LibertyBell

lol I looked at Islip, NY's snowfall tally in the NY subforum thread and Islip has had 36 or more inches of snow in 9 out of the last 10 seasons and 42 or more inches of snow in 8 out of the last 10 seasons. The one year out of the last 10 when they didn't get to three feet of snow was 2011-12 when the total there was only 5.5"!

Too much mold around here. I know I'm allergic to something in high humidity because I literally cant breathe in it and get bad headaches until I turn my heat way up and then I feel better.

Don any concerns that we'll see more coastal huggers this season since that seems to be a characteristic of this month? That would make it more like 2013-14 than 2002-03. Although December 2002 had such an event that turned snowy Christmas night.

How strong do you think this one will get? Close to -2?

I see a nice 1977-78 plus 2002-03 plus 2014-15 hybrid mix.......

The big ones usually happen in December. I remember back in the early 90s we had one at night with the full moon shining in a partly cloudy sky and somehow picked up 2 inches of snow in 2 hours lol. Another time it happened in a nearly clear sky- snow falling with the sun shining!

this decade is on pace to be the snowiest decade on record and thats saying a lot considering the first five decades averaged over 30"

12/26 is a really big day for snow around here.....imagine if all those snowstorms that occurred that day had occurred a day earlier lol

2001-02 was a good lesson not to get carried away even though the winters after that more than made up for it!

2011-12 really sticks out like a sore thumb in a very snowy decade the only thing about that season was the aberration of an October snowstorm that snowed out Halloween. It was all downhill after that!

The winters that are really good for both I think have a variable storm track and a lot of redeveloping Miller B's that dump on your area first and then come out this way and redevelop offshore. How were 2004-05 and 2010-11 for you? 2004-05 was the king of Miller B's and I know 2010-11 had huge snowstorms that hit the northeast and also hit the midwest. Reminded me of 1977-78 in that respect although that winter lasted longer for us. In the mountains where I was over the weekend it got dumped on last night but sadly I was traveling back to the coast so I didn't get to experience it, but I see there's more chances coming for this week.

Amazing thing is no 30" snowfall winters or snowstorms 10" or more from after 1983 until 1993 lol

Islip snowfall totals used to be perplexingly low for snowstorms. Even as late as 2003-04.

Maybe not, according to Ludlum and some others NYC got close to 100" just prior to official records starting to be kept at Central Park. Late 1860s I think.

Yes it's about 2,200 feet in elevation but a bit south of you, near Lake Harmony. The snow squalls were amazing to wake up to Saturday morning. I think it snowed there last night too but I was already back on Long Island by then. I have a feeling this winter will be the first one since 2002-03 where everyone shares in the big snows.

Crazy thing is looking at Long Island snowfall over the past 10 years, there's only been one below average and 9 out of 10 had 36" or more and besides the one three foot snowfall winter, all the other ones are well over 40"+

I'm in the mountains of NE PA for the weekend and my pond froze over (only at the top though) and we had our first snowflakes of the season Friday and Saturday with snow squalls that coated everything with the sky only partly cloudy lol. Wow 2013-14 for you was like 1995-96 for us and February 2015 was one of the coldest months on record for pretty much all of us. Similar to February 1934 for here, except no -15 lows lol.

Wow that was the last accumulating snow for us that I remember.

1992-93 was notable for the most severe and longest duration noreaster I've ever experienced (Dec 1992) that was worse than any hurricane I've seen around here pre Sandy, but we only got a bit of snow at the tail end from it, March 1993 was a foot of snow before the changeover. All in all, if you go by total snowfall, it was an average winter, but the coastal storms were really extreme-but nothing that was all snow.

I had snow squalls down here in NE PA that covered the ground while there were still blue skies Saturday Morning. The pond has frozen over also (a light freeze at the top.)

Also snowed on Saturday morning after the cold front passed, we actually had some heavy snow squalls with sunshine in between (and some periods of snow with blue skies lol), everything had a coating on it. Pond has frozen over also (a light freeze at the top.)

Wow for Upton thats 9 out of 10 winters with 3 feet (36") or more of snowfall.....and outside of the one year at 36" all the other ones are over 40"!

It's interesting how we have had a half decade of 30"+ snowfall seasons when in the 80s we had none. Think the warm water offshore has something to do with it? We see much higher snowfall rates than we used to. Back in the 80s a 1" per hour snowfall rate was considered historic.

That August 2011 8" of rain at JFK is very memorable- and it came a month after we hit 104 degrees and 108 degrees at Newark! In August 2011 we also had to deal with the rains of Irene and a 5.8 earthquake! Chris, a storm that just missed this list though it comes close is the January 2016 Blizzard which was a 3" liquid equivalent (31" of snow) at JFK! That May 1, 2014 event is also memorable for all the flooding we had with widespread 5" rainfall totals (mostly at night)! Interesting I had forgotten that in March 2010 we actually had two big rainfall events, like we did in August 2011.

Their temps in the summer are way off lol. To be fair though Central Park isn't the only one with the problems- what was the issue with Erie, PA's snowfall totals last winter? They supposedly had 202" of snow and then THREE FEET of snow had to be "removed" because there was a miscalculation- what happened? They went from 202" to 166" after the adjustment lol.