weathermedic

Just saw JB mention that on Twitter. Let’s hope for a Christmas miracle

Winter weather advisories up for the NW suburbs for Sunday.

Sleet falling at my office just east of JFK airport.

When they salt the roads hours before any precipitation falls, the salt gets ground into a powder from vehicles driving over it and then gets blown to the sides of the roadway as cars drive by. The actual roadway surface the traveling vehicles tires make contact with is virtually salt free at that point lol.

Talk about overkill... From NYC Sanitation: The New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY) has issued a Snow Alert as of Thursday, December 13th, 2018 at 0600 hours. A trace amount of snow is expected. From NYC OEM: The New York City Emergency Operations Center (EOC) has been partially activated as of 0600 hours in support of this morning's expected snow. From NWS NYC Office: A chance of snow before 9am, then rain and snow between 9am and 11am, then rain after 11am. High near 39. Wind chill values between 25 and 35. East wind 7 to 9 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. Total daytime snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible. Current (8am) conditions: Central Park CLOUDY 35 21 56

Graupel (light) falling by jfk airport. Sanitation salt trucks spreading salt on the major roadways still trying to compensate from the November debacle.

.53 inches total here so far. Regarding potential weekend storm: Don’t focus on the qpf maps. Look at 500mb maps until we get 2-3 days away. Then we can start to look at qpf to get an idea of where the heaviest precipitation may fall. That’s my opinion.

Plain rain now

Sleet here just east of jfk airport

Light sleet falling in southern Brooklyn.

.97 at my station so far.

As I've been reading on Twitter from Crankyweatherguy; Strong Pacific zonal/split flow across the country, no WAR equals cutters and no real cold air in the east. Hopefully pattern breaks around the second week of December.

Coastal flood warning for southern Queens and Brooklyn for tomorrow morning’s high tide. Minor to some moderate coastal flooding expected.

Finished with 2.34 inches here.

Wind gusting over 30 mph and up to 1.8 inches of rain so far and still coming down hard.

Approaching 1.25 inches here in Sheepshead Bay.

The entire lake at Flushing Meadows Park in Queens had ice on the surface this morning. This is the earliest I've ever seen the entire lake frozen like that. I know it's just a very thin layer on the surface that will melt relatively quickly, but still interesting to see.

Center of high pressure just about overhead now. My barometer reading 30.60 or 1036mb.

Winds gusting near 30 mph here and temp down to 30.

A little over reaction or "reaction" from last Thursday: From NYC Dept of Sanitation Twitter account: More A snow squall is in the forecast for NYC Wed. afternoon, with a coating to less than an inch of snow possible. Our salt spreaders are ready across the five boroughs, and we will pre-salt elevated areas & overpasses ahead of potential snow.

From the aviation portion of OKX AFD this morning: .Wednesday Night-Thursday...VFR. NW winds 15G25kt. From the marine portion of the same AFD: Winds and seas are forecast to remain below SCA levels through Wednesday. An arctic front move across the waters Wednesday night bringing SCA and low chance of gale conditions Wednesday night into Thursday

Euro and (now) GFS have frigid temps across the northeast for Black Friday.

Manhattan and Bronx still at or below 32 with sleet and/or freezing rain falling. Still have many roads/highways in those boros that are iced up and have vehicles that are stuck on inclines. Most of Queens, Brooklyn and Staten Island above 32 with rain.

Lots of trees and large branches down in NYC, especially in Manhattan and Bronx where there has been some freezing rain occurring.