Parents got 30" in Miller Place on LI, sister is probably over 3' in Fairfield, CT. Probably about 10" in Hoboken.
Woke up this morning to a winter wonderland full of dead and dying turkey buzzards. There's a flock that lives up in 3 tall trees in one corner of the backyard. It's prime real estate for them since I live at the junction of two of the main roads in the neighborhood, with the third just a couple of hundred yards away. This is the first weather event that I have seen kill them. I have 3 dead in the back yard and 2 more posturing on the ground in ways that tell me they're not long for this world.
LI got hit bad too. Driving down LIE, so many cars stuck/pulled over. Police just escorting the people out, cars were abandoned.
There's a drift up against the back of the garage that is almost a straight unbroken line from the roof eaves. High winds do that.
About a foot here in central Nassau, but 20 miles away in Huntington they got 2 1/2 feet. That's what being south of a narrow snow/ice/rain line instead of north of it will do.
Nice job Jay. Topped out at 20.2" in this neck of Westchester (Scarsdale), Bronxville got 21.3" and Mt. Vernon 17.2". Heard up river (Poughkeepsie, Kingston) got around 10". Hit the shovel early this morning and even though it's 29F now, the sun's finishing the job nicely. Front walk dry and the driveway and most of the main streets are down to the pavement. Luckily the winds here weren't that damaging.
Isn't it amazing? There are 100 odd houses up and down the main roads within a mile of me and I'm the one that has a flock of turkey buzzards living on the property. What are the odds?
Thanks Joe, Whats amazing is its a lesson learned. Sometimes, the crazy models that throw out some nutty numbers have to at least be studies before a storm. If you remember, I was a bit shell shocked a few days before the storm about model numbers in certain areas that showed over 2 feet..some places 3 feet and small pocket close to 4 feet. They for the most part were thrown out for only being nuts. But the problem is that each model at one time or another showed these numbers. But how do you forecast it. The biggest problem will always be this..and the general public doesnt want to hear it. When a rain storm comes through and you hear 2 to 4 inches of rain..if the rain hits only an inch and a a half...you dont hear any bitching and whining about how the weather guys screwed up. But when you are talking about snow...saying 2 to 4 liquid is like saying you will get 20 to 40 inches of snow. If a weather guy said that his prediction is between 20-40 inches of snow, you would throw him out the door. And in my example of only getting an inch and a half..you only got 15" of snow. Nobody says a word when its rain because you are only a half inch off. But when you say 2 feet of snow and get 1..its a difference of 1" of liquid precip..thats all. Predicting snow within 8 to 12" when you are dealing with a huge storm is tough business..and guess what...lucky too. The only thing you try to do is say...I think we are going to get clobbered....and then try to narrow it down..but most of the time its luck. Hope everyone is doing fine...Think we hit 13" here. Was at 12" I believe when I turned in....still snowing lightly then. Who knows..it was a nice night. And the cleanup? sucks.
Got 45 degrees and raining on tap for Monday here. Making me think hard about not shoveling too much this weekend.
If you weren't so poisoned by your secular humanist education, I could have a nice bit of fun with you right now.
It could be worse. I have a neighbor up the road who gets packs of coyotes howling at his back fence now and then. He shined a light out there once for me and the number of eyes was absolutely terrifying. I mean, don't get more than 15 feet from the house terrifying. The birds have been there for so long now that they're part of the property. When we took down the three big trees last summer I was worried that they'd leave for good but they were back within a few days. One interesting thing that I realized this morning is that I don't think the birds are usually here in January and February. No idea where they go during the coldest months but it's not here. Then we had this warm winter and they stuck around and they're paying the price for that now.
Birds are among the most sensitive species from an evolutionary perspective. A new set of genes is about to emerge from those buzzards.
