Thursday Morning Update: Snow Tappers of Later This Morning, Boom for Some, Bust in My Backyard

Good morning. Our winter storm is still cranking over many areas but will taper off as the morning progresses. Overall, there have been both some positive and negative surprises with this. The snowfall reports are still coming in, so his will get updated but below is an idea of where we stand right now. In NWJ which looks to be the "bust zone" (my backyard of course),I measured 9.2 inches and we may see up to another inch. There is a reason why this region in particular underperformed and I will explain in a post later tonight after all the reports come in. 

Looking above, the most impressive amounts are out in PA and especially the Albany region. In the Binghamton area in particular, over 3 feet of snow has been observed! We also have decent snow falling in southern VT. 

Again totals are not all in yet but compared to my map you can see what went well and what went wrong...

The 4-8" band and 8-12" band in PA and NJ and overall snow cutoffs did quite well from reports I'm seeing. This includes NYC metro which I see reports right in the range of 8-12" The biggest bust is NNJ where the average snowfall amounts will be  8-12" and not 12-18"

The 16-24 inch band over PA looks good but it needed to come al little further north towards Albany. Too early to call the Boston metro as it still will be snowing there next few hours. 

I will make he final tally's later but I give myself a C . It was good that I had a consistent forecast idea for a few days but the failure in NNJ takes a lot of points away.

Looking below you can see where the storm currently is located as of 715am...

Here is where it is expected at 10am...

1pm:

As you can see by the afternoon this is pretty much over in all regions.

Cold air follows in its wake and we return to an active weather pattern into the New Year. Our next shot at any substantial storm system looks to be between Christmas and New Years. Stay tuned for that.

That's all for now. I am going to go shovel my disappointing 9" of snow. I appreciate all the new followers last few days. I will have a summary of the final totals later tonight.