jm1220

That was a nice storm. I was in HS at the time and remember driving sleet in Long Beach that changed to heavy snow. I think Dix Hills had 14”. 03-04 was a great winter, frigid cold and 40”+ snow.

This awesome winter has 8” snow for me so far and less than 6” in Central Park. The cold is noteworthy but only because the last two winters were so warm. I’d give it a C-/D+ so far. If we torch in Feb it becomes D-/F.

How awesome for them.

Going into Feb gradient patterns are concerning. Might be great for Boston but cold rain/sleet here. It’s also still a Nina and Feb Nina’s try to pump the SE ridge. To our south is naturally starting to warm up and that will have more of an influence. We’d really need a strong high or confluence to keep us on the cold side of any gradient.

They had 5" in the last storm where we had 3-4".

They had 12". I remember it as a storm that trended way west at the last minute. 48 hours out it was supposed to clip Cape Cod. It occluded south of us so it brought in a huge dry slot and some warmer air. https://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/2000/25-Jan-00.html

Central Park had 4.5" precip in Dec. It rained plenty when we had a cutters pattern. I'm sure it will again when we revert back. I've never seen it like this before where any cold and snow avoid each other like the plague except in places that snow maybe once a decade or less.

Yup, really nice provided 4” snow here. 8” for the season. I’m done with “really nice”, “buckle up”, etc. I’m fine with it just torching from here and being done with this disaster winter. Let it be mild outside and just move on. At least it’ll likely provide rain as well and get us out of the drought before summer.

Area wide had 4-6” IIRC. We had a lot on New Years Eve with the thunderstorms.

Dec was quite wet when the storm track was into the lakes. When we get flooded with warm air again I’m sure the storms will come back.

You had to remind me I missed that storm!! Argh. And yes a few pictures lol

When there’s something of interest to talk about besides more cold and dry you’ll see it.

Same here!

11 here. WAA started overnight which kept us from hitting zero.

Lots of mid to upper single digits in my area.

When the pattern turns back to cutters they'll come through like clockwork. They sure did in December.

Down to 9 here. Since the last 2 nights got down to mid single digits here, wonder if I make a run at 0 tonight.

Pretty sure there will be more chances, but the window obviously slams shut when we go back to a cutters pattern and dominant SE ridge. Given the lack of chances for the next 10 days in climo snowiest part of the winter, the likelihood is high we end up well below average for snow again despite the colder conditions. Unless of course we get a miracle turnaround in Feb. But we need something to slow the pattern down and allow for amplification while holding in enough cold air, and we haven’t seen any hint of that this winter whatsoever.

Nice that we just had our snow event and it’s a lot better than brown ground, but ending on 4” snow in my case for Jan would still be lousy. In Feb hopefully we have more chances but if we revert to the normal Nina warm Feb, good chance we end the winter under 15” in NYC which given the average of 25-30” I would still rate an F.

7 here.

When it clears out overnight here temps will drop like a rock.

And their high tomorrow is only 32 so it will stick around for a while. Wonder if there’s been this kind of snow there since they’ve even been a city.

Wonder if this will be considered a KU? Are these only for NE storms? I know there’s a near miss category but this isn’t a near miss. For that swath from Houston to Cape Hatteras this would be a Cat 6 winter storm lol.

Seeing the Bourbon St webcams is just surreal.

The drunken snowball fights in the French Quarter tonight will be epic.