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  1. coastalplainsnowman
    Forget it. Imagine the sun angle, not to mention the moon angle, by next week. What's the use.
  2. coastalplainsnowman
    From the lack of observations I'm guessing this was one of those rare south shore specials? 2.5" (maybe slightly more) on grassy surfaces. 1.5 on the sidewalk. Clung to everything too. While there's definitely pavement showing on my side street, it's a bit of a snowy/slushy mess. Will enjoy the look before it's gone by this afternoon. Nice little event here.
  3. coastalplainsnowman
    End of "A Christmas Story" intensity and type of flakes falling here. Beautiful.
  4. coastalplainsnowman
    I was 99.85% sure this was sarcasm, but I was waiting for someone smarter than me to laugh first. Thanks Nibor.
  5. coastalplainsnowman
    Just stepped outside. 45, sunny, and nearly calm. Given what we’ve been experiencing, beautiful. For today at least, 45 might as well be 65.
  6. coastalplainsnowman
    'meh-vent' is a great term that I wish I came up with.
  7. coastalplainsnowman
    You win.
  8. coastalplainsnowman
    That's great - same here, 5th grade! It's the storm that got me hooked.
  9. coastalplainsnowman
    We're one day short of a new moon on Sunday night (only 3.8% illuminated.) Let's see what you can do with that wise guy.
  10. coastalplainsnowman
    if only I could get that 5 x 10 mile snow rectangle on LI to shift 3 miles south I'm in business.
  11. coastalplainsnowman
    The Blizzard of February 11, 1983 was 43 years ago this past Wednesday I'm reminded of it every year on the Friday preceding the February school winter break, because that's when it hit. Came in like a wall on LI in my location by 12:30 PM. By 2PM school was letting out early. For anyone in elementary school like me, our only memory of really big snow til then was quite hazy memories of the Blizzard of 78. Still remember my dad, as well as my elementary school teacher, telling us with barely-contained grins that morning that we'd only be getting 2-5" tops. Might have been the first time I heard the term "out to sea." That aged poorly as they say. Even after being let out early from school - imagine the chaos in a time before cell phones -- the forecast had been upped only to 8-10. While that was incredible to read on the Weather Channel ticker, it wasn't even close to the 16" we measured by ruler the next morning (so by the official method it might have been an additional inch or two). Even if it was just 16", it might as well have been 1,000. We'd gotten so little over the preceding years other than the 8" in the April blizzard the previous year, which this of course dwarfed. What a great storm. The week that followed had a lot of mild days. Spent days outside building and maintaining forts across the street from each other, having massive snowball fights, wearing hoodies and no coats. Actually ended up with a combo of wind and sunburn by the end of the week. Who knew it would be 13 years before we'd see anything like it again. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/February_1983_North_American_blizzard
  12. coastalplainsnowman
    Well said. I believe that the soccer version of the Ball model calls for damp raw cold Saturdays for the first 7 weeks of the season, followed by precisely one top ten weather day, followed by 2 weeks of blazing Death Valley heat to end the season. Fall season is the nearly the opposite, but we have time for that.
  13. coastalplainsnowman
    Getting out of school early walking into the house, smelling soup on the stove, “the” TV tuned to the local news, with all the out-in-the-snow reports, news of cancellations, meteorologists in front of awesome maps, possibility of school closed the next day, etc.. and I wonder why still love the snow..
  14. coastalplainsnowman
    You should clarify you mean at least another inch or someone's going to look to collect if we get 3".
  15. coastalplainsnowman
    Would anyone have insight into what is going on with the hourly readings at KFRG (Farmingdale) and KISP (MacArthur/Islip Airport)? 1. Noticed a few days ago that there will often be four or five consecutive hours with the temperature unchanged, for example the past four hours at KFRG have been 30.9. 2. That's another thing - sometimes the temps are whole numbers, sometimes they're to the tenth of a degree. And there are far too many whole numbers to be chalked up to the temp being at the whole number and the decimal being dropped. It's like sometimes it's measured to the tenth, and sometimes it's not. 3. When did temps start being reported at all in tenth increments? I could well have missed it, but I don't recall ever seeing that. 4. I started noticing that the KFRG temp was quite different from my local temp fairly nearby, when it used to track quite closely. Today when I went to the KISP page I see that the temperatures are identical to KFRG, as if the KFRG numbers are literally KISP's. What gives? Edit: Here are the links to the KFRG and KISP 3 day history pages, respectively: KFRG: https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KFRG.html KISP: https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KISP.html
  16. coastalplainsnowman
    Took this pic from Jersey City looking across the Hudson. Actually been checking over the past week and was disappointed to see not much ice. But today there was, and tomorrow will probably look better.
  17. coastalplainsnowman
    How many times this meteorological winter will we say with confidence that this time there’s no way it’s going to snow meaningfully again looking out beyond ten days, only for a new threat to materialize immediately after.
  18. coastalplainsnowman
    Presumably only coming out of the faucets! Great to hear. Worst feeling in the world once the pipes freeze, just hoping that it ends well.
  19. coastalplainsnowman
    Thanks. My memory of the 1982 winter was all about the April blizzard. I didn't realize that winter featured a rare cold snap as well.
  20. coastalplainsnowman
    Granted we've lost some of this snowpack to sublimation and will continue to do so, but once temps start to moderate, would the melting snowpack be equivalent of a decent rainstorm? Maybe like 0.5" based on what the liquid equivalents were of the last storm (or last two storms, depending on location) less any sublimation?
  21. coastalplainsnowman
    exactly. 0F with 40mph winds: old chart: -53 0F with 40mph winds: new chart: -29 -53 sounds much cooler, pun intended.
  22. coastalplainsnowman
    Oh man. It's one thing to be in this weather just to get in and out of the car. It's another thing to be out working in it (or even, to a much lesser extent, just waiting 15 minutes for a train.) Working by the water no less. I can't even fathom it.
  23. coastalplainsnowman
    Agreed. Low teens with no wind is actually invigorating to me. What's going on out there right now though is as brutal as I can remember.
  24. coastalplainsnowman
    That webcam at the traffic circle in Montauk still looks like it did 8 hours ago. Unreal! And to look at the radar (barely green on the radar view Upton uses) you wouldn't think they were getting much at all.
  25. coastalplainsnowman
    This backbuilding / snow rotating in from the NE, totals of half a foot beyond what was forecast - I don't recall the possibility even being discussed for our any part of our area, and usually every possibility is discussed. Was it always expected, but just expected to occur further east?
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