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March 13-14, The Blizzard of 2017: Obs


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2 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Central Park should have something like 8". Sleet falls at 3-1 ratio so if 1.3 or so fell that's close to 4" of sleet, then maybe the first 0.40" or so fell as snow this morning at 10-1 snow ratio (maybe bad snow growth put it under 10-1 but regardless if there was no rain there, totals should be at least 7"). 

Latest total I saw was Central Park 4" (at 10 AM) while someone from Howard Beach reported 6.5" lol- you got 6.5" there, JM?

We were 19" up here the last time I checked which was awhile ago.

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1 minute ago, Paragon said:

Latest total I saw was Central Park 4" (at 10 AM) while someone from Howard Beach reported 6.5" lol- you got 6.5" there, JM?

We were 19" up here the last time I checked which was awhile ago.

4" was at 8am.

LGA reported 5.9" at 8am as well.

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Just now, Paragon said:

Latest total I saw was Central Park 4" (at 10 AM) while someone from Howard Beach reported 6.5" lol- you got 6.5" there, JM?

We were 19" up here the last time I checked which was awhile ago.

Nowhere near 6.5, I'm estimating 3.5" fell before rain, which is what others near here seem to have and eyeballing. I wasn't in the mood to get soaked outside measuring, and I needed a nap after the late nights tracking this bust. NW Queens looks like it did well, LGA might also end around 8". 

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I wish this was for our area

URGENT - WINTER WEATHER MESSAGE


National Weather Service Binghamton NY
1256 PM EDT Tue Mar 14 2017

...DANGEROUS BLIZZARD BLASTING CENTRAL NEW YORK AND NORTHEAST
PENNSYLVANIA...

NYZ009-018-036-037-044>046-055-056-PAZ038-039-043-151700-
/O.CON.KBGM.WS.W.0004.000000T0000Z-170316T0000Z/
Northern Oneida-Onondaga-Madison-Southern Oneida-Cortland-
Chenango-Otsego-Tioga-Broome-Bradford-Susquehanna-Wyoming-
Including the cities of Boonville, Syracuse, Hamilton, Oneida,
Rome, Utica, Cortland, Norwich, Oneonta, Owego, Waverly,
Binghamton, Sayre, Towanda, Hallstead, Montrose, and Tunkhannock
1256 PM EDT Tue Mar 14 2017

...WINTER STORM WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 8 PM EDT
WEDNESDAY...


* ACCUMULATIONS...Total snow accumulation of 18 to 26 inches, with
locally higher amounts.

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17 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Nowhere near 6.5, I'm estimating 3.5" fell before rain, which is what others near here seem to have and eyeballing. I wasn't in the mood to get soaked outside measuring, and I needed a nap after the late nights tracking this bust. NW Queens looks like it did well, LGA might also end around 8". 

I was getting a bad feeling last night around 11pm, so I went to bed....

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Wasn't March 2001 one of the analogs for this storm? Looks like the disappointments aren't too far off. 

Everyone thought this would eventually trend east but phased monster storms like this always do the opposite. We can't win them all but hey most of us were able to hit our seasonal totals despite a record warm winter.

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1 minute ago, SnoSki14 said:

Wasn't March 2001 one of the analogs for this storm? Looks like the disappointments aren't too far off. 

Everyone thought this would eventually trend east but phased monster storms like this always do the opposite. We can't win them all but hey most of us were able to hit our seasonal totals despite a record warm winter.

and March 1993

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2 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Wasn't March 2001 one of the analogs for this storm? Looks like the disappointments aren't too far off. 

Everyone thought this would eventually trend east but phased monster storms like this always do the opposite. We can't win them all but hey most of us were able to hit our seasonal totals despite a record warm winter.

March 2001 was not tucked it, it got going way too late for most here to benefit.   

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In this type of setup had the low tracked about 50 miles further SE we'd be talking widespread 20"+ in most areas.


Exactly. And I either expected it to correct about 50 miles se or to fully phase, in which case, it would have still been 20+ for most areas.

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19 minutes ago, BxEngine said:

14" even, wind has picked up considerably the last 1/2 hour.

Wow that's impressive! I'm a few towns down Rt. 304 in Bergen County and am eyeballing 7-8. I'm assuming I lost and inch or two to compaction of the 4 hours of heavy sleet we had. Had that been snow like the models were showing, we would of gotten to 18" IMO. Very juicy system, the mid-levels were just too warm too far north.  

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41 minutes ago, NJwx85 said:

In this type of setup had the low tracked about 50 miles further SE we'd be talking widespread 20"+ in most areas.

And it would have been easier to deal with. I got stuck in the street trying to clean the driveway, got plowed in took 4 people to push me out. Can't shovel or snowblow the thick slush at the end of the driveway. Don't know how anyone will get out. 

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26 minutes ago, SnoSki14 said:

Wasn't March 2001 one of the analogs for this storm? Looks like the disappointments aren't too far off. 

Everyone thought this would eventually trend east but phased monster storms like this always do the opposite. We can't win them all but hey most of us were able to hit our seasonal totals despite a record warm winter.

We are still short by about 4 inches. A normal snow year for 1980's.....Same kinds of snows too.

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If expectations for much of the area had been tempered it would have been a decent storm in an otherwise pitiful year. Or, if we had had numerous ones like it. But it looked like we might get the big one and well, the areas that did well, while having been shafted in recent years, are kinda the places when I was a kid that got this kind of thing. Actually even they didn't see too many storms over a foot IIRC. 

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