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LibertyBell

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  1. I was wondering if we could ever have a snowy blizzard here with temps at or below 0. The closest to that which I remember happened in January 2004 with anywhere from 40:1 to 80:1 ratios. I think we were in the single digits in that storm, with about 10 inches of snow. The second big snowstorm that season, after the great December 2003 two day blizzard.
  2. Hey I agree with you, more terminology merely creates more confusion and it then becomes a distinction without a difference.
  3. Yep, isn't this something that is covered on the national level and local NWS picks it up when we are within 48 hours of the event?
  4. Yep, but there was a big storm in Feb 1979 that we were on the edge of the heavier totals. That was a very cold month wasn't it? Imagine if it was wet like January was.....
  5. Walt, is there an actual thing called a "tropical" tornado? I hear it mentioned often on the weather channel and I just though it's a term they made up just like "superstorm" when they called Sandy that. I found this page: https://www.weather.gov/cae/tropicaltornadoes.html However in the graphs below the word "tropical" is in quotes, making me think that it's just a slang terminology and there is no official definition for "tropical" tornado, just like there isn't for a "superstorm."
  6. But that could be rain Did 1983 have that kind of rainfall in the winter? At least the cold air was timed just right with the moisture for the big one in February.
  7. I think they do that in all basins. But then there is a level above that which is everything will be destroyed, get the hell out of there. Basically nuclear bomb level kind of damage.
  8. Walt, anything 1" or more should be considered a major event, it's a lot of rain and the ground just can't hold any more.
  9. Don, why don't we categorize these 150 mph + storms as Super Hurricanes like they call them Super Typhoons in the Pacific? I feel like that adds more attention and significance to them as well as 150 mph being a special benchmark (2x minimal 75 mph hurricane threshold, or 4x stronger using the square law). That said this will likely become a Cat 5 at landfall just like Andrew and Michael were, just look at the warmth of the waters there. Amazing on the 16 year anniversary of Katrina. I still think these truly special high end storms should get the moniker of "Super"
  10. that PRE has me worried, I think we saw the same thing in July when all hell broke loose even before the remnants got here. Our subways were flooded, it was a nightmare.
  11. we're getting those high totals because of the high dew points....just look at what happened last night and today
  12. if this was winter and it was snowing...... lol Lee Goldberg messed up last night and no one corrected him he said chance of rain and snow showers overnight lmao
  13. Didn't know we had a developing coastal storm going on out there
  14. lol yea I guess. I'm going to look back and find 1992 because I think that was even cooler. Cold and rainy summer, we dont get a lot of those anymore. Rainy yes cold hell no. edit- well 1992 had 6 somehow, with 1 in June and 5 in July. 1950 and 1951 only had 2 and 1 respectively, so 3 days over 2 years lol. 2014 only had 2.....but the big surprise was 1967 which had 0 90 degree days! I wonder if this was actually the case or if there is missing day from that year, because it came after the ultra hot summer of 1966 when JFK had 3 days of 100+ (matched only by 2010) and their all time high of 104 (also LGA's all time high of 107).
  15. It makes me wonder if this heat was timed better (read mid or late July) if we all would have hit 100+
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