warning level snow. 

Closing in on 16 inches here, I have a few miles and a few hundred feet elevation on Uncle so I did a bit better than southern parts of SI. 

1 minute ago, BlizzardNYC said:

What about Monmouth county same time frame??

About the same, though there is a warm nose afterwards as precipitation lightens up so the following few hours have some sleet. 

8 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

I cannot tell on tropical tidbits if the 3km NAM is trying to show sleet 09-14Z near NYC or the color algorithm is trying to just snow very heavy snow

Soundings definitely indicate it's heavy snow. 

Great front end thump for everyone but with the storm so close to the coast on models now, these dry slots almost always penetrate deeper inland than modelled. 8-12 is a very realistic call. 

8.3 inches here, excellent event though the sleet will make it impossible to shovel. 

1 minute ago, jysamuel said:

Heavy sleet now, measuring close to 7" in southern Staten Island 

Still all snow a bit north of you but I guess it won't be long now. 

Still all snow here, 6 inches so far. 

Just passed 2 inches here with heavy snow continuing to fall with some rather strong gusts occasionally. 

1 minute ago, wizard021 said:

I had 6 inches an hour in the 2006 storm. Yes it is. 

Best deform band of my life by a mile, watching the snow come down like a wall was surreal. 

Sorry about the OT post, light snow here now and the temperature has fallen below 30.

Flurries here. 30.7/19

So much whining over something we have zero control over. Just hope for some small adjustments south in the next 24 hours but whatever happens, happens. 

Mobile Regional Airport with a gust to 91 mph just now , pretty impressive considering how far inland Zeta is. 

Edit; gymengineer types faster than me. 

Strongest velocities seem to be further south (near University Park) 

4 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

Some wind gusts from Sandy:

East Moriches: 82 mph
Farmingdale: 90 mph
Great Gull Island: 85 mph
Jones Beach: 81 mph
Long Beach: 83 mph
New York City-JFK: 85 mph
Syosset: 82 mph

I think Islip had 90 mph as well. I personally recorded a gust of over 80 mph in Brooklyn during Sandy, my highest ever. Between the wind and extreme storm surge, it'll take a LOT to top Sandy IMO. 

2 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

lol I know but I always lose some of the posts when trying to multiquote.  I'll try to do it with 2-3 posts rather than 8 or 10 lol.

By the way, this storm windwise was the closest that I've experienced to Sandy.  I have a feeling this wont be the last one like that we get this year.

Comparison to Hazel- obviously Hazel was much stronger but I think the comparison is fair trackwise and because neither lost a lot of strength quickly even though they both went inland.:  Hazel made landfall farther south and tracked further to the west, but not by a lot.  Based on this map it looks like it was extratropical (but still hurricane strength) at our latitude?

It's not a bad analog (strength of the respective storms not withstanding) but Hazel hit in October, when baroclinic interactions are far more common. It's unusual to see this in early August, the 250 mb jet was extremely anomalous for this time of year. 

19 minutes ago, eduggs said:

Along or near the immediate shore, especially in LI, there were widespread gusts over 70.  But inland I think it was mostly lower than that.  60 mph gusts over the course of a few hours can definitely bring down large trees, especially with full summer foliage.  

On the daily climate report they have the highest gust for EWR at 68 mph. I'm sure many inland areas saw something similar based on some of the pictures I saw of Clifton, Passaic, Jersey City, etc.

Today looks like a bad day unfortunately, with well over 1,000 deaths based on the states still left to report. While Tuesday always features inflated numbers due to a lag in weekend reporting, this is still going to be the highest one in about 6 weeks. Not a great trend but at least it's not rising at the same pace as new cases. 

The tornado warnef cell NE of Towanda has a pretty tight couplet. 

Officially crossed 2 inches here so I got about what I expected. 

3 minutes ago, nwohweather said:

If RadarScope is correct all of those storms close to the IWX radar are packing 70-95 mph winds. Almost got a dang Cat 2 Hurricane in these things right now basically.

This storm was warned for 80 MPH winds and even that might have been understated. 

On a related note, do I need to update my Radarscope membership to see the actual max on velocity scans or is it a setting?