1/23-24/16 #1 All Time KNYC Snowfall-please add Obs, Accums, Pics

[wxman]

23.5" final total here.  There was some major compaction going on in this long duration heavy snow event.  Using an official method of measuring snow likely would have added a few inches to this total.  My view is it's new snow actually on the ground at the time of measurement that is most important to convey the storm's impact, but that's just me.  

[Cfa]

22 in commack western side of town). A bit lower than the 26 reports from commack and dix hills. Guess there were localized pockets here. Report in Elwood of 22 which is a few miles away matches up well.

I think northshorewx total of 17 is low...doesnt really matchup to the other reported totals in our area

I took multiple measurements and have a preliminary average of 18.8", but I'm a bit east of you guys. I'm gonna keep measuring different areas, I feel like I'm doing something wrong. I averaged 20" last night, but that was only from two areas.

[triniiphone]

A lot of digging out to do.

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

I get that a lot of people aren't fans of the fluke 2006 record, but I feel like if a record is going to be broken, it should be broken by at least an inch or 2. I'm actually pretty surprised they didn't crack 30 yesterday. It seems like it takes something even more anomalous than yesterday'storm to get those solid +30 amounts in the nyc area. DC and Boston have it a little easier in that respect.

 

How so? Boston and WDC have never had a 30 inch storm.

 

Dulles airport is in Virginia and 35 miles outsdie WDC. TWC constantly uses that as a WDC total which it is not. The officiail totals at Reagan airport is the only station in WDC those are the only totals that are actually in Washington.

[codfishsnowman]

reports on staten island alone seem rather variable....25 to 31 plus inches....seems like a large spread

[jm1220]

Closest measurement to Long Beach looks to be 24" in Island Park.

[MJO812]

Im taking the bus again to work.My car is buried to the top.

[doncat]

codfishsnowman, on 24 Jan 2016 - 10:08 AM, said:codfishsnowman, on 24 Jan 2016 - 10:08 AM, said:codfishsnowman, on 24 Jan 2016 - 10:08 AM, said:

reports on staten island alone seem rather variable....25 to 31 plus inches....seems like a large spread

Happens every big storm for all areas...we discuss it every winter.  My totals are often on the lower end...maybe some inflate for some reason or maybe its just the difficulties of measuring larger windy snowstorms.

[UnionWeatherWx]

Roads still aren't treated here. Trapped in the house again.

[MJO812]

DC and Philly were supposed to get more snow than NYC lol

[dmillz25]

[Snowberd]

Closest measurement to Long Beach looks to be 24" in Island Park.

Saw many gaps in SW Nassau for totals on the interactive map. Since Upton carved us out as 30-36" would have been nice to see how off that was..I would do Oceanside myself expect for the massive amt of drifts here. Wind was kicking like mad. Nothing's level here...

[jm1220]

Saw many gaps in SW Nassau for totals on the interactive map. Since Upton carved us out as 30-36" would have been nice to see how off that was..I would do Oceanside myself expect for the massive amt of drifts here. Wind was kicking like mad. Nothing's level here...

Guess it's hard to say but how much do you think you have in Oceanside? I measured 18" or so in Boxing Day, but the photos I saw were definitely more than we had then, and the band was parked overhead for another few hours, JFK coming in with over 30" also leads me to believe parts of S Nassau really did have over 2 feet.

[Drz1111]

How so? Boston and WDC have never had a 30 inch storm.

 

Dulles airport is in Virginia and 35 miles outsdie WDC. TWC constantly uses that as a WDC total which it is not. The officiail totals at Reagan airport is the only station in WDC those are the only totals that are actually in Washington.

I'm curious about using WDC rather than DC here.  Are you concerned we might confuse DC for some other DC?  The comics publisher?  Direct current?

[Jason215]

Guys, if we take an average of Central Park's 26.8, JFKs 30.5 and LGAs 27.9 we get 28.4.. Do we have a higher average than that from the Feb 2006? Averaging the 3 sites gives a better picture of what occurred in NYC.

-Jason

[wxnut]

Well, we got this:

 

NWS New York NY ‏@NWSNewYorkNY  4m4 minutes ago

A record all time daily snowfall of 26.6 inches was set at Central Park yesterday. This breaks the old record of 24.1 set on Feb 12 2006.

 

To me, that is a more impressive record..  greatest snowfall in a single day. That means it fell harder and faster than any storm on record, at least within a calendar day.

[codfishsnowman]

Happens every big storm for all areas...we discuss it every winter.  My totals are often on the lower end...maybe some inflate for some reason or maybe its just the difficulties of measuring larger windy snowstorms.

seeing the airports and central park come in with huge totals definitely leads me to believe in the monster quality of the totals in the nyc area...and i think those amounts at lga and jfk were depth measurements...

