Record Breaking Cold January 3-4 & 7-8 Discussion & Observations

[pazzo83]

OMG it's not 9F in the park anymore.

[Kaner587]

East river is frozen at least until 96th st (my exit)

[pazzo83]

East river is frozen at least until 96th st (my exit)

 

That's pretty cool.  It's open water from Roosevelt Island south.

[Kaner587]

I meant from rfk south to 96th. But still impressive. As it opens up and becomes wider it looked a lot less frozen

[gpickett]

A few growlers prowling around the Brooklyn Bridge.  Expect more as ice to the north and Hudson breaks up and tides change.  

[pazzo83]

I meant from rfk south to 96th. But still impressive. As it opens up and becomes wider it looked a lot less frozen

 

Yea I was actually curious if it was frozen down by me when I was running this morning.  Water was pretty still (you know that look it has when it is close to freezing) but still open.  Pretty impressive that any part of the river froze over, I imagine that hasn't happened since 2011 or 2009.

[pazzo83]

Park hits 20 for the first time since just before midnight Tuesday.

[TWCCraig]

Entire GSB is frozen, parts of east river are frozen. Impressive.

[user13]

Entire GSB is frozen, parts of east river are frozen. Impressive.

Nice can anyone take some pics?

[bluewave]

Nice can anyone take some pics?

 

The satellite pass got a great image today.

 

[NEXtreme]

Ryan Maue:

Avg CONUS temperature for January 1-7, 2014 (inclusive, 168 hours) = 24.5°F -- coldest since 1988 (21.1°F), 2nd coldest since 1979 (18.3°F)

[user13]

The satellite pass got a great image today.

 

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Thx great shot

[bluewave]

Thx great shot

 

Sure. I wish that they had the MODIS for January 77 when large sections of the LI  Sound froze over.

 

 

 

 

[uncle W]

Sure. I wish that they had the MODIS for January 77 when large sections of the LI  Sound froze over.

 

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I don't have my records in front of me but I think from the second half of October to mid February one quarter of the days were at least 10 degrees below normal by todays standards...The cold season started with 1976 tieing August's all time minimum...One degree off Octobers all time minimum...One of the earliest single digit days on record in early December...hard to believe NYC got mainly rain between atrcic blasts in January...

[JBG]

Yeah it's going to take a lot more for us to get below 0 in the park. Upsetting is the fact we had a fresh snow pack the other night and still could not do it. Oh well I will take the nor'easter over the cold any day

We had the snow pack on different nights than the frigid 850's.

[wxman9]

The satellite pass got a great image today.

 

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Wow, no snow pack in that photo, pretty rare to have these temps with zero snow cover in these parts.

[bluewave]

I don't have my records in front of me but I think from the second half of October to mid February one quarter of the days were at least 10 degrees below normal by todays standards...The cold season started with 1976 tieing August's all time minimum...One degree off Octobers all time minimum...One of the earliest single digit days on record in early December...hard to believe NYC got mainly rain between atrcic blasts in January...

 

That January was the closest to a hard 1800's to early 1900's January that we experienced here. The only thing

really missing was the one day extreme temperature drop to below -10. I can remember going to school in that

brutal cold and seeing Arctic looking ice floes on Reynolds Channel north of Long Beach.

 

http://journals.ametsoc.org/doi/pdf/10.1175/1520-0493%281978%29106%3C1393%3ATWITCU%3E2.0.CO%3B2

 

[REDMK6GLI]

uploading some pics for this thread and 2013-14 picture thread. shows you how much ice is in the great south bay and Fire island

 

[tim]

...great shots..took me a second to figure out where you were (robt moses pkwy bridge going over

the great south bay)..nice job.

[Rjay]

I live right near the GSB...only parts of it are frozen. The canals are frozen and the shore to about 20 feet out is frozen. And random patches out further are frozen. I did see unfrozen water south of Freeport today.

[TWCCraig]

Meh, bay looked better last year frozen. Deep ice pack with an inch of snow on top of the ice. Looked like the tundra

 

Few images from last year:

http://imageshack.us/a/img849/1194/gsbfrozenover.jpg

http://imageshack.us/a/img203/5063/img027gh.jpg

[Allsnow]

The amount of property damage this cold shot has caused in Edison is pretty remarkable. Tons of burst pipes

[NycStormChaser]

Took this today in Niagara Falls.

[uncle W]

tomorrow will be the 37th day with a minimum of 32 or lower this season...That's the total 2011-12 had for its entire season...

min days 32 or lower...
37 2011-12
47 2001-02
49 1997-98
50 1998-99
53 1982-83
54 1990-91
59 1952-53
59 1972-73
60 1957-58
60 1994-95

60 2012-13

......................................

67 2005-06
63 2006-07
64 2007-08
86 2008-09
63 2009-10
84 2010-11

[NorthShoreWx]

Sure. I wish that they had the MODIS for January 77 when large sections of the LI  Sound froze over.

 

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Smithtown Bay was frozen over in 2004, but farther out the sound was open water:

 

http://www.northshorewx.com/20040201.asp

 

[user13]

Should be some more nice pics today and tomorrow 4k doesn't get us above freezing again today

[Drz1111]

Its a bit icy out there in the Harbor.
 
 

[JBG]

Late January frigid snaps can be just as cold, if not colder, than early January snaps. What makes you say that it won't be as bad so early on?

Remember the all-time record low was February 9, 1934; -15F in KNYC.

[LongBeachSurfFreak]

I live right near the GSB...only parts of it are frozen. The canals are frozen and the shore to about 20 feet out is frozen. And random patches out further are frozen. I did see unfrozen water south of Freeport today.

Not trying to be annoying but Freeport is not near the gsb it's part of the western bays. In between the meadow brook and wantagh parkway is east bay where I currently live I'm about to take a drive to scope out the ice. It's very hard to freeze because of the narrow channels in between the grass islands that have very fast currents unlike the wide open gsb. The last and only time I have ever seen east bay freeze was 94

[NorthShoreWx]

I live right near the GSB...only parts of it are frozen. The canals are frozen and the shore to about 20 feet out is frozen. And random patches out further are frozen. I did see unfrozen water south of Freeport today.

 

Maybe near Freeport you can find some open water, but the Modis shots show the south shore bays nearly completely frozen.  Can't say how thick (or thin) the ice is or how fast it will breakup, but there is pretty complete coverage atm per the satellite photos.