Nice to be pleasantly surprised here in Manhattan for a change. I expected some snow in the air but considering it was in the mid to upper 30s earlier today, wasn’t expecting it to stick even on major roads.
Coming down pretty hard now in the UWS and with these rates it’s just starting to stick to car tops and colder surfaces. Would need to sustain this for any chance at a few inches.
I'm pretty close to the Park and it's likely we've gotten an additional 0.5 since the 7AM observation. I doubt it gets recorded at the 1PM observation.
It’s an interesting discussion - bust or not - the Park clearly lost a few inches in those first few hours due to poor dynamics and most models didn’t indicate that. There was a point early on where it was literally snowing all around us and we weren’t even flurrying!
I agree that for NYC the issue was dynamics. Yes there was a bit of sleet that mixed in here and there but any time the rates were actually strong it was all snow. We ended up with 4.3” so technically it was on the low end of the 4-8 forecasts but a 35 mile SW shift would have led to 8 or so.