LibertyBell

Yes, I think it was one of our most western hurricane landfalls, it actually almost touched the north central Jersey coast before it started to recurve. It made landfall close to where Belle made landfall in 1976 I believe.

and a lot more heavy rain in Gloria! Do you guys remember the original Euro track for Sandy? It was supposed to take it into Belmar, I think, near NYC or just west of NYC on a more northerly track? I've wondered if that would have made the impacts from Sandy even worse if that original Euro track verified-- more rain of course, but maybe higher winds too?

Yes and overall warmer temps all over the Atlantic Basin with strong Bermuda high pressure might actually direct more storms into the Gulf and Florida as we've been seeing, although in recent years we've seen the Bermuda high displaced farther north, which would increase the chances of one coming up this way. I thought that Gloria was moving close to 70 mph at our latitude but perhaps that was wrong. I do remember the eye really opened up at our latitude and we never got a backside of the hurricane except for some gusty winds with partly cloudy skies in the afternoon. But it was extremely rainy that morning and of course schools were closed. We never closed schools for snow but we did for Gloria (completely understandable.) I saw that the damage was much worse out over Suffolk County. Lots of trees down! Our damage was mostly flooding from the heavy rains.

I wonder how late the cherry blossoms will be? And the winter was better down in DC too....

Army Corps of Engineers has projected that our waters can support up to a 145 mph sustained Cat 4.

and even West Hampton Beach had sustained winds of 111 mph and gusts to 156 mph I think it was, so Cat 3 conditions were verified at sea level, which is a lot more than we can say for a lot of Cat 3s that make landfall in this era.

Wild to think we might be *overdue* for another one of these, although we don't know what the return time of a behemoth like this should be, we've not seen anything like it since. As a child, I remember how scary it was hearing news reports about Gloria the night before it was supposed to come in. It was supposedly a Cat 4 abreast of Atlantic City, but of course we know that wasn't true and it was rapidly weakening and its eye was expanding as it approached our latitude. It probably wasn't even a Cat 4 near Cape Hatteras.

Yes, I think there was a time when hurricane strength was determined by MSLP not wind speeds. And that storm could have been much worse even back then, they were lucky it came in at low tide. Even the 1944 hurricane was thought to be Cat 3 at landfall until it was reassessed. It was reassessed down to Cat 2 wasn't it?

If that happened today, it would be horrific. I wonder if there were any actual pressure readings from that storm? Even if it had Cat 3/4 pressure it still wouldn't necessarily be a Cat 3/4?

Thats how Chesapeake Bay was formed and part of that meteor broke off and hit just east of Toms River. Can't be the same event though, I think that was much further back in time?

That looks more like a tree pollen map than a leaf out map. Pollen levels are a bit elevated right now and will only get worse from here =\

But there was also a longwave pattern that sustained the westerly flow from the strong Pac Jet that resulted from the sustained marine heatwave in the West Pac. I saw something in the long term summer maps like what you mentioned as the areas west of us in the OV are predicted to have below normal rainfall. If we develop a flow from that direction it would be able to bring a dry downsloping flow into our region from the SW that is directed into our region by the Bermuda High after passing over the OV.

it does have a question mark at the end

Well, he's shoveling SOMETHING, but it sure aint snow.....

One of our greatest winters of all time, especially February and March!!

They are woefully behind-- 54 mph gusts have already been reported at JFK and 51 mph at LGA.

A Tsunami from an earthquake in the Azores-- that would be really wild! When you mentioned 185 mph the hurricane that came to mind was Dorian, it reached 185 mph and wrecked the Bahamas and for awhile it seemed like it was headed right into Central Florida, but it swerved to the north and hit NC instead (as a minimal Cat 1.) By the way, another hurricane I'd love to see more info on was the only major to ever hit NYC directly-- the Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane that also hit Cape May as a Cat 4 and then Manhattan as a Cat 3.

11 kids were taken to the hospital wow. No excuse for not having a wind advisory at a minimum and based on the winds I saw it should have been a high wind warning. Two massive trees came down according to the news, the second one fell on the Pelham Bay Pkwy it was 50 feet tall! Better safe than sorry and the weather outside today was definitely NOT safe. JFK 54 mph LGA 51 mph

what kind of winds do you need for this? at least 60 I'd assume?

It was a question lol. I'm driving up there this weekend so I was wondering.

Yes and this more because of the wind rather than dry conditions.

Yes, I don't see us having as few as 4-5 TC in a season like we did some years in the 70s and 80s either. The Atlantic basin is simply too warm for us to have that kind of a quiet season. Weak hybrid type sub tropical systems are really interesting, especially when they are out of season-- I think you mean a storm like December 1994 that retrograded and moved westward right over JFK? I'd like to see that again. That was an interesting thing about the 90s, before we saw the big ramp up in TCs starting around 1995 with the emerging +AMO , we had a lot of these hybrid type storms first beginning with the Perfect Storm in October 1991 of course. Maybe we could get a snowstorm out of one of these hybrids? I wonder if that's happened before at our latitude.... More Cat 5s too, but probably confined to Florida and the Gulf. I find it interesting we still haven't seen even a Cat 4 make landfall in the SE since Hugo 1989..... I've always wondered what made the pattern so different between 1938 and 1960 that we had so many landfalling strong hurricanes up here (especially during the 50s.) I wonder if it's possible for a Cat 5 to make landfall in the Carolinas.... has it ever happened? Even going back to the 1800s?

Walt, it won't make it down as snow south of I-80 in the Southern Poconos, even at 2,000 feet and above (for example: Lake Harmony)?

stay safe out there little bro, make sure you duck if you see a two by four flying by your head..... Maybe wearing a helmet would help too??

It's very scary my windows almost blew in. These can't be 45 mph winds or even 50, it has to be at least 60. The strongest gust I experienced was around 9:50 am.