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  1. LibertyBell
    this is the list of what I would call the truly hot summers 2010, 1993, 2002, 1991, 1983 missing a few (1944, 1955, 1966, 1980, 1995, 1999)
  2. LibertyBell
    the good old days! lots of snow in the winter and lots of heat in the summer! didn't we have the same at LGA though in 2010?
  3. LibertyBell
    what the heck happened in 1913 lol
  4. LibertyBell
    I love this kind of heat, I want westerly winds forever
  5. LibertyBell
    Think that is bad, used underwear from the 60s is showing up in Lake Tahoe because the water there is going bye bye too.
  6. LibertyBell
    I remember October 2005 being an amazing wet month (even moreso here on Long Island) but NYC unfortunately didn't match the record from September 1882 because the last week or 10 days wasn't wet, came close but that last 10 days did us in. Long Island though had 2 feet of rain that month. But as far as yearly totals are concerned, I dont think 2005 was as rainy as 1983 was, it was all mostly in that one month. 2011 I would say was the second rainiest after 1983. That August was amazing though. As far as monthly rainfall totals at NYC are concerned, does the September 1882 record still stand or did August 2011 supplant it? I see that's a thirty day rainfall record that includes parts of both months, so I'm not sure if NYC has had a 20" rainfall month yet (or 20" over 30 days for that matter, since those numbers are from EWR.) Wow Edna must have been something- that was a Cape Scraper wasn't it? So basically the 9" that occurred in Brooklyn with this past storm was out in Central Suffolk County with Edna. Does JFK have these three years (and months) as their wettest too- in 1983, 2005 and 2011?
  7. LibertyBell
    I dont believe this malfunction nonsense, I was alive then (and so were you I think) and I distinctly remember that as being wetter than any other year I've ever experienced and that includes the post 2010 years.
  8. LibertyBell
    I remember 1983 well I can confirm it was the rainiest year I have ever witnessed (which makes it all the more amazing that it was our hottest summer for a long time). Wasn't it JFK's rainiest year?
  9. LibertyBell
    Only because it came in at low tide right? It hit Cape May as a Cat 4 and was a Cat 3 right up to NYC that's amazing Low tide was the only reason why it wasn't a bigger deal than Sandy.
  10. LibertyBell
    Ginny was a big snowicane in Maine!
  11. LibertyBell
    Cat 2 can happen once a decade, but Cat 3 are ultra rare up here. It could happen with the aforementioned Irene track as long as the storm is really strong in NC and moves really quickly. 130 mph Hatteras Cane moving 40 mph on an Irene track could do it.
  12. LibertyBell
    Imagine if Irene had been stronger down south it would've been stronger up here. I think the strongest we can reasonably expect for a Hatteras Cane to be is 130 mph.....I wonder if Irene was that strong there how strong it would have been up here on that track and make it move quicker, like 40-50 mph
  13. LibertyBell
    was Ginny the one that made it snow in Maine?
  14. LibertyBell
    Hartford is going to see the center of the storm twice lol
  15. LibertyBell
    I would like to hear some eyewitness reports, although the ones I have seen show the surge was really high and the pressure near the center was really low even when it was going over Manhattan. Do you have any windspeed reports, did any part of our area have 100+ gusts?
  16. LibertyBell
    Yes I loved that a lot more than the October 2011 snowstorm lol, this was a real snowstorm and all snow lol
  17. LibertyBell
    Some of those totals seem a little off..... 7 inches at JFK and just 3 east of there? From Saturday night onwards no one in the local area should have less than 6...hey Walt can you add one more map from Sat 8/21 thru Mon 8/23 because we had a whole lot of rain Saturday evening starting here around 6 PM
  18. LibertyBell
    I was saying that yesterday, it's like all the rain cleaned out all the pollution. Maybe a lot of that haze was from air pollution that has now been cleaned out, oooooh this is how the sky is supposed to look!
  19. LibertyBell
    I think the 1821 Hurricane if it happened again right on that track and maintained that intensity (which was greater than 1938) would be the ultimate storm.
  20. LibertyBell
    But even authorities like Rick Knabb has said that SS scale isn't an impact scale and a separate scale needs to be developed for impact that includes IKE and storm size. Makes a big difference especially with surge where storm size really matters. Wind speed isn't everything. Also we have hurricane wind warnings for a reason, if you look at the Beaufort scale, it defines any storm with 75 mph winds as a hurricane, I would go with that. The reason for wind speed increments is because of how information is reported....you never hear about 74 mph Cat 1s or 96 mph Cat 2s or 111 mph Cat 3s or 157 mph Cat 5s.....each should be rounded either up or down to the nearest 5 mph increment which is how the data is reported to the public. Cat 4 avoids this mess because that has been revised to 130 mph (I suggest such a revision for each category, and TS should be 40 mph not 39 mph too)
  21. LibertyBell
    reminds me of squalls we see in the winter this area where I live never gets any convection lol
  22. LibertyBell
    wow the sun is blindingly bright, how are you getting rain lol
  23. LibertyBell
    it was Cat 2 and strengthening, just another doesnt make sense, the sheer size of the storm gave it more energy than any other hurricane other than Katrina SS scale doesn't describes hurricanes like this well
  24. LibertyBell
    it was probably sub 940 and a Cat 2 just before landfall
  25. LibertyBell
    good keep it there lol I'm enjoying my bright sunny skies
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