Oh that’s unfortunate, my parents house in Lindenhurst is all good from what I heard. I’m 15 years older than my sister and from I’ve heard she didnt any school delays due to any power issues in the neighborhood
It seems widespread gusts to 60 doesnt really have much of an impact anymore for the island, now it’s more like widespread 70+ to really get widespread power outages like in isaias or sandy
I wonder if there is a compilation somewhere on the internet of all the events with 60+ gusts in the region over the past few decades, if there is there definitely has to be an upward tick in frequency in the past 10 years
We’ve had 7 here in SW suffolk since the 90s, based on trained spotter reports in the public information statements from upton: 1996, PDII, Dec 2009, Feb 2013, Jan 2015, Jan 2016, and now Jan 2022. I guess we’ve been really lucky or something.
That inland runner that crushed buffalo gave us like 2” of rain so probably, idk how much LE we got from the blizzard and early january snowstorm though
Idk how NJ loses power so frequently, I haven’t lost power back home on long island since Sandy. It’s not like theres no trees in my neighborhood either
Yeah the snow maps are nearly identical with this one and Jan 2015, this one was a little farther west I think with the heavy stuff and overall it was probably more enjoyable for most of us because expectations were not for at least 2 ft lol
Imagine the January 2018 blizzard with its 949 mb pressure made a loop south of montauk instead of speeding away just east of the benchmark? That would of been the blizzard to end all blizzards. I have to agree in regards to wind that January 2018 was stronger, I remember getting frequent gusts into the 50s with that one, this one was still obviously a blizzard out here in western suffolk but gusts were mostly in the 35-45 mph range besides a few isolated around 50. Snowfall rates 2018 wins too 3”/hr here then, today was 2”/hr at worst, but the duration of this event allowed it to still pull ahead in the final snowfall totals department
Almost impossible to measure due to all the drifting, (some spots are literally bare while some drifts are nearly 4 ft high) but Im thinking I got somewhere around 14-16” (maybe as high as 18”) of snow here. Definitely worth the (literal) price of admission.