LibertyBell

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.

Thanks Walt, please keep us updated with final totals as I'm sure there will be backend snow. Do you have any Poconos winds reports too?

Aren't Seiches the lake version of Tsunamis? For the record my toilet bowl experienced a Seiche in August 2011 when we had that big earthquake here on the east coast (5.8 is big for us!) Never experienced anything like it and want to again (as long as it doesn't damage anything.)

Chris we hit 58 here on the south shore around 4 am when those big thunderstorms hit, the temps have been slowly falling since and are now in the upper 40s.

Temps are slowly falling here even on Long Island. Highest temp was 58 around 4 am when those big thunderstorms hit.

I think he wants December 1992 type historic. This isn't that and was never going to be that extreme. This isn't historic and has underperformed in MANY parts of the country (I can see them all complaining right now on Twitter lol).....but it is a big event (that word "significant" gets overused). A big event, probably not the biggest event of the season, but a major storm yes. In spite of all the snowstorms and storms of the century we have had since. I'll always measure all weather events by what December 1992 did. From my experience it was every bit as bad as Sandy was. More extreme in my book because it lasted for 3 days!

The winds have started to calm down now and it's not really raining here much now. This is probably the lull before the front comes through.

Why is it our biggest storms happen around either new moon or full moon?

Wow I'm in that purple zone north of Long Beach

Looks like you got the most in the event! Highest winds?

Thanks Walt, I think the Poconos had a max of about an inch and it was all rain by sunset.