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Just as a comparison 1972-73 was less snowy than this winter at JFK and the south shore..... JFK only had 1.6" of snow that season, but it was a colder winter than this one....and it was about 2-3 degrees colder for DJF, which is mind jarring that a winter could be that cold and see that little snow.

wow that event was 2 inches here and 1.5" at JFK.... I guess Long Beach can be different from JFK.

It got so bad that I refused to measure it, I just made my own scale of light coating, moderate coating, heavy coating, etc. It was between 3-4 inches here, I'll go with 3.5 lol 0.5 inches..... December (only LGA properly measured this), 1 event 0.1 inches...... January (really just a dusting), 1 event 2.0 inches + 0.5 inches...... February, 2 events 0.5 inches + 0.1 inches....... March, 2 events okay that adds up to 3.7 inches but it's really 3.5 since those 2 0.1 inch events were really just dustings and that first event in March was an estimate as it melted in the middle of the night. So 3.5 is probably the top end of what we got.

this is good enough for me, no need for anything more than this.

it's raining pretty hard here now with frequent lightning no real wind though

I wasn't here (away on vacation) but I read that July 1998 was really good for severe weather around here with large hail on the south shore that caused widespread damage to cars. 1999 in my mind is without equal, as that had multiple large severe weather outbreaks and that F2 tornado that went right down Merrick Road in Lynbrook on Labor Day. That was an amazing year and everything from huge heatwaves and record heat in the summer (record hot July) to bookend widespread severe weather around both Memorial Day and Labor Day!

wow so worse than a gunshot going off nearby....thats what it felt like to me when I heard it

microburst? those things can destroy roofs and cause lots of tree damage =\

it's why I hate thunder and lightning so much lol

probably because severe weather is very hard to pinpoint days in advance. General area of where it will occur sure but chances of any one location getting hit cannot be predicted.

Yes I sadly noticed Brooklyn is getting its own skyline

November was historic for Long Island a couple years ago

same here in southwest Nassau

wow different world out there, it's bright and sunny and in the 60s for an hour already here on the western part of the south shore...cleared out around 1:45

skies have cleared out here for an hour already and temps already in the 60s on the south shore!

I see an enhanced risk-- is that more than 5% for EPA and WNJ, Chris?

April 1996 was also a bit of a bust (not for Long Island though) as 6-12 inches was forecast and somehow Manhattan got less than an inch and Queens got 4-5 inches (as did we in Western Nassau County) while east of here got upwards of a foot! I did enjoy watching the Yankees play their home opener in what looked like heavy snow with the snow accumulating on their baseball caps lol

wow this list doesn't have the April Fools' Day snowstorm

is that like a dryline you often see that in Texas or the SW and it creates some of the worst outbreaks there

hmmm it probably wont just stop at the Queens line lol.

There's something that confuses me about this....NWS says slight risk is 2% to 5% TWC talking about Tor:Con or TCI saying their index is better because it measures "true risk"-- they have us under 30% (for E PA to NJ to Staten Island) and 20% (NYC and Western Long Island) and say their index measures likelihood of a tornado within 50 miles. They said that the "slight" risk and 2-5 percent gives people a false sense of security and 20% to 30% represents the way people should see the risk of seeing a tornado nearby.

I'm also wondering if construction of these new skyscrapers is serving to trap in heat. I don't like NYC's new skyline and new skyscrapers for a wide variety of reasons.

someone should do a Day 8 comparison vs reality of how much snow was forecast at Day 8 on these models vs what actually happened. We should do a model by model comparison to see which model was most accurate at Day 8 (translation: showed the least snow, because that's reality.)

That's why I'm specifically looking for temperatures in the mid 30s or lower for JFK because that would rule out the sea breeze effect. I wonder if the recent build up of more skyscrapers over the past decade and a half or so has something to do with more heat retention? There are a lot more tall skyscrapers now.

wow these are all recent! I wonder if UHI has increased in the last 10 years or so? The spring and summer records can be due to JFK being near the ocean, but the ones above seem to be because of UHI.