Clipper System Tuesday 1/6, Frigid Temps. 1/7 - 1/9

What a lousy commute (Suffolk into Nassau)!!!. Whiteout conditions & roads very slippery. I skid right past my turn and was only going about 15 mph.

Issued by The National Weather Service
New York City, NY
Fri, Jan 9, 6:53 am EST
A BAND OF MODERATE TO LOCALLY HEAVY SNOW WILL MOVE EAST ACROSS PORTIONS OF THE LOWER HUDSON VALLEY... SOUTHWEST CONNECTICUT... THE NEW YORK CITY METROPOLITAN AREA... AND WESTERN LONG ISLAND BETWEEN NOW AND 9 AM. THE SNOW WILL ACCUMULATE QUICKLY ON ROADS... AND SOME LOCATIONS WITHIN THIS BAND COULD RECEIVE A QUICK INCH OF ACCUMULATION IN A HALF HOUR. THIS PLUS WINDS GUSTING TO 25 TO 35 MPH WILL RESULT IN BRIEF WHITEOUT CONDITIONS... CAUSING VERY HAZARDOUS TRAVEL CONDITIONS.

All done here... 1.25" nice!

this was my daughters first time driving in the snow as she got her license in june. she drives to school in white plains about 12 miles away usually a 25 min ride. well she just got their (thank god) safely and only took her an hour and twenty mins.

syosnow94 wrote:Just got to work.  1 hour commute instead of usual 20 minutes.  Snow started at 7:25 and now at 8:29 officially 2.2 inches here on Nassau/Queens border and still coming down heavy.  Plows are out on the Long Island Expressway.  Awesome!!!

LI FTW on this one - eastern end may get blizzard like conditions with this and winds gusted to 40mph - woo hooo!!

Got a coating out here....

algae888 wrote:I just don't get it as the five major airports as of 8am have less than .3" of qpf yet most people on weather websites are reporting anywhere from 1 to 2.5".  something is very wrong. and I do not follow tv mets at all but radio mets are still calling for a coating to an inch of snow. do they ever go outside to make an observation?

They don't care Al and unless I or someone else bug them incessantly they don't care if they get it right even though they acknowledge in e-mails they know the measurements are wrong. I've grown tired of the fight it's time for a younger man to take the reins.

I nominate Mike alias Math, or noreaster if he's still around.

Maybe we all need to start a movement on social media, How about "Occupy the Idiot", OTI for short like our imaginary Island.

algae888 wrote:I just don't get it as the five major airports as of 8am have less than .3" of qpf yet most people on weather websites are reporting anywhere from 1 to 2.5".  something is very wrong. and I do not follow tv mets at all but radio mets are still calling for a coating to an inch of snow. do they ever go outside to make an observation?

All they care about is getting the birds off the ground an din the air - they could give a shit about how much snow is measured to be quite frank after talking to a PA official I know - so like the CP Zoo keeper they need a kick in the pants!!

Very heavy snow out here on the Island. Salters are out and roads are terrible.

algae888 wrote:

aiannone wrote:About to start here on LI. How much did NYC get? Looks like this will require salt/sand in parking lots right?

I am approaching 2" and snowing hard. and very windy. rgem nailed this.

Nothing like an over achiever. 15mins and close to 0.3" in Wading River. And you got that right Al about the RGEM.

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:

algae888 wrote:I just don't get it as the five major airports as of 8am have less than .3" of qpf yet most people on weather websites are reporting anywhere from 1 to 2.5".  something is very wrong. and I do not follow tv mets at all but radio mets are still calling for a coating to an inch of snow. do they ever go outside to make an observation?

They don't care Al and unless I or someone else bug them incessantly they don't care if they get it right even though they acknowledge in e-mails they know the measurements are wrong. I've grown tired of the fight it's time for a younger man to take the reins.

I nominate Mike alias Math, or noreaster if he's still around.

Maybe we all need to start a movement on social media, How about "Occupy the Idiot", OTI for short like our imaginary Island.

Well since CPK entering today was at 1.7" for the season (still can't understand the 0.5" from Tuesday when I got 1.2" nearly 15 miles away..) I just hope we at least get out of the bottom spot that is the winter of 1972-73 which had 2.8" of snow the entire winter.

sroc4 wrote:

algae888 wrote:

aiannone wrote:About to start here on LI. How much did NYC get? Looks like this will require salt/sand in parking lots right?

