Stormlover74

Temp jumped to 55 at ewr at 12:15

9 minutes ago, hudsonvalley21 said:

Currently from Cuba to Canada. Very impressive.

And almost no frozen.

5 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

Do we have any wind speed records from the Norfolk and Long Island hurricane from 1821?

It was estimated as a high end cat 3 or low end cat 4 when it made landfall at cape May, so I'm guessing by the time it made it to NYC winds were still over 100 mph

1 hour ago, Eduardo said:

Outside of a lucky/fluky event, I think it’s time to close the shades until mid January, especially for us coasties.  

Hopefully that doesn't turn into mid February

11 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I wasnt around for Dec 1974 but I find it hard to believe any noreaster could be worse than Dec 1992, whole towns were underwater with that for 3 days!  Still the greatest noreaster I've ever experienced.  Its impact dwarfed the "Superstorm" that occurred the following March for our area.

92 also lasted 3 days from start to finish with some snow on the backend

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

My two big weather memories from that era are Agnes and the December 74 Nor’easter. Agnes flooded out my old LB basement apartment with its torrential downpour. December 74 was my first big coastal flooding event in Long Beach with near hurricane force wind gusts. 

That was the day I was born. I believe still the highest wind gust reported at central park, at least up til Sandy. I always heard how the ambulance couldn't make it up the hill to the hospital with the icy roads, wind, rain, sleet everything.

2 hours ago, NEG NAO said:

The month will end with below normal temp average and above normal precip - the wild card is snowfall as there are signs on a few of the models that the last 10 days of the month could feature frozen precip.

I don't think that's a certainty yet. This weekend is looking less and less impressive

1 hour ago, frankdp23 said:

This upcoming weekend might add 2-3" more if the GFS has a clue today

Meanwhile the fv3-gfs has .5-1" like the Euro

Just now, 495weatherguy said:

Can you elaborate please?

The gfs has 2 to 2.5" lasting right through Sunday. The Euro is dry beyond Saturday midday

Meanwhile the gfs and Euro completely diverge this weekend

Models have gotten wetter but also warmer for tomorrow

6 minutes ago, weatherpruf said:

What about 89 and 2102? 89 was all she wrote ( or was it 88? ) and 2012-13 didn't get rolling til we got the Feb storm, which we looked to get fringed on but managed 6  ( another one where you needed to be east, so Manhattan got 11 and a few miles west less, just like last Jan. ) and then we had a piddly March event of 5 or so that was down to about 2.5 by day's end...

89 didn't make top 5 snowiest november in NYC

12 minutes ago, IrishRob17 said:

Millennials have no idea the struggle this hobby was before the internet and all of this easy access to pretty much everything 

We didn't even have access to radar lol. It was basically the local NWS forecast scrolling along the bottom of the cable access channel and then local news/AM radio stations

7 hours ago, LibertyBell said:

I vividly remember that- I wonder what went wrong?  The prediction of 6-8 inches of snow was being given by Craig Allen right up to when the storm started, as snow, and then there was a flash of lightning and it changed to rain!

The other big bust from that era had occurred the previous winter- 6-8 inches was predicted and we got 6-8 inches of virga in February 1989.  It looked like it was going to snow all day and nothing fell.

It was so frustrating too because this was before internet and weather channel so I had no idea what went wrong just that it was snowing one minute then pouring rain, and I kept hoping it would change back but never did. I believe the low formed closer to the coast and caused the winds to turn to the E/SE instead of from the NE but I also have no idea who got snow and didn't. I do remember visiting family for Christmas down by philly and they had several inches of snow on the ground

The 12/15/89 storm screwed us as well. Temps in the 20s and 4 -8" expected and turned into a driving rainstorm at the coast followed by bitter arctic air for 2 weeks but just occasional snow showers to briefly whiten the ground

2 hours ago, Toekneeweather said:

 it’s flurrying outside in the Bronx!

Thank God they brined!

4 minutes ago, 495weatherguy said:

I wouldn't mind a few 50 degree days right about now

Yeah the cold is pretty pointless if it's not going to snow

7 minutes ago, Mitchel Volk said:

Just look at Dec 1989

Never

25 minutes ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

December 30th, 2000.  To this date the heaviest snowfall rates I ever witnessed on the south shore in Nassau.    Didn't keep up that intensity for more than 30-45 minutes, but still, nothing has come close, which is saying something considering all storms we've had since then.

Yeah it was a great storm. If only it had lasted longer than 8 hours. Still some places got 2 feet

Starting to remind me of Dec 2000. Cold and dry them we get slammed late month. 

Would be weird to have a cold and dry/snowless December

3 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

The two 6" or greater AO+/NAO+ December snowfalls for New Brunswick, NJ were:

December 28-29, 1990: 8.0" (NYC: 7.2")
December 21-22, 1959: 7.0" (NYC: 13.7")

That 1990 storm was supposed to be 1-3" and they upped it to 4-6 at the last minute. Ended up with 8" with a glaze on top. It was all gone in 2 days but it was a nice surprise and our biggest snow in nearly 4 years

At this rate myrtle beach might be in the bullseye

Looks like our first extended dry streak in a while. Maybe 10 days or more if the weekend storm stays south

Gfs has snow now but not until Monday