The Allsnow Blizzard of 2026

[Cobalt]

8 hours ago, dmillz25 said:

Central Park 19.7”

One inch for every snowman, how poetic.

[Rjay]

1 hour ago, liwxfan said:

Not even close to 2013 in north central suffolk.  Thought this had a chance but fell pretty short.  This was a great storm tho. 

North shore was a little rough in central Suffolk 

[dmillz25]

21.1” total. 45.8” season to date. A- winter for me

[Rjay]

26 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

The last time I was in a 20”+ snowstorm at my house was probably PDII 2003. Boxing Day 2010 was close, may have been 20” in Long Beach but I think the local observer had 18”. Where I live now generally does well in the winter and gets the higher end but never jackpots in a big storm. 

Being in Texas for 2016 sucks but at least you know for sure there will be a big one in 2036.

[NorthShoreWx]

6 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Long Beach by the photos got 20” easy today and had heavy echos lingering around there for hours. Unfortunately the sound enhancement favored just the south shore today like Jan 2022. 

I'm not sure it was sound enhancement.  It had the appearance of the opposite.  Bands came down through CT, vaporized over the sound and regenerated within spitting distance south of here, as if we had a dome overhead.  I suspect the meteorological explanation for this would be fascinating.

[allgame830]

Damn did 4 houses today with my son! Hard labor! 3 more tomorrow! Big money to be made out there with these storms! 

[Rjay]

23 minutes ago, NorthShoreWx said:

This!

The only 20 inchers since I've been here (since 1995) are 1/1996 (22") and 2/2013 (27").  A bunch of near misses though, including today.

Boxing day was 12" here, PDII was 19".

Funny thing about '96 is I don't think I had 20" with that one while almost everyone else did. I was a young teen and it was my largest snowstorm at the time.  My area never jackpotted anything.  So naturally I moved to the place that had 13" of rain in 3 hours and that gets hit hard by every CCB.

[jm1220]

16 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Being in Texas for 2016 sucks but at least you know for sure there will be a big one in 2036.

Yep. I’ll set my alarm for it. Seriously, missing this sucked but 17” IMBY isn’t historic. That’s about what I got on 2/1/21, another storm where I did well but not the jackpot. 

[jm1220]

14 minutes ago, Rjay said:

Funny thing about '96 is I don't think I had 20" with that one while almost everyone else did. I was a young teen and it was my largest snowstorm at the time.  My area never jackpotted anything.  So naturally I moved to the place that had 13" of rain in 3 hours and that gets hit hard by every CCB.

When I lived in Austin it was the rain jackpot. May 2015 was the most rain I’ve ever seen in a 30 day period in my life. October 2015 from the Patricia remnants most I saw in a day. And the severe weather was bad. I was in Austin on Memorial Day weekend and JUST missed a massive hailstorm that hit the east side of town-2 foot hail drifts. I flew out 3 hours before it hit. 

[dmillz25]

Just saw that Fall River, MA got 41” ?! Wow

[Nibor]

2 minutes ago, dmillz25 said:

Just saw that Fall River, MA got 41” ?! Wow

I believe it. Southeast mass just been getting brutalized by this storm. 

[Nibor]

Full storm radar

[psv88]

Sucks I missed this one. Going with local reports of 24” in Commack, so 56.8” of snow on the season. Not bad!

[jm1220]

9 minutes ago, psv88 said:

Sucks I missed this one. Going with local reports of 24” in Commack, so 56.8” of snow on the season. Not bad!

Argh. Can’t be 17” that I missed here vs 24” you missed there. I’ll take the conservative I guess. 

[psv88]

6 minutes ago, jm1220 said:

Argh. Can’t be 17” that I missed here vs 24” you missed there. I’ll take the conservative I guess. 

Tight gradient in western Suffolk. Babylon got 28-30”. I’m confident Commack was 24” range based on reports from Nws, friends, family. Those snow bands hugged the LIE and maybe 2 miles north of there. 

[Roger Smith]

Daily climate reports are out now, no changes in earlier (in some cases questioned) totals except that annoyingly EWR is up by 0.1" (17.1" 23rd now for 25.2" storm). This means several minutes of needless work over in the contest thread.

I don't know what to say about NYC staying at 19.7" unless it's some voodoo logic like we cleared the board at 4 p.m., measured, and then by 7 p.m. there was nothing on the board that we could see from a distance. Any kind of logic would tell you the earlier 10.9 daily (+8.8 22nd) should be raised towards 12" and a 20.8" storm total. But whatever, it is what it is (not).