Archived: 2/13/14 Godzilla Storm

Steady winds as well visibility is dropping fast again

Looks like the dry slot is going to make it here in time for us not to go to a soaking rain. That will help higher totals after the 2nd part comes through tonight

Hello to all! Long time lurker, followed over from lurking at the ABC site. Currently a resident of Staten Island (Eltingville), working in Midtown. Have a bit of a weather obsession, although no idea how to read the maps and various other tools you use to track it.

Snowing hard here in the city, hearing conditions in S.I. are awful. People here are saying this will all be rain by noon, so no one is worried at all. Once the rain comes, will Staten Island and the City stay rain, or are we in for the snow bands that have yet to come?

Thank you! Kelly

for whoever is on Long Island and wants to see the sleet line use this

http://weather.cod.edu/satrad/nexrad/index.php?type=OKX-N0C-1-12#

so far the NAM has done well this storm. outperforming the euro. euro was to far west. from 12z runs yesterday accumulations more in line with NAM

Heavy snow, visibility dropping,blowing snow. 27 degrees.

shawnerak wrote:I'm back to a mix sleet and snow and it's starting to build again

Sleet started here at around 8:30am, then sleet coming down a bit heavier with some snow mixing in for a few minutes, and now at 8:55am it appears to be all snow again, on top of around 6-8 inches already on the ground.

What's the pressure right now?

algae888 wrote:so far the NAM has done well this storm. outperforming the euro. euro was to far west. from 12z runs yesterday accumulations more in line with NAM

What is the sleet line? The bright yellow colors?

For some reason none of the snowfall maps are showing in the locked snowfall map thread. can someone post the snowfall maps on this thread too so I can see the updated totals. Thanks!!!

Very very dynamic storm, winds are veering and precipitation keeps shifting, not really sleet but more like half-melted snow crystals that re-froze, to me evident of a narrow warm layer in the mid levels, about half and half this and snow right now, was almost 100% of this pseudo-sleet earlier now it's going towards more snow. Watching Philly news and they're back to snow. There's a battle going on folks, tighten your seatbelt.

I'd guess 996.

http://www.spc.noaa.gov/sfctest/new/viewsector.php?sector=17

NjWeatherGuy wrote:Very very dynamic storm, winds are veering and precipitation keeps shifting, not really sleet but more like half-melted snow crystals that re-froze, to me evident of a narrow warm layer in the mid levels, about half and half this and snow right now, was almost 100% of this pseudo-sleet earlier now it's going towards more snow. Watching Philly news and they're back to snow. There's a battle going on folks, tighten your seatbelt.

seatbelt is fastened and I'm ready for takeoff! lol

HRRR has everyone but far eastern LI all snow until the dry slot.

All snow now.

Smaller flakes then before but still ridonculous heavy snowfall on south shore LI - no sleet

Use the lull to shovel/snowblow out, that's what I'm doing, take it to your advantage.

total white out here gusty winds. 29*

north shore of nassau probably has close to a foot already

NjWeatherGuy wrote:Very very dynamic storm, winds are veering and precipitation keeps shifting, not really sleet but more like half-melted snow crystals that re-froze, to me evident of a narrow warm layer in the mid levels, about half and half this and snow right now, was almost 100% of this pseudo-sleet earlier now it's going towards more snow. Watching Philly news and they're back to snow. There's a battle going on folks,

tighten your seatbelt.

Hope that GLC just noses this a bit east to get colder air in here.

Good news about Philly.

I think I read years ago what you describe being called snow pellets.

* ACCUMULATIONS...SNOW ACCUMULATION OF 12 TO 16 INCHES...ALONG
WITH AROUND A TRACE OF ICE.

docstox12 wrote:

NjWeatherGuy wrote:Very very dynamic storm, winds are veering and precipitation keeps shifting, not really sleet but more like half-melted snow crystals that re-froze, to me evident of a narrow warm layer in the mid levels, about half and half this and snow right now, was almost 100% of this pseudo-sleet earlier now it's going towards more snow. Watching Philly news and they're back to snow. There's a battle going on folks,

tighten your seatbelt.

Hope that GLC just noses this a bit east to get colder air in here.

Good news about Philly.

I think I read years ago what you describe being called snow pellets.

It's not graupel, I saw that with the 1/26 storm and it was opaque, this stuff is similar but it's clear and not perfectly round. Never seen it before. DEF not sleet though.

Tom, have you finally given in that its colder and i will stay mostly snow lol?

NJ your right its more ice crystals mixed in with snow and apparently right over me is a pocket of "sleet" since the main sleet line hasn't pushed passed the south shore

Mets2695 wrote:Tom, have you finally given in that its colder and i will stay mostly snow lol?

No I'm still convinced we see a changeover and a lull, like I said use it to your advantage, dig out before round 2, but it is colder than I anticipated.

Mets2695 wrote:HRRR has everyone but far eastern LI all snow until the dry slot.

I hope thats right!!

NjWeatherGuy wrote:All snow now.

Good news for us up north!