February 17th 2024 Snow Observations

nutleyblizzard wrote:3” inches in Nutley township. I was hoping the death band made it up by me. Fell short by about 25 miles.

I was hoping for the band to reach us too, we were sooo close.  I think I got less than 2 inches here atleast on sidewalks. I’m also in Nutley, NJ

When I saw the banding setting up last night/early this morning, I knew it would be good.  But not THIS good!

This past Tuesday, I was at my apartment in Albany where there was no snow while my folks in the NYC area had several inches of snow. Last night and this morning was (almost) an identical scenario.  However, last night before the snow came in, I drove down from Albany to see my folks (and the snow).  Here is some footage I took just now from my parents house in Bellerose, NY, which had several inches of snow:

toople wrote:

nutleyblizzard wrote:3” inches in Nutley township. I was hoping the death band made it up by me. Fell short by about 25 miles.

I was hoping for the band to reach us too, we were sooo close.  I think I got less than 2 inches here atleast on sidewalks. I’m also in Nutley, NJ

This area seems to be a soft spot this winter season. We did all right the last storm, but in other storms we've seen surrounding areas with notably higher totals. I chalk it up to subsidence, unfavorable thermal profiles, and premature snowblower adjustments.

Finished with about 2.5 in Eastchester. 14 for the season so far.

Solid 4-6 in southern nassau. Dark blue. So close to the 9-12 band.

30 degrees, cloudy slight breeze.Snow squall warnings popping up NW of me, must be a cold front coming in.

Goalscore1 wrote:Solid 4-6 in southern nassau. Dark blue. So close to the 9-12 band.

THAT is a thing of beauty !!

Give me a M, give me an O, give me a M. MOM hit the jackpot! Got to love meso-scale events like this , especially when your under it!

WeatherBob wrote:Give me a M, give me an O, give me a M.  MOM hit the jackpot!  Got to love meso-scale  events like this ,  especially when your under it!

Amen to that, Mom had a rough few years snow count wise! Have fun there Mom!!!

Wow this really over performed big time just south of nyc. Bout 3 to 4 in yonkers. Driving home on 95 in CT very pretty trees covered. Maybe a inch or 2 here.

I think the band of 8 to -12 in was influenced by the sea temp at the NY Harbor entrance point.; it’s 41 to maybe 43 in that general area. Does anyone have a comment on this?

Winds were light per the 11 pm to1 am time frame

Hit some crazy snow squalls on i95 from CT to yonkers. 1 was almost 0 visibility. This is winter!

WeatherBob wrote:I think the band of 8 to -12 in was influenced by the sea temp at the NY Harbor entrance point.; it’s 41 to maybe 43 in that general area.  Does anyone have a comment on this?  

I think there was a strong jet stream at 250 leading to pretty intense ascent in that left front quad that enhanced the baroclinically (temperature gradient) driven ascent. They lined up perfectly leading to intense frontogenesis over that area. These west to east relatively weak LP moving off the coast along the frontal boundary reminds me of I think it was March of either 14 or 15 in my area. That same thin narrow band under the “baroclinic zone” out performed every model by 3-5” every time that year. I happened to be under it multiple times that March where my 2-4 ended up 6-8 or a 3-6” ended 7-10”. It was an amazing March to say the least and it was all weak waves along a frontal boundary that just overperformed because of how tight the temp gradient was.

6 snow squalls today in Franklin Upstate NY.



10* right now...deep winter up here.