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just glad that the typical rainy spring stuff isn't happening.

is there any evidence for a large airburst meteor strike though?

Probably why it's been getting so hot in Europe the last few years, with London hitting 100. Would this mean rapid warming of our summers eventually too? Because climatologically we should be hitting 100 more frequently than London anyway.

possibly but one hit ACY early in the 1900s I think that was an August hurricane (not sure). But still only Cat 1

Thanks for this! It also seems that although hurricanes maintain intensity further north, a lot of them get closer to Eastern Canada than they do to us. in the above chart does * stand for post tropical?

Yes I think we've heard enough of Hunga Tonga Cowabunga, dude!

Yes to both, the 1821 hurricane was known as the Norfolk and Long Island Hurricane, though how it maintained Cat 4 intensity to Cape May and Cat 3 intensity when it hit Manhattan, I have NO idea. If you look at the track, it looks a lot like Irene's (except slightly farther to the west-- which should mean even more land interaction!) PreColumbine era yes-- there's also evidence of a high end supertsunami resulting from an asteroid impact (maybe the same one that formed Chesapeake Bay....which may have broken into two parts, the second of which landed just east of Toms River!)

It seems to be easier to get a Cat 1 to do that, looking over the 20th century, the only hurricanes that have bent back into the coast were all Cat 1s.

One thing I am puzzled about, with the Gulf Stream warming so much how come we haven't seen a hurricane like Hugo hit us (not that I want that of course, but that was a hurricane that warmed up rapidly because of the Gulf Stream.) Hurricanes still seem to rapidly weaken before they get to our region.

8.... that last one says straight line winds Breaks the record of 7 in one day for NJ from the notorious and lethal outbreak from November 16, 1989 that I remember so well (the one that killed 10 kids at East Coldenham High School in Orange County.) also there was an EF3 in Delaware, wow?! I think that's the one that ended up being lethal?

some of those are truly mindblowing I didn't know it was possible in our area to have temps near 90 during the day and in the 20s at night....anything like this from Westhampton (FOK) or Marthas Vineyard (MVY)..... those are the other two places I know of that radiate really well. I don't see Toms River in here (MJX) either, which I thought they would be

It sounds like it could challenge some of the extreme diurnal ranges at Toms River or Westhampton!

wow the diurnal departures there must be impressive-- the highest in the area?

ugh well that's annoying, like a 19 inch snowstorm or a 99 degree high or a 1 degree low lol Probably got down to 32 on the south shore of Nassau though

There was a spike in temperatures after we passed the Clean Air Act too.

Looks like JFK was at 33 degrees at 6 AM....I wonder if they hit 32 earlier?

Hopefully we get this in the summer too, I love dry air.

This is for overall yearly tornadoes right, not just for April? Thanks for posting this-- I see my county in NE PA included here!

it just seems weird to be the only places under 70 inches though and there weren't any snow to rain storms, do you believe there was widespread undermeasurement in the January 1996 blizzard too? Also, didn't JFK measure 4.5" in the April snowstorm? That would mean its total was more like 64-65 inches before April, which seems really low for 95-96. How much did Oceanside measure in the January blizzard and in the April snowstorm, if you have those numbers, Chris?

and I believe that 95-96 total was actually over 70" because of the undermeasurement during the January 1996 blizzard (same with NYC). Some of those years were downright shocking, 1988-89 and 1989-90 were the back to backs with less than 10 inches and it was really annoying in 1989-90 because we got off to a quick start with the Thanksgiving snowstorm and December was so cold. I thought 91-92 was also below 10" but maybe not. Or maybe it was 96-97? Top 3 winters by far were 1995-96, 1960-61 and 2002-03 I take it 2009-10, 2010-11 and 2013-14, 2014-15 were the only 2 couplets that were back to back over 40"? Are the longterm snowfall averages and 30 year snowfall means both under 24" at JFK, Chris?

long island certainly has, they had 8 tornadoes in one day in November-- that's unprecedented in ANY month!

will the midweek wetness have severe weather associated with it again?

That late 90s period really was horrific lol (throw in 2001-02 too to cap it all off)....two consecutive seasons with 10 inches or less of snow and that's before 2001-02. JFK had two straight below 10 inch snowfall seasons and 3 out of 4 in the early 90s.

any good analogs for this? 15-16?

The wind right now is much stronger here than it was at any point today or tonight-- it's really roaring out there!!