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wdrag

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  1. Wantage NJ 8 s of High Point NJ. Here we're at 740'MSL 845 PM 5.3" Blowing and drifting. small to moderately sized flakes, densely filling the air. 18F Next report around 4am I hope. Cleaned my deck and large spot in the driveway to remeasure at 4A. Took at least a dozen measurements to come up with this answer. On-line til ~10P.
  2. Dont like the HRRR... it's verifying. sleet seems to be advantageous ing northward fast in se PA. Amounts we see on the ranges...my guess is the low end of those are the more likely. I hope I dont hear ticking before 11PM here in extreme nw NJ.
  3. Baseline on power outages at 6P. Let's see where this goes. Numerous 40-45kt gusts NJ coast now. Sea Girt in Monmouth county is the rough break point between 40F NJ coast and 32 just north. Wow!
  4. Just to answer a question that originated 2 hrs ago: Sounding can be 0 or below but if the saturated layer doesn't have any -8C above 2 or 3000 feet, ,hard to get snow in that sounding. In other words, we need ice nuclei or salt nuclei. Usually -8C is the theoretical warmest limit to produce snow via ice nuclei. Here's some depressing guidance for NYC... I hope the probabilistic is too low for 6,12,18. Also add probabilistic chance for .01 freezing rain. The 12z/ 16 HPC HREF you will like but my guess it's 3" too high in NJ/LI...just my guess. That last HPC HREF graphic is for 7P tonight to 7P tomorrow...has no snow prior to 7P. This is it for me for a bunch of hours.
  5. Wantage Nj 0.d6" small flake possibly ly 3/4 mi snow... 18.9F might be my last ob for quite a while.
  6. Hope it works out. I've lost a little situational awareness on the models. I'll leave it to everyone else to keep me informed.
  7. Wantage NJ 0.3" 19.F at 450P. 1 mi s-. Added the snow reports to the NWS. 3-5 PHL ILG area. 2" in our NJ forum.
  8. good use of web cams, I don't use them nearly enough. thanks for the reminder.
  9. Widespread mdt-heavy snow in PA now edging into PHL and central NJ. Here's a look at about 4PM.
  10. Wantage NJ 4sw: 0.1" new snow since it began 246P. Breezy at times. 19.9/15.8 small flake dense packed snow.
  11. Maybe around 5 or 6P, we'll repost the snow amount forecast (takes a while to get it all collaborated for a post).
  12. not happening... not meant to be (at least I don't think so). Wind compaction, sleet, drifting...will be a difficult measure.
  13. On the HRRR accumulation graphic through 5AM, use the lower end of those value ranges. That's the safest, I should be a rough unsafe travel evening .
  14. Can everyone live with this??? I think it's realistic, with another 1-4" coming I80 LI after 5AM and 3-6" coming after 5A n of I80 in far nw NJ/ne PA and se NYS CT. We'll see if this comes down a bit in future cycles?
  15. I can see ~1"/hr I-95 sewd but not much more than that due to temp profiles near freezing. Bigger fluffier dendrites I think will be in the colder airmass, unless they get huge in NYC due to aggregation and a slug of bigger qpf heading in there. I definitely expect 2" hr for a few hours this eve e PA/nw NJ and of course advancing northward during the night,
  16. Snow measuring: CoCORAHS guidance is deepest in 24 hours from time it began for storm total (greater 24hrs, clean the board and add whatever hours beyond). However, not all offices do that. I know in Mt Holly, to limit snowmelt and or drifting problems, clean the board every 6 hours. That's what I'll be doing at 845PM tonight. Mat from NJ Climate Center may be commenting-adding on.
  17. Wantage NJ 740' MSL. flurries began 246P. 22/11. Been evaporating aloft past hour, just enough to raise the dew point 1F. Thats the lead dry air suppression.,
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