1996 was when most of LI got 5-10 inches of snow. I think it never really accumulated west of there. Mets opener in 2013 or 2014 ISP had 5 inches of snow that morning, not sure it ever snowed by the stadium
I'd say we can toss Thursday now just about though in winters like this I would caution don't dump it totally. Because this is the type of winter it'll find a way to make a comeback and we get a couple of inches.
I was suspicious of how much liquid fell from 2-4pm. The 1-2pm made sense but I wondered if the ensuing QPF was perhaps melting of snow off the sensor or something as it seemed way too high. I could buy they got 20.1 or something as it snowed decently from 1-2pm but not sure they realistically got anything after that.
In general any El Nino, especially in today's climate of over 1.5 is going to be a fairly mild winter nationwide. Even 09-10 was not all that cold, it was just narrowly cold enough to snow.
QBO may not be favorable next winter. I think even if the El Nino is like 0.8-1.3 which is ideal magnitude it may be heavily backloaded with December at risk to be very warm. I saw 86-87 being thrown around early as possibly being a similar match.
The HREF seems to do well on big events where there is going to be widespread 8 plus amounts. Lesser storms, especially with marginal temps it seems to be overdone most times.
Bit of a model battle on the Thursday event. I sort of lean towards a flatter idea now but the setup looks sort of disjointed on many ensembles. Not sure anything over 2-4 is realistic.
LI's window is largely going to be 3-7am I think. Would not be surprised if some areas see 8-12 inches in that period, we'll have to see if any extremely intense bands form.
So they got 7.0 inches on .51 liquid since 7pm, ratios as a whole have been higher than I expected, even before winds pick up. I'd expect they will come back closer to 10:1 the rest of the way
The heavy band now is close to where the 00z 3km NAM showed the best FGEN. If its right that axis does end up maybe 20-30 miles east after 06Z so would be more over W-CNTRL LI