Top 5 weather events that you wish you were alive to see

[Thunder Road]

January 1996 (technically I was alive, but only 2 y/o)

Gloria in 1985

The whole winter of 1960-61

Donna in 1960

The April 1915 blizzard

Honorable mentions:

Limerick tornado of 1994 (again, technically alive, but...)

The 1983 cold snap (I think it was '83 anyway)

March 1993 superstorm

sorry, East Coast bias

[BucksCO_PA]

1. FEB 6-14, 1899

2 5 1899 32 25 42 42
2 6 1899 29 25 4 4
2 7 1899 30 25 32 32
2 8 1899 30 11 46 36
2 9 1899 11 -1 0 0
2 10 1899 5 -6 0 0
2 11 1899 10 -6 0 0
2 12 1899 10 4 77 77
2 13 1899 10 7 99 100
2 14 1899 23 9 12 12

2. technically I was 11 months old but definitely 12/24-25/1966 - amazing how many weenies & non-weenies who experienced this storm speak with such reverence about amazing amount of lightning & thundersnow, officially 4 consecutive hrs at PHL

3. winter 1960-61

4. Hurricane Hazel

5. DEC 25-26, 1909

[ChescoWx]

Kind of similar to BucksCO above

1) February 1899 (see attached copy of NWS observer's handwritten) - 69.8" of snow that month and over 50" over 3 days

2) Christmas Eve 1966 (alive but too young) 21.2" of snow here in Chesco with Thunder snow

3) 1909 Boxing Day Blizzard in Chesco - 38.0" of snow

4) March 20, 1958 - just a 7 miles up the road in Morgantown - 50" of snow in one day

5) April 11, 1894 - 28.2" of snow from a Mid April event....impressive!

[Grothar]

1. Blizzard of 1888 NYC

2. Tri-state tornado in 1925

3. Hurricane in the Keys 1935

4. Johnstown Flood of 1889

5. Blue Norther of 1911 Janesville Wi

[phlwx]

Hazel

February 1899

Summer of 1867 (the closest comp to what we went through in Aug-Sep here, only with mud and horses/buggies)

Christmas Eve 1966

February 1934 (the -11 low)

[snowlurker]

I've struggled to come up with a list corresponding to the places where I've lived and thus realistically could have had an opportunity to experience.

I've already experienced 1991 Saudi Arabian heat, historic 1994 Michigan cold, the 2011 East Coast earthquake, 2011's Hurricane Irene, and the awesome winter storms of 2009-2010.

I hope to God that I never experience an F5 tornado.

Since it's impossible to see a Cat 5 hurricane without terrible human misery, I don't think I'd like to see one.

I experienced some real whoppers of snow drifts in Southeast Michigan in the winters of '77 and '78. Although I can't complain with the East Coast winter storms that I've experienced since moving here in 2006, it sure would be nice to see a snowdrift again that was five feet tall.

[hazwoper]

Christmas Eve 1966

This! My parents tell me about how they got stuck in a snow bank on the way home from Xmas Eve festivities.

Can't think of others right now, but as an aside.....I was born the day of the super outbreak 4/3/74

[RutgersWx92]

1.) Blizzard of 1996 (I was alive but only 3 and a half)

2.) March 1993 Superstorm (Once again I was alive but only 10 months old)

3.) January 1994 ice storm (apparently this gave central NJ over an inch of ice)

4.) Blizzard of 1888

5.) February 1899

[LVblizzard]

1993 Superstorm

Hurricane Hazel

Hurricane Donna

Blizzard of '96 (again, was alive, but just 2 years old)

February 1899

[chubbs]

Feb 1899

Mar 58 (42" in W. Grove, only dim memory of delco impact)

Dec 26, 1909

Hazel

!944 Hurricane

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[Fozz]

February 1899

PDI

February 1983

All the big snowstorms of 1987 (two in January, one in Feb, one in mid-November)

Winter 1957-58

I also wish I could remember March 1993, the following winter, and Jan 96 (I do remember this one a little but I was only 5 and a half).

[tcutter]

my top two..........

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1899

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Blizzard_of_1888