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15 hours ago, Stormlover74 said:

Potential for. I mean every winter month has potential for 15 inches. Seasonal forecasts called for potential for 30 to 40". It's not really a forecast 

Typical click-bait headline.  He says "potential", which is saying nothing really; headline says "likely", to get you to look.

This has to be one of the cloudiest couple of months I can remember.  Just anecdotal but it seems like we get maybe 1-2 days of sun per week.  Just very dreary overall.

Many had been saying (but seemed to have stopped) that until this weekend's cutter goes through the models wouldn't really have a credible grasp on how things may play out.  Is this still the case? 

33 minutes ago, Great Snow 1717 said:

Have you heard of this album?.....

https://www.amazon.com/Miracle-Mets-Marvelous-Marv/dp/B002HY6SJE

I had the album.  It was a giveaway from a gas station when you put x amount of gas in (I was 8 in 1969 when it came out).  Played it until I memorized it.  It's now available on Spotify.

14 minutes ago, JustinRP37 said:

The media always uses terms to scare people from winter. 

FYP 

3 hours ago, RU848789 said:

Looks like NENJ (Union to Bergen) and NYC/LHV got a period of snow around 3 am or so, at least by the radar, unless it was heavy virga.  Any reports?  Looks like a band might hit my area shortly - hope it's actual snow...

I wasn't up overnight to see if it snowed but this morning there's no evidence that it did (northern Bergen county where the GSP meets Rockland county).

27 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Has been snowing for about 90 min.  Have .7” thus far.  Temp fell from 32 to 29.5 and now stuck at 29.8 for last 30 min.  Sticking on all surfaces including treated road out front albeit not a well traveled road.

Sticking to everything here as well (where the GSP meets NYS).  Our very small, very lightly traveled road was also pre-treated and it's sticking to it as well with temps right around freezing. 

In fact it started sticking in the road around the same time as it started sticking on the asphalt driveway (not pre-treated!).  Not to go on a tangent but this pre-treating, which occurs now as soon as snow is mentioned, seems like a huge waste of time, resources and town money.  

Intensity easing now.

6 minutes ago, Blizzwalker said:

Some get refreshed by cola, others by beer.  Good to have diverse viewpoints. But there is objective predicting, then there is cheerleading against the collective sentiments of a snow enthusiast group.

It's a weather forum and the double standard is mind boggling.  Incessant "I hope it's right" cheerleading for snow is fine but showing models with accompanying analysis indicating perhaps why there might be less or no snow is just not to be tolerated?

4 minutes ago, Blizzwalker said:

You don't get it. Systematically, you deliver every possible bit of info suggesting it won't snow, while ignoring info suggesting snow. You have a far greater command of meteorology than me and I respect your knowledge.

But don't expect a good reaction from a forum that looks forward to snow 

As opposed to most others here who do exactly the opposite.  With his analysis almost always included, I looked forward to a different viewpoint.

It's refreshing amid all the "pattern looks good" and "GFS shows snow in 4 weeks" idiocy with no analysis behind it.  Yet all are ok with that inane repetition.

19 hours ago, the_other_guy said:

I have to ask a silly question…it almost seems as if posters on this forum are rooting for extreme heat and humidity.

Why?

73F, Low humidity. Beautiful evening.

They root for extreme cold and crippling snowstorms, too.  How is this different?  They want extremes.  And, like winter, the extreme always seems 7-10 days out but doesn't actually get here (save for a 1-2 day surge).

Personally, I prefer heat to cold so I'd take heat waves over cold, snowy winters every time.  

Yes, the lack of sustained humidity has been notable.  It seems like there have been more days with deep blue skies already than many summers have all season.

5 minutes ago, Eduardo said:

Noticed the same thing and it's been my go-to forever now.  Anyone else got anything better?  NWS's radar cite is too derpy for me.

Been using this mostly but not as good IMO: 

https://weather.cod.edu/satrad/?parms=subregional-Mid_Atlantic-comp_radar-24-1-100-1&checked=map&colorbar=undefined

The regional on WU still works but you have to really zoom in:

https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/ct/hartford

What happened to the wunderground radar sites - they have all been like this for a long time.

https://www.wunderground.com/radar/us/pa/philadelphia/dix

4 hours ago, bluewave said:

It will be a battle of where the cutoff finally stalls out. The Euro keeps areas near the coast in an onshore flow. If the Euro is correct, then NYC and LGA may not be able to get their first 80° day yet. But we’ll have to wait for later model runs to see if the 80° over the top warmth to our NW can work down closer to NYC. We just need the Bermuda high to be a little stronger than the backdoor high to the north for the first 80° in NYC and LGA.

