jm1220

The hi res models warned about the wind threat today, sometimes it’s a false alarm. It’s pretty messy around my neighborhood and I know others not far away got it worse. We probably gusted 55-60 here.

Crazy how you can time the cold early Dec with the warm late Dec the last 5 years or so. At least 90% of us made a nice snowstorm happen when it was cold this month. Hopefully we can get a window to do it again in Jan/Feb. A Nina with a good Dec snowstorm usually finds a way to do it again later in the winter and sometimes more than once.

The Grinch put on red this year.

Already happened this month. In fact there was 3” on a bench on Sunday. Pay up.

That’s the storm laughing at us as it destroyed all our snow.

The snow on Sun probably weakened some of the trees/power lines. The first 5” of it was paste here that clung to everything.

Some bigger branches and even a small tree down in my neighborhood. Yikes

A few years ago after a nasty T-storm knocked trees down my town trimmed most of the trees around any power line so it’s been better since then, but it’s a higher end wind event here for sure. Probably some 55+ gusts.

Lots of smaller branches down here and decorations/garbage pails blowing all over the place.

Yep, ice everywhere this morning.

2010-11 was by far the best snow cover winter I’ve ever seen.

And then Fri’s rain will come with strong winds so by the end we’ll just have the dirty mall piles. Oh well.

If we have a slightly negative or neutral PNA that would drive a more zonal jet stream, it could work with a -NAO, but a sharply negative -PNA would drive such a deep trough on the west coast that the SE ridge would respond and possibly link with the NAO block. That’s obviously what we want to avoid.

Hopefully the PNA doesn’t tank negative, that’s what seems to drive it like what happened in 2023.

I used the top of my deck table which was in a good spot. Easy to measure like you said.

I doubt the Syosset 9” is accurate either.

I remember that 11/1995 storm, it was wicked. It dropped a ton of heavy snow if I remember correctly west of us in the Appalachians.

The map looks a little low on parts of LI especially Nassau, numerous 6” reports there.

Something should be done and should've been done for years. Have a dedicated NWS observer there who will measure properly or take the obs someplace else. I can understand parts of the city having less because they struggled with temps for a while but that's just ludicrous how on TV there was clearly 3" with snow still coming down at a good clip and temps falling. JFK right on Jamaica Bay struggled with temps too and came in with 4.6". I showed pics of my neighborhood to a relative in FL yesterday and they were stunned about how much fell where I am vs "I heard the city only had 2". It's ridiculous.

If we have a tanked PNA, that raises the likelihood the SE ridge will link up with any -NAO block which obviously is a disaster.

Great to have it during the lowest sun angle of the year too so we’re not losing much of it every day like in March.

8.0" Huntington Station and season total. Thanks for compiling and making the map!

I would say the Euro AI spotted it 4-5 days out or so and was consistently aggressive with it. The RRFS was the best model close in considering how well we ended up doing and it was always the wettest short term model. The other hi res models kinda waffled on QPF until the end.

weather.gov/source/crh/snowmap.html?zoom=8&lat=41.64&lon=-71.61&hr=24 You can zoom or move the map to NYC's area.

My street is a sheet of ice, don't blame them.