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Awesome lighting and thunder. A summer classic.

LFG.

1 hour ago, Gravity Wave said:

I assume that these departures are specific to the summer given how the sun roasts everything? It would be interesting to see the winter version.

I think that’s the full year. I think it comes from a national study. You can click on the article and then go to the research.

Forgive me if this was shared previously; relevant to the CPK discussion and the summer in general. Very localized heat island map. 

I was gratified to find I live by that “cooler” tongue on the UWS; I suspect the streets (esp the wide ones : 106 and 110) providing more of a channel for upsloping winds.

https://www.thecity.nyc/2023/07/26/heat-island-hot-map-temperature/

These things have been falling apart before hitting Manhattan like Adams put up some deflector shield.

Pretty garden variety strong thunderstorm on UWS. 

Eyeballing about 2.5” here in Riverside Park. Maybe closer to 3? Glorious morning. I usually get coffee and just take a walk in the park. This one is perfect. 

Should be perfect for a nice Saturday morning Jebwalk.

WOW. Totally different world downtown. NOTHING. 

Just got on the subway to head downtown. I’d estimate 2.75 to 3 on the bench, with glorious fat flakes coming down. Snow is somehow accumulating on the cast iron skillet that is Riverside Drive (main road). 

2 minutes ago, ILoveWinter said:

Heavy snow, cars and grassy surfaces are covered here in UWS

yeah, it has picked up substantially since I complained. Not sure I'd say "heavy" yet but getting there fast now (also on UWS)

How is the Euro still putting us in the bullseye? There's a lot of work to do here in the city (speaking of rates and what I can see of accumulation on cars, etc) 

eager to see this "destroying" you speaketh of as rates since I got up have sucked.

7 minutes ago, nycsnow said:

That stuff coming in from offshore is gonna destroy the metro area 

11 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Not impressed with this map.  Knock some off for not pure 10:1 event and you are notably less than NWS amounts.  Especially up my way.  Going to be interesting from around daybreak through noon.  Some will be disappointed IMO.

That map is Kuchera, not 10:1.

9 minutes ago, Brian5671 said:

that was a great storm-it did help that it was mainly an overnight event too.

It was not an overnight event. Destroyed the evening commute. Started at 2, peak was 4-6 PM. So heaviest was during dark, but just after. https://www.wunderground.com/history/daily/us/ny/new-york-city/KNYC/date/2018-11-15

Not to beat this horse to a second death, but here’s Amsterdam Ave on 11/15/2018. I checked the dailies for the month and the days prior were in 40s and 50s. We hadn’t had a freeze yet in 2018.
 

Heat island, yes. It’s not the surface of the sun.

10 minutes ago, LongBeachSurfFreak said:

What eventually happens in the city will come down to banding. As this is a dynamic rapidly deepening  system with plenty of moisture, 2” hour type bands should set up during the hight of the storm. If they end up over the city, it will accumulate even on pavement. I think the November rush our crusher attests to what rates can do. If we end up with .5” hour rates, it’s a grass storm. (City)

that is one of my favorite surprise storms. just went haywire overproducing.

5 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

Think TWC forecast is the best I've seen and they've really gotten much better the past several years (remember, they were the only ones who nailed Jan-2015) with some very good mets and model discussions these days. I think the NWS adustments at 4 am were in the right direction, but not enough, especially towards 276/195 and the coast, where I think TWC is likely to be better. We'll see of course.

Brilliant graphic.  No way to know what they are forecasting for NYC.

6 hours ago, RU848789 said:

And just to whet people's appetites for the long range tracking marathon...

PD3

Jefferson's Revenge  

Very light now.

Nothing but mood flakes in midtown.

Pretty much mood snow on UWS. On my way into midtown.

15 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

Midwest Regional Climate Center has hourly data.

Thanks, Don!

12 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

Try weatherunderground

Thanks. Was hoping not to have to pull day by day, but works to get a week or so.

Forgive the off topic question (but since this where folks are...)

Does anyone know where you can get historic hourly data for a station? In this case, Central Park. Honestly would only want the past month or so, but will take more if available.