Sunday, January 18th Rain Storm

Jeeze Frank look how rediculously heave the rain is to the south, It seems 2 inches may even be too little, man oh man if this were snow sigh.

It's going to be incredibly heavy from 11am-3 pm

13* yesterday morn low temp 25* at 6am this morning and raining now with about 2" expected. this winter so far is the worst winter I have ever experienced (prob because of high expectations) with a horrible dec and 2/3 of jan cold with little snow.

Roads are very bad on Long Island.

Husband is trying to get to Suffolk from Queens and just called to say the LIE and Jericho Turnpike are both closed.

Ouch...

jmanley32 wrote:Wow lol, the one time it ice's and I am not there to report on it, its fine here in CT although we have a advisory too but I do not see why.  Sun even peaking. sroc on that second image you posted that brightest dtrip of white is right over where I am, what does that mean?

It means very rapidly rising air which leads to heavy rain fall rates and the possibility for thunder.

Jeeze on that pic Frank! I am glad I left for CT yesterday and not this morning.

.13" freezing rain, accidents all over, slip&falls all over the place and all ambulances busy on calls.....

i95 Bronx west boarder.

Dont bother drive anywhere N, W, NE of(and including) NYC

Out by me 40*. And no probs. just wet. Man those images are amazing. Hope no one gets seriously injured

40 here to sroc, I think I am kinda across the sound from you in CT.

I just drove into Queens from Nassau on the LIE. Only wet now. No problems. I'm REALLY REALLY concerned about flooding for later and possibly water coming into my basement. It's only raining lightly and theres ponding everywhere. The ground is so frozen the water has no place to go. From the looks of that radar I'm going to be spending a lot of time out in the backyard in my fishing waders.

syosnow94 wrote:I just drove into Queens from Nassau on the LIE.  Only wet now.  No problems.  I'm REALLY REALLY concerned about flooding for later and possibly water coming into my basement.  It's only raining lightly and theres ponding everywhere.  The ground is so frozen the water has no place to go.  From the looks of that radar I'm going to be spending a lot of time out in the backyard in my fishing waders.

james I agree my ground is frozen solid and ponding has already started and rainfall is only going to get heavier. def big flooding concerns for later today.

docstox12 wrote:Precip not even in South Jersey.Don't see this starting until noon up here.By then, it probably will be above freezing,JMHO.

Would rather skip the FR and just plain rain for this.

27 degrees and moderate freezing rain right now. Driveways and roads are like an ice skating rink. Better keep that day job Doc. Oh I forget your retired. You lucky bastard.

Ice ice baby! 32° .26" freezing rain... many slip & falls, ambulances sooo busy!

nws blew this big time most places from cnj north and west away from imm coast will have between .1 and .25" of ice. noticed the winds are still out of the north for most of metro nyc. winds from the south along s and c nj coast where temps are in the upper 40's.

edited nws maps always update from previous maps. do not know why that happens. map should read no ice acc. for most of area as of 10:30 am

update good to have nws on board. they always seem to get it right several hours after an event.lol

Icy, icy here in Circleville NY near tip of Orange County. Fire alarms going off all over the place. Paper says I-95, 287, Palisades, Thruway, etc. essentially shut down (lohud.com) and FaceBook folks say it is all bad everywhere including Route 17. From what I can see and read, this ice thing is for real in a very big way and anyone out this morning got screwed and tattooed. It is enough to keep people home lest they be killed on the roads. It's 10:45 am and all this has unfolded already and the heavy rain hasn't even hit here yet...just icy, light drizzle.

I spun out in Ramsey this morning, a ton of accidents around here. Rain has been falling steady and is starting to pond on the frozen ground.

44° here all morning cold rain. It's was 25° last night woke up at 7am it was42°

dkodgis wrote:Icy, icy here in Circleville NY near tip of Orange County.  Fire alarms going off all over the place.  Paper says I-95, 287, Palisades, Thruway, etc. essentially shut down (lohud.com) and FaceBook folks say it is all bad everywhere including Route 17. From what I can see and read, this ice thing is for real in a very big way and anyone out this morning got screwed and tattooed.  It is enough to keep people home lest they be killed on the roads.  It's 10:45 am and all this has unfolded already and the heavy rain hasn't even hit here yet...just icy, light drizzle.  

That's all it takes.

30.4 now and everything still frozen, although it's up substantially from 25 at 8Am.

0ver 400 accidents reported in nj alone with some fatalities. whoever took down the fzr advisory at the nws for the 4am update should face serious consequences. I mean did they look at observation and they had to know ground was frozen solid. they can't always go by guidance alone. I would love to be in there when they are deciding how to put out a forecast and see there process. obviously it is flawed. rain and 33*.ugh. best way to describe outside my house is that it looks similar to when we get an inch of snow followed by a few hours of rain. very slushy.

Any chance roads will clear later? How about the AM commute tomorrow? Looking at Passaic and Morris counties which are both a total mess now.

Really impressive moisture fetch with this system and a Impressive radar presentation. It should exit the whole area by midnight tonight.

Over half an inch now we should see the 2 inch mark