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it was 97 on this date back in 1895, I wonder if that was our latest upper 90s on record Don (upper 90s = 97-99), we had some crazy heat in the 1890s (a 10 day heatwave in 1896 too).

Looks like October might be warm and dry just like it was last year.

This is much better than 50s with wind, omg I hate that weather.

Maybe this isn't the last 80s just yet Don?

Yes it was both cold and dry, DC got more snow than we did lol. (this was common during the 80s). When we did get a storm up here in December 1989 that was supposed to be a big snowstorm it changed to rain very quickly LOL, a diametrically opposite bust from the virga storm of February 1989

1989 - Seventeen cities in the north central U.S. reported record low temperatures for the date, including Devils Lake ND with a reading of 22 degrees. Jackson KY reported a record low of 41 degrees during the late afternoon. Strong northwesterly winds ushering cold air into the central and northeastern U.S. gusted to 55 mph at Indianapolis IND. Winds along the cold front gusted to 65 mph at Norfolk VA, and thunderstorms along the cold front deluged Roseland NJ with 2.25 inches of rain in one hour. The temperature at Richmond VA plunged from 84 degrees to 54 degrees in two hours. Snow and sleet was reported at Binghamton NY. (Storm Data) (The National Weather Summary) wow was this the earliest ever occurrence of snow at Binghamton? 1989-1990 was such a weird time, we had historic nationwide severe wx outbreaks in September, October and November (that last one killed 10 kids at Coldenham HS in Westchester) and early extreme cold that lasted through December with a freak snowstorm just before Thanksgiving too. And then spring arrived just in time for New Years and it was consistently warm through March until winter gave us a last blast of snow in early April lol.

1815 - One of the greatest hurricanes to strike New England made landfall at Long Island and crossed Massachusetts and New Hampshire. It was the worst tempest in nearly two hundred years, equal to the hurricane which struck in 1938, and one of a series of severe summer and autumn storms to affect shipping lanes that year. (David Ludlum) I'm always fascinated by these old historic storms, what was its path and was this a Cat 3 at landfall, Tony? a 20-30 foot surge too? Two big hurricanes made landfall on Long Island in the early 1800s, in 1804 and 1815. The one in 1804 was the famous snowicane.

Thats why it's so great to see the sun come out and now it's bright and sunny with deep blue skies

we won't

I definitely do not miss that time, high winds -40 to -60 windchills and icy sidewalks that were so slippery, this was my experience in the mid to late 1980s.

that happened during the 80s too and icy sidewalks YUCK

January 1985 had our deepest arctic outbreak though and that's the one I remember. The last time JFK went below 0. The high was in the single digits too, which is extremely rare here.

Sounds like April 1982 when EWR had 13 inches of snow and the rest of us had 8-10 lol. I do recall some place on Long Island had 16 inches, but I don't remember where.

Weird and NYC only had 1? 1993-94 was better in that regard, NYC had 3.

Less than Central Park? or about the same, Ed?

PD1 was pretty big, there must have been more snowfall than ISP at JFK and some of the other south shore locations.

we really do not need or want this much flooding rain, 1-2 inches of rain like before is just fine and not days and days of depressing cloudiness either.

I see 2017-2018 is on that list too that was one of our greatest bookend winters.

Islip had some weird snowfall reporting back then, thankfully their snowfall reporting was good for February 1978 (unlike JFK).

I remember this happening during an SWFE back in February 2008 and it was a big surprise 6-8 inches of snow -- the changeover happened after the heaviest snow moved away and ended as drizzle. Everything had to be timed just right, the heavy snow came in like a wall at around 2-3 am and it snowed heavily into the morning and ended around 9 am as drizzle. It came in so quickly that it just didn't have a chance to changeover during the meat of the storm.

This looks like a good pattern for snowy noreasters in the winter if we get the right storm tracks. Forget tropical threats I'm completely over the tropical *season* or lack thereof.

We had PD1 in February that winter that fringed the area but was still enough for over a foot of snow for the city and Long Island. I wonder if anyone on the south shore saw close to 20 inches in that storm?

1983 was definitely the hottest summer here (and hottest until 2010), but what I find incredible about 1983's summer heat was that it was also our wettest year on record. We dried out enough for the summer for all that record heat from June through September!!!!

1994: A nor’easter wreaked havoc on coastal MD. 50-mph winds (gusts to 79 mph) destroyed 100’s of tents/vending areas at the end-of-summer Sunfest in Ocean City. Windblown fires burned several shops along the boardwalk; 9 foot waves flooded other areas. Damage up to $5 million. (Ref. Weather Guide Calendar with Phenomenal Weather Events 2011 Accord Pub. 2010, USA) I think I remember this-- did we have 5-5.50 inches of very heavy rainfall during this? I remember this because I was on I-80 in NJ when this happened. I also remember an August noreaster which gave us very heavy rain during the 90s. There was even some snow reported on Mt Washington in that one.

1978-79 was one of the coldest winters on record nationally, we might never see that kind of extensive cold ever again.