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  1. LibertyBell
    it's awesome to see climate change breaking down the usual boring enso coupling.
  2. LibertyBell
    Chris, do you think this has a chance to be a majority snow event even for us on the south shore, moreso than the December event which was about 70% snow here? We got 8 inches out of that one here, would've been a foot if it were all snow.
  3. LibertyBell
    thanks based on long duration and lots of precip, I have a little list of analogs I've compiled...let me know what you think of these three: Feb 1920, Dec 1992, late Feb 2010
  4. LibertyBell
    Feb. 4-7, 1920 - One of New York's most extended onslaughts of winter weather of all time brought 72 hours of snow, sleet and freezing rain (beginning after 2AM on 2/4 and ending around dawn on 2/7). During this punishing storm, 4.41" of liquid precipitation fell, 17.5" of it in the form of snow (five to six inches of snow fell on 2/4, 2/5 and 2/6); the rest was sleet and freezing rain. For much of the storm temperatures were in the 20s, and winds gusted between 35 and 45 mph, with wind chills in the single digits. This was the storm I was actually looking for https://thestarryeye.typepad.com/weather/2013/01/new-york-city-snowstorms-1979-2011-.html
  5. LibertyBell
    I've been waiting to see a storm that is the all snow equivalent of December 1992. If this is a three day event this could be it. The only other time a snow or wintry mix storm was like that here was, I think, in Feb 1922? Might as well look at some maps of that storm also. I see you mentioned wind advisory possibilities, Walt, any chances we could have 50-60mph or even higher winds? Couldn't find Feb 1922 storm, but I did find this https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knickerbocker_storm#Setup_for_the_event An Arctic airmass was in place across the northeast United States; Washington, D.C. had been below freezing since the afternoon of January 23.[2] The front that spawned the cyclone was almost completely dry until after it crossed the Gulf of Mexico, making this storm unique among large southeast snowstorms. Despite the slow start, a low formed and deepened rapidly off the Georgia coast as the cold front reached the Gulf Stream on January 27. Heavy snow quickly developed from the Carolinas to Pennsylvania as the low drifted north to the Outer Banks of North Carolina on the 28th. A strong high pressure to the north helped to cut the system off from the jet stream. As a result, the cyclone took three days to move up the East Coast of the United States which was double the normal time used by forecasters of that era to move storm systems up the coast. Snow reached Philadelphia and Washington, D.C. by noon on January 28, and continued into the morning of January 29. Temperatures remained in the 20s Fahrenheit (-5 °C) through much of the event.[3]
  6. LibertyBell
    could a storm be both a hugger and be suppressed? never seen that before but I suppose theoretically it's possible ha
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  8. LibertyBell
    wow even better than 10-11!
  9. LibertyBell
    what makes a storm a super clipper? and I remember that storm and season well, we had pink sunrise snow falling in the morning, heavy snow as the sun came up! and a few years later in February 2010 I saw pink sunset snow!
  10. LibertyBell
    sure...Oceanside, south shore of Nassau County
  11. LibertyBell
    Walt, do you see this being a mix scenario at the coast? Lee Goldberg and others are saying this is our best chance of an all snow event at the coast.
  12. LibertyBell
    make that post your sig if we end up getting a foot of snow next week lmao
  13. LibertyBell
    NE got its revenge in 14-15
  14. LibertyBell
    around here we had more snow with the event from last week that dumped 0.7 here and a T at NYC and 0.2 at LGA and JFK...this was at best 0.1 here
  15. LibertyBell
    that was good for a few laughs, it was the one time I was laughing it up when we changed over, yea some clown thought this storm would be suppressed lmao.
  16. LibertyBell
    this may be why people I know think that this has been a really cold month! When I tell them it's been mild they refuse to believe it because there haven't been 50s and 60s like we had last January. To most people around here, temps below 50 are considered cold.
  17. LibertyBell
    what about 10-11 and 14-15? those were mighty cold. 02-03 and 03-04 were too
  18. LibertyBell
    yeah a friend of mine thought it was ridiculous when I told him this was a mild month- he said if it's mild why dont we have temps in the 50s and 60s like we did last January?
  19. LibertyBell
    Looks like we could be going into Phase 8 after the middle of February?
  20. LibertyBell
    it also looks like that suppressed event on the 28th may be setting us up for the big one here
  21. LibertyBell
    Retrograding sounds a lot like the late Feb 2010 snowicane. Looks like this one will be really windy too!
  22. LibertyBell
    I remember Dec 2010 well, why is it that it's often the 3rd storm in a series that seems to be the "big one"? It seems to be the case this time around also. Do the first couple do something to set the table for the third storm to be the big one?
  23. LibertyBell
    if it does mix at the coast it's only at the beginning of the event, as cold air is being drawn into the storm.
  24. LibertyBell
    also mostly snow for all of long island
  25. LibertyBell
    it was threading the needle all right, but the wrong needle
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