weatherpruf

funny i was at the supermarket this morning and everyone who worked there was bragging how they have their own met, one of the cashiers who has a degree....rutgers....we got to talking and he was surprised i knew the terminology so well...i told him i am one of the most ignorant posters on here when it comes to the science, but i know the lingo pretty well by now...we talked miller a's vs miller b's, he said this weekend could be a miller a, and he really wanted to get into broadcasting. rutgers is a solid program. the historical importance of this recent snow and sleetfest i think, was lost on a lot of us; they are still having trouble with cleanup all over cnj.

was in grad school at rutgers; was late for class because they had front loaders removing the snow on rt 18; professor said we can't be late just because of a little snow....we were like, wtf, a little snow??? back then we had a local station, wctc, that could tell you updates.

capitol weather gang has an excellent write up on the challenges of forecasting this unique storm in the washington post, not sure how to link, but it is making the rounds online with no firewall. in short, this was a historic sleet storm, one for the ages.

there was widespread 8-15 so who really cares....looking at massachusetts today and they are posting some big numbers in some areas, though most are not much higher than ours. in laws in maine getting ready. but they have tractors up there.....

i had a chevy colorado for years that was 4wd and it was great i have an awd traverse now and its ok, but it was the front wheel drive minivan that was stuck in the drift. i saw a lot of cars stuck last night; awd is decent in snow.

the jersey shore did much better than i thought it would; you had to go down toward AC for some lesser amounts and even they reported over 6. at least the reports i saw.

i had a hell of a time digging one of my cars out this morning. dam snow blower actually had a piece of ice blocking the tine mechanism. worked fine this morning, but yesterday i was screwed and my hands started to frostbite right through the gloves. i went back inside and warmed up first. reports near me are 10.8 in metuchen, but i think we had more than that over here in colonia. looked to be around a foot with some serious drifts. by the way its hard enough for my dogs to walk on top, and we had no zr that is saw; there was no glaze this morning.

west of elizabeth could be the watchungs.....been on them and it was sleeting or snowing, come down to 22 and its raining......

used to work down at beaver dam rd in the 80s...the old fisherman magazine. fun times. they don't even have a building anymore, it's all online and i heard the office was too far gone after Sandy.

this was a beast. i had to go out to dig the sister in law out; cars stuck all over, unplowed streets, sleeting like the devil out; the big snow blower froze and the tines would not turn; had to break out the old craftsman. my sil has a little electric toro and that little beast tore right through that sleet, which i'm saying had to be a foot or more. any zr on top of this will be a nightmare. it is still sleeting out ffs....never went back to snow.

its new jersey to you.....

its the ice justin....there remains a threat of zr. its really nasty out. with the cold temps its a recipe for disaster. i don't want my kids on 287 in that.

not seeing any zr thank god, but this sleet is accumulating. where i shoveled a path for the dogs earlier is buried. still sleeting to beat the band out. we might bust high after all.

8-12 was the mt holly call, iirc....let's see if we can add to that 8-9 with the sleet. we are getting the bad sleet now...straight pellets. can hear them outside.

it's a good thump. and i think this sleet will add a few inches. think i broke the 6 inch curse.

mt holly said this could happen early afternoon, but that colder dynamics could result in higher thump because the warm air was shallow; i don't get all the science but i can read, and they gave a good explanation. pretty close to what has happened. credit given.

only if we glaze on top. hoping we don't.

both things can't be true. imo the nam was correct on the sleet, however it's not the slushy kind of snow killing sleet of march 2017 for example; this stuff is very light and bouncy. perhaps due to the cold temps.

seeing some of that too over here now; but its not wet sleet; this stuff can accumulate. its smaller and almost looks like snow. in fact if i couldn't hear it i couldn't tell..you can see it bouncing and blowing too. this so far is not the pounding, sandblaster sleet....if i'm making any sense here.....

still snowing hard here.

just south of you. no pingers yet.

so i'm across the arthur kill woodbridge area; usually have around the same amounts though state island sometimes does better. just trying to get a sense of where things are. i think i could be around 8 as well from eyeballing.

which part? in general....

wow nice thump.

thats the spirit