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14 minutes ago, weathermedic said:

4.28 inches so far since midnight at my station

Amazing. It's been lightly drizzingly here most of the day on the UWS with some moderate pockets sprinkled in. Looks like we are at .91 inches for the event as of 11 AM at CPK.

Breeze has been noticeable here and making a difference today.

1 hour ago, GaWx said:

Per this, the lowest at NYC as of 8AM today was 84:

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KNYC.html

Yeah I just glazed over that 6 hour min. 

i thought I saw KNYC tied the record high low at 84, but the hourly obs say 84.9. Did we tie or break it?

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3 hours ago, Rjay said:

People seem to be questioning the totals. It's weird

I’m confused. I thought people who lived 20 miles outside the city were supposed to be complaining about under-measurement? 

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Just now, bluewave said:

It could be the terrain effects and placement of the coastal fronts and deformation bands around the NYBight.

There is often a least one very heavy band that parks over NNJ and another across Long Island. The immediate area around Manhattan can get into some relative subsidence between the bands.

The NNJ band this time was just west of the Hudson. But at other times with a storm track more tucked in near the coast it has been over Western NJ into Orange and Rockland.

The December 2020 storm tracked closer to ACY than this one did and delivered 40” to BGM.

the band this morning parked just west of the Hudson, which is what pushed Bergen County up over 2'. 19-21 appears fair for Manhattan into Queens/Brooklyn.

For those reflexively crapping on the CPK measurement, I just did another 20 minute walk in Riverside Park and it very much feels like a 17-19" storm.

7 minutes ago, hmdeutsch98 said:

Updated Central Park Observation:

These measurements were taken at the exact same spot. As of 10:15

17.5, 17, 17.5, 18 Average is 17.5

Temp 30.2 degrees

Less frequent gusts appear to reach around 20-25 mph 

Activities witnessed; 

Sledding, picture taking, small snowball fight, attempts at snowmen, dogs frolicking 

Nice reporting. My purely experiential eyeballing of the snow during that time was 17-18”

Have not bothered to measure anywhere but this feels closer to Jan 31 2021 than 2016 for sure - high teens. But still at 1/4m vis.

absolute stunner of a storm. Not much wind though here.

3 minutes ago, ILoveWinter said:

Been sitting in a nice weenie band here in the UWS for nearly an hour, CPK may just get to 20 or even higher at this rate 

Haven't been outside yet, but based on the 15.1" at 7 AM and the radar and forecasts for this to go to 1 PM, we should be able to make it.

8 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

i meant to exclude the first 3 hours from the totals.  

Regardless, we got 7” of that 10.5 in the first 5 hours after 0z.

13 minutes ago, Ginx snewx said:

Let's see what the Euro says  by 1am add 6 more hrsadd 6 more

This is what we end up with by 8 tomorrow night that is 10 to 1 too. Ratios already coming up 

Hey Ginx. Here’s the problem with the euro. Central Park got 7” between 0z and 5z (that has 10.5” total). It’s already badly off.

Don’t know what that holds area wide, but I would toss it. 

26 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

ha the 2/23 00z euro matched the hrr for reference

Not really close. That’s ~ 10” in NYC after 7 PM tonight? Would be like 12” with what was on the ground then. The HRRR has been in the 18-20” range for the city for most of the day.

Man HRRR is insistent we make it to 20" here in the city.

Just now, Franklin0529 said:

That seagull dude is tripping. There's no way he only got 6" I'm at 11" here in Galloway. The snow has been relentless for 4-5 hrs now

I dunno. Supposedly Battery Park has 11" and I just measured 7"+ on the UWS.

Best measurement just now - about 7-7.5"

Gorgeous out. Wind picking up. 

Just measured 4” on a cartop on UWS

Snow on trees by the streetlight = bright as daylight 

10 minutes ago, SnowGoose69 said:

7pm Snowfall Reports:

NWS NY: 2.5"
Newark, NJ: 2.0"
Islip, NY: 2.0"
Central Park, NY: 1.8"
JFK: 1.7"
LGA: 1.7"
Bridgeport, CT: 0.8"

I was out at 7 and thought we had about 1.5-1.75" OTG (but about 1" in the hour I was out), so they're on this so far.

Deteriorating quickly 

1 minute ago, ILoveWinter said:

Snowing hard in the UWS, add the wind and visibility already pretty bad

And the roads are now suddenly snow-covered. LFG. 

Sidewalks just started to get fully covered on the UWS after 7.5 hours of snow.

I do fear for the trees in Riverside Park, which have been snowcovered for hours and are sitting in an absolute swamp.