WintersGrasp Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I'd say still a solid 6-8" in Essex county NJ....the huge piles make it seem more like 10-12" though Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JERSEYSNOWROB Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Most of my pack somehow survived. I'll post a pic in the morning when the sun rises. Can definitely see some south facing lawns without snow on them in places within my neighborhood, but for the most part, we shockingly still have snow on the ground here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian5671 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 90-95% coverage here despite 2 days in the mid 50's and sun...about 4-8 inches left depending on location...that ain't going anywhere next week or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RU848789 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 We reach 4 weeks of continuous snow cover on Tuesday, 2/18, which is a lock, as Tuesday is our first day up to 40F in a long time. Beyond that, even if the subsequent week has a warm-up with several days in the 40s, I'd be amazed if we lost more than 1/2 to 2/3 of the snowpack, given how much liquid equivalent there is frozen into the snowpack and LE (or total mass) is much higher than it might be in some years where we had the same frozen depth as we have now (at least in most places). FYI, here's a post I made last night in the obs thread about concerns over the snowpack melting last night with some rain; similar argument can be made about the snow mass being very large, such that full melting (sans a 60F snoweater rainstorm) will take quite a while. And the analysis, below didn't include the snow from last night, plus we'll get some more tomorrow. People: even an inch of rain on top of about 2.5" liquid equivalent as snow/ice will largely be absorbed by that snowpack, although compression will be significant, making it appear a large part of the snow is "gone." For example, I had ~8" of snowpack left before this storm that probably contained about 1.4" LE from the 1/21 (~3" left as of 2/3), 2/3 (8" of ~10:1 rato snow), 2/5 (2" sleet and 0.25" ZR for 0.85" LE) and 2/9 (2.5" of 15:1 ratio snow) snow/sleet/ZR events (it was very cold through that whole period, so I'm guessing maybe 1/3 of that melted), which were about 2.1" LE, overall. Add on today's 1.1" LE as snow/sleet and that gets me my 2.5" LE before the changeover this afternoon. I'm guessing I now have close to 3.5" LE in my snowpack, as the 1+" of today's rain was mostly absorbed. Sure, in urban areas where much of the roads/parking lots were cleared today, the rain would mostly go down the drain - I'm talking about rain falling on a snowpack. And when it goes down into the 20s tonight, that 3.5" LE snowpack will be cemented in place (with hopefully a few inches of fresh snow on top). Feeling pretty good about my prediction and I'm hoping people realize how much more important snowpack mass (or liquid equivalent) is than depth, per se, in retaining a snowpack. So, prior to the warm-up, we got about another ~1/2" of LE (5" of snow on 2/15 and 2/18), bringing my estimated snowpack to 4" LE (~40" worth of "typical" 10:1 snow), compressed into about 14" of snow depth. Figured we'd lose 1/2 to 2/3 of that snowpack this past week and we lost close to 2/3, as we now have a general 5-6" of dense snowpack pretty much everywhere on my property, as well as all of my neighboring properties, by eyeball. Even the park across the street, which is in sunlight just about all day, has 3-4" of dense snowpack on it - the neighborhood kids were having fun with "spring sledding" conditions this weekend. Drove a bit around Rahway and Edison today and saw similar amounts of snow for the most part, except on some of the south facing lawns with no shade at all, which had the start of some bare patches; I'm guessing some of these properties simply had more sun on them, as I doubt the amount of snow/rain to this point was much different, or the temps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fantom X Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Down to patches. South shore Suffolk. Taken today around 3pm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cfa Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 The snow pack is no longer, at least in Central Suffolk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Most of my pack somehow survived. I'll post a pic in the morning when the sun rises. Can definitely see some south facing lawns without snow on them in places within my neighborhood, but for the most part, we shockingly still have snow on the ground here.Still hanging on here too. Strangely enough, lost very little today considering this looked quite similar to yesterday's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Absolute Humidity Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Yesterday Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersWx92 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Large bare patches on Rutgers campus now in the sunny spots but still a few inches where it's shady. My house in Bridgewater still has a lot of snowcover though...I measured about 8-10 inches this evening. Some of that probably because it's shadier but also probably because it's a little colder and there was more snowpack to begin with. Gonna take a long time for it all to melt. