Intensewind002

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

Winds gust to 38 mph with visibility of 0.25 back home, not often you see something like that and it isn’t snow

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

They’ve become the norm dating back to March 2010, I think we got one at least once a year now

I wonder if someone out east makes a run on 6 or even 7?

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.

Yeah looking back we had an inch of rain on new years day as well

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

An inch of ice would probably bring Sandy level power outages to the region

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

There has to be some where in the hamptons that approached 30” if not 3 ft, too bad no one sent in any reports

Now that I’m back in Albany I might get back to back snowstorms

I accidentally took this yesterday when I meant to take a picture but it actually came out pretty good https://streamable.com/0fgwjr

Peak of the storm

In front of my house, by the time the wind died down, this drift was around 40” high

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

Yeah I’m leaning towards about 18-20” in lindenhurst, that final band really pushed us to bust high after it sat over us for a couple of hours

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.

Still getting some pretty strong wind gusts here, one to 49 mph not to long ago. 51 mph was the peak here around daybreak

Jan 2016 is the king for the south shore. Only storm I’ve gotten more than 2 feet of snow in

They’ve been cranking under the core of that little band for a good couple hours now, probably had 2”/hr rates

I’ve been choking on subsidence for a couple hours now

Temp 14, wind chill -4 right now