CPcantmeasuresnow

In the words of Tom Petty, they won't back down. Good to see.

The King has spoken. "So let it be written, so let it be done".

I'll be glued to my TV.

I believe almost all of NNJ had a foot or more. I'd have to go back to look at the final totals though.

But yet forum wide there was 11-18 inches. A few exceptions on the shore and CNJ.

And therein lies part of the problem. People have been calling this a historic storm now for 24 hours before even a flake falls. I'm not even sure what the word historic means anymore, to break into the top 20 the city needs 15.4 inches from the storm. Would that be historic? If they get 15.3 is that not historic? They got 11.4 inches last month so if they get 11.3 is that a bust? I get the excitement and I hope it is a great storm, but people calling a storm historic before anything happens.......

20 Largest Snowstorms Central Park in NYC Rank Amount Year & Date(s) 1 27.5 January 23, 2016 2 26.9 February 11-12, 2006 3 25.8 December 26-27, 1947 4 21.0 March 12-14, 1888 5 20.9 February 25-26, 2010 6 20.2 January 7-8, 1996 7 20.0 December 26-27, 2010 8 19.8 February 16-17, 2003 9 19.0 January 26-27, 2011 10 18.1 March 7-8, 1941 11 18.1 January 22-24, 1935 12 18.0 December 26, 1872 13 17.7 February 5-7, 1978 14 17.6 February 11-12, 1983 15 17.5 February 4-7, 1920 16 17.4 February 3-4, 1961 17 17.4 Jan 31-Feb1 2021 18 16.0 December 19-20, 1948 19 16.0 February 12-13, 1899 20 15.3 February 9-10, 1969

I posted a list of the top 20 all-time on the February observation list. There are actually 68, 10 inch snow storms in New York City since they started keeping records in 1870. Sarcus was listing just a more current list.

20 Largest Snowstorms Central Park in NYC Rank Amount Year & Date(s) 1 27.5 January 23, 2016 2 26.9 February 11-12, 2006 3 25.8 December 26-27, 1947 4 21.0 March 12-14, 1888 5 20.9 February 25-26, 2010 6 20.2 January 7-8, 1996 7 20.0 December 26-27, 2010 8 19.8 February 16-17, 2003 9 19.0 January 26-27, 2011 10 18.1 March 7-8, 1941 11 18.1 January 22-24, 1935 12 18.0 December 26, 1872 13 17.7 February 5-7, 1978 14 17.6 February 11-12, 1983 15 17.5 February 4-7, 1920 16 17.4 February 3-4, 1961 17 17.4 Jan 31-Feb1 2021 18 16.0 December 19-20, 1948 19 16.0 February 12-13, 1899 20 15.3 February 9-10, 1969

There's actually 68, 10 inch or greater snowstorms in NYC since 1870. Did you cut off after a certain date?

20 Largest Snowstorms Central Park in NYC Rank Amount Year & Date(s) 1 27.5 January 23, 2016 2 26.9 February 11-12, 2006 3 25.8 December 26-27, 1947 4 21.0 March 12-14, 1888 5 20.9 February 25-26, 2010 6 20.2 January 7-8, 1996 7 20.0 December 26-27, 2010 8 19.8 February 16-17, 2003 9 19.0 January 26-27, 2011 10 18.1 March 7-8, 1941 11 18.1 January 22-24, 1935 12 18.0 December 26, 1872 13 17.7 February 5-7, 1978 14 17.6 February 11-12, 1983 15 17.5 February 4-7, 1920 16 17.4 February 3-4, 1961 17 17.4 Jan 31-Feb1 2021 18 16.0 December 19-20, 1948 19 16.0 February 12-13, 1899 20 15.3 February 9-10, 1969

I really can't recall either. I don't really look for them knowing what they technically mean, I can do without it. Like you I'm not a big fan of the wind. Give me 20 to 30 inches of snow with a calm wind and I'm good. I don't need the blizzard warning, like so many seem to need on the main thread, to justify a storm.

Blizzard warnings Orange and Putnam. Not a big fan of wind but I welcome 1/4 mile or less of visibility with open arms.

Blizzard warnings were just extended into Orange and Putnam county in NY.

I checked with three different AI programs, ChatGPT, perplexity, and Grok and two of three say official cause was natural causes. ChatGPT which I originally used without checking the others did have the suicide story but apparently that's incorrect. Should have known better than to trust one source.

Sure entertaining for his time but a tragic story. He took his own life at age 59 in 1983. I don't think he ever got over his firing which was inevitable considering his on air comment. As I remember it Roger grimsby just finished a horrible story about an underage girl being raped. The weather was next and Tex opened up the dialogue with "As Confuscious once said, if rape is inevitable sit back, relax and enjoy it" You could have heard a pin drop in the studio immediately afterward. He was fired the next day.

When I made the reservations all I could think of was how pissed I'll be if we have a repeat of March 7 2018 while we're away. Watching on the ring cameras isn't a substitute for being out in it.

I'm pretty much at the saturation point of model watching. I'm going to try my best to stay off the forums tomorrow and just enjoy what I'm hoping is an entertaining storm. My goal is beating Januarys 16+ anything less than 12 now I think I'd be a little bummed. Good luck to all.

One of the reasons I hate taking trips in the winter is for fear of missing something with this potential. Yet I'm gone this March 3-10 in Florida. I've been checking the weather for those dates here for the past week.

I'd be in therapy for years.

Just curious Don. How far back do Islip records go?

NWS seem to be on top of the conservancy for the January 25 and 26th measurements. This is gonna be a tougher storm to get accuracy. Hopefully they do the same.

That doesn't seem like that much for a 100 hour event.

Where do you place the bets? Any of the betting apps?

The way they measure in Central Park sometimes, not all the time, this could really be open to a lot of fraud accusations.