So the storm forecasted to dump a good 4-6 inches of snow over the general tristate area, did just that. I believe NYC picked up about 4 inches of snow or just a little more, and then up toward where I live, I'm assuming I picked up around 5 inches of snow. The snow has completely stopped in every single location across the tristate, and its actually sunny. Yeah, thats the kind of storm we have, with not a lot of cloud cover around the storm. So for the rest of today sunny and cold with highs around the freezing mark. It's tonight when we get a low in the lower teens and single digits when we start to feel the coldest air of the season so far. A big milestone is what weather.com put in their forecast late last night. They showed that for fairfield county we get down to exactly 0 degrees!!!! Something I predicted weeks ago. So everything is working our really nicely, but now we get to move on to the next storm. I hate to admit a certain pattern currently going on with the weather here in the tristate but I think I have to. It seems like we've been getting all snow right? Well if you haven't noticed we're actually in a snow, rain, snow, rain pattern. We start back at Christmas when we picked up 15-30 inches of snow in the area and it was an all out blizzard. Then on New Years we had a small, but still, a rainstorm that quickly swept through. Then we had our major 6-30 inch snowstorm in the area, and following that we had the recent Ice/rainstorm that took place earlier this week and now our mini snowstorm bringing a good 4-6 inches of all snow. So given the pattern, the expectation would be for a rain or Ice storm, or maybe both. It gets worse, it seems the models may just agree with this. This is terrible news for a snow lover like me, because areas inland could potentially see a crippling amount of snow. Yeah, we're talking feet again. I still have hope though, and lots of things can change since the storm is so far out. The european model shows a monster snowstorm, AND includes all the I-95 cities in it. So we'll see what happens next, but a lot of exciting things are starting up!
-Scott Pecoriello
