February 2014 General Observations / Discussions

NjWeatherGuy wrote:

algae888 wrote:

NjWeatherGuy wrote:

Mets2695 wrote:49 here on the Island. Cold front is pushing through now, temps will begin to drop through the 40s and then the final push of arctic air comes with the shortwave this evening and really drops the temps.

You can keep it, wishing the front stalls north of me but it's not going to happen. Models showing it dry due to the PV shearing all the energy and forcing it far south. If it's this cold and dry over warm and dry I'd take warm any moment. Really not excited for bitter cold temperatures again...[/quote]

NJ my forecast highs for this week from Monday thru sat are between 28 and 33*. where is the bitter cold they are talking about? to me bitter is highs in the teens with 20+ mph winds and wind chills 10 below or greater. we are not having any of that this week unless mets are way off base with their forecast. also if temps are this high how far south is the PV going to get. seems confusing to me how PV is pushing the storm track so far S/E.

According from what I am seeing from models it will be colder than forecast unless the sun angle is keeping temps up a bit, the PV is basically right over us which is suppressing the track.

If this setup happened in late Jannuary with snow cove,r NYC would have gone below zero. When the PV comes over Hudson and James Bay right to us that is how we set records for cold. The track of the last two PV's was to far west initally for us to get the coldest air. To much time to modify over the midwest.

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote: this snowpack is now compressed and a solid foot plus of snow and ice that will take weeks to melt off completely.

We took a look at our car, saw it was still over 6 inches of solid ice behind it running almost 6 feet from bumper to street, sighed, and called a cab to take us to the grocery store. A few intrepid souls attacked the ice this morning, but since the iced part is the shady side of the street, when they saw they barely made a dent after 2 or more hours hacking at it they gave up. I think one more car got out today on our block, that was it. While riding to and from the store we saw all but one block was as bad as ours. That one was another 2-way side street like ours, but since it goes directly to the industrial side highway, those cars was towed out, the streets cleaned curb to curb, and the cars returned. I wish they would do that to all the streets!

So now we have our freezer and pantry well stocked again, so we can go another 3-4 weeks without a big grocery store run if we have to, so let it snow all it wants again. It can break all the records now for all I care - Spring thaw is close enough to taste.  

Starting to see a little grass under the trees where my snowpack wasn't as deep.....and finally found a newspaper from Feb. 3rd that has been buried for almost 3 weeks! lol. Still a good 12" snowpack on most of my yard with 2' piles from shoveling....

Wow I have a lot of lawns that are almost bare of snow. Some lawns in the shade have 3-6" on them. How do you have so much more snow than me?

I wish I could take a picand share it on here....let me see.....

https://www.facebook.com/janet.f.dunn?ref=tn_tnmn

easiest way to do this I guess....

Today reached a high of 56. Current snowpack status is 3-6" in areas that get the most sun, backyard which is out of sun snow is still 8-12"+ in several areas.

Quickly down to 41 after a high of 60 earlier today. Interior areas still of CNJ still very warm.

26* and clear skies. One of the local Mets was asked by one of the anchor people would things start to warm up in March.
He gave a definitive No. He said it would probably be below average temps for the first 3 weeks of the month. Hopefully we
can get a few snow events before our season comes to an end.

Update temp dropped to 24* now. Ah, winter has returned. Lol.

Lots of snow pack left, but mostly UGLY and dirty - yes the yards are white still, but really need a refresher to whiten the piles and the roadsides…30.2* this morning

Last night was nothing here, probably rained, anyway realized I forgot to post about my storm chase on 2/21, what happened was it was the most eerie thing ever, went about 6 miles north where the strongest cell was supposed to hit. Fog was very dense and it was cold, all of a sudden the sky got a very dark brown color suddenly and it started pouring harder than Ive seen in a long time, it got very windy and there was lightning and thunder, fog was still there but began blowing to the west. About 15 lightning strikes later and a while of heavy rain it pulled to the east fast and according to radar began to weaken as it ran into the cold air. Fog only lifted after the storms passed, was very weird and eerie.

Could be a snow shower tomorrow afternoon.

Snow showers tomorrow afternoon and again on Wednesday morning. Coatings to an inch possible between both events. Nothing crazy. Then again on Saturday morning. Yay for flurries!

The snow showers won't be the biggest story. The cold will. Saturday morning temps will only be in the teens

11* and cloudy skies with a calm wind.

Frank, you are amazing, if my eyes do not deceive me the Euro has a storm, albeit not as strong as shown last week on the 1-2nd going from central US and off the coast right near benchmark.  Did you not say it would start showing this again Tuesday/Wed (today/tomorrow), your just amazing.  And if I am wrong your still amazing lol.

Very light flurries here.

Flurries here too neighbor!

Same here, 19 and light flurries.

Temp this morning in Hillsdale,NNJ at 6:30AM was 16.5* - BRRR! More Polar Vortex is showing some muscle.

Got a quick burst of heavy snow on the northern edge of this disturbance to our south.

Sunny here in the Bronx! Cold though, back to ol' man winter. Hoping we can get something interesting out of this. 3rd looks interesting, are we going to start a thread for it?

Second thought probably still a bit early for a thread on that yet.

28 was my high today after a morning low of 12.

Already on it's way back down, 27 now.

No snow melt today even in sunny areas. What's on the ground now is not going anywhere quickly. Lot's of snow and ice compacted into the foot or so that remains.

Snow showers possible again this morning

15* and a light snow flurry.

21* and cloudy got down to 16.2* last night

Okay Bill Evans said this morning - this pattern is not going anywhere for the next 2-3 weeks easily and anything that comes our way will be snow - just accept it and boys and girls i have the lunch menu for July- LMAO!!