OBS and Totals-12/13-14 Snow Event

[dmillz25]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Tri-State snowfall map is going up tomorrow if anyone has any totals from NJ/NY that they want included let me know @IrishRob17 @psv88. Probably do a season to date map this week as well so lmk your seasonal snowfall total to date. 

4.3” Williamsburg, Brooklyn storm and season total

[IrishRob17]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Tri-State snowfall map is going up tomorrow if anyone has any totals from NJ/NY that they want included let me know @IrishRob17 @psv88. Probably do a season to date map this week as well so lmk your seasonal snowfall total to date. 

4.1" for this event bringing my season total to 8.6"

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

1 hour ago, The 4 Seasons said:

Tri-State snowfall map is going up tomorrow if anyone has any totals from NJ/NY that they want included let me know @IrishRob17 @psv88. Probably do a season to date map this week as well so lmk your seasonal snowfall total to date. 

5.1 from the recent storm, 8.2 inches for the season. Highland Mills NY in Orange County.

Thanks for doing this. Your stuff is great, we all appreciate all the time you put into this.

[Stormlover74]

 

 

[CPcantmeasuresnow]

37 minutes ago, Stormlover74 said:

 

 

An interesting Map.

In close proximity Due north, south, east and west of Central Park we see 5.3 inches to the north, 6.5 to the south, 6.9 to the east and 6.6 to the west.

NWS - "Hey Conservancy at Central Park, how much did you guys get"?

Conservancy - "We weren't paying attention but put down 2.9 inches". 

NWS - "How did you guys get that total?"

Conservancy "Well we recorded 1.1 inch at 7 am when a local news station went to the park at 7:30 and measured 3 inches. Then at 1PM after the snow had ended and compressed for a few hours we recorded 2.7 inches, at 7PM, we recorded 2.7 again and then in the daily update at 1am we thought maybe it was 2.9 inches so put that down". 

NWS - "Thanks for your hard work everyone, very scientific".

[jm1220]

59 minutes ago, CPcantmeasuresnow said:

An interesting Map.

In close proximity Due north, south, east and west of Central Park we see 5.3 inches to the north, 6.5 to the south, 6.9 to the east and 6.6 to the west.

NWS - "Hey Conservancy at Central Park, how much did you guys get"?

Conservancy - "We weren't paying attention but put down 2.9 inches". 

NWS - "How did you guys get that total?"

Conservancy "Well we recorded 1.1 inch at 7 am when a local news station went to the park at 7:30 and measured 3 inches. Then at 1PM after the snow had ended and compressed for a few hours we recorded 2.7 inches, at 7PM, we recorded 2.7 again and then in the daily update at 1am we thought maybe it was 2.9 inches so put that down". 

NWS - "Thanks for your hard work everyone, very scientific".

Something should be done and should've been done for years. Have a dedicated NWS observer there who will measure properly or take the obs someplace else. I can understand parts of the city having less because they struggled with temps for a while but that's just ludicrous how on TV there was clearly 3" with snow still coming down at a good clip and temps falling. JFK right on Jamaica Bay struggled with temps too and came in with 4.6". I showed pics of my neighborhood to a relative in FL yesterday and they were stunned about how much fell where I am vs "I heard the city only had 2". It's ridiculous.

[Stormlover74]

[Nibor]

Wonder if any of our board members near the park are willing to make “alternative” measurements for future snowfalls. I think someone has in the past. 

[wthrmn654]

Just glad my wind sensor broke few of the ice last night eventually 

[RU848789]

Another good map below. I thought the NWS forecast was pretty good, comparing the final NWS snowfall forecast map from about 3 pm Saturday (time stamp says 10 pm, but that's just the one I grabbed at the time) to the actual snowfall map.  

IMO, that's a pretty good forecast. It had the maximum amounts along 95 and in south/central interior NJ and eastern LI right (even if a bit under-forecast) and had lesser amounts for far SENJ right, but it was a fair amount under for areas N of 78 and especially for Sussex/Poconos/Hudson Valley; however, they at least had 2-4" amounts for those NW/N areas unlike many other forecasters who had them around 1" or so and even had the 95 corridor at only 1-3".  

In the big picture, the take home message was a moderate (2-4") to perhaps significant (4-8") snowstorm for most of the Philly-NJ-NYC region and that's what we got.

 

[Big Jims Videos]

The 8-9 inch amounts along the 195 corridor was a nice positive bust for a change. 

[jm1220]

28 minutes ago, RU848789 said:

Another good map below. I thought the NWS forecast was pretty good, comparing the final NWS snowfall forecast map from about 3 pm Saturday (time stamp says 10 pm, but that's just the one I grabbed at the time) to the actual snowfall map.  

IMO, that's a pretty good forecast. It had the maximum amounts along 95 and in south/central interior NJ and eastern LI right (even if a bit under-forecast) and had lesser amounts for far SENJ right, but it was a fair amount under for areas N of 78 and especially for Sussex/Poconos/Hudson Valley; however, they at least had 2-4" amounts for those NW/N areas unlike many other forecasters who had them around 1" or so and even had the 95 corridor at only 1-3".  

In the big picture, the take home message was a moderate (2-4") to perhaps significant (4-8") snowstorm for most of the Philly-NJ-NYC region and that's what we got.

 

The map looks a little low on parts of LI especially Nassau, numerous 6” reports there.