 

the storm was long duration and there of course would be settling and compaction...i think something like 10 pct or even 15 pct is reasonable (and probably congruent with cleaning a board every six hours for the most part)

 

where things get confusing and inflated in my opinion is when someone is out shoveling frequently or someone measures in a drift. In feb of 2001 when i lived in central ct we got a big snowstorm and it snowed on average 1.5 to 3 inches an hour for the duration of a storm that lasted under 12 hrs from start to finish..probably ten hours of solid snowfall max. Shoveling four times i measured a total of 22 inches but at the end of the storm the depth was only 17.5-18 inches so it stands to reason that someone who reported thirty inches from many trips outside to shovel or clearing the board more than six hour increments could be quite inflated..esp in a longer storm, maybe by several inches..

 

what i am trying to takeaway from this is that those who were left with two foot depths probably had snowfalls three or four inches greater than the final depth but not much more than that

[yhbrooklyn]

Guys, if we take an average of Central Park's 26.8, JFKs 30.5 and LGAs 27.9 we get 28.4.. Do we have a higher average than that from the Feb 2006? Averaging the 3 sites gives a better picture of what occurred in NYC.

-Jason

Definitely not, JFK got much less in 2006.

[codfishsnowman]

regardless i am in awe of what happened down there yesterday

 

sounds like places that got dry slotted or stuck in .5 to 1.5 inch hr snows still wound up with 15 to 20 plus inches while those who got in on the better banding were in the range of 2-2.5 feet..

 

congrats on an epic event! a 15 to 30 inch event area wide for upton...minus a bit on the northern fringes...is remarkable and your cwa is pretty big.

[SnowGoose69]

Definitely not, JFK got much less in 2006.

I wonder if JFK was always measuring snow on the roof because even their totals in storms in the 80s and 90s were less than LGA. Supposedly they have stopped measuring that way but I remember that story coming out in the 2013-14 winter

[uncle W]

I wonder if JFK was always measuring snow on the roof because even their totals in storms in the 80s and 90s were less than LGA. Supposedly they have stopped measuring that way but I remember that story coming out in the 2013-14 winter

I measured 19" in February 2006 in the Westerleigh section of Staten Island...Other parts of the island had less to my south and west......

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

I'm curious about using WDC rather than DC here.  Are you concerned we might confuse DC for some other DC?  The comics publisher?  Direct current?

 

Attempt at humor, failed.

 

You know what I meant.

[jasperk99]

Our Storm!!

 

http://www.ssec.wisc.edu/data/us_comp/us_comp_large.mp4

 

I downloaded and will keep for the ages!

[Rjay]

********************STORM TOTAL SNOWFALL********************

LOCATION STORM TOTAL TIME/DATE COMMENTS

SNOWFALL OF

/INCHES/ MEASUREMENT

CONNECTICUT

...FAIRFIELD COUNTY...

NORWALK 16.0 950 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

GREENWICH 16.0 845 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

DARIEN 14.5 1030 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

FAIRFIELD 13.5 900 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

WESTON 13.0 900 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

BRIDGEPORT AIRPORT 12.0 100 AM 1/24 FAA OBSERVER

SHELTON 12.0 835 PM 1/23 AMATEUR RADIO

EASTON 11.5 1005 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

RIDGEFIELD 10.0 1000 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

...MIDDLESEX COUNTY...

HADDAM 15.5 1230 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER

...NEW HAVEN COUNTY...

GUILFORD 16.0 900 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

MILFORD 15.5 1000 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

NORTH HAVEN 14.4 1115 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WEST HAVEN 11.5 1022 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

BRANFORD 11.0 835 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

MADISON 9.0 800 PM 1/23 AMATEUR RADIO

MERIDEN 8.1 900 PM 1/23 AMATEUR RADIO

2 ENE MERIDEN 8.0 930 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WATERBURY 4.5 900 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

...NEW LONDON COUNTY...

HADLYME 13.5 800 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

STONINGTON 7.5 915 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

NEW JERSEY

...BERGEN COUNTY...

FRANKLIN LAKES 25.3 830 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

TENAFLY 24.0 1005 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

LYNDHURST 22.0 955 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

ALLENDALE 21.0 947 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

RIDGEWOOD 18.0 1000 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...ESSEX COUNTY...

NEWARK AIRPORT 28.1 100 AM 1/24 FAA OBSERVER

MILLBURN 23.5 915 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

WEST ORANGE 21.0 1030 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

CEDAR GROVE 19.4 1100 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

...HUDSON COUNTY...

KEARNY 26.5 1255 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER

NORTH BERGEN 26.3 1100 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

HOBOKEN 26.0 1005 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

HARRISON 23.0 930 PM 1/23 CO-OP OBSERVER

...PASSAIC COUNTY...

