LibertyBell

1966-67 was amazing.

I saw some videos indicating that it snowed in Brooklyn during the day on Saturday. I thought the snow happened in the middle of the previous night? I wasn't aware that any snow fell in NYC or Long Island during the day.

and back to snow in early April lol

snow in the Poconos after severe weather yes. I saw a heavy frost when I got back to Long Island Monday morning after Mother's Day.

The really major heat was between 2010 and 2013, now we seem to have much more rainy springs (and a lot more allergies.). 2011 was a year in which we had both extreme heat AND lots of rain- like 1983 in that respect!

for some reason I remember 90s occurring more frequently in April and May back then (with the exception of 2002 and 2010 of course.) It's been like pulling teeth to get 90 at JFK before June in recent years...... when was the last time we had a polar vortex like this during the winter?

looks like those hornets love cool rainy weather......they'll probably be here in a couple years...and we might still be wearing face masks then!

you'd be an awesome LARPer

but the pollen horror has been full steam ahead since March. why cant we invent some sort of chemical to prevent pollen outbreaks? we seem to invent them for everything else......

Did any part of our area reach 80 yet?

the ASOS also underdoes summer temps at NYC and the wind reports are laughable. was ASOS a cost cutting measure so they dont have to pay people?

in 1996 we had snow during Mother's Day weekend too, 1-3 inches in the Poconos, I came home to a big heavy frost on Long Island on Monday, the 14th! 33 degree low. 1995-96 might have been our longest snow season!

thats Rapid City level extremes right there....

2002 was special, we went from a historically unsnowy winter to a brief shot of cold in early April, to a historic heatwave in mid April to another cold down in May to historic heat again over the summer lol. There was snow in the Poconos in May 2002 also. in 1990 we had a stretch of upper 80s in mid March to 1 inch of snow in early April lol....before that we had a Thanksgiving snowstorm going to a historically cold and dry December going to a historically warm Jan/Feb

May and Spring in general was definitely much warmer during the 80s and 90s.......

It will probably be warmer in the Poconos than it will be on Long Island lol.

Still cold enough lol- I think the ocean hasn't warmed any since January haha

Ed, do you have any records of data from Westhampton going back to 1966 or 1967 showing that they had a freeze in early June? And their latest 0 temp on the first day of Spring?

I remember that happening in northern Queens a few years ago, it hailed for hours...... Why do most hail storms only drop hail for a few minutes (like the ones last Monday) while the rare ones go on for hours?

The lowest temp was 34 at NYC? I thought it got down to 32 at 2 am during the snow shower? How low did it get at JFK? Did they report any snow? And that October 2019 high was 95-96 at JFK.....! I remember that crazy 50 low in August 1986- that was the first year that I saw the Perseid meteor showers and the skies were crystal clear with no haze- never saw them as well as I did my first year! Was 50 also the low at JFK? I also remember the 75 in Feb 1985- that was the same winter when we hit -2 in Jan during the inauguration with a high of 7! Coldest arctic outbreak of my lifetime! Januarys were cold and dry back then and Feb was always much warmer (aside from 1983)! I think LGA and EWR hit 80 in Feb 2018- I saw mosquitoes flying around! I also remember the 72 in Jan 2007- that was the 11 year anniversary of the Jan 1996 blizzard! It was warmer in Jan then April in 2007 with snow all the way down to the SC coast!

I ended up going to the Poconos Friday afternoon and was rewarded with heavy snow showers Friday night (less than an inch) and numerous snow squalls on Saturday (5 of them by my count, with a coating of accumulation in the middle of the day, interrupted by sunshine in between squalls) and then 4 separate hail storms on Monday, also interrupted in between storms by sunshine! Haven't had excitement like that on Long Island in 3 years! I kept checking the radar back home and looks like JFK had like 30 min of snow at the tail end of the storm between 1:45 am and 2:15 am early on Saturday but no snow showers during the day and no hail on Monday? The 22 temp Saturday morning with a wind chill of 7 was a real shocker though brrrrrr......most winter weather I've seen since January! The split was 37/22!

1997, I think that was it, I was out of the country and saw it in the papers when I got back! Can you find out how large the hail was at JFK or around the Five Towns area or Lynbrook/Valley Stream and how long it hailed for? Thanks!

I remember that was a really dry and hot summer at JFK, the lawns around here were yellow and brown....even in September. Somewhat like 1983.

Yeah, Lee Goldberg of all people lol. So, I'm thinking the latest we had any amt of snow was May 9th, 1977? Is this storm similar to that?

I remember reading that there was car damage from a hail storm on the south shore sometime during the 90s- I forgot what year.