LibertyBell

That explains 1989 and 1990 too, since we started out with higher temperatures then too. I recall those were quite windy periods too, I remember the extreme severe weather outbreak in November 1989 with the tornadoes and I think the 8 children who died in the school cafeteria when the wall collapsed. All the leaves were off the trees in November 1989 before the Thanksgiving snowstorm hit. These late fall / early winter extreme severe weather outbreaks have become more common too.

If my talcum powder debacle counts, salt counts too! This seems to be a common theme the last couple of winters, more salt than snow.

One more thing to note, especially in reference to this extreme temperature swing of 50 degrees we had.....big temperature swings were also quite common in the late 80s and early 90s.....1989 and 1990 show up a lot on Roger's list of the biggest temperature swings, so that may be another repeating cyclical pattern, along with going into drier years than we've been used to and less humidity (specifically applies to the summers.) Might want to look into solar cycles too, as the early 90s were near the peak of solar heating.

50s had low snowfall around here as March was the snowiest March and the other months weren't very snowy. If you go through the 1950s, no year had 40" or more at NYC and the snowiest was 55-56 at 39.2" on the strength of its big March. 1950s are actually comparable to what we have going on right now with March being the snowiest month and high tropical activity.

We did strike out in 2000-01 but it happened in March instead of December haha. 2010 was a fat pitch right down the middle of the plate though-- it was a la nina after an el nino and that is ALWAYS snowy around here. That was always going to be extremely snowy.

That was way too long a period to just be "luck" there is a cycle involved here and it's now repeating.....I've been noting that the last few years are very much like the 80s and now we got the drier summer too, so I believe we are going to be in a much drier pattern with less snow for a few years. Hotter/less humid summers too (which is good.)

I was looking across Long Island and FRG, ISP and FOK all had 48 degree swings on the same calendar day but all three were 50 degrees over 24 hours. FOK had the maximum wind gust at 61 MPH after the cold front came through.

Wow excellent, a record for them too? I saw a 54 degree swing at MPO in 24 hours (5 AM yesterday to 5 AM today), and 53 degrees on the same calendar day (are these records too?) ABE had a 53 degree swing in 24 hours and on the same calendar day. PHL had like you said a 50 degree swing in 24 hours and on the same calendar day. I saw a 48 degree swing at JFK in 24 hours (5 AM yesterday to 5 AM today), and 46 degrees on the same calendar day (are these records too?) LGA and EWR both had 50 degree swings in 24 hours and 49 degree swings on the same calendar day. Thanks!

Would love to know how much of your snowpack is still around. My house in the Poconos was at -2 at midnight but I don't know how much lower it got after that-- what was your low this morning? I think the lowest temps were around 8 AM? Did the windchill get to -20 or -25? I use Mount Pocono for my local obs, any idea what the low was over there and the coldest windchill? Thanks!

Sometimes we sure wish we could control it.

How long would you think the good pattern will last? I would say Jan 20 just going by recent history to about Feb 20?

No, the forecasts were all off, we got colder than predicted and with a degree or two to spare (glad we got it to 50 degree difference just before midnight.)

We actually had 4 left at that point, the midnight obs are taken before midnight and count for the previous day, that got us to 50 :-)

Wow March 1990 and April 1990 on this list, brings back some nice memories!

a good time for a boating trip!

Bet you didn't think we'd have a 30 inch plus snowstorm coming less than a month later!

How do you measure your temperature? 4 is the lowest I've heard anywhere near the city.

We had 60 mph gusts at 4:30 am when we got hit by those thunderstorms and 50-60 mph behind the front like you said. The winds were impressive but the temperature drop was a lot more impressive. We do get 60-65 mph winds at least once every few months here. The 50 degree temperature drop was historic.

It would be funny if we got some snow up here but I doubt that will happen.

Hurricane force winds-- but this is all normal for them lol

I was rooting hard for this record! We are the new Rapid City / Spearfish SD! is this the east coast record?

Thanks, that 10 ft surge in Sandy may be the highest storm surge we'll see in our lifetimes. So 8.45 was the highest it got in this last storm and it was timed perfectly with the lunar high tide. This was some storm of extremes, from 58 degrees at 4 am with thunderstorms and 61 mph winds to an 8.5 ft storm surge to diving into the single digits, 7 degrees this morning with -15 wind chill Is this the largest temperature difference this area has ever seen within 24 hours? I remember we went from -2 to 55 in January 1994 but that was over 30-36 hours I believe? Yesterdays splits were 58/8 so a 50 degree spread?

Yes that was one of the best winters for me too. The Grade A winters in the 10s were 10-11, 13-14, 14-15, and 17-18. Not including 15-16 despite 40" here and the biggest snowstorm ever here, over 30" and below zero in NYC on Valentine's Day because December was historically warm and Jan 16 had the only big snow storm (though we did have a few decent ones in February too.) In the 00s, we had 02-03, 03-04, 04-05, 09-10 (not going to put 05-06 in there even though NYC had 40" and their largest snowstorm until Jan 2016 because it was a warm winter and that was the only big snowstorm). So we had 4 in each of the past two decades.

Jan 20th.....history repeats itself.

It's a lot easier to get snow in January and February than it is in December here-- December isn't really a snow month here for a variety of reasons.