January 4th Mothrazilla: Final Call & Observations

RJB8525 wrote:only thing about this storm? you have to make sure you start cleaning up after the last flakes fall because everything will be  a brick tomorrow lol

Don't wanton post wind chill map yet, scary for Saturday but more so Sunday morning. Euro has sun morning reps minus teens n&w and minus single digits nyc metro.
Then we towards Monday into Tues for more wintry weather N of I78 sorry SNJ enjoy this

Total whiteout here wind driven heavy snow can't ask for better than this eyeballing it very tough to measure 5 to 6in so far if these bands keep rotating in I should see double digits here

Godzilla mode!! Blizzard warnings expanded into eastern LI and southern CT, they should put up here this is a blizzard, a bunch of full garbage bags just went flying down the street.

RJB8525 wrote:Cuomo is talking about how NY basically made it's own weather model..lol

It's called the NY Mesonet and it's a bunch of reporting stations, similar to ASOS, that are distributed across the state to increase the number of observations that can be fed into weather models (if they so choose at some point), but also to give a more representative depiction of what's going on across the state so DOTs and such can act accordingly. Kinda cool, but also kinda dumb, because as far as I know no other state is doing it and the observations, even if injected into modeling (aside from a specialized mesoscale model like the HRRR specifically for NY that could be used during an event) would not make a difference in a model's output.

Hey everyone, new member here

I'm from Great Neck, long island. The snow has been coming down pretty hard in my area, near if not whiteout conditions. The bands have been killer, i would say ive gotten 2-3 inches in the past 1:15. Excited to see how this one unfolds...

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:What are we looking at for end time Frank, from west to east and south to north?

5-6pm, more like 8pm for LI

Relentless snow in brooklyn. There's been a heavy band sitting over NYC for quite some time that doesn't look like it's moving out very soon. I can barely see the building across the street - I'm on the 5th floor.

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:What are we looking at for end time Frank, from west to east and south to north?

hope this continues all day!!!!!!!!! have WHITE GOLD FEVER!!!!!!!!!

Visibility 8th of a mile here

Frank_Wx wrote:

CPcantmeasuresnow wrote:What are we looking at for end time Frank, from west to east and south to north?

5-6pm, more like 8pm for LI

LOVE YOUR AVATAR!!!!!!!!!!!

Come west to the Self Appointed Snow King Mugs 35dbx death band please please!!

crippo84 wrote:Relentless snow in brooklyn. There's been a heavy band sitting over NYC for quite some time that doesn't look like it's moving out very soon.  I can barely see the building across the street - I'm on the 5th floor.

Yup, from Ocean Cty., NJ right through NYC, Bridgeport, and Hartford are at the apex of that band. Look for local maxima in totals there as the band has now reached its furthest westward extent and begins to pivot around the backside of the low. Expect several hours of the snowfall rates that you are seeing now if you are in those regions.

syosnow94 wrote:GODZILLA.  YESSSSSSSS

SWEET!!!!

This would be a good time to pay homage to Haruo Nakajima, the man in the Godzilla suit for all the Godzilla movies who passed away in 2017...
http://variety.com/2017/film/news/godzilla-suit-haruo-nakajima-dead-dies-1202517648/

Domo Arigato Nakajima-san!

NettWx wrote:Hey everyone, new member here

I'm from Great Neck, long island. The snow has been coming down pretty hard in my area, near if not whiteout conditions. The bands have been killer, i would say ive gotten 2-3 inches in the past 1:15. Excited to see how this one unfolds...

Welcome Nett and thanks formpostinh. Any pictures or videos are certainly welcome. Best of luck and hope you get a good foot pus out there.

Any one know what the current pressure is of the storm?

Wind gusts

Joe Snow wrote:Any one know what the current pressure is of the storm?

Sub-960mb

957 at last check

NettWx wrote:Hey everyone, new member here

I'm from Great Neck, long island. The snow has been coming down pretty hard in my area, near if not whiteout conditions. The bands have been killer, i would say ive gotten 2-3 inches in the past 1:15. Excited to see how this one unfolds...

Welcome to our crew, Nett!!!

22* with steady moderate snow here. I won’t give an official measurement because the drifting is making that impossible, but I think we’re on target for Frank’s 3-6” call. The wind though is whipping good here. Whole house is rattling.

I haven't gone out side, but it looks like 12-15" here. I haven't seen rates like this even in BDB....If this band does not move then lol

rb924119 wrote:

RJB8525 wrote:Cuomo is talking about how NY basically made it's own weather model..lol

It's called the NY Mesonet and it's a bunch of reporting stations, similar to ASOS, that are distributed across the state to increase the number of observations that can be fed into weather models (if they so choose at some point), but also to give a more representative depiction of what's going on across the state so DOTs and such can act accordingly. Kinda cool, but also kinda dumb, because as far as I know no other state is doing it and the observations, even if injected into modeling (aside from a specialized mesoscale model like the HRRR specifically for NY that could be used during an event) would not make a difference in a model's output.

http://www.nysmesonet.org/mesonow#?stid=BRON

I just came back inside after shoveling. I'm up to 4'' and counting. Currently heavy snow.

Attached is the view from my front yard (roads had been cleared 45 minutes before now they are covered) and my backyard with a table to show rough accumulation amounts. Syosnow (my old teacher) was right about 10-16 for Long Island maybe...

Visibility is dropping and its absolutely blitzing, so awesome I am very happy. NWS is wrong to not have blizzard warnings here but thats on them. I would say 6 or so here but super hard to tell. Going out soon, my daughter is dying to go out in her first blizzard bet you she lasts 2 seconds before running inside lol