LibertyBell

From the evidence Chris posted, December seems to have been all about that warm pool east of the area. All blocking is definitely not equal.

late 80s/early 90s too. We did a contest a few years ago and I believe the late 80s/early 90s beat the late 90s-- the thing about the late 90s was no one cared because we were all happy with what we got in 93-94 and 95-96 I don't even remember the late 90s-- I didn't start caring again until the March 2001 bust and the terrible 2001-02 season lol. But let's say you do 87-88 to 91-92 and compare it to 96-97 to 99-00 The former was worse..... Let's say you skip over 00-01 and add in 01-02, maybe they're a draw? 5 seasons of futility vs 5 out of 6 seasons of futility lol

About once a decade here....last one was 17-18 if you go by the 40" per season numbers that a lot of people call a Grade A snow season here.

wow was 8 feet the peak or did it get even higher? What were the levels for Irene and Sandy? I think Sandy was 11 feet?

good thing the airport there is closed, people have no business traveling

the airport there is closed too

Severe Tstorm warning until 1:15 60 mph winds and 3/4 inch hail

This is the way it usually happens, having had this for years, you need everything to be perfect for these parts, it's why you either want to be farther to the north or up in the mountains.

Wasn't the Gulf Stream supposed to be slowing down which is why we're getting much bigger snowstorms-- or is that only for January onwards lol?

ah and the warmth will actually get here before that happens

I hope the fish are okay!

On what date is the blocking projected to end?

Don you said there is some lag with these indices? What is the maximum latest time one could get a snowfall and have it be associated with this block?

Yeah I guess the hope that the winds would switch to SW by the time high tide happened here did not materialize.

I think so. There was some hope and talk that winds would switch direction to the SW and that peak winds wouldn't be exactly timed up to high tide but it looks like this storm maximized the coastal flooding potential.

No I mean to the exact hour, there was some talk that the highest winds might be a few hours before or after the exact time of high tide on the south shore.

Wow, over 5 feet?! Was it timed well with the lunar high tide?

Yes, I'm hoping for a nice snow squall for us! Maybe even enough to whiten the ground?

My county in Eastern PA is in the dark green

Oh I loved that game! I watched it live and watch it from time to time when it's on....especially during a summer heatwave haha. 1996 was so awesome in so many respects lol.

Tony can you post the max wind gusts for these sites alongside too? Thanks!

I like spring snows because I know they will be the last of the season. April 1996-- do you remember there were actually two snowstorms that month? There was one that only hit the eastern part of the forum while it white rained in the western part and then there was the big one where we all cashed in, except for some odd reason NYC and LGA got less than an inch (JFK got 4.5 so that was pretty good.) The sweet spot was eastern Long Island which got 4" in the first storm and 16" in the second storm in April, 20" of snow in APRIL!

I loved this storm, it was unpredicted, the best kind. We had 3-6 inches of snow (most towards Montauk, but still a very good 3-4 here and in the city.)

I understand but we're going by NYC climo which is different from SNE climo. Eastern LI is much more like SNE than it is NYC (because of latitude and longitude.) I think you could say that November snow may be detrimental for part of the board, but only because that part gets screwed because of its location in other ways too-- things have to line up perfectly. Both far eastern regions and far western regions have quicker return periods for snowfall. Urban NE NJ to NYC and Western Long Island (Nassau County) have the longest return period between snow events. I think there should be a way of statistically analyzing this. Let's pick the average of EWR, NYC, LGA and JFK for one dataset and ISP, FOK and OKX for another dataset and Morristown, Monticello and Poughkeepsie for the third dataset. What are the average return times for 1", 4" and 6" snow events for each? I bet the urban dataset has the longest return times and also the shortest time between first and last events. 10-11 is also in that list of long weather patterns-- but for some "odd" reason (haha) mild/rainy patterns seem to last a lot longer than cold/snowy ones and if we do have a long cold pattern for some "odd" reason it seems to be cold and dry interspersed with cutters lol. That's what we had in the 80s.

No you need to include both 87-88 and 89-90 as we had a snow event on Veterans Day 1987....it was quite famous too, from DC and Philly to Boston. We actually got the least out of the east coast cities but it was still 1-3 inches.