jm1220

Yep. Just the big dirt ice piles to look forward to. Probably take several days or more of 70s to get rid of those.

I hope so-the AIFS being right but we know how these backdoor setups usually go this time of year and even into May some years-they’re more aggressive than models show 100+ hours out. And the waters have a long way to go to start warming up. Jones Beach has been 35-36 degrees the last few days. That’ll make itself felt any way it can.

My area specifically has just gotten skunked on any kind of jackpot/historic type event. The last 20” snowstorm I’ve seen has probably been PDII in 2003 when I was 16. A couple have come close but still nothing like even 20 miles east of me. My specific area is great for moderate to 12” type events but never gets the jackpot, ever. The snow average here is quite good relatively speaking because we do well in those marginal to moderate events. But 16-17” here too and 29” at Islip, again maybe 14-15” here in Jan 2022, over 2 feet for Islip.

Sure does. And in the summer when we really need the rain, we’ll be dry for weeks.

Yep we need the rain but these 33-35 deals and rain are the worst. SWFEs in general are the worst. I don’t care we get the one out of 10 to work out here, I’ll never root for them at our latitude, ever.

Yep. The minute I start seeing the low heights over the Maritimes in the spring, I know what that means here. Hoping somehow we can keep ridging and westerly flow.

Beautiful is always tough to come by here. Those waters are chilly and stay that way for 2+ more months.

If we go into a weak to moderate Nino hopefully not. Would still be great to get out of this perma-Nina state with the boiling western Pacific dominating the pattern.

Snow is taking a beating-yesterday with temps well in the 40s and sun and definitely today with rain and 40.

Our dirt ice piles in the shopping malls might last a couple days longer than the Hudson Valley’s though.

Today should be a good melt day and then by the end of the weekend we’re finally in the clear.

33 here. At that temp it can rain all it wants and barely any snow will melt.

Down to 23 already. Felt frigid on my walk. But agreed, we’re taking the next step up the ladder to spring. By the weekend we’ll be down to ice piles.

The back for this winter had to break at some point. Hopefully it doesn’t come with backdoor fronts every week.

I still have a ways to go, probably by the end of the week here. The snow left here is glacier, the snowmelt during the day ices up and freezes into the snow on the ground and makes it bulletproof. It’ll be great when I can hang out on my deck for a while and get some sun.

That’s March 1 sun for you. It’s bad for snow retention in general here near the coast-this year is tops for sure on retention but sooner or later as the sun gets higher in the sky every day it does its thing.

Yep, it was kinda sad in Long Beach actually, snow just disappearing. There was well over 20” there based on the photos I saw and still plenty of piles of course. I think the difference is that up here every night has been below freezing so the melt during the day just ices up. The snow we have here is very dense and glacier like.

My backyard has a few inches in places that get a lot of sun and 7-8” or so in places that don’t. I think we’re getting into the snow from late Jan and that’s solid ice.

Going with 52” in Huntington Station. I’ll go with 0.1” today also, there was a minor coating on colder surfaces.

Pssst. “Spring ahead” also means the sun angle “springs ahead” 360 degrees higher in the sky. Whatever snow we have now, boy we better appreciate it because the day we add an extra hour of 360 degree angle higher sunlight, not only does the snow go poof but all life forms spontaneously combust when they expose any skin to the outdoors. Be warrrnnneed!

Still full snow coverage here. Looks a lot better here than places 10 miles to my south that got 6-8” more snow on Monday.

In Long Beach today, lots of bare spots in exposed sunny places.

I haven’t had a chance to get to the area that got 24”+ from the blizzard but the sun really starts doing a number on it this time of the year plus daily highs above freezing plus initial compaction. When I came home on Wed and saw what was on the ground I was a little disappointed-like you said there was 3” more snow just that morning. It looked similar to what we had after 1/25 maybe a little deeper.

That’s my next concern-the cold winter means cold waters and lots of foggy gunk until we can warm the waters up which won’t be until June lol.

There’s still a lot of snow here but it’s definitely been melting fast in my area as well. The piles of course will be around for weeks or longer and they already look black/gross. I’m all for whatever warmup is on the way if it won’t snow.