BLOOMINGDALE 22.6 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

RINGWOOD 21.7 1115 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

HASKELL 19.5 800 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WAYNE 17.0 800 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...UNION COUNTY...

ELIZABETH 27.9 915 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

ROSELLE PARK 27.5 1000 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

WESTFIELD 24.0 1003 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

NEW YORK

...BRONX COUNTY...

BELMONT 27.6 1115 PM 1/23 BRONX ZOO

...KINGS COUNTY...

WILLIAMSBURG 29.0 930 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

BROOKLYN 27.0 1200 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER

FORT GREENE 24.5 1200 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER

...NASSAU COUNTY...

HICKSVILLE 29.6 1200 AM 1/24 PUBLIC

NORTH MERRICK 25.8 1100 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

MASSAPEQUA 25.2 930 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

ISLAND PARK 24.0 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

MERRICK 23.4 1100 PM 1/23 BROADCAST MEDIA

BETHPAGE 23.0 940 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

NEW HYDE PARK 23.0 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WANTAGH 22.9 810 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

PLAINVIEW 20.4 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

SEAFORD 19.5 1100 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WESTBURY 18.5 845 PM 1/23 NWS EMPLOYEE

GLEN COVE 18.0 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

EAST MEADOW 16.8 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

BELLMORE 16.0 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...NEW YORK COUNTY...

HAMILTON HOUSES 27.0 930 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

CENTRAL PARK 26.8 1207 AM 1/24 PARK CONSERVANCY

...ORANGE COUNTY...

HIGHLAND MILLS 11.6 900 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

KIRYAS JOEL 10.0 1050 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

MONROE 9.0 800 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WESTTOWN 6.8 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...PUTNAM COUNTY...

LAKE CARMEL 12.0 1030 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

PUTNAM VALLEY 11.0 1100 PM 1/23 BROADCAST MEDIA

1 NE BREWSTER 6.0 945 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...QUEENS COUNTY...

NYC/JFK AIRPORT 30.5 100 AM 1/24 FAA OBSERVER

NYC/LA GUARDIA 27.9 100 AM 1/24 FAA OBSERVER

OAKLAND GARDENS 27.4 1035 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

FRESH MEADOWS 26.5 1000 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

LITTLE NECK 24.0 1020 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...RICHMOND COUNTY...

GRANT CITY 26.0 930 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

ELTINGVILLE 22.0 930 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

...RICHMOND (STATEN ISLAND) COUNTY...

PORT RICHMOND 31.3 1020 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

...ROCKLAND COUNTY...

STONY POINT 17.0 830 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

NEW CITY 16.0 900 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

...SUFFOLK COUNTY...

COMMACK 26.5 840 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

ISLIP 25.9 100 AM 1/24 TRAINED SPOTTER

ISLIP AIRPORT 23.4 100 AM 1/24 FAA OBSERVER

SMITHTOWN 23.0 1200 AM 1/24 PUBLIC

CORAM 22.5 930 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

PORT JEFFERSON 22.0 950 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

HOLBROOK 22.0 1100 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

UPTON 18.1 100 AM 1/24 NWS OFFICE

MANORVILLE 18.0 920 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

MORICHES 17.5 850 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

CALVERTON 16.0 845 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

SHOREHAM 15.0 818 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

SOUTHAMPTON 14.5 1120 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

...WESTCHESTER COUNTY...

YONKERS 20.5 1000 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

HASTINGS-ON-HUDSON 15.0 1145 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

ARMONK 14.2 1111 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

PELHAM 14.2 900 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

WHITE PLAINS 13.5 815 PM 1/23 PUBLIC

YORKTOWN HEIGHTS 11.5 800 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

CROTON FALLS 11.0 815 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

HARRISON 10.0 800 PM 1/23 TRAINED SPOTTER

[Rjay]

I decided not send my total into the NWS last nigbt. Impossible to know if it was accurate.

[UnionWeatherWx]

You know the wealth was spread around, when Elizabeth isn't topping the snowfall list.

[Rjay]

I don't trust any totals over 25" and I don't trust any reports under 18" in Nassau Co.

[SleetStormNJ]

You know the wealth was spread around, when Elizabeth isn't topping the snowfall list.

27-30 inches is common around Union County. Been in Kenilworth, Cranford, Roselle Park. Lots of snow. I think a few areas honestly stop measuring last night right before we had a last burst or so.

[Metsfan]

21.5'' in Deer Park Long Island(Suffolk). Tried my best to measure. I have a lot of drifting in some spots over 3 feet!

[nycwinter]

Definitely not, JFK got much less in 2006.

i live near the upper east side.. near the northern entrance of central park,, and after the snow stopped falling i went out and to me there was was only 15 to 16 inches...