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  1. LibertyBell
    Dallas has a strong chance to get below zero, when was the last time that happened?
  2. LibertyBell
    oh the Lindsey storm was from my previous post, not the one you quoted....Jan 2016 was only 5 years ago lol. That was 30" in 24 hours. Lindsey storm was Feb 1969. When you mentioned memorable storms that dont last that long, you reminded me of Jan 2018 I think it was where we had a white out that entire day, the storm lasted less than 12 hours but dropped 10" or so. True blizzard conditions for 6 hours. Jan 2016 had true blizzard conditions for 12 hours here, but Jan 2018 was more photogenic in some ways because the entire day was a white out.
  3. LibertyBell
    yep that was VD 2016, what a weird winter that was....historic warmth in December to the record snowstorm for NYC and over 30" here in January, and below zero at NYC on Valentine's Day
  4. LibertyBell
    that doesnt make sense though....recheck Jan 1994 when we had historic arctic shots, I distinctly remember my thermometer recorded -3 and I was only 4 miles SE of JFK, so either their equipment malfunctioned or they did record below zero temps in Jan 1994. I lived near JFK in both Jan 1985 and Jan 1994 and I can tell you for a fact that it was below zero in both outbreaks.
  5. LibertyBell
    Not for the south shore of Long Island....here the Jan 2016 takes the cake with over 30" of snow in a wide swath (at both my locations!) There's a list of Christmas storms (actually that one is called the Boxing Day storm since that happened the day after Christmas) on a previous page....the notable one is from the 66-67 winter, which was a great winter by all accounts and very long. The king of all Boxing Day storms happened in December 1947 and happened to be the greatest snowstorm (and winter) until 1995-96 came along.
  6. LibertyBell
    Got numbers for Long Island, Ed? I think both JFK and LGA reached or exceeded 20"?
  7. LibertyBell
    funny thing about 93-94 was that the only two pure snow storms bookended that winter, the first storm was all snow and the last storm was all snow and everything in between was a mixture lol. I actually think that late season storms (after March 20th) tend to be more snow than ice.
  8. LibertyBell
    Ray's blog describes it well, it was a historic storm from your area to ours, since we're close to the same latitude we both got a lot of ice lol
  9. LibertyBell
    I think that might have been 1998 with the big freezing rain event up there. I'll quote it here also- I said 1.5-2 inches, there was no 2-4 inch ice storm here, as far as I can recall, ever. http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/1994/07-Jan-94.html It was well over 1" here on the south shore, I measured it myself (wasn't hard to measure, I had over 1.5" inches of a clear ice sticking to everything. There was very little wind, therefore no power outages and it looked rather beautiful outside. here we go Ice accretion from freezing rain exceeded 1 inch across much of central New Jersey, making this the worst ice storm in modern times across this part of the state There were only two pure snow storms out of all these events, the first and the last one. Snow storm, December 29-30, 1993 Ice storm, January 3-4, 1994 Ice storm, January 7-8, 1994 Snow and ice storm, January 17-18, 1994 Snow storm, January 25-26, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 8-9, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 11, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 23-24, 1994 Snow and ice storm, March 2-3, 1994 Snow storm, March 18, 1994
  10. LibertyBell
    local forecast has temps just below freezing most of the week
  11. LibertyBell
    Yeah see the post from Famartin's blog, we got between 1.5-2 inches of ice, central NJ has a very similar climo to the south shore of western Nassau county
  12. LibertyBell
    http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/1994/07-Jan-94.html It was well over 1" here on the south shore, I measured it myself (wasn't hard to measure, I had over 1.5" inches of a clear ice sticking to everything. There was very little wind, therefore no power outages and it looked rather beautiful outside. here we go Ice accretion from freezing rain exceeded 1 inch across much of central New Jersey, making this the worst ice storm in modern times across this part of the state There were only two pure snow storms out of all these events, the first and the last one. Snow storm, December 29-30, 1993 Ice storm, January 3-4, 1994 Ice storm, January 7-8, 1994 Snow and ice storm, January 17-18, 1994 Snow storm, January 25-26, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 8-9, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 11, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 23-24, 1994 Snow and ice storm, March 2-3, 1994 Snow storm, March 18, 1994
  13. LibertyBell
    http://www.raymondcmartinjr.com/weather/1994/07-Jan-94.html here we go Ice accretion from freezing rain exceeded 1 inch across much of central New Jersey, making this the worst ice storm in modern times across this part of the state There were only two pure snow storms out of all these events, the first and the last one. Snow storm, December 29-30, 1993 Ice storm, January 3-4, 1994 Ice storm, January 7-8, 1994 Snow and ice storm, January 17-18, 1994 Snow storm, January 25-26, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 8-9, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 11, 1994 Snow and ice storm, February 23-24, 1994 Snow and ice storm, March 2-3, 1994 Snow storm, March 18, 1994
  14. LibertyBell
    I never said 2-4" LOL.....it was more like an 1.5-2" we got close to 2" of freezing rain here on the south shore of Long Island, it wasn't hard to measure, there was about that much of it sticking to my damn railings.
  15. LibertyBell
    Hopefully we get to see that fairy dust at some point this month, Ed! It was slippery this morning, I guess we had some freezing drizzle too.
  16. LibertyBell
    20" for eastern parts of the city in 1969
  17. LibertyBell
    thats amazingly sad that you need laws to get passed for people to be good and actually save others....this is exactly why we need regulations If left to their own devices, people usually wont be so considerate
  18. LibertyBell
    so maybe yet another even day event.... 12th, 14th, 16th, 18th and 20th, so make that a total of 5 possible events lol.
  19. LibertyBell
    yes that one and the one in March. The fact that both had a lot of sleet makes it seem like a lot more than the 10-12 inches of seasonal snowfall we actually had. Much more impact than that would normally be.
  20. LibertyBell
    Walt, how many storms in total are we talking about? 4? On the 12th, 14th, 16th and 18th? Let's keep it to even numbers to make it easier to remember lol.
  21. LibertyBell
    looks like it changes to rain here?
  22. LibertyBell
    In some ways it even exceeded 1996 (though 1996 wins for pure snowfall of course.) But the extreme cold in 1996 was more centered in the midwest, as the state record of -60 at Tower, MN is from that February. When Minnesota gets a state record in cold, you know that has to be some kind of cold lol- and that was after an extended thaw in January after the big blizzard.
  23. LibertyBell
    thats why I remember that event so vividly, it broke our January thaw and it was the first time I had seen grass in weeks, and then all of a sudden, BOOM! Vivid lightning and loud thunder and snow starting at a rate that I had never imagined before and it continued for 2 hours or more. Do you have any idea what the snowfall rates at JFK might have been? I think it was somewhere between 10 AM and 2 PM that it happened and I'll never forget it- went from bare ground to over half a foot of snow in like 2 hours!
  24. LibertyBell
    when I see so much blue on the map thats what I immediately think of. It's best to be just inside the outer edge of the blue or, since we're right in the middle of winter, in the white area between the blue and red anomalies
  25. LibertyBell
    and the storm on the 18th is now looking like snow to rain, Walt?
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