Monitoring February 4th

down to 36.7* here. Question is do temps plummet to 34-35 and stay there or do we get to below freezing and have ice

INSANE GRADIENT!!

Pretty bad here! still have power but hearing many don't in Ulster, 27 freezing rain and some ice pellets as well very icy and winds picking up not good.

aiannone wrote:down to 36.7* here. Question is do temps plummet to 34-35 and stay there or do we get to below freezing and have ice

It's going to take into the mid/late afternoon to go below freezing I think for most folks. The cold air is oozing as opposed to blasting through compliments of the close proximity storm. By that time precip won't have much longer to go. The ponded water on the ground will definitely freeze at night and that will be hazard.

Cold Air HV Draining

As many have noted temperatures are quickly crashing and there's still a decent amont of precip left to fall.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~mnissenbaum/RadarArchive/KDIX/loop.html

The near-surface temps are at or below freezing across NW and extreme NNJ, and obviously already below freezing N&W of NYC.



Real-time obs show freezing rain falling in those areas, as indicated by the #2



The freezing rain line will probably sag a bit more south, but precip should shut off by Noon

25 with a mix of sleet and ZR. Very icy with about an inch of sleet also.

wow we dropped to 37* in 3 hours...raining hard right now..so sad no snow left..just mud..

Went over to sleet ,thank God. 29 degrees.

Sleet coming down on top of ice from freezing rain roads are real bad.

30* with mostly sleet right now

Dropped like a rock from 51 to 38 and have only budged 1 degree UP in the last 2 hours to 39 here in Deer Park

Hovering at 32* and just plain rain so far. 1.5" of rain since yesterday, the yard is a sloppy mess.

SPC seems to think even NYC will get in on the icing soon enough...

Frank_Wx wrote:As many have noted temperatures are quickly crashing and there's still a decent amont of precip left to fall.

http://moe.met.fsu.edu/~mnissenbaum/RadarArchive/KDIX/loop.html

The near-surface temps are at or below freezing across NW and extreme NNJ, and obviously already below freezing N&W of NYC.



Real-time obs show freezing rain falling in those areas, as indicated by the #2



The freezing rain line will probably sag a bit more south, but precip should shut off by Noon

Here’s an update on the freezing line. Hasn’t really moved south that much…

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I can confirm that Frank, been stuck at 32* for a while now.

Most folks dodged a bullet today w.r.t. icing. Hopefully for those that got iced they keep their power and remain safe. Ice is no joke...

Look at how close this is to something MUCH bigger ice wise as the HV has been getting hit pretty good. IF this was 25 -30 miles or even 50 miles more south there'd be really big problems and it was quicker coming in.

Rough situation in the Hudson Valley, with ~600 outages ongoing (~50K people). While we're waiting for more ice observations to come in, @nysmesonet estimates highlight the peak outage zone with ~.7" flat ice (~.3" radial). This is often an outage inflection point. #nywx pic.twitter.com/XD8XbG4PSO

— Nick P Bassill (@NickPBassill) February 4, 2022

SoulSingMG wrote:SPC seems to think even NYC will get in on the icing soon enough...

SPC alerts are the KOD for NENJ whether severe weather or winter weather. We have been hovering around 32* for the last few hours, now up to 33*. I think we'll just see the refreeze here overnight.

23 and falling with wintry Mix, tried going to store roads are real icy.

Hillsborough NJ the temp dropped like a rock from 54° at 6:30am down to 37 at 9am but is now back up to 38.

Unfortunately this miserable dreary crap will be with us for several more hours. Won't be particularly heavy, but just enough to be miserable. A fitting end to this storm.

Deer Park has restarted the temperature drop. Down from 39.1 to 37.2 in about 7 minutes

22 with light ZR and sleet. It's a mess out there.

My workplace up in FairLawn closed up at noon. I drove home in a cold rain. I think my boss jumped the gun with her decision to close early.