OBS and Totals-12/13-14 Snow Event

[Krs4Lfe]

2 minutes ago, anthonymm said:

Temps overperformed big time before. When I saw it hit 40 in central park I knew there was no way they'd cool down fast enough to have numbers like 4-5" verifying. Cpark needs an arctic antecedent airmass well below 32 for forecasts to verify now...

Yeah with the ever increasing urban heat island, CPK needs sub freezing temps in order for snow to actually accumulate. They lost the first few hours to white rain 

[MANDA]

45 minutes ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

I'm curious what anyone in Manhattan near central park thinks of the 1.1 "official measurement in the Park at 7:00 am? 

At 7:00 am 2.4 at EWR, 1.7 at LGA and 2.6 at JFK. If it was once you let it go but it's all the time.

Maybe they should just stop and make LGA the official measurements in NYC or actually get a trained spotter near the Park to take them. I guess they just don't give a F.

Just a shame really.  One of the longest periods of record and it has just been destroyed.  From not measuring snow correctly to having temperature sensors in a thicket.  Station with a long period of record has just been shot to hell.  

[NorthShoreWx]

8 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Yea we should have a warning 

It's a snowstorm now after the nice, but relatively unimpressive continuous light half inch per hour stuff overnight.  Temperature down to 28⁰ and the visibility is quite low in moderate snow.  

[WestBabylonWeather]

Down to 30 now hopefully pick up another inch 

[the_other_guy]

I had a feeling north would do better due to temps. I mentioned that last night. Lets see if it plays out

[MJO812]

Getting alot colder now

[wthrmn654]

Temps dropping now everyone should now be below 32 atleast.  Snow just exploded in intensity.  I'd say 3-4 inches very hard to guess with compaction. 2.5-3 on ground with measurements few mingled ago though. 

[495weatherguy]

6 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said:

It's a snowstorm now after the nice, but relatively unimpressive continuous light half inch per hour stuff overnight.  Temperature down to 28⁰ and the visibility is quite low in moderate snow.  

This-I was out driving between 2-3 am in Melville and Farmingdale LI-there was only about an inch OTG and snow was light. Now up to at least 6” in Melville.  It has been snowing heavily for the last 2 hours

 

[MANDA]

Exceeded my expectations and my forecast up this way.  Was thinking along the lines of 3" max.  Measured at 8am - 5.5".  Melted .46". The NW edge of this really over performed for NWNJ area.  Great old fashioned snow event with solid totals and colder air pouring in behind the system.  Currently 21 degrees here.  Mid teens to low 20's over NWNJ currently and likely not rising much today.  Bitter cold tonight with solid snow cover.

By the way the snow ratio here was 12:1.

 

 

[Northof78]

7.0" of snow on the ground with light snow/flurries still falling and storm total in S/W Essex County, huge overperformer! 

Biggest storm since 2021 here and can't remember the last 2X outperformer. Beautiful outside, and love December snows pre-Christmas...

Looks like Somerset, Hunterdon, N/W Middlesex, W Essex, W Union, Passaic, Warren, Morris, C/N Bergen, and Sussex will all end up with 5" - 8"...

[hooralph]

In Riverside Park, in the 100s (about a mile as the crow flies from CPK station), looks like about 3.5” ?

stunning. If you are sitting at your computer raging about the official measurement and not getting out and enjoying it, you’re doing it wrong…

[Krs4Lfe]

1 minute ago, hooralph said:

In Riverside Park, in the 100s (about a mile as the crow flies from CPK station), looks like about 3.5” ?

stunning. If you are sitting at your computer raging about the official measurement and not getting out and enjoying it, you’re doing it wrong…

You'll probably crack 4" by the time all is said and done. Will likely wrap up in an hour or so. 

[dseagull]

Absolutely stunning views down on the bay.  Depending on the surface, I have measured anywhere from 4 to 7 inches.  We had 90 minutes of legitimate heavy snow on barnegat bay, WITHOUT wind... which is my favorite snow down here.  Its rare.... just vertical falling glorious flakes. 

Local spotter whom I friends with in the next town north, forked river, said he had 5.7 on his board about a half hour ago.  Stoll coming down, but nowhere near as intense. 

 

Enjoy, everyone.  Christmas spirit is here.  Happy days...

