JAN 26th Light Snowfall

Light snow started here at 10:45 AM.28 degrees, coatings on deck and roof.

Rain just turned to sleet in New Hope. 34*

Steady snow starting to stick here in Western Suffolk County

amugs wrote:

brownie wrote:Just started snowing here.  It is already starting to coat my driveway and deck.

Awesome!! Be careful if going out

Nah, I'm not going anywhere.  I'm teaching from home today.  We have a remote day due to the bad weather.  This sure beats driving on icy roads!

It's been snowing steadily for about an hour now.  It has started to cover my street.

Snowing pretty hard. Everything is coated, even some roads are covered. Bloomingdale NJ*

Interesting variety of snow textures so far. Started with graupel, then all snow, then after it stopped briefly we got about five minutes of these huge cotton ball flakes falling very sparsely, like one here and one way over there, but very irregular, like someone was just randomly tossing cotton balls off my roof. My daughter yelled from her room "Dad, are you seeing this?!?". It was odd.

Rain, turn to snow here Atlantic Highlands. Starting to stick to grass and deck. 34 here

No longer snowing here - seems to be some other kind of frozen precip.  I think it's too cold (30 F) for it to be rain.

32* with a mix of light snow and sleet. Just barely coating the ground.

Radar looks awful. Even less precip than modeled.

And now it's back to snow!

And now my lunch is over and I have to go back to teaching.

Snow becoming moderate to heavy now.

You can see the transfer of the low occurring now off the coast at 850 mb.  The 0C isotherms may not get past route 78.  However there is definitely warm nose at 800 mb or so.  I have had not much but sleet and freezing rain from this.  Mostly due to the lack of decent rates probably.

30.5/29 light freezing rain

heehaw453 wrote:You can see the transfer of the low occurring now off the coast at 850 mb.  The 0C isotherms may not get past route 78.  However there is definitely warm nose at 800 mb or so.  I have had not much but sleet and freezing rain from this.  Mostly due to the lack of decent rates probably.

30.5/29 light freezing rain

For someone like me who knows nothing about the dynamics of a storm, when you say transfer off the coast, are you referring to the area in lime green at the bottom right by the number 147 ? Also, I don't see the number 850 anywhere on your map. Could you explain how a transfer actually occurs? Thanks.  

PS- I live on long island so I don't even know where route 78 is lol.

GreyBeard wrote:

heehaw453 wrote:You can see the transfer of the low occurring now off the coast at 850 mb.  The 0C isotherms may not get past route 78.  However there is definitely warm nose at 800 mb or so.  I have had not much but sleet and freezing rain from this.  Mostly due to the lack of decent rates probably.

30.5/29 light freezing rain

For someone like me who knows nothing about the dynamics of a storm, when you say transfer off the coast, are you referring to the area in lime green at the bottom right by the number 147 ? Also, I don't see the number 850 anywhere on your map. Could you explain how a transfer actually occurs? Thanks.  

PS- I live on long island so I don't know where route 78 is lol.

This picture is mesoscale analysis for air pressure isobars and temperature isotherms about 5000 feet above the ground (about 1 mile)  This is generally referred to as the mid-levels of the troposphere.

The storm at the mid levels is transferring its energy to a coastal.  This is in response to blocking to the north.  The lime green is the mid-level storm forming.  This tends to stop the progression of the warm air.  Basically from NYC on north mid-level temps should stay below freezing.  However, the surface on the coastal plain will or already has risen above freezing.  I don't expect much out of this at this point for most. Very much inline with expectations so far.

Thanks for the explanation, appreciate it.

snowing a bit here only sticking in a few places, def won't stick to the roads way it looks, prolly too warm. still nice to see some flakes.

Currently 32* steady light snow falling with a light dusting thus far.

What a bust for my area not even a coating of snow I was hoping to get a 1 inch out of it

I've got a bit < 1/4" accretion on trees now.

30.5/29.5

I have about 1/2” of slop on my deck. It’s pretty and it’s white, and I got to see snow falling for most of the day.  I’ll take it.

Roads just wet around here but sidewalks have ice accretion. Spots that are salted/treated are ok but where they aren’t, def slip and fall potential.

Radar looks done for here.Maybe 3/4 of an inch.

about 1/4" now. pine trees definitely feeling the weight. holding steady at 30.5/30

Frank_Wx wrote:

LOL. I meant ice accretion.