3 Years Ago - The Infamous Blizzard Nemo of 2013

It was three years ago on February 8-9 2013 that I experienced one of the most amazing storms of my life. The infamous blizzard of 2013, also known as Nemo. This blizzard ended up producing close to 40 inches of snow in my town in just one night! It was record breaking. 

Check out the official snowfall total map below. The dark purple is where 30-40 inches of snow fell. That's where I live!! 

Here is a picture of me helping shovel out some of the drive and the snow drift that was taller than my garage!! 

Since we were snowed in for a few days, the neighbors got together and used snow plows to plow the street! Great teamwork! 

Jersey Shore Ocean Effect Snow! 12-8-2014

You always hear about Lake Effect Snow (especially after the incredible event south of Buffalo, NY in November 2014) on occasion you'll hear about Ocean Effect Snow near Cape Cod. But it's not as common to hear about it in New Jersey and Long Island! Yet it happened on December 8, 2014! 

Here's a radar image via RadarScope of the ocean effect snow. This snow develops the same way as lake effect. As cold air flows over warm water, the warm water feeds moisture into the cold air, where it condenses into snow and mix precipitation. Due to geography and the typical wind patterns out if the west or north, normally coastal New England and Mid-Atlantic will not experience ocean effect snow. However, the winds out of the northeast on December 8th as well as stubborn low level cold air made for the perfect set up to have Ocean Effect Snow move into the Jersey Shore! 

Below are some tweets that captured the snow lightly accumulating in New Jersey! 

Still coming down at the jersey shore. The snow is coming in off the ocean producing a lake effect type snow pic.twitter.com/3518qBp6AB
— Michael Tuorto (@Goldy74Michael) December 8, 2014

“@RichKisby: @CecilyTynan First snow on the ground in estell manor, atlantic county. pic.twitter.com/CEzD3PAemT” Ocean effect snow!
— Cecily Tynan (@CecilyTynan) December 8, 2014

“@JSHurricaneNews: Ocean-effect snow moving through portions of Jersey Shore Monday morning http://t.co/C2wBqWg45V” pic.twitter.com/EClsYWLC1E
— Peggy Friend (@Pjfriend) December 8, 2014

Not often you see Ocean effect snow in early December along NJ Coast from an Arctic High pressure system. pic.twitter.com/viLpVv3aRK
— Chris Beal (@NJSnowFan) December 8, 2014

More Photos from today's Snow Storm

Still snowing! 1/21/12

Still snowing here in Connecticut! Here some iPhone photos from my yard, looks great outside!!