Impressive. What about the snow?9” on my driveway in Summit
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Impressive. What about the snow?9” on my driveway in Summit
So after finishing up poker around 1 am, I went out and shoveled while it was snowing mostly lightly (had sleet before then) and finished around 3 am. We got about another 1" from 11-3 for a probable final tally of 7.0", which matches up well with the 6.5-7.5" amounts I've seen in northern Middlesex County; we did get 12-16" drifts, lol. Not quite the 8-12" range I was thinking for the 95 corridor, but not that far off either. Was certainly a fun storm to track and enjoy. I had cleared the board at 11 pm and we got about 1/2" of sleet and a 1/2" of snow, which would've been about 2" if all snow (which would've been 8" total). Yeah a foot would've been nice, but I got almost as much as all last winter, so i'm pretty happy.
Was interesting to see how many of the areas predicted to get maybe 1-3/2-4", like much of SNJ near Philly (which got 6.3") and northern Ocean and much of Monmouth County ended up getting 4-7", so those areas overperformed while the 95 corridor underperformed a fair amount vs. the NWS forecasts, but weren't too bad vs. the 6-12" forecasts many had and I'm pretty sure @RUJohnny and the WW folks got it pretty close (can't recall, but I think they both said 4-8").
And the areas NW of 95 and well NW that were forecast to get 12-18" (and up to 20" in spots) busted pretty badly as I've only seen a few reports over 10" with only the Poconos getting over 12". The 8-14" for NYC/LI busted moderately, as they mostly got 4-8" with Central Park getting 6.5", more than last winter. Turns out that it wasn't really the sleet that got us nearly as much as simply not getting the precip, as very few locations got over 1" liquid, when 1.5" or more was expected. The areas that got all the precip were huge swaths of central/northern PA and much of NY from Binghamton to Albany, where many locations got over 20" of snow (and some places got 30").
Some folks may still pick up another inch or so (we're getting some light snow still). And yes, my back is killng me, lol - this is why I usually shovel every 3-4" and not all at once...
I live north of Boston near the New Hampshire line--we have about 16 inches of snow and it's still coming down hard......... temperature is 20 degrees
thats what I used to call a soul-crusher 😩My friend up in Binghamton just sent me a shot of his snowblower, he's got over 3 feet and his snowblower only has a 20" cut.
He needs a better snowblowerMy friend up in Binghamton just sent me a shot of his snowblower, he's got over 3 feet and his snowblower only has a 20" cut.
+1 - overhyped, underperformed.Busty bust
That's what she said...+1 - overhyped, underperformed.
41 freakin' inches!My friend up in Binghamton just sent me a shot of his snowblower, he's got over 3 feet and his snowblower only has a 20" cut.
Big bust if you go by the forecast 3 days out. The local news nailed it 24 hours out. 3-6 in the Philly local area. So happy I didn't shovel last night like my neighbor. We had sleet, rain and back to snow. His sidewalks are thick ice skating rinks! Mine all the frozen on top, soft snow below.+1 - overhyped, underperformed.
930am in Sayreville it was still accumulating, figured we got about 8"Still snowing lightly in Holmdel.
For some locations, not others - was a mixed bag. With the 2-4" overnight for many in Hudson/NYC/LI, it looks like the 8-14" NWS-NYC forecast will verify nicely, given the following reports: Bronx with 12.6", CPK with 10", EWR with 11", Harrison with 9.7", and LGA with 9.2" (and plenty of 7-10" reports on LI). For Union, Essex, Bergen and Passaic, which had a 12-17" forecast, it was a mild bust with most reports this morning in the 8-12" range (EWR with 11", Elizabeth with 9" and some others), given the overnight snow.Busty bust
He needs a better snowblower
This...why people wait to do it all at once is puzzling...unless you have teens and can direct them to do it all...then who cares!Or snowblow twice. First one in the middle of the storm.
Looks like he’s building himself a nice little snow fort at the end of his driveway. That way, he can make snowballs and hide out, waiting for people to walk by in the road, so he can nail ‘em in the back of the head, then duck down out of sight, stifling his evil giggles.My friend up in Binghamton just sent me a shot of his snowblower, he's got over 3 feet and his snowblower only has a 20" cut.
Loooooong, dark and cold winter ahead for those folks! 😱Looks like he’s building himself a nice little snow fort at the end of his driveway. That way, he can make snowballs and hide out, waiting for people to walk by in the road, so he can nail ‘em in the back of the head, then duck down out of sight, stifling his evil giggles.
I personally would never do such a thing, being the deeply respectful and mature person I am. But that’s what I imagine they do for fun in upstate NY.
I learned that lesson long ago. Unless it starts out with ice/sleet, let it all come down so that the ice/sleet is just a crust over the snow. Way easier to clear away, as opposed to having to chip away at a hardened shell of ice on paved surfaces or decks/porches.So happy I didn't shovel last night like my neighbor. We had sleet, rain and back to snow. His sidewalks are thick ice skating rinks! Mine all the frozen on top, soft snow below.
One more page and we would have the same number of pages that some people predicted we would get in snow totals in parts of NJ. How much snow did you get under your bed ?23 pages for 6 inches of snow?! Must be some kind of board record.
+1I had a winter storm warning in my area which text of the alert said 12-20 inches.
I got 5.5...its a mammoth bust
You will have to put it in the fine print that in the event of mixed precipitation, pricing will be based on the snow equivalent of the fallen sleet and freezing rain using the standard 10:1 snow:liquid ratio.I wonder if I told the owners of my commercial lots that we were going to get over a foot like someone on here if I still can charge them for clearing 1 foot even if we only got 5 inches.? lolololol
One more page and we would have the same number of pages that some people predicted we would get in snow totals in parts of NJ. How much snow did you get under your bed ?
Every snowfall map since Tuesday morning has had your area of southern Somerset in their 8-12" band (all posted in this thread), so 5.5" is still a bust, but not a mammoth one. And the zone text product for Somerset from their 4 am Weds morning package is below and it says 10-14", but there are notoriously incomplete, which is why 99% of the world uses the snowfall map.I had a winter storm warning in my area which text of the alert said 12-20 inches.
I got 5.5...its a mammoth bust
That's not accurate. The WAA between 700 and 800mb was surging up the coastal plain. The H7 circulation center was way out by Harrisburg when parts of NJ flipped to sleet.What I don't understand is how East/NENJ/NYC had less sleet than Somerset, Hunterdon, and Morris counties despite their closer proximity to the coast. The WAA was rotating in off the warm ocean waters so how did it jump over the coastal regions and settle in more interior areas?
He needed to come out of the locker room at half timeHe needs a better snowblower