There were a couple of heavy showers that hit Nassau during the night in the East Meadow, Hicksville and parts of Levittown. Also up around Syosset over toward Huntington. I was on the southern end of one of them and picked up .61 so far. Meanwhile just a few miles away there has been very little rain.
I picked up .58 inch of rain from a small cell that was over my area and just to my north. Hicksville picked up about an inch and places just to there north and just to my south are still at close to 0 with rainfall from this event. I got lucky and was just on the southern fringe of that little heavy rain band.
I am hoping and believing, at this point, this will be one of the many instances where it takes seemingly forever for the precipitation to finally make it eastward enough to reach Long Island but when it finally does we get our fair share.
Camille is the strongest hurricane to hit the U.S. in my life time. Although all wind instruments were destroyed as the storm made landfall, it is estimated by NWS that winds were 170-175 mph. and gusts close to 200mph. as it made landfall.
I remember some news reports early the morning after Andrew hit. Some reports were saying it did not seem as bad as feared mainly because the reports were coming out of the Miami area. Then they made it south and to Homestead.
Looks like another storm and rain event for the north shore of Long Island, meanwhile central long Island and the south shore continue to miss most everything.