Storm potential January 17th-18th

[psv88]

Radar lighting up again for city/east

[NorthShoreWx]

19 minutes ago, Blizzardo said:

I'm just curious... When y'all measure your snow.... How do you differentiate between .8" and .75 or just 1.0 for that matter? What are we using to measure snowflakes with such precision? 

I'm usually in 16ths of an inch or millimeters if I'm feeling adventurous; I have more than one ruler in my quiver.  There's a wee bit of rounding in converting to tenths of an inch.  I don't do quarters, so a full .75" would be .8".  An eighth of an inch is .1"  5 millimeters is .2"

[Nibor]

29 minutes ago, Blizzardo said:

I'm just curious... When y'all measure your snow.... How do you differentiate between .8" and .75 or just 1.0 for that matter? What are we using to measure snowflakes with such precision? 

Get yourself a westcott ruler

[NorthShoreWx]

22 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Radar lighting up again for city/east

It's not the second coming of the blizzard of '78, but we might squeeze out another 2 or 3 tenths after midnight.

[NorthShoreWx]

1 minute ago, Nibor said:

Get yourself a westcott ruler

It's hard to find one where the scale starts at the end of the ruler.  There's usually a gap before the 0-line.  Of course you can measure the gap and remember to add it... pretty simple if it's = 0.1", but a bit of a pain for measuring small amounts if the gap is any larger.  It is possible to think way too hard about this and I have allowed myself that luxury.

[dmillz25]

1” Central Park. So 2” total over the weekend there

[Nibor]

7 minutes ago, dmillz25 said:

1” Central Park. So 2” total over the weekend there