Listed below is a summary of winters by decade that had 30” or more of snow in Central Park. This is from the NWS website. The numbers speak for themselves. Seasonal snow totals are declining with global warming. A lot of people were spoiled by the number of large storms that occurred in the first two decades of this century. Unfortunately these storms and the resulting higher snow totals were not representative of the longer term seasonal norms for this region. It’s a bitter pill for snow lovers to swallow however this is climatology.
1870s - 5
1880s - 7
1890s - 5
1900s - 4
1910s - 5
1920s - 2
1930s - 4
1940s - 5
1950s - 2
1960s - 4
1970s - 1
1980s - 0
1990s - 2
2000s - 6
2010s - 6
2020s - 1
Winds are starting to crank here as the cold front slowly approaches. Recent wind gust to 29 mph and I am well inland. Winds will really start to crank along the coast soon.
After I married I moved from E Northport to Brentwood and then Sayville. There is definitely a big difference year round between the center and south shore of the island and the north shore. Now I am in eastern PA and that is even more different. Good luck with your move.
Round #3 is on its way. Heavy snow showers/squalls are just west of Allentown. This activity looks to be low topped as it is just coming into view on the Mt. Holly radar. Visibility out in that area has really dropped in association with this activity as seen on I78 traffic cams.
The line of echoes across western and NW NJ and eastern PS contains heavier snow showers. The rates are like a squall but the winds do not meet the criteria. In any case we have a fresh half inch here. 33/32
Snow squalls that sometimes affect eastern PA and parts of northern and western NJ are typically the ends of lake effect streamers that have some channelized vorticity with them to keep them going. Without that vorticity they do die out in the Poconos and Catskills and the downsloping finishes the process.
The Mesos missed the snow squall we had earlier tonight. To their credit Mt. Holly did outlook it in their AFD. I would agree on the idea of the best chances being Thursday morning especially north of the city.
I saw that and there is some really heavy snow coming down along the Tpke at tunnel near Lehighton. Waiting to see how much of that makes it down here or into western/NW NJ
HRRR has been showing snow showers and squalls across eastern PA and into parts of northern NJ for a few runs for tomorrow afternoon. Something to watch for.