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Old 12-14-2013, 08:07 PM
 
Location: Live in NY, work in CT
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Winds gusting to 25mph here and snowing.

Changeover for the coast is close. Freezing line at 4000' now around NYC so they should be changing there.
Snowing hard at BDL and feels like -1.5°. Curious what you guys get up north.
It's going to be a close call. Weather Channel "future radar" shows rain snow line getting up to about 287/Merritt Pkwy sometime after 1am and shows the rain will be heavy (i.e. mostly yellow instead of green). If true that will clean away a lot of the snowfall.

NWS is now claiming even Danbury will get a brief change to rain sometime in the 6am-9am hour before it ends, with quite a bit of sleet and freezing rain before that. And they are predicting 40 up there/mid 40s coast for tomorrow.

I wouldn't call it a "dud" I wouldn't (from a historical perspective) call it "epic" either. But definitely a bigger deal than last week's storm and perhaps a pretty unique one too.

 
Old 12-14-2013, 08:08 PM
 
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Coming down pretty hard here. Just checked the back deck and it looks to be about 5" so far...........definately not a bust here.
 
Old 12-14-2013, 08:24 PM
 
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It's going to be a close call. Weather Channel "future radar" shows rain snow line getting up to about 287/Merritt Pkwy sometime after 1am and shows the rain will be heavy (i.e. mostly yellow instead of green). If true that will clean away a lot of the snowfall.

NWS is now claiming even Danbury will get a brief change to rain sometime in the 6am-9am hour before it ends, with quite a bit of sleet and freezing rain before that. And they are predicting 40 up there/mid 40s coast for tomorrow.

I wouldn't call it a "dud" I wouldn't (from a historical perspective) call it "epic" either. But definitely a bigger deal than last week's storm and perhaps a pretty unique one too.
The forecast was 4-8 on the coast then rain..6-10 84 corridor then ice..this is gonna be close to right on. May be low side of range but..thats why they give a range.
 
Old 12-14-2013, 08:32 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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The forecast was 4-8 on the coast then rain..6-10 84 corridor then ice..this is gonna be close to right on. May be low side of range but..thats why they give a range.
Looking at the map from very 1st post looks like 2-4 on parts of the coast. The rest seems close, not done for north of I-84. Still snow here. 4.1" here now, I was actually in the 4-6" range.
Raining on Long island. NYC getting Ice now. Snow still White Plains and Bridgeport.

Some reports so far..
BDR with 3.2" (they are above normal for the month so far now).
BDL 1.5" at 7pm. Probably have 3+ now.

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Old 12-14-2013, 08:42 PM
 
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Over 5.5 here in North Stamford as of right now - going to bed, no ice yet.
 
Old 12-14-2013, 09:01 PM
 
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Ice pellets Mixing with snow now. Very cool. So snow is falling from 10,000 feet, hitting a warm layer at around 4000', melting some of the flakes.

but because the surface to about 2000 feet is still in the 20s, the melted liquid coming down is refreezing into pellets and hitting the surface with the flakes that didn't melt.

 
Old 12-14-2013, 09:16 PM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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New Canaan DOT reporting 7 inches.
Danbury DOT reporting 6 inches.
Wallingford at 7 inches.

The recent bursts did it. Amazing how much can drop in a heavy band. Maybe another inch more for them.

11:10pm radar and temps with Pressure & 850mb temps

 
Old 12-14-2013, 10:00 PM
 
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It probably doesn't help that it's also a little windy and this snow is so light...
 
Old 12-15-2013, 05:07 AM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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Ice caked on everything. Trees weighed down. North of Meritt never went above freezing.

Even Bridgeport never went to rain (maybe for few minutes in between the OBS)
Even NYC with almost half foot of snow (5") Will have snow total map later on.

 
Old 12-15-2013, 05:22 AM
 
Location: Near the Coast SWCT
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This was the 3:50am map. Numbers are temps. Shaded colors are temps at 4000 feet. I added the OBS from BDR and HFD at that time.

First - Storm track way too close for an all snow event.
Second - Temps above our heads were above freezing (green/light blue shades)
Third - Surface temps never warmed up past freezing much except along the coast.

That meant any liquid falling was ice, not rain or snow. Impressive how the cold air held with this scenario.




SNOW TOTAL REPORTS looks like generally 4-8" event. Parts of NY and MA got a 8-14" total so CT missed out on that.

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