Snow-Rain Storm December 9-10, 2014 (climate, records, normal, East)

[cloven]

Photo here:
https://www.city-data.com/forum/37579236-post2373.html

It's an utter mess out here (Brattleboro, VT). It's like soup or stew, or trying to wade in wet cement.
No idea amount of precip. bc. it's been so mixed (rain, snow, ice-melting & freezing together).

[ilovemycomputer90]

We had freezing rain here in NW NJ this morning. Accidents reported and schools were delayed. Schools closed across the border in PA. I went into work a little later this morning to avoid the ice since it changed over to plain rain. Got pretty heavy at times.

Now a possibility for a couple inches of snow tomorrow. Exciting weather!

[Cambium]

Updated and final Rain total reports for CT only.

Almost a months worth of rain in 12 hrs in spots.

Most is New Canaan a neighboring town of mine.

[Cambium]

How many early winter storms have we been having recently? Burlington mentioning this is another.

And FYI... are you guys disgusted with the GFS or what? It didn't see this storm till about 3 days out while all the others did well past 5 days out.

National Weather Service Text Product Display

AREA FORECAST DISCUSSION
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE BURLINGTON VT
942 AM EST WED DEC 10 2014

.SYNOPSIS...
AN EARLY SEASON WINTER STORM WILL CONTINUE TO AFFECT THE REGION TODAY INTO THURSDAY WITH SCATTERED TO WIDESPREAD SNOWS AND MIXED
PRECIPITATION. PRECIPITATION GRADUALLY WANES AND COMES TO AN END BY
THIS COMING WEEKEND AS HIGH PRESSURE BUILDS EAST INTO THE REGION.
TEMPERATURES WILL AVERAGE SOME 3 TO 6 DEGREES ABOVE NORMAL THROUGH
THE NEXT 7 DAYS WITH ARCTIC AIR REMAINING WELL NORTH OF THE AREA.
PRIOR DISCUSSION FROM 353 AM EST WEDNESDAY...

LONG-DURATION WINTER STORM CONTINUES TO AFFECT THE AREA TODAY
WITH "ROUND TWO" SLUG OF ADDITIONAL PCPN PUSHING WNW ACROSS VT/NRN
NY BY AFTERNOON/EARLY EVENING.

[nei]

Originally Posted by Cambium

Updated and final Rain total reports for CT only.

Almost a months worth of rain in 12 hrs in spots.

Impressive for a winter storm. I assume the rainfall rate wasn't that high due to low-ish dew points? I wonder what the precipitable water column was? Coastal California has dew points in the upper 50s, so they should be more likely to get heavy rainfall in their storm, does that sound correct?

[Cambium]

Originally Posted by nei

Impressive for a winter storm. I assume the rainfall rate wasn't that high due to low-ish dew points? I wonder what the precipitable water column was? Coastal California has dew points in the upper 50s, so they should be more likely to get heavy rainfall in their storm, does that sound correct?

Click here and click image archives and loops to see what the PWAT was. Let me know. You can change sector to see full US too..

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Looks like Syracuse having trouble today. Long duration NorEaster

Syracuse traffic alert: I-81 south closure extended to I-481 due to disabled tractor-trailers | syracuse.com



Problems in Vermont...

"Now 22,400 statewide, including 16,000 GreenMountainPower Renewed freezing rain/wet snow to worsen it?"

https://twitter.com/mattalltradesb/status/542740809901424641

[Cambium]

First from NWS NY NY

NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE NEW YORK NY
117 PM EST WED DEC 10 2014

BAND OF SNOW DEVELOPED ACROSS WESTERN LOCALES. THIS IS NOT
UNEXPECTED...BUT ALWAYS TOUGH AND A CHALLENGE TO FORECAST WHERE
THESE BANDS SET UP.

11:30am Radar vs 1:30pm Radar. Notice in just 2 hours there is more precip coverage. ULL providing some extra instability.

NYC (LGA) & White Plains (HPN) reporting light snow right now. Wet flurries here. Temp 35°

[Cambium]

Lots of snow reports from NYC metro. Flurries here not sticking

West Virginia mountains getting some snow.



Snow forecast from NWS Pittsburgh. Looks like 3-5" for some WV hills.

[tkln]

We're getting hammered here in upper VT right now. Changed from sleet to snow around 3 and has only been increasing in strength. Dogs don't even want to be out there!

[nei]

Still raining. Not that hard but it has to add up. Maybe 2 inches so far