[Cambium]

How big was yesterdays snowstorm?

JFK & Newark never saw that much snow in 1 day in November.
2nd biggest for NYC, LaGuardia, & Harrisburg.
3rd biggest for Hartford.



Bridgeport and Islip haven't reported yet or at least not on the CLI report yet.

[Cambium]

What a Fall snowstorm looks like. Still 4" on ground here this morning with drizzle and temps in upper 30s

[WouldLoveTo]

Didn't warm up as much as I expected. It was just under 32 when I went to bed just before midnight and 34 when I got up at 530. It's now 35.

I'd left the ruler stuck on top of the trash can. It's where I measured 7.5" last night; at 6:30 it was 5.25"

[Cambium]

Snow on ground this morning from St Louis to New England.


https://www.nohrsc.noaa.gov/nsa/inde...gion=Northeast

[Cambium]

Again?! Heads up... that snow line is pushing east this morning. Morristown, NJ reporting heavy snow. Moving fast

[7 Wishes]

Originally Posted by Poseidon3290

Wow, what school has stranded kids?? that's crazy.

It's in Hartsdale, NY (near White Plains in Westchester County). Kids get bussed from as far away as NJ, Stamford, and Putnam County. They tend to follow what nearby school districts do, so they waited until the last minute to have a bare early dismissal. But given that they have kids that come from as much as 40 miles away, they should know better. My daughter has a friend who lives in Stamford whose mom couldn't get her and had to stay there. To be fair, I think this is the first time this has happened to them.

Originally Posted by Cambium

How big was yesterdays snowstorm?

JFK & Newark never saw that much snow in 1 day in November.
2nd biggest for NYC, LaGuardia, & Harrisburg.
3rd biggest for Hartford.



Bridgeport and Islip haven't reported yet or at least not on the CLI report yet.

For NYC it was biggest November snowstorm since 1938! (A 2-day affair on Thanksgiving). And by far the earliest in the season 6+" snowfall (ironically on the same date as the latest in the season 80 degree temperature, which happened in 1993)

Originally Posted by in_newengland

No, it's a change in the climate, sometimes warmer, sometimes cooler, and usually different from what it used to be. Like today. Like this past summer when it was unusually hot and unusually humid. Also, the seasons start to get switched around so that there's hardly any spring anymore. In fact, there was barely a fall this year, was there.

And taking into account, other parts of the world, my husband can remember as a child in England, snow tunnels being dug so kids could get to school. Now it hardly snows over there and they get all excited over an inch or two. This past summer was "hot" over there, whereas it's usually in the 60s and 70s.

Maybe it's global warming, all in all, I don't know. But to our close up perception, it's a lot of changes in the overall climate.

Here's how it works.

First off it is warming, not simply change. But that can produce some changes that aren't (or don't look like) "warming". For example, if melting polar ice makes the warm Gulf Stream colder, areas affected by that will get colder (basically the Northeast US and England and Western Europe). The movie "the Day After Tomorrow" is based on that but much like how the media portrays it, it takes it to extremes.

A warmer world is a wetter world, so if in winter the warming is not enough to consistently get it above freezing in situations where it wasn't, you would still get more snow. And the "polar vortex" means that cold air is being pushed out of the polar area to make a specific region much colder than normal for a short time. But if you average the world as a whole and compare it to the past, we are clearly warming right now, whether the current theories are all vs. part of the reason is the debate.

Now on the other hand, climate is more complex than the media makes out on this so other things we don't know about or haven't studied/factored in could counteract it, at least for temporary periods. Cambium's point about solar minimums is a good example.

[BPt111]

I am surprise there is no Florida comments

[Cambium]

Snowing north greenwich. And yes, flurries would be recorded as a Trace

[Solstodur]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Snowing north greenwich. And yes, flurries would be recorded as a Trace

Slowly transitioning to from ice pellets + rain to steady snowflakes here.

[KEVIN_224]

Central Connecticut, around 7:30 AM. It started as powder snow around 5 PM Thursday where I was. It was about 31 degrees. There was a little sleet mixing in by 11 PM. Saw a light rain shower and maybe 34 degrees this morning. It looks like at least 4, maybe 5 inches out here.