jm1220

I could go on forever about the different LI climate zones by themselves and what’s favored here vs NYC but I digress lol.

IDK why anyone follows him anymore. I haven’t read one of his forecasts in at least 10 years.

Robert Moses lol.

Boston’s is around 49” now. The crushers in the 2010s especially 14-15 helped a lot. The eastern 2/3 of Suffolk County should be thought of as New England climate-wise more than Mid Atlantic. It’s really just an extension of S CT and RI. Some North Shore areas from my backyard and east average just as much snow as coastal CT and get impacted by the same types of storms. SW of NYC is Mid Atlantic climate. NYC is really the transition zone that can get blanked and bonanza’d by both storm types which makes our area especially hard to forecast for.

The intracacies of the low position, track etc absolutely. In terms of sensible weather impacts outside of maybe immediate Boston they did a good job. The models 4-5 days in advance focused in on the areas that got buried. It’s not like they were dry and someplace else got crushed. The areas on the periphery are always the toughest. If Boston was 2-3 degrees colder during the storm they’d have the 8”+ many models had there.

People east of me did better where the band hung out longer. It just dumped for a while so it started accumulating. If the band sat over Nassau County it would’ve accumulated there too. Probably not over Midtown since my street never accumulated. If it was at night I would’ve had 3” easy.

But not me! I never would’ve thought I’d get more snow than them in this setup.

The initial middle finger low into CT screwed them just like us. Boundary layer was torched and never recovered since we had no cold air source.

Beyond depressing.

Surfaces are icing up quickly here. My deck/car/surfaces where snow melted are sheets of ice.

Down to flurries here and some of the snow from earlier has melted. Good that you were able to hang on for longer.

Short term models did have a heavy band developing over LI but disagreed on where. It began here but got worse the farther east you go, looks like east of Rt 112 maxed out on it. It’s just luck and some effects from the sound/convergence over LI most likely.

If the burst of snow we had started now instead of 1pm, there’d be 2-3” here. It was absolutely crushing but took forever to cool to 32 and overcome the warm ground/sun. Instead, a little over 1”. Very nice and we still have some on the grass, but could have been better. About what I expected when I saw models getting snowier for Suffolk County. I’m curious about the area near Upton though, someone out there might have 4-5” by now.

You were saying?

Out by Moriches/Eastport must be getting clocked.

8.5" here assuming 1" today. Still light snow but no more accumulating.

Still a good light snow here but flakes are tiny. Can already see the snow on the deck starting to melt.

Another surprise-only 6.5” at Albany Airport. I thought for sure they’d have 12+ in this storm. The downslope really screwed them. 23” at Hunter. This is the ultimate have/have nots storm but March storms usually do that.

I wouldn’t say they’re done there yet given how much is to their west, and what’s still to fall has benefit of setting sun but they probably get 2-3” at most. Never would’ve thought they’d get screwed that bad from a setup like this. I thought yesterday they were good for 6”+ given models trending in their direction.

Last burst from this band which looks to be pivoting east. About an inch here or a little over. Landscape/trees look nice in the caked snow.

Eyeballing, I’m probably at an inch or so now on grass.

Pavement here still wet but any colder surface is caked over.

Nice coating now on the grass and colder surfaces. Band is setting up in a great spot for me.

I grew up there and lived there until 4 years ago but now I’m in Huntington Station.