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  1. jm1220
    A due north flow down the Hudson would have been colder. There's still some downslope component when it's a NW wind. And yes, snow would've helped. But Feb 2016 in the super Nino just had giant snow piles everywhere and it managed below zero.
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    The wind was pretty intense but for here this is typical cold that comes once or twice a season or it did a few decades ago. And it would last more than one day. The Feb negative departures will be gone and more in a week. Somehow we survived. Someone want to print the T-shirts?
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    5F. Wind still roaring.
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    I definitely remember the Feb 2016 blast. I boarded the plane in Austin in perfect conditions and around 60, got off the plane to wind not far from this and zero. There were massive piles left but not much else from the 1/23/16 mega storm I missed which made it feel even worse. Interesting weather wise down there, the severe weather was way better than I ever experienced up here, and May 2015/Oct 2016 were on par or worse than Aug 2011 up here for rainfall. And for any heat fans, 100+ every day and frequent 105 or close is absolutely unbearable. Austin/San Antonio mix the heat from the desert to the west with the Gulf humidity. Possibly the most unbearable stretch in the whole country for heat.
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    48mph at ISP this hour. The winds are impressive. As said before it comes in waves but they pack a punch.
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    Same here. You can hear it roaring through the trees. Down to 9 here as well. I think we make a run at zero on the north shore, we’re dropping pretty steadily. It’s nasty out there for sure. Looking forward to my FL trip on Friday.
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    10F here. Wonder if we can make it to 0. My wager is we make it to 2-3.
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    Aww gee whiz. Thankfully not many warm and rainy days this “winter”.
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    When I will be away. So it’ll definitely work out.
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    It’s about -10 or so where it hurts to even breathe outside. I’ve been in that a few times and it’s not fun. With -30 wind chill it’s unbearable. Thankfully it’s just for one day.
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    I’ll be away that weekend so it definitely will be.
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    It's fairly typical to get a cold snap like this here once or twice a winter at least, and actually have it last longer than one day. 12z GFS has it down to around 10 for NYC and LI on Sat AM, 0 would be the I-84 corridor. Any negative anomalies this cold brings will be gone and then some in a week.
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    Very damaging storm there. Over 150K customers still without power and trees down everywhere. Lots of people freezing in their dark homes as well since there aren’t many gas heat customers. Brief glazes with some sleet are fairly common in Austin but this is way worse. In my time living there the brief glazes were enough to essentially shut the city down. Can’t imagine this.
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    Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow this morning. This winter you just have to laugh.
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    They had 0.8” or so liquid fall as ZR at the airport overnight. It fell at 30-31 degrees so a fair amount ran off but that area is unused to any type of winter weather besides some brief sleet or ice. Pretty much like any other southern city. I used to live there and it would be a disaster even for a brief glaze that would be gone after the stronger sun down there rises. For entire trees like that to come down I’d think it has to be a half inch accretion or greater though. Domain is the north side of the city and a little away from downtown so maybe it was a degree or two colder there. There were 150k outages in the city alone (Austin is a million people and about 2M or so metro area) last I checked so this was a widespread damaging event. And this isn’t an area that has widespread gas usage for heat so many are also shivering right now.
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    150k plus customers in the city of Austin out (Austin Energy) and numerous traffic accidents all over town. From the looks of it, seems like a pretty serious event there. Luckily since temps seemed to be around 30-31 when the rain was falling and it was heavy, some definitely ran off instead of freeze (when temps are in the 20s instead much more freezes on the ground) but as a city not used to serious winter weather I’m sure it’s a major impact.
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    Another coating here.
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    NAM also looks like a typical January cold snap on Fri PM/Saturday here. Mid teens in the city, I-84 gets down to around 10 on Sat AM. At the end of its run but besides the Euro it looks like models are generally moderating it.
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    I've long been in the "you just have to laugh" stage of this winter.
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    If I was to bet it would be a round of flurries/light snow like today except it'll be colder so everyone gets snow. Coating to maybe half inch. Just to kick us in the teeth though I also bet what happens favors south of the city so they can jump ahead of us if even by a tiny bit.
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    Probably closer to the cold air source there and colder 850 temps.
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    It’s the only pittance we’ve got!
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    Coating here with light snow.
  24. jm1220
    Yup. Gorgeous afternoon.
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    Central Park had 17.2” from that. I still think that’s a top 10 event or close.
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