[weathermedic]

2 inches here in Sheepshead Bay so far. Temp down to 30

[wthrmn654]

Riverhead east has been kinda shafted based on radar loops so far.  Winter weather advisories just got extended to 3 pm though so that's good

[psv88]

This current band is blowing up and intensifying. Nice event 

[weathermedic]

Back edge of the snow rapidly approaching extreme eastern metropolitan NJ and the Hudson River

[GlobeTrekker]

21 minutes ago, anthonymm said:

Temps overperformed big time before. When I saw it hit 40 in central park I knew there was no way they'd cool down fast enough to have numbers like 4-5" verifying. Cpark needs an arctic antecedent airmass well below 32 for forecasts to verify now...

Just across the Hudson from Manhattan and measured slightly over 4.5. Other parts of Manhattan also reporting more than CP.

[dmillz25]

Approaching 4” now

[kat5hurricane]

Eyeballing 3-4" here in Whitestone, beautiful outside with the snow sticking to everything. It looks like the NW suburbs overachieved due to colder temps and higher ratios so everybody cashed in and should be happy.

[dseagull]

Id go for a boat ride,  but water is low and icy.  

[GaWx]

14 minutes ago, hooralph said:

In Riverside Park, in the 100s (about a mile as the crow flies from CPK station), looks like about 3.5” ?

stunning. If you are sitting at your computer raging about the official measurement and not getting out and enjoying it, you’re doing it wrong…

CPK station picked up 0.14” of liquid equivalent 7-10AM since the 7AM 1.1” measurement per the link below. When adding what they got since 10AM with it still falling, they could approach 0.20” liquid equivalent since the 1.1” measurement.

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KNYC.html

[Big Jims Videos]

7 inches in Point Beach. Much of that is compacted. There will be 8-9 inch totals somewhere along 195. 

[Krs4Lfe]

3 minutes ago, GaWx said:

CPK station picked up 0.14” of liquid equivalent 7-10AM since the 7AM 1.1” measurement per the link below. When adding what they got since 10AM with it still falling, they could approach 0.20” liquid equivalent since the 1.1” measurement.

https://forecast.weather.gov/data/obhistory/KNYC.html

That would probably boost them to 3", considering ratios are likely closer to 10:1 now that temps are a few degrees colder than this morning. Do you know how much LE has fallen at LGA and JFK since then 

[EastonSN+]

Just hit 4.0 inches at Easton CT. Was a little too far north and east.

[NorthShoreWx]

6.5" as of 10:30.  1.2" in the past hour. 27.9⁰  Moderate to occasionally heavy snow continues.  I'm about to drive over to Farmingville.  Should be a bit of an adventure.

[Byrdhousebv]

T30.6  DP22.3  Just over 5" here in NE Monmouth Co. Still snowing light to moderate.

[Nibor]

5.5 JC Heights

[GaWx]

6 minutes ago, Krs4Lfe said:

That would probably boost them to 3", considering ratios are likely closer to 10:1 now that temps are a few degrees colder than this morning. Do you know how much LE has fallen at LGA and JFK since then 

LE 7-10AM:

LGA 0.13”

JFK 0.17”

These compare to the NYC 0.14”.

[RU848789]

1 hour ago, RU848789 said:

As of 9 am we have 5.7" otg at 31F and it looks like we'll hit 6"with another half hour of decent snowfall remaining and then some lighter snow after that. Starting to see a little wind bringing diem mini snow avalanches from the trees lol. Here's a pic.

As of 10 am we had 6.3" and then I did my 3rd shovel (so much easier in batches, lol) and as of 10:45 am with the snow winding down we have 6.6"; could get another 0.1" or so based on radar. Huge overperformer from my 5" guesstimate and the 4.5" NWS forecast (and some media forecasts for only 1-3" for our town).

It's so pretty out there - great to finally have a decent snowstorm that was all snow and at/below 32F so it all accumulated. Biggest snowfall since 11.25" on 2/17/24 that was a freak megaband storm; our last "regular" storm with more snow was 7.5" on 1/29/22. Winds are about to pick up and it's going to get quite cold with lows in the mid-teens and it won't get above 32F until Wednesday, so shovel before sunset if you can as the snow was wetter than expected and will freeze solid later.