LibertyBell

only 13 inches here in Feb 2006

there were like 25 storms of 1" or more or a sleet/freezing rain mix... its why the city ran out of salt in the middle of winter lol

Definitely..... 89-90 had the two worst possible winter outcomes here- dry and cold followed by warm and wet. When it was in the mid 80s in Mid March we were happy and hoping for a warm spring and then we got hit with an inconsequential little snow event in early April lol. I like April snow but it should at least be a few inches.

it was like being in two completely opposite seasons within the same season!

was school closed for 2 days

all I remember about that winter is changing over to rain while it snowed a few miles away lol

thanks I saved that graphic, it actually verified! I hope JM sees it too lol. It actually snowed right to 7 am too, it ended at the perfect time for the official measurement!

lol I thought they were prank or crank calling you after the predictions massively busted.

it did here, a year later.....on the same date?

oh lovely, I wonder if the March 2001 predictions were similar.

prank calls or crank calls ?!

same 4-5" we got here lol

we got freezing rain on the first day of the storm and 4" on the back end. Patchogue got a foot of snow on the back end. NYC public schools closing in advance was absolutely comical.

What kept the storm from being closer to the coast and/or developing sooner?

I dont think the NWS ever lived down those monster totals they predicted for the Jan 2015 storm. Good thing Jan 2016 happened to make up for it (sorry it didn't hit you also.)

Yes I was really disappointed on the 2nd day of the Dec 2003 storm because I expected a HECS on the level of Jan 1996 and it never got quite that good. It snowed lightly throughout the day and was nothing like the first day of the storm, even though it was much colder. That's when I learned that colder temps dont necessarily mean more snowfall lol. How much did EWR get in total? Anything like the 20 inches across Central Long Island? Does that sort of remind you of the last March 2018 storm that also jackpotted Central Long Island with 20 inches of snow? That Jan 2011 storm was hall of fame worthy because all the snow that fell in the first part of the storm had melted already and we somehow still got to nearly 20" in about 5 hours of snowfall! I remember thundersleet and even a tornado reported just south of Long Island (waterspout) just before the second part got underway, at the tail end of the rush hour. FWIW that might have been actual hail and not thundersleet at the start of the second part of that storm!

I always forget that late Jan 2011 storm and should have added that to my list. I remember that one also came in two parts, with around 4-5 inches in the first part and another 15 inches in the second part.

I was thinking something like what we had in December 2003 (which was also in early December) might do it, Farmingdale picked up 20" in that two day storm. Even that storm was touch and go because it was supposed to change to rain on the first day but stayed all snow with the mix line just 5 miles south of us the entire day! It made for some awesome snowfall amounts because being just north of the mix line is ideal. It dropped into the teens the next day with the storm still ongoing but the highest rates shifted east of us to central Long Island. The city ended up with 13-14 inches total with 8 inches on the first day. That was the earliest Blizzard Warning I've ever experienced and we all had a foot plus of snow between the two days.

oh wow, 63-64 must've been an amazing el nino winter! how much did we get in those two long duration storms? How much in the Dec `1959 storm?

Remember the Feb 08 SWFE? 6 inches of snow even here on the south shore!

Thats right! I now remember that blizzard we got in early January that was a bonafide blizzard! Longest true blizzard conditions since January 2016! That pattern reminded me of 1995-96 for a while until it flipped but it flipped back again just like 1996 did but not as quickly as 1996 did. In 1996 it flipped back to cold at the end of January and we had a snowy February. It didn't flip back to that until March in 2018.

well think about it this way, if the SST that far south are still in the upper 80s and low 90s, how could August SST be even warmer than that? It's probably that the temps get that hot in August and stabilize near there until October. Thats how you get cat 5s coming out of the GOM in October like Michael and also going into Central America or even into the Southeast. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Category_5_Atlantic_hurricanes#Listed_by_month 6 of them in October, almost the equal of August (7), and significantly trailing only September (21). The first Cat 5 in the historical records is actually an October hurricane. Heck, there's even a November Cat 5 in that list! Michael, Matthew, Mitch and Wilma were all famous October Cat 5s.

One of the reasons we have seen such a high usage of antianxiety pills, antidepressants, sleep meds, etc., and yet stress levels go higher and higher is because Western society is so toxic. It's every person for themselves and it can be isolating and drugs seem to be the only way to get away from the stress. Of course thats a wonderful plus for the pharma industry, which feeds off the misery of others. Most of these industries do. The rat race indeed- and we are the rats! It's a very clever way for those who built the maze to "divide and conquer!" Watch the movie Dark Waters- it's about DuPont dumping toxic waste in the waterways and ignoring when their own employees complained of high rate of birth defects. It took a class action lawsuit to uncover what DuPont had been hiding for over 50 years! They have a strong lobby, as does the rest of the chemical industry, which is why pesticides that cause brain damage in children like chlorpyrifos have been unbanned. PFOA and chlorpyrifos have been found in our blood and PFOA has been found in the blood of 99% of animals including polar bears and eagles.

Watch the new Meet the Press episode, they talked to John Kerry and Arnold Schwartzeneggar who joined together to make a bipartisan group about climate change and Arnold mentioned that California has the strongest environmental regulations and yet has the fastest growing economy too. They mentioned that job growth is fastest in the solar panel and wind power industry over everything else and people are leaving the oil fields to go work there. He also said he got many conservatives to join by framing the discussion in terms of pollution and disease (like higher asthma rates) rather than solely focusing on climate change.

Looks like the Florida Keys will be permanently underwater within a few decades- ditto parts of the Louisiana coast. https://t.co/HWaooJD5ek?amp=1