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowshack Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 General 3"-6" remaining here, about 10% bare patches. Surprisingly the two local ponds remained ice covered as well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JERSEYSNOWROB Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Definitely getting some bare patches now, but with the mild air behind us, I'll consider this a win!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelocita Weather Posted February 24, 2014 Author Share Posted February 24, 2014 In W Essex County about 90-95% coverage. On flat surface 100% sun about 3-5" remain, more in shaded areas (6-8"). Only semi bare/bare patches are right next to roads or on south slanting hills. Made it through, although with significant damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rgwp96 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 still very solid coverage here. 10-13 on avg. some spots more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Managed to escape the torch at both home and work without any bare spots. And we're at least 6" deep everywhere except for right a long the high ways. I'd say I lost slightly more than half since Thursday. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LnbWx Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Barely hanging on. I would say 3" here in NE Bergen and plenty of bare spots. Yesterday was a real killer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isotherm Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 First, Holmdel Park area of Monmouth County. Generally 200-300ft in elevation and fairly wooded. Solid snow coverage of 4-8" everywhere. And here's from "Mt. Monmouth", at approximately 390ft above sea level, the highest elevated point in Monmouth County, also in the township of Holmdel. Snow cover widespread of 4-8" except for south facing slopes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 Just some patchy coverage here on the South Shore of Nassau after our February thaw. before after Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IrishRob17 Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 12.5" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wxnyc Posted February 24, 2014 Share Posted February 24, 2014 I traveled from Bensonhurst ,Brooklyn, to Hewlett N.Y. to work today, I found that there was way more snow still out there at least 50 percent coverage , decent piles still many parking spots unusable, while here in brooklyn it's all gone maybe 10-20 percent left with those mainly in all shade locations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gravitylover Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 4-8 with 10 or more N facing. 100% cover except some S facing road cuts. Locked up tight!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zelocita Weather Posted February 25, 2014 Author Share Posted February 25, 2014 Yeah with lots of clouds and cold temps from now until Sunday whatever snow pack we have should be on lock down to bridge the gap until the next chance of a snowstorm (and therefore into March). Impressive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongBeachSurfFreak Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I traveled from Bensonhurst ,Brooklyn, to Hewlett N.Y. to work today, I found that there was way more snow still out there at least 50 percent coverage , decent piles still many parking spots unusable, while here in brooklyn it's all gone maybe 10-20 percent left with those mainly in all shade locations. Interesting. Same latitude 7 miles east and maybe 10 percent coverage all in shady areas. Pretty cool to see where the rain snow line had been during the marginal storms in the photos blue wave posted Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
forkyfork Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 get rid of this crap already. it's making the potholes worse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 I think the other years with a long snow cover in February that lasted into March before being replenished in early March are 1969...1978...1994... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Does Central Park still have snow cover? A few inches left in shady areas in Brooklyn...I went up to Dobbs Ferry yesterday and they had 8-10" of snow. The woods still had areas with nearly a foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 Central Park is still reporting 6" snow depth... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snywx Posted February 25, 2014 Share Posted February 25, 2014 13-14" here.. This isn't going anywhere anytime soon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IsentropicLift Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 No bare spots, plenty of snow on the ground here with big piles still everywhere. Even still have snow on my roof. What's left has become solid ice again from all the melting and refreezing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
user13 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Central Park is still reporting 6" snow depth... Any less today...6" looks a little much. Only patches here in Queens Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaner587 Posted February 26, 2014 Share Posted February 26, 2014 Any less today...6" looks a little much. Only patches here in Queens Still 6 today Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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