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17 minutes ago, SACRUS said:

 

 

A compact coastal snowstorm, briefly heralded as the Blizzard of '87, brushed by the New York City region yesterday, but buffeted much of southern New Jersey and parts of the New England coast with high winds and heavy snows.

The storm, spawned by another snowstorm in the Great Lakes on Sunday in which two people died, started off Cape Hatteras, N.C., and raced along the coast, sparking a winter thunderstorm in Philadelphia and gale-force gusts from Cape May, N.J., to Cape Cod, Mass.

One to three inches of snow fell in most of New York City, Long Island, Connecticut, northern New Jersey and Westchester County, where one motorist was killed and five others were injured in a four-car accident that the police said may have been weather-related.

Eight to twelve inches of snow, however, fell in parts of southern New Jersey, which was buried under 12 to 18 inches on Jan. 26-28. ''It's a mess,'' said Claire Lindholm, a police dispatcher in Cape May, which received 10 inches of snow and opened its civic center as a winter shelter for the first time. ''But we are getting used to it.'' Storm Downgraded

 

https://www.nytimes.com/1987/02/10/nyregion/snowstorm-just-brushes-new-york.html

 

 

just a few days prior

 

January 25, 1987 was when the Giants their first Super Bowl, and we went to a SB party in Brick. It started snowing during the game and continued all night. This was one of the only snowstorms that I can remember growing up in the 1980s. Great times!

9 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

New York City's Winter Futility Rankings (through January 25th):

The 10 worst winters prior to 2023-2024 through January 25th saw the following seasonal outcomes:

Mean seasonal snowfall: 11.0"
Median seasonal snowfall: 12.1"
20" or more seasonal snowfall: 20%
<10" seasonal snowfall: 40%
Highest seasonal snowfall: 22.9", 1971-1972
Lowest seasonal snowfall: 2.3", 2022-2023

Don,

Just curious where the winter of 1972-1973 is on the list, especially seeing 1971-72 make the top ten. 

I think I read that Newark had less than 2" snow for the winter and was the only winter that PHL had no measurable snow recorded at all!

8 minutes ago, MANDA said:

Friends update from Mt. Laurel:

Light snow, sometimes moderate but small flakes.  Temperature holding at 30.  Total snow so far 2.8".

No sticking on paved surfaces.

 

Similar to here on the turnpike in Swedesboro NJ. (Exit 2) except we are up to 3.5" of powdery snow.

Surprisingly the main roads are still very passable. I'm not sure if it is from the residual salt from the 1/16 event, or is it due to the filtered sun appearing thru the clouds. (NOT a deep gray overcast at this time)

17 minutes ago, WarrenCtyWx said:

Do we have a term for the cold equivalent of torch?

"near normal"

33 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

The oak tree above the car is affecting the radiation from the car.  It's kind of a blanket if you will

Thanks. It’s great to know that the tree canopy inhibits frost formation and therefore no scraping early in the morning!

Low of 27 in Cherry Hill this morning along with a thick frost.

Question...my wife's van in the driveway had frost covering the entire windshield, but my car, which is parked in the street had no frost at all!  The only difference is that my car on the street is parked underneath a large oak tree that still has most of its leaves on it.

This is now the third or forth time that this has occurred this fall.  Besides the tree, I'm not sure why there's been no frost on the car...not complaining though! I just don't know why lol.

5 hours ago, winterwx21 said:

Obviously we're gonna have pretty good heat for a few days and Friday's heat looks impressive, but it isn't gonna last too long. Looks like a beautiful airmass coming in next Monday. Should be very low humidity and overall most of that week looks pretty comfortable. 

I'm not sure yet of how beautiful it will be if the northwesterly flow next week sends us another round of smoke and haze from the Canadian wildfires.  Something to watch at least.

As long as it's not as bad as it was during early June!

2 hours ago, Jeff Grann said:

Tropical:

San Juan PR. Every month averages between 83-88/ 73-78

Sub Tropical: Ft.Myers

72-90/ 57-77

New York City

39-85/ 26-69

 

 

 

 

 

You skipped the Florida keys!  Places like Key West, Marathon etc. are purely tropical.

Meanwhile it's 80/70 here, still some peeks of sun with the front just to the west. Front looks to be crawling eastward.

48 minutes ago, nycwinter said:

the asphalt at the airport makes the temps hotter then they would be anywhere else.. the offilcal temp should not be taken at the airport but somewhere else in the city..

Most weather sensors in big cities are at the major airports. Based on your reply, all temperatures taken from airports are invalid because they will be "too warm"??

As many here pointed out, the location of the sensor at KEWR is sandwiched on a strip of land with a runway on one side and a canal on the other side. Perfect location? No, but it could be worse!

If the "official" Newark temperature was taken from downtown Newark (more asphalt), the air temperature in my opinion, could be even warmer than it's location at the airport.