I am approaching 2" and snowing hard. and very windy. rgem nailed this.

Nothing like an over achiever. 15mins and close to 0.3" in Wading River.  And you got that right Al about the RGEM.  

COMING YOUR WAY sroc4. EASY 2.5 coming your way in under an hour and a half. Enjoy

syosnow94 wrote:

sroc4 wrote:

algae888 wrote:

aiannone wrote:About to start here on LI. How much did NYC get? Looks like this will require salt/sand in parking lots right?

I am approaching 2" and snowing hard. and very windy. rgem nailed this.

Nothing like an over achiever. 15mins and close to 0.3" in Wading River.  And you got that right Al about the RGEM.  

COMING YOUR WAY sroc4. EASY 2.5 coming your way in under an hour and a half.  Enjoy

WERD!

Near whiteout conditions at times commute on Bx river was a nightmare but not one accident thank goodness.  I think easily areawide 1-3 inches, not in yonkers anymore but we had to have 2 or more. Frank u busted on this one heh, oh well I do not think anyone expected that line to hold together that intense (which was awesome, but not the drive). Done snowing now here in S. Bronx.

This has got to be thermodynamically driven enhancement

Whatever it is sroc its wildly more than I expected to see, it wasn't snowing and then I looked out to see blizzard like conditions there was not even a flurry start it was just boom.

sroc4 wrote:This has got to be thermodynamically driven enhancement

Some Atlantic moisture seems to be getting involved with the SW flow.

sroc4 wrote:This has got to be thermodynamically driven enhancement

yes scott as per steve d video this morning 850's had some serious waa going on. 2m temps rose to near 40 at Montauk from teens last night. 500mb low is back in ohio along with cold front which should come through this afternoon. they (500mb low and cold front) had little influence in our snow this morning. that's why having arctic air down here is a major player for snow. if temps were near normal we would have had rain today.

2in here in St. James, LI

aiannone wrote:2in here in St. James, LI

2" here as well. Now let's hope the zookeeper thinks so as well.

2" here

2.25 inches here that makes 5 inches for the month I'm above normal for my area and the nice three inch snow pack hoping to add more this coming week. by the way Central Park ended up with .7 inches.

Sun out and cold now - LI in spots may see 3" and even 4" over Eastern End with Atlantic getting involved IMO

algae888 wrote:2.25 inches here that makes 5 inches for the month I'm above normal for my area and the nice three inch snow pack hoping to add more this coming week. by the way Central Park ended up with .7 inches.

That's insane, but not surprising.

30 year and 145 year average for January in CPK is 7.1 and 7.6. I'm sure you're average is a little higher than that Al. Unless you meant your above average at this point in the month?

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:

algae888 wrote:2.25 inches here that makes 5 inches for the month I'm above normal for my area and the nice three inch snow pack hoping to add more this coming week. by the way Central Park ended up with .7 inches.

That's insane, but not surprising.

30 year and 145 year average for January in CPK is 7.1 and 7.6.  I'm sure you're average is a little higher than that Al. Unless you meant your above average at this point in the month?

Yes I'm above average so far. we're only 9 days in. I'm not sure what my average is but I'm assuming about 3 inches higher than Central Park so should be about 10 inches for the month. I'm halfway there.

algae888 wrote:

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:

algae888 wrote:2.25 inches here that makes 5 inches for the month I'm above normal for my area and the nice three inch snow pack hoping to add more this coming week. by the way Central Park ended up with .7 inches.

That's insane, but not surprising.

30 year and 145 year average for January in CPK is 7.1 and 7.6.  I'm sure you're average is a little higher than that Al. Unless you meant your above average at this point in the month?

Yes I'm above average so far. we're only 9 days in. I'm not sure what my average is but I'm assuming about 3 inches higher than Central Park so should be about 10 inches for the month. I'm halfway there.

For sure, no monster storms this month but so far January is blowing away a dead December. I'll take it in small doses it all counts.

That 0.7 in the Park is nuts.

Guaranteed the Central Park Zookeeper measures low snow amounts on purpose just to piss you guys off. He probably trolls on this sight and does it intentionally. Don't even pay attention.