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  1. LibertyBell
    1977-78 was like an early version of the modern years. Funny thing that in 1977-78 it was a huge deal to get two double digit snowstorms (both were blizzards too.) 1960-61 had three, but I cant think of any others from that previous era with multiple double digit events.
  2. LibertyBell
    yes! just checked euro again it has 12-15 inches for your area, same as what it has for NYC-Long Island lol
  3. LibertyBell
    PC with two screens lol....just saw the Euro and it has an interesting output....20-24 inches both NW of here in the Poconos and just south of here in Monmouth County (of course!) with "only" a foot across western and central Long Island. If the Poconos gets 2 feet you're bound to get good snows up there too.
  4. LibertyBell
    that was amazing too, my biggest memory of that storm is coming home from school and both my parents were at work and my door wouldn't open, the lock was frozen or stuck or something. I waited for my mother to come home and by then it had already started snowing and I was just sitting there freezing in the snow. She tried to open the door and she couldn't open it either lol so we both sat there for awhile until family friends got home and then we went to stay with them. We didn't finally get into our house until around 6 PM when my dad got home and he was able to open the door!
  5. LibertyBell
    I remember that- it was snow here. That was such an onslaught of storms from December thru March never experienced by me before.
  6. LibertyBell
    EPS normally reports lower totals than the OP right? I remember this being a characteristic of ensembles.
  7. LibertyBell
    I think someone said it was back in the 60s, but we actually got really close to a 30.0 average over 30 years and the last time that happened was back in the late 1800s! A strong argument can be made that our 30 year average was actually over 30 inches with how NYC does with snowfall measurements.
  8. LibertyBell
    Indeed, even 4 inches felt like a lot back then!
  9. LibertyBell
    I would have loved to be alive then, going from the historic 1966 summer to the historic 1966-67 winter, Christmas snowstorm and then lots of snow and cold in February and March.
  10. LibertyBell
    biggest thing about 12/95 was that LGA got 14" and NYC only got 8" JFK had 7" even with the mixing and a plane slid off the runway and right into Jamaica Bay. It went from snow to mix/rain and then back to snow on the second day and that's when the accident happened. It kicked off two weeks of severe cold that peaked around the time of the big Jan 1996 blizzard. It was so cold that even here on the south shore the snow and ice cover persisted throughout the entire holiday season. and then you probably remember all the flooding (included a supermarket collapse in Massapequa) and severe wx that happened after that (a week or two later) with temps in the upper 60s and then back to snow and cold at the end of Jan which then persisted through Feb, March and early April! That early April storm was one of my favorites, watched the Yankee home opener during it and 5 inches fell here. 1993-94 had two storms every week for the entire winter, lots of mixed storms one big ice storm and two nice snowstorms including one with a ton of thundersnow and 2-4 inch per hour rates in the middle of the day and we ran out of salt lol. Multiple lows below 0 in two arctic outbreaks and one really weird SE'er where it went from below 0 to mid 50s with 50 mph gusts within 24 hours lol.
  11. LibertyBell
    40 inches in the Poconos? thats just crazy lol
  12. LibertyBell
    Feb 1983 was my first snowstorm on Long Island and I waited for the next one like that for 13 years. Feb 1983 happened when I was in 4th grade, Jan 1996 happened when I was in grad school......longest 13 years of my life and of course when you're a kid 13 years seems to pass a hell of a lot slower than it does when you're in your 30s and 40s lol.
  13. LibertyBell
    Yes as a matter of fact in our biggest storms (depends on how you define them, but let's go with 12 inches plus) are much more likely not to mix. There are some interesting cases though....March 1993 we changed to rain but JFK had as much or more snow as the other city stations. Feb 1994 (second storm), same thing, JFK mixed but ended up with more total snow. Jan 1996....heard reports that JFK mixed for a brief time but personally I did not see any mixing and still had over 20 and about the same as NYC. So for some cases, you could mix or changeover and still get the most snow in the local area.
  14. LibertyBell
    the top year in that list didn't have much snow despite that and also being a weak el nino. think this season will easily beat the record? as a matter of fact, in that list amongst the top 6 2009-10 stands alone as the only season in which we had 50+ inches of snow. I'm going to make a little accessory list. historic snowfall seasons from the above group 2009-10 mod el nino #2 AO- 2010-11 strong la nina #6 AO- 1995-96 weak la nina #9 AO- 2002-03 mod el nino #10 AO- Looks like an even split in ENSO.....which lends to my point that there is only a weak correlation (AT BEST) between ENSO state and whether or not we have a historic snowfall season (my definition: 50" of snow). Chris, do you have a similar list for our top negative NAO seasons? Thanks!
  15. LibertyBell
    the winds in that one were some of the strongest I've ever witnessed in a snowstorm
  16. LibertyBell
    Pammy eh? You must mean Pamela Anderson
  17. LibertyBell
    remember the beginning of the second part of that storm? thundersleet and there was even a tornado reported over the ocean just south of the south shore of Nassau County! imagine what it would have looked like if that second part occurred during the day!
  18. LibertyBell
    I know what you mean- I have a second home in the Poconos. Being far away from everything does make things boring so I'm going to keep both places for now.
  19. LibertyBell
    I blame the dolts in the media who seem to have "north and west" plastered to their foreheads and then get surprised when eastern or northern Long Island jackpots. I wonder if anyone has ever done a statistical analysis to figure out what percentage jackpots in our region on an average yearly basis. I'd guess Long Island jackpots on average about one third of the time. Now if you want to talk about a region that rarely jackpots on Long Island it'd be the south shore. Probably even less than the Jersey Coast does. I'd guess the south shore of Long Island jackpots 10% of the time in big storms and those are in mostly storms that occur in moderate or strong el ninos (examples: Feb 1983, PD2, Jan 2016). and yup none of the ones you listed mixed here.
  20. LibertyBell
    how come you cant visit Lynbrook for the storm?
  21. LibertyBell
    Feb 2003? how did you do in that one?
  22. LibertyBell
    why not 10+ if its going to be all snow? If this is like Dec 2009, NYC got 10 inches and JFK got 15 inches if I remember correctly- do you see something like that?
  23. LibertyBell
    lol wasnt that long ago
  24. LibertyBell
    looks like the south shore of nassau should do well too.... what do you think of the Dec 2009 analog that neg nao brought up
  25. LibertyBell
    he's in a great place for the April 2024 total solar eclipse and he's offered to house and feed all of us who are going eclipse hunting
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