2.75" at 9 am and it's dropped to 30F - moderate to occasionally heavy snow...6" is a lock here and hopefully more...
OT: RAIN TO SNOW OVERNIGHT INTO THURSDAY 4-8 INCHES FOR MOST
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Live in Howell, work in Freehold. Route 9 was messy but not too terrible, although I can't see that lasting. Secondary roads are covered and got a call from Howell last night that they have a salt shortage so cleaning up the roads will not be an easy task
Snowing good now in North Brunswick - was just out walking and it is about an inch plus, but it is a very wet snow with the rain underneath. Recommend people definitely shovel this asap as was said before.
delete - dupe - system was saying it didn't post - this board technology just sucks...
This post was edited on 3/5 9:41 AM by RU848789
This post was edited on 3/5 9:41 AM by RU848789
Followed your advice, but even though it was steady rain out here at the shore, no slush underneath. I'm hanging inside and will hit the driveway with the snow blower when it stops.
That's my impression, too, from what happened last winter. BTW, Rutgers-Camden has now closed until 5 p.m. I am at the campus and am heading home.
Absolutely looks like the death band from Philly to Trenton to about Hazlet - people must be getting 2" per hour snows there - just missing to my south, damn. Snowing moderately here - time to go back outside for a bit...
This post was edited on 3/5 9:45 AM by RU848789
This post was edited on 3/5 9:45 AM by RU848789
2.5 here in Belle Mead but treated surfaces are faring better reducing accumulation in those spots.
Snow isn't all that heavy. I always laugh at the reports of heavy snow on the weenie board for virtually every snow even. Its in the light to moderate range. There were some heavy bands in southern Middlesex and Mercer into Monmouth Counties, I think from their south is where the heaviest axis of snowfall will be located to south jersey.
Just a slower steady event today rather than a quick 4-5 inch thump like we got from a few systems this year.
Snow isn't all that heavy. I always laugh at the reports of heavy snow on the weenie board for virtually every snow even. Its in the light to moderate range. There were some heavy bands in southern Middlesex and Mercer into Monmouth Counties, I think from their south is where the heaviest axis of snowfall will be located to south jersey.
Just a slower steady event today rather than a quick 4-5 inch thump like we got from a few systems this year.
I was excited to talk meteorology with a met from TV, with a met degree, so I asked him a few questions about snow microphysics (snow crystal nucleation via supersaturation in the dendritic growth zone, followed by, largely vapor phase deposition-driven growth on those ice nuclei to form snowflakes), which is an area I know a lot about, since the physical-chemical processes are very similar to processes I've worked with in organic synthesis with organic molecule crystallization. He basically said he wasn't real knowledgable about that topic (way less than I was) and was more of a "forecaster" who knows models and basic science. He also was less familiar with building dynamic 3-D fluid dynamics (weather is an example) than I was. I would've expected a degreed meterologist to know more about these things. Doesn't mean he might not be a good forecaster, but other mets I've spoken to kind of cringe at the guys who don't know the underlying science real well.
but he made it to tv and its not like he is the most attractive man so he didn't get the job on his looks so he has to have made himself proficient in forecasting. Doesn't seem like he is a snow weenie, what I find on americanwx is some people are looking for ways for it to snow and get the most snow...rather than being objective. Yes its a snow lovers but I always like posters like Gaines and Martin on the Philly board because they cover all bases on what can go right and wrong.
meanwhile I love me some Amy Freeze...does she have a a degree or not?
I wussed out and stayed home today even though I'm in Clifton. Could have easily went to work in Morris Plains but I just had no confidence in the evening rush hour. After the nightmare of Tuesday night I'm in no mood to chance going through that again. The forecasts for up here between the weather sites and the news guys had to wide a spectrum for me to feel confident.
I saw some of the short term models had snows going in nyc until 7...I think the heaviest stuff is going to go until mid afternoon at least and then some lighter stuff, you are up north so that might help somewhat as you should avoid the heavy banding. Just have to watch the radar for any movement but we seem to have a long way to go..a steady long duration snow
Maybe its microphysics and failure of the dendritic growth zone of the thread. That's what the MILFS at the Hillsboro deli are sayin.
He's not a fan of snow (I asked). I love the objective guys, too (the NWS guys and other pros, like Gaines, Rainshadow, famartin, jconsor, jbenedet, ORH, from the New England forum, usedtobe and more are the best and non-pros like donaldsutherland and doorman are great too) and am not a fan of the over the top weenies or the snow-mopes, who downplay everything...you know that's you - and you're likely close to being 5-posted, since they do tolerate the snow weenies more than the curmudgeons, which is probably unfair, but like any board, they're in business and the snow curmudgeons really piss the weenies off.
Anyway, not a fan of Amy at all, either for looks (butterface) or skills, as she's not a degreed met; she has one of those AMS "seals" which I'm sure I could get in a heartbeat (it's a 100 question test) and I shouldn't be forecasting on TV, either. Like Sam Champion, Lonnie Quinn and Al Roker, none of whom have met degrees (and it shows. Oddly enough, Janice Huff, who I also think is terrible, has a met degree from FSU. My faves are Lee Goldberg, Jeff Smith, Joe Cioffi, Craig Allen, and Nick Gregory. TWC also has some very good pros in Postell, Parker, and Cantore, who may be a ham, but he's a damn good met.
3.25" as of 10 am and it's now 28F. Much smaller, drier flakes - been mostly moderate snow the last hour - just missed that death band to our south. Damn. Still a great storm so far. At least 6" looks pretty likely...
Let's try again. The only change I see is they upped the forecasts from 4-6 to 6-8 in Northern NJ.
New map - woohoo! Figured they had to do this...
http://www.weather.gov/phi/winter
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This post was edited on 3/5 11:08 AM by RU848789
http://www.weather.gov/phi/winter
map won't post...
This post was edited on 3/5 11:08 AM by RU848789
Mt holly has most of Nj in 6-8 inches now...some down south of Trenton could get lollipops of 10
3.25 here in Belle mead...snow is steady but not particularly heavy
3.25 here in Belle mead...snow is steady but not particularly heavy
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