Hey Jerry, I had two minor half inch events prior, but this was the first snowfall of any consequence. Yeah the high rates cooled the torched boundary layer and even the valley went to snow ultimately, but very soppy there.
3.2" the final amount for here 25 miles west of KALB. Nice little upper disturbance - look at the spin on ENX. The first half was wasted in rain, flipped to snow before 4:00 AM.
The Blizzard of '88 was talked about a lot in my family - of Brooklyn at the time. My grandfather was born almost 9 months to the day of the Blizzard in December 1888. and my grandmother was born in 1894. She lives up into her 80's so I knew her when I was a kid and heard plenty of blizzard stories passed on by her parents.
Fortunately for a lot of you outside of southeast NE the Euro isn't much of a king anymore. It could jump back west at 0Z. For here it still has .5" from the IVT and convergence and that's all I'm ever getting so it's good.
There's some kind of convergence or IVT way out over me on all models. The GFS is utra generous with 1" of qpf. I'm cautious in believing such goodness with a low way out at 40/70 (or a bit east) but looks like there might be some validity to it.
I have to wonder if the prolific IVT into Eastern NY is going to be for real. A lot of models have it and .5" to .75" type qpf here. But model IVT magic often evaporates as the event approaches. No direct banding will ever get this far west so it's IVT or nothing, probably the same for western NE unless it trends closer to the coast.
Valentines Day 2007 especially. The heaviest of around 4 feet was out toward Cherry Valley I believe. The one in late February 2010 was more from this area down to the Catskillsl...46" here in that one and Hunter got 72".
I'm the Knox obs on there and up to 21" now. That most enhanced band has been sitting about 10-25 miles west of me though and really racking up the totals there.