January 2016 Observations and Discussions

24* Clear very light breeze.

Clear
26.5 °F
Feels Like 26 °F
N
3.0
Wind from NNW
Gusts 4.0 mph

19* winds 7mph...

Clear
19.1 °F
Feels Like 19 °F
N
0.0
Wind Variable
Gusts 2.0 mph

blizzard watch! I love the smell of blizzard in the morning.

6.9 degrees, 82%,30.00 R

Cold air is here but the main area of moisture will be to my S and E.AGAIN,LOL

Enjoy the blizzard Central and Southern/Eastern folks!

Just woke up again and saw temp went down 17* 62 % humidity

18* and clear as the sun gets ready to peak its head out. I suppose at some point today Jonas will begin spreading a layer of high cirrus our way before lowering and thickening to altostratus as he makes his approach.

19* sunny skies

Like many others, I am suspicious of the conservancy's 26.8" hours after the 25.1" measurement.  But let's take it as it is.  CPK is now at 27.2" of snow for January making it the 3rd snowiest January on record and the 8th snowiest MONTH on record.  And three of the seven snowiest months on record have occurred this decade: February 2010 (36.9"), January 2011 (36.0"), and February 2014 (29.0").

As I mentioned earlier today, if this is it for the winter, I would not be too upset.  But it will be interesting as to how the potential upcoming snowstorm plays out.

I suspect the measure ever 6 hrs or so on a snow board. If only a few more inches fell alot of it could of easily blew away..espically since it was a fluffy snow. It'd be nice if considering the historical circumstances they just measured those last few inches right away. It is what it is though. JFK had 30.5, EWR & LGA both couple more inches than CPK.
DC having their measurement called into question but by a larger amount. The airport supposedly admitted to not following NWS standards. Came in several inches less than many surrounding measurements

Does anyone have a link to a radar loop of the entire storm? That would be interesting to see.

WeatherBob wrote:Does anyone have a link to a radar loop of the entire storm?  That would be interesting to see.

This one is okay...
http://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/pa/philadelphia/dix/history/?date=2016-01-22
http://www.wunderground.com/wundermap/?lat=42.2&lon=-75.9&zoom=4&date=2016-01-23&time=00%3A00&tl.play=1&tl.spd=2&tl.dur=24&tl.mode=advanced&rad=1&wxsn=0&svr=0&cams=0&sat=0&riv=0&mm=0&hur=0

Thanks Pete!

16* calm winds with a beautiful snowpack this morning!

14* for my low brr%rrr!!

14*
calm wind
rising barometer 30.22 and a beautiful mantle of white.

15 degrees at the office. Hackettstown Nj

20*

8 degrees, 85% 29.95 R. Clear skies, calm

Saw a beautiful Red Fox jumping through the snow in the backyard.Gorgeous creature!

This is still eating away at me. I've gotta let it go.

The irritating part is the 7pm readings were 24.5 for laguardia, 25.5 for Newark and 25.1 for central park. So after 7pm CPK which is smack in the middle of Newark and LaGuardia had half the snow they did? I watched the radar, it wasn't the case. The Conservancy did a good job with the storm, than dropped the ball at the end. I should keep my mouth shut or they'll bring back the zookeeper, this would have been measured at 19.9 under the old regime.

Newark          28.1
La Guardia      27.9
JFK               30.5
Central Park   26.8

Biggest Snowstorms All Time
Central Park in NYC
(through Jan 22, 2016)
Ranking Amount Year & Date(s)
1      26.9 February 11-12, 2006
2      26.8 January 23, 2016
3      25.8 December 26-27, 1947
4      21.0 March 12-14, 1888
5      20.9 February 25-26, 2010
6      20.2 January 7-8, 1996
7      20.0 December 26-27, 2010
8      19.8 February 16-17, 2003
9      19.0 January 26-27, 2011
10   18.1 March 7-8, 1941
11   18.0 December 26, 1872
12   17.7 February 5-7, 1978
13   17.6 February 11-12, 1983
14   17.5 January 22-24, 1935
15   17.5 February 4-7, 1920
16   17.4 February 3-4, 1961
17   16.0 December 19-20, 1948
18   16.0 February 12-13, 1899
19   15.3 February 9-10, 1969
20   15.2 December 11-12, 1960

Where is Frank's mo mo

Probably waiting for 12z models to put out his momo

jan so far a complete flip from dec...

Remember when the December CFS was showing a blowtorch for January? Such a horrid seasonal model.

algae888 wrote:jan so far a complete flip from dec...

Okay this is nitpicking after half of our area just had 20-35 inches of snow but we are still above average temperature wise for the month although nothing like December but from that map it looks like the northeast is the only area of the country above. I will make that trade off for a monster blizzard, at least for some. ,

39 deg I thought it would go down lower because of all the snow we had

21.5 here. Over 20 degrees warmer than yesterday morning. 88%, 29.78 F  Partly cloudy.

Lot's of melting/refreezing coming.Roadcrews going to be busy on pothole duty eventually.