I just moved down here from Suffolk County. I was there for the 11/15 event and am most prepared with all of the big snows NY has received over the past 10 years.
December 1989 was just so phenomenally cold- I always think about how cold December 2010 was- but then I go look back at these records from 12/1989
GHCND_USW00004781_1989-12-1.pdf