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getting some loud hail here in W Windsor in central NJ near Princeton. Lasted just a few minutes, but more coming perhaps.

Just now, wdrag said:

Hail Size in Princeton?  I see water rescues Harrison NJ.

Lasted just a few minutes, mostly melted but noisy.  More coming, perhaps.  

getting some loud hail here in W Windsor in central NJ near Princeton.

It was definitely not a storm where everyone got their due.  I hate summers where everything looks parched.

Please, not this Summer, 2020.

Down here in West Windsor, my little plastic rain gauge measured .85 inches.  Not bad.  More coming in the next 24 hours, perhaps.

 Coming down in buckets here right now.  Wind is whipping, but not as severely as on June 3.

4 hours ago, uncle W said:

 

https://bklyn.newspapers.com/image/53660945/

1946...

 

 

Thanks for posting this, Uncle!  I was a 9 year old in Jersey City when it happened.  Heard about it from family talk.  We had only radio back then.  Much lesser known than the crash a year before when a B25 crashed into the Empire State Building.

Much appreciate these postings.   BTW, Trump owned this building years later, as you probably know.

Edit:  PS -  just checked, and apparently the bldg is still known as "The Trump building".  Owned by the Trump Organization.

A few half-melted flakes were mixed in with the sprinkles about a half hour ago.  

Came through the Princeton area around 4AM.

Some CG lightning, with bomb like thunder.  Around .5 rain.

2 hours ago, uncle W said:

on this date in 1958 NYC got 8-10" of wind swept snow around the area...temperature dropped to 3 degrees a day later...I was in the third grade at the time and remember what I was doing before and after the storm...

I was in South Orange when this storm hit.  I remember the peculiar crunching sound the snow made underfoot during the low temperatures that followed.

The February storm was a nice one to remember.   I think less of the royal slop fest that came in late March of that year.  Apparently things were better further inland.

A light coating of snow this AM.  

Thanks Uncle!  I shudda remembered that.  PS much appreciated, Don!

Thanks for the Philly info here, Don.  Your posts are always great.

Forgive me everyone if I do not know this, since my lack of interest is due to this awful winter: 

Has Central Park recorded a temp below 20 degrees F. so far this winter? Thanks.

20 hours ago, uncle W said:

its funny that 1966 had similar storms in January and then December...both were KU storms and both times the low was very close to us and we got dry slotted...the December storm did have hours of sleet which was a downer...it did changed back to snow once the low got north of us...

I always draw a blank for a few minutes, when mentioning the January 1966 storm where NYC got dry slotted.  I was in the DC area for a family baptism that time, where we got 14 inches, and no baptism.  Was amazed to get back to relatively snowless NJ/NYC then.  I can't find a good snowfall map for this storm online, even though it was a KU/NESIS event.

Early Jan 1966 had some mild weather following a mild holiday season, - I remember a big subway/transit strike in NYC in December 1965, so the weather was merciful to subway/transit users who had to walk to work.  

15 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

somewhat like 1995-96!  1966-67 was close to a weak la nina too wasn't it? (and a weak la nina after a moderate el nino is supposed to be golden for snowfall!)

 

That's the winter I was thinking of, to compare it.  Was not present for that great winter.  Was I jealous.  

Seems to me that here are two kinds of "great" winters  The first kind is what we are talking about, with mild interruptions, and the second kind is a winter with a prolonged period of snow depth and cold, somewhat like 1960-61, which I also missed, or 1947-48, when I was just 11 years old.

5 minutes ago, uncle W said:

the 1966-67 winter was predicted quite well by the farmers almanac...the white Christmas was predicted three months in advance...it did have many ups and downs...

12/4.....14 degrees

12/8-11...60 degrees or above...66 on the 9th...

12/13-14...wet snow and rain...

12/18...56 degrees...

12/21...1" of snow...

12/24...7" of snow...

12/29...heavy rain starts as snow...

1/19...13 degrees light snow...

1/22-26...major thaw...68 degrees on the 24th...

2/2...58 degrees...wet snow that evening...

2/5...48 degrees...

2/6...3" of snow...

2/7...12" of snow...9 degrees...

2/8...6 degrees...

2/10...2" of snow...

2/13...4 degrees...

2/15...60 degrees...

2/18...2" of snow...

2/23...4" of snow...

2/25...12 degrees...

3/1...16 degrees...

3/3...64 degrees...

3/5...2" of snow changing to rain...

3/6-7...3" of rain...

3/11...72 degrees...

3/14...63 degrees...

3/15-16...3" snow and sleet...

3/17...3" of snow...20 degree max...

3/18...8 degrees...

3/21-22...10" of snow...

Thanks, Uncle.  This is great.  One thing about the Christmas eve storm, at least in Jersey City - a lot of sleet, and Thunder.  Would have been deeper, if it had been all snow.  Tracked a bit too close, I reckon.  What I did like, is that the temps were well enough below freezing, at the surface.  I have more memories of that winter - I was working as a deckhand on the harbor - a total misfit - the old Pennsylvania Railroad tugboats.

I want to save that post of yours.  It helps jog my own memories.  I nearly drowned on a frozen railroad car float during the March cold spell.  Someone grabbed me just in time.  Lol.

2 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

yes yet another undermeasured storm at Central Park!

the 60s were golden.....

 

My favorite Winter from that decade was 1966-67.  Lots of ups and downs, including at least three big storms: Christmas eve, the February blizzard, and one late in March that was actually powdery snow. Lots of other storms in between, and a cold, wintry March.  That winter followed a brutally hot summer, you may recall.  

1 hour ago, uncle W said:

the Lindsay storm in 1969 ended on this date...20" of paste at JFK...one of the best busts ever because the storm was forecast to change to rain...

One of Winter's nicest surprises.  I was in New Haven when it happened.  The snow was a tad drier there, I guess.  Glad I wasn't in Queens.

Love storms that turn out that way.

Snowflakes are flying here in the Princeton area !

- Mostly rain again.  Nice while it lasted.  

10 minutes ago, winterwarlock said:

snow has begun again in Belle Mead after an almost 2 hour lull

 not that far away - same thing happening.

Snowing in the Princeton area.   FWIW.

Cloudy Here for some time, but nary a flake.  Wishing a Happy New Year to all, from Central NJ.

19 hours ago, uncle W said:

the 1947 storm...

 

What a storm.  I was 10 years old, in Jersey City.  Around New Years, we had an awful freezing rain storm, with no power.  Thankfully we had old dirty gravity fed coal furnace heat back then.  January and early February were a weenie's dream.  

Any technical or synoptic info on that winter is much appreciated.  

Uncle, thanks for the great summary of the one winter in the 60's I missed, being overseas then.  I really fretted to hear about the winter of 60-61 from Europe.  Especially the three really great storms of that season.  

2 hours ago, donsutherland1 said:

Some photos from this morning near high tide on the Long Island Sound. The temperature was 46° with drizzle.

 

 

This one looks like a Winslow Homer.