NorthShoreWx

No such luck. From 12/26/2010 - 1/27/2011 we had 51.4" (33 days). We only had 12" in the 12/26 blizzard. 2010-2011 Snow cover (2N Smithtown): 1" or more from 12/27 - 2/28. At least a trace from 12/27 - 3/6. 20"+ from 1/26 - 2/3. 10"+ from 1/12 - 2/17. Max depth 27" early on 1/27 (not recorded...was 25" at 9AM obs time). 1/27/11:

Sounds like a typical autumn day on the Tug.

January 26, 2011 (before the big snowfall). The first 6 weeks of the 2010-11 winter were great.

I recall January 21 from that winter. For some reason I have no memory of the rest of it.

One of the more memorable flash freezes of the past half century. This one was pretty extreme:

I assume it did not get that cold.

Not the first place I'd think of for the LI cold spot, although they were probably already iced in prior to that outbreak. I'll dig up what I had found if I get a chance later.

Old local newspapers refer to a number of spots around -19 , -20 in 1934. Don't know how accurate, but there were multiple such reports. 1934 might have been the colder outbreak though. Deep snow cover and radiational cooling contributed in 1961. Presumably there was some wind and more mixing (i.e., colder aloft) in 1934 for it to have gotten as cold as it did in NYC.

December 7, 2003 Regrettably this was a week before I got my first digital camera. It may have been the reason I got my first digital camera. Good memories and stories from that, including being on the Kings Park Bluffs in blizzard conditions on the 6th and picking up a friend at ISP during strong winds and relatively light snow late in the evening on the 5th. He had moved from CT to FL a few years earlier and was blown away by the conditions walking across the parking lot to my car. That also gave me respect for small airports; air travel was severely messed up and that flight landed at ISP right on schedule despite strong winds and and snow and about 8" on the ground at that point. There wasn't much more snowfall overnight, but we ended up with 16" on the ground after part deux.

Upton on LI set their record low of -23 in January 1961. That's some crazy pipe cracking cold for these parts.

We managed to get squat here. Maybe a few minutes of snizzle.

I enjoyed that one. 14" here and we never got above freezing on north central LI. I remember being called a liar when I said we had freezing rain here while it was plain rain in OC. I still don't really understand how we got stuck in that bubble, but it was pretty cool. I stitched together some video (a little accuwx and Craig audio in the background) and a few stills...Here ya go:

Wasn't there also an earthquake last year? Next comes locusts.

The tough one for ISP is the tornado. The other two happen, athough within 6 months of each other is uncommon; the last time was probably 1960-61.

Is it leaning to the left or to the right?

I hope you had a beacon and avalanche probe with you.

A few seconds of 1/23/2005 here: http://www.northshorewx.com/images/winter2005/Blizzard05/Blizz0501-1500k.wmv

12/13/2007 started as snow but was mostly another sleet-fest here (the third one that calendar year) with a little zr thrown in for good measure:

Ok, I'll bite... never before seen photos from PDII. Yours truly trying to do a front flip on the lawn. I never was a gymnast