NorthShoreWx

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