LibertyBell

Isn't high tide occurring just about now? And it's the New Moon!

Same time here with big bright bolts of lightning too!

Thanks Walt-- where on LI was the 61 mph? We had big thunderstorms with lightning and heavy rain around 4:30 am with very high winds.

Yep we had that around 4:30 with bright bolts of lightning, heavy rain and very high winds. Then things calmed down and are now picking up again with the wind.

Why does that area get so much coastal flooding? Time to build a sea wall there

What's that fire on the back of his head supposed to do-- melt snow or make him feel warmer?

Yeah I thought everyone was laughing because of their snowfall totals lol

Be glad you weren't around in the 80s lol I walked to school in that !#$%^

Your wife may disagree lol

Some stories out of Dome A in Antarctica include ummm waste products freezing before they leave the "person" when trying to "remove" them outside....

Must be some Super Men in that group lol

Wow, that brought back memories when we set the hourly rainfall record twice a couple of years ago during tropical season. This does have the feel of a tropical type event on the front end-- is there a tropical connection with this, Don?

I'll blow away

snow actually makes people feel better than just cloudy and cold. snow is bright so it simulates the effects of sunlight and it actually feels warmer when it's snowing than it does when it's dry and cold. cloudy and humid summers are the worst

NW winds are boring though, nothing happens with them outside of colder temperatures (better in the summer though for extreme heat with dry weather.) Speaking of S/SW winds didn't we have a Blizzard in late February 2010 and 20" of snow (a foot here) on a southerly wind?

The April storm was THE BEST!

We (the south shore) made up for it because we got 2 FEET of snow in February 1983, my first ever true HECS (April 1982 also counts because of how late in the season it was and how late it happened.)

What was the reasoning for that? I liked the old charts better. We had some -45 to -60 wind chills back then! But it was also much colder in the 80s (and felt like it.) Much drier too.

Didn't Cheyenne record their alltime lowest ever temp at -42?

77-78 was a backloaded winter too lol You can put 81-82 and 82-83 in that list too.

Yeah 4-5 inches there and up to 8 inches here on the south shore (similar in some ways to April 2003) it didn't accumulate on the north shore and LGA because of the wind off the Sound.

I lived through those winters and they were ALL HORRIBLE The entire period from the late 80s through the early 90s was the worst on record. the worst ones were 87-88, 88-89, 89-90, 90-91, 91-92....things started to get better in 92-93, 93-94 was awesome, 94-95 was awful again (also an el nino), 95-96 was the best ever (a la nina), 96-97, 97-98, 98-99, 99-00 were all horrible again, 00-01 was pretty good except for the March 01 debacle, 01-02 was one of the worst on record, and starting with 02-03 they were amazing again.

Historically el ninos aren't any better for us than la ninas are, people need to let go of this crutch that enso matters that much around here-- it does not. Our two best snowfall seasons were la ninas and our worst two were el ninos. It still doesn't matter because you have plenty of both in each group.

What do you think of the models that are showing sound effect snow and even bay effect snow for Fire Island on Saturday?

Yeah thats what I thought-- we didn't have any snowstorms prior to December between 1995 and 2011.