Monitoring February 4th

What! I was just about to go to sleep!

Honestly I debated doing ‘one last check or not’, of course said yes saw that Frank had posted and said let’s see what’s cooking and next thing I know…we got some nice heavy snow!

Hallelujah!!

Winter ‘21-22. When the Beast Came East!!!

33* moderate to heavy snow, 1/2” otg and BUCKETS of gratitude at GSP Exit 80!!!!

Rb wan, you must be getting blasted out there on the island?!

Ooh. Really nice heavy snow! Hey Sroc- I’ll race you to an inch!! Now the snow is wind blown!! Omg!! I love it!

And to think I was 10 seconds away from turning in early…

Intermittent moderate snow flurries.
25* and EVERYTHING is iced over here in Hillsdale, NE NJ.
Untreated roads, walks are sheets of ice as are cars.
Main roads are fine, they've been salting about every hour.

Mugs, sorry to hear about the conditions up there. Not trying to discount the severity of the danger via my frivolity in any way.

But the frivolity continues. At the coast, we been spending most our lives chasing the Snowman’s paradise! Somebody don’t stop this madness soon, we gonna hit the big 2” like it’s Feb 2020 all over again!

Big flakes still coming down pretty hard. But for now the rate of accumulation isn’t nearly as impressive to match. Figuring another 2 hrs tops, hopefully squeeze 1.5”, maybe 2” out of this surprise round. Maybe a bit more on some already frozen surfaces. Will have to do a more accurate survey in the morning.

Since the temperature went below freezing Thursday evening here in Albany, we had a couple of hours of freezing rain amounting to 0.1 to 0.2 inches of ice, followed a 12 hour period of sleet which accumulated 2-3 inches. Then about 10 hours of steady light snow which accumulated about an inch or so on top of the sleet.

Clearing off my car was quite the challenge with all of this precip types accumulated onto it. I ended up taking a couple of breaks to warm up. Without the breaks, I spent 2-3 hours just clearing off the car, but that's only half the battle. The 3"+ of ice/sleet/snow accumulated on the ground was difficult to shovel. I cleared off some of it but not all of it. We'll see how the crews here at this apartment complex handle this tomorrow.

Currently 12* with a wind chill of 1*. And air temperatures are forecasted below 0 tomorrow night. This cold the next couple of days sure won't help with the icy situation.

Not at all bad out, as of 3:30am walking the dog not a issue and roads are fine, what ever cars were out were doing more then the speed limit..Belleville NJ.

Ended with about 0.4”, just shy of the half inch mark. It all fell in like 15mins which means over an inch an hour rate fell. Was nice to see. Fwiw HRRR was all over that. Snowman good for you brother!  

Yeah, I’m gonna say that the excitement of the moment last night kinda outpaced the moment itself! Lol. Looks like a nice 1/2”, maybe I can justify calling it an inch, but I’ll have to see when I venture out in an hour or so. Either way, a fun way to close out the night for sure!

Hyde it is real bad, We got hit hard but Kingston got hit the hardest. trees everywhere wires down, lost power around 2pm took my family to my parents house who live in Dutchess. Don't expect power for a while just hate the ice give me 2 feet of snow anytime

Finally got my power back, no more ice please it is a mess up here.

Watch this freezing drizzle verify tomorrow morning and catch everyone off-guard

I saw it on TWC forecast. The timing for frozen precipitation is not good! Hope schools are keeping an eye on this!

Give me a snow storm or sleet storm any day of the week over this ice.
Just freed up my driveway today and it was a three hour struggle.
Freezing rain is the only winter precipitation where I’ll choose plain rain.

On a positive note 31 straight days and counting of snow cover here in eastern Orange County. In what has so far been below normal snowfall, currently at 21 inches for the season, I honestly have no complaints. It’s looked and felt like winter for a month straight and that’s what I want out of winter.

Snow cover may take a hit midweek, that remains to be seen. There’s a lot of snow sleet and ice in the 5-6 inches of snow on the ground. I’d guess a LE of at least two inches which means it will be like melting 2 feet of snow. It’s not gonna go easily.

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:Give me a snow storm or sleet storm any day of the week over this ice.
Just freed up my driveway today and it was a three hour struggle.
Freezing rain is the only winter precipitation where I’ll choose plain rain.

On a positive note 31 straight days and counting of snow cover here in eastern Orange County. In what has so far been below normal snowfall, currently at 21 inches for the season, I honestly have no complaints. It’s looked and felt like winter for a month straight and that’s what I want out of winter.

Snow cover may take a hit midweek, that remains to be seen. There’s a lot of snow sleet and ice in the 5-6 inches of snow on the ground. I’d guess a LE of at least two inches which means it will be like melting 2 feet of snow. It’s not gonna go easily.

Pure snow for me, hate sleet and freezing rain.
In this below normal, dry and cold winter, you are right CP, the snowpack up here for a month has made it bearable.If it wasn't for that, I would be grading this winter an F especially with the mild December and "green and mild" Christmas.Went down to Ramsey today, and just some snow piles.There is still ice on the trees and bushes on my property, but nothing down the hill by the Red Apple Rest.Just a few degrees makes a big difference with the elevation.
I think you are right, even though we get to the low 40's, this concrete is not going to budge, and it re freezes every night.A few snow events plus continued cold could get us to the end of February in the snowpack derby,lol.

I'm in a zoning meeting and need to know totals for this storm. Anyone?