uncle W

Brooklyn is over a million...

I'm 70 years old now and feel it in my bones when it gets cold...I lived in Wellsville NY when I was 4...I moved back to Brooklyn in 1954...I can still remember seeing snow and ice from back then...I was almost seven years old when the first major snowstorm hit NYC in 1956...NYC had above normal snowfall from 1956-1969... 1955-56.....33.5"..... 7 years old... 1957-58.....44.7".....9 years old... 1959-60.....39.2".....11 years old... 1960-61.....54.7".....12 years old... 1963-64.....44.7".....15 years old... 1966-67.....51.5".....18 years old... 1968-69.....30.2".....20 years old... 1977-78.....50.7".....29 years old... 1978-79.....29.4".....30 years old... 1982-83.....27.2".....34 years old... 1993-94.....53.4".....45 years old... 1995-96.....75.6".....47 years old... 2000-01.....35.0".....52 years old... 2002-03.....49.8".....54 years old... 2003-04.....42.6".....55 years old... 2004-05.....41.0".....56 years old... 2005-06.....40.0".....57 years old... 2009-10.....51.4".....61 years old... 2010-11.....61.9".....62 years old... 2013-14.....57.4".....65 years old... 2014-15.....50.7"...,.66 years old... 2015-16.....32.8".....67 years old... 2016-17.....30.2".....68 years old... 2017-18.....40.9".....69 years old... two before ten... four in my reens... two in my 20;s... two in my 30's... two in my 40's... five in my 50's... seven in my sixties... as I got older I witnessed as many snowstorms and good winters after 50 years...I wish this happened in my 20's and 30's...

I would proclaim winter is from 12/15 to 3/15 if I was in charge...

in 1960 on this date snow was tapering off and temperatures were in the teens going down to the single digits...15-21" of powder with huge drifts...

I was his age at the time...it was the biggest story of my young life...I still remember that day like it was yesterday...

it was December 16th 1960...I remember the forecast was for rain and the news anchor said the mountains of snow will turn to oceans of slush...he was right for 7th Ave and Sterling Pl in Brooklyn...

you can double your average snowfall by going 50 miles to the north and west in places like Sparta NJ...just keep an address in Brooklyn...I bet at least half the police live outside NY...

that was banned from the radio...it was going to be the number 1 record before that...

I play it for laughs...some songs from that time would be considered not politically correct today and probably be banned...songs like Running bear and Pepino the Italian mouse...

Poconos or Sussex county NJ...

I play baby talk and baby sitting boogie to my one year grand daughter...both from around 1960...there were many weird songs in 1960...Mule skinner blues was one of them...

My song was the 'Theme from a summer place'...a song about summer reminds me of winter...I found out it was JFK's favorite also...that decade of music changed drastically from 1960 to 1969...I went from listening to Frankie Valli to Frank Zappa by the end of 1968...

https://www.musicradio77.com/wmgm/surveys1960.html

I remember Scott Muni when he was on WMGM radio say 'hey kids...No school tomorrow' on March 3rd, 1960...

I measured 23.0" in Brooklyn and another sight 3 miles to my se measured 23.6"...Central Park was under measured...

he was so drunk one night you could not understand a word he was saying...It was during the holidays way back around 1963...

Gloria Okon...

January 18-19th, 1936 had a storm that was mostly rain on the 18th but changed to heavy sleet and snow the next day...final totals...9.0" of snow and sleet...2.71" LE... March 1914 set the record for the lowest barometric pressure ever for NYC...

all the winter storms with at least 2.00" of LE for NYC... 4.43"...17.5"...02/04-07/1920...mid 20's to low 30's...snow/ice/sleet for over 72 hours... 3.17"...20.9"...02/25-26/2010...mid 30's to upper 20's...wet snow some mix... 3.11"...14.5"...03/01-02/1914...upper 30's to upper teens...started as rain/sleet/ice... 2.68"...12.5"...02/20/1921........mid 30's to low 20's...started as rain/sleet/ice... 2.62"...17.4"...02/03-04/1961...upper 20's to low 30's...changed to sleet/rain for a time... 2.52"...10.6"...03/13-14/1993...low 30's to upper 30's...changed to sleet and rain... 2.40"...26.4"...12/26-27/1947...mid 20's to low 30's...all snow 2.32"...27.5"...01/22-23/2016...mid 20's...all snow 2.22"...10.4"...02/03-04/1926...mid 20's to 30...mixed with sleet and ice... 2.16"...20.2"...01/07-08/1996...low teens to low 20's...all snow... 2.10"...21.0"...03/12-14/1888...upper 30's to single digits...started as rain/sleet... 2.08"...18.1"...03/07-08/1941...low 20's to low 30's...wet snow ending as a mix... 2.08"...12.5"...02/13-14/2014...mid 20's to mid 30's to mid 20's...changed to rain for 12 hours... 2.06"...19.0"...01/26-27/2011...low 30's to mid 30's to upper 20's...changed to rain for a time...

1947-48 had around 330 hours...1993-94 with 310...1919-20 with 305...1995-96 with 295...1960-61 with 237...the local climate data stopped showing what precip. was falling every hour in 1965...after 1965 you have to estimate sometimes...

the night of the January 19th 1978 storm Kasper was hedging towards a bigger storm saying the rain snow line has moved south...He said NYC could get 8"...I rember Alan Kasper making appearance's on the Uncle Floyd show in the late 70's...They called him Alan Kaster oil...

that was the one predicted to turn to rain after 3"...it finally did after 13"...

the storm was predicted to be one of the biggest storms ever a few days out...noaa said so on their weather radio back then...

we would be basking in 60 degree heat on this date not knowing a major blizzard was a week away...the first half of January 1961 was benign...Sunday the 15th was 50 degrees early in the day...light rain started in the morning and temperatures dropped during the day...the rain changed to sleet in the early afternoon and mixed with snow in the evening...it snowed until eight the next morning...2-3" across the area accumulated...it was in the 40's for two days before an arctic front passed and stalled to our south...a major blizzard with a foot of snow in Brooklyn started just after noon on the 19th...it ended just after noon on the 20th...temps were in the teens with high winds...the temperature did not get above 29 for 16 consecutive days in a row... snow cover melted very slowly and there were two days in a row of clipper snow and another coastal that dropped 4" the next week...the end of January had 9" of snow on the ground...February comes in with near record cold...-2 on the second...there were rumors of storms that week and it was supposed to be on Thursday...it came on Friday the 3rd and ended on the 4th...there was accumulating snow from 6pm to 5pm on the 4th...the temp rose to 34 just after the snow ended stopping the record 16 straight days from 17 straight days with a max freezing or lower...there was 28" on the ground in Brooklyn after 21" fell as snow and sleet...after that storm winter was on its way out with a big thaw and storms after that were to warm for snow on the coast...