Thanks for the reply.

Great answer about timing being off! LOL

Sal

The most intense situation I have ever been in was while deployed to Iraq and we had thunderstorms pretty much everyday during March and April. Its was tuff because we only had satellite and maybe 4 or 5 reliable upstream observations. And having to tell the Army helo pilots that it ‘will’ do this or ‘will not’ do that is pretty stressful. You cant waffle when it comes to that. That is why it boils me up when people say that weather forecasters can be wrong 90% of the time and still keep there jobs. We cant be wrong, I just tell them that I am never wrong, my timing is just off. =) You can use the Janice.

Take care,

Hey, David:

Not to worry, we like talking about the weather too. To echo Janice’s comments: “…keep them coming.” BTW-in your MOS as WX, what is the biggest weather emergency you had to deal with?

Sal

Love your comments and your stories! keep them coming!

I lived in Alaska for 3 1/2 years and the city never really came to a stand still while I was there. Back in ‘02, I think, on St Patty’s day we go 19” in about 12hrs and we were out that night still having a great time. Mostly the coast regions like Valdez and the Prince William Sound gets heavy snow like that on a normal basis. Because of the mountains Anchorage doesnt get dumpings of snow like that very often. And in Fairbanks and the interior its too cold for heavy snow. Also on the western coast and along the Aleutians they get wippin’ storms throughout the winter with hurricane force winds that can pile up the snow usually as snow drifts but still 2-4′ snow drifts are bad. When it snows in Anchorage there nothing stops….school does not get canx ever….maybe for ice or they maybe be delayed for an hour or 2 but life goes on no matter the amount. The snow stays once its there and is usually about 2′ thick all winter.

And as for your gravitational pull theory of why snowfalls are different…not too sure that gravity has anything to do with it. I am not that familiar with New York and the locations but I just took a quick look at a map and it looks like there are a lot of peninsulas and coves. If Queens is where Google says it is it sits just north of a cove. So that cove can funnel in moisture and cause high amounts of precip. And to the SSE of you is Raritan Bay and the Atlantic is south. So I would expect southern Long Island to get heavier precip that the northern part. So generally a place with an onshore flow will usually get more precip than areas of an offshore flow. Also you may have island effects. If an area is on the leeward side of an island they will be in a drier area than the surrounding places. And yeah your heat island idea may make a difference in some areas. So my point is geography has all to do with it.

Sorry so long…I just like talking about weather.

Take care,

Dave