 

While 80+ would be nice, is not necessary - some sun and into the 70s for more than a day would be a welcome change. 

This seems to be flying thru. Back edge approaching SNJ?

Snowing here since 930. Everything but road solidly covered. Road wet with spotty white spots near curb. 

14 hours ago, HVSnowLover said:

Also I used to think North and West literally meant North and West of the city, like a line from Fort Lee to Yonkers to CT Coast (and maybe it did in the 90s lol). But now North and West seems to be more like Mahwah to Ossining to Mount Kisco. 

It's vague when demarcations are not mentioned for an event (like 287, 84, Thruway, TZB, or "far N&W", etc).  I grew up in Queens and had family in Rockland and thought of that as the hinterlands when I was a kid lol.  And snow forecasts always seemed to be "more N&W".

I've been where I am now (north-central Bergen county at the Rockland border) for 30 years and since it's not that far N&W but still somewhat so, I am often not sure when "N&W" is just generically thrown around how far N&W is actually meant.  The way the crow flies I am about 16 miles from the GWB in Ft Lee, 22 from midtown Manhattan, 35 from the south shore of Brooklyn and 9 from where the TZB hits Rockland and a couple of miles south of due west of it.

Following along here helps (I've actually been around since ne.weather but don't post much) and pros (Criag Allen, Lee Goldberg and Nick Gregory are really the only ones I pay attention to) do usually indicate distances/locations.

NYC dropped from 56 to 38 last hour!

Steady light snow from about 7:45 until about 9:15 leaving a solid coating.  Now pixie dust falling while the sky has actually brightened a bit.

1 minute ago, HVSnowLover said:

NYC went from a 17-10 halftime lead to a 24-17 deficit at the end of the 3rd quarter. For eastern LI it's more like going from a 24-10 lead to a tied game at the end of the third quarter. I hope the football analogy is ok. 

If the team representing NYC is one of it's 2 NFL teams (in name anyway) then it's definitely over!

15 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

Any mention of accumulating snow in my parts results in increased supermarket sales. At 12+ it is panic.

Very old school reactions but they still pervade.  I grew up in Queens in the 60s-70s and that borough was habitually overlooked in terms of plowing so in a big storm you could literally be snowed in (from a driving perspective and we were too far to walk to anything).  Most people also just had 2 wheel drive cars so without plowing you had to wait.  We really did have to prepare in advance.

Now, however, except for the most historical of outcomes, everywhere gets plowed out in a day and everything is back to normal so the stocking up on French toast ingredients days in advance has become quite archaic. 

Snowed here until I went to bed at 11:30. Eyeballed about 3.5 maybe 4 inches - much more than expected. 

Got the slushy mess off the driveway and steps but with the cold coming this crap will be around everywhere else until the end of the month at least even without another event. 

12 hours ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

I still don't quite understand why anyone would want a hot summer. For what purpose? A normal summer with low to mid 80's as highs and low 60's in the early am, I live in the HV and that's the norms, is perfect weather, why do people covet 90's?

I still don't understand why anyone would want freezing cold, crippling snowstorm after crippling snowstorm and decaying snow on the ground for months.  I can't stand anything about cold or snow anymore yet I've been here since Eastern Wx.  It's still interesting and there was a time I also used to love it when I had few responsibilities.

Like a harsh winter, a very hot summer is extreme and isn't that what weather enthusiasts are interested in?  Anything but the mundane.  

Personally I'd like temps no lower than about 65 at any time.  80s-90s and sun is perfect, humid or not, with mild nights.  Unfortunately I can't move.  I'm the anti-Metsfan weather-wise (despite being an actual Mets fan :))

Everyone's perfect is different. 

17 minutes ago, justinj said:

Is it me or does the heavy snow just south of LI look like it’s retreating 

There doesn't seem to be much if any northward movement of the northern edge past around I80 in NJ straight across the TZ into lower Westchester. 

Does the heavier stuff abate by the time it does spread further north?

While tumbleweed blows around in a thread actually entitled Memory Lane.  Why it exists is anyone's guess. 

17 minutes ago, BxEngine said:

Back to the storm....please. Im not moving posts. 

Can't blame them.  If only we had a thread dedicated to historical events 

6 minutes ago, allgame830 said:

What about for this weekend event?

I thought this was the memory lane thread   I guess that one can be closed since its purpose no longer exists.

Too many events in one thread - we're all over the place.