Well, a little more than 7 inches of snow fell in Central Park, and amounts across the area ranged from several up to near 10. It never changed to rain. The models turned out to be pretty bad; although some models predicted the precipitation to remain as snow, the storm track wound up being much further east than anyone expected. The storm center is now entering extreme eastern Maine.

Of course, this system was extraordinarily complicated--something we all knew well in advance. Another, weaker, storm is approaching from the Great Lakes and is moving through upstate New York now; in addition, an upper level low is also trudging through the Northeast. (These two storms were what caused today's snow in NYC.) Moreover, you knew things were going to get messy when a dry wedge starting racing in from west to east, all the way out along the occlusion; satellite photos showed that the storm was not a typical comma shape of a well-developed cyclone, but instead an odd, elongated cloud bank that seemed more like an overstretched rubber band.

Fortunately for winter weather fans, the pattern here stays cold into the forseeable future, with the possibility of another storm or two sometime down the road. I, however, am off on Thursday to FLL, where the most pressing issue of the day will be what time the sea breeze rolls in.