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[Freezing Drizzle]

12 hours ago, Amped said:

List of NYC death bands in the last 50 years. I might be missing a few.

2/11/1983

2/10/1994

1/8/1996

2/16/1996

4/7/2003

2/12/2006

2/25/2010

12/26/2010

1/26/2011

11/7/2012

1/23/2016

2/23/2026

 

Good list.
The two of the heaviest snowfall rates that I've seen were not in big snowstorms.  I'll look up the dates.  Curious if others witnessed them.

[Freezing Drizzle]

@Amped

Here is one for you.

March 7, 2018 
My notes:
Schools closed.
Heaviest snowfall rate ever witnessed, from noon to 1 pm. 5.5" total.

[The schools in Perth Amboy were closed based on the forecast.  It had looked like a bust, with only light snowfall in the morning.  Then, came down at a rate of around 4 inches per hour for about an hour.)


 

[Amped]

1 hour ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

@Amped

Here is one for you.

March 7, 2018 
My notes:
Schools closed.
Heaviest snowfall rate ever witnessed, from noon to 1 pm. 5.5" total.

[The schools in Perth Amboy were closed based on the forecast.  It had looked like a bust, with only light snowfall in the morning.  Then, came down at a rate of around 4 inches per hour for about an hour.)


 

That one banded through north central Jersey. Almost a repeat of December 2000 with warmer temps.

[Freezing Drizzle]

11 minutes ago, Amped said:

That one banded through north central Jersey. Almost a repeat of December 2000 with warmer temps.

So, I live just south of the "6-8"" under Newark.  Boy did it come down that hour!

[North and West]

List of NYC death bands in the last 50 years. I might be missing a few.
2/11/1983
2/10/1994
1/8/1996
2/16/1996
4/7/2003
2/12/2006
2/25/2010
12/26/2010
1/26/2011
11/7/2012
1/23/2016
2/23/2026
 

March 6-7, 2018 smoked me here, as did December 30, 2000; I just don’t recall if they hit CPK.


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[Amped]

4 hours ago, North and West said:

March 6-7, 2018 smoked me here, as did December 30, 2000; I just don’t recall if they hit CPK.


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I would consider both NNJ deathbands that gave NYC some decent snow but not a jackpot like the others.

They also didn't get huge amounts of snow in April 2003 or November 2012 due to the surface being warm, but radar showed a deathband stalled over the city for 4-5 hrs both times with a couple SN+ obs.

[Freezing Drizzle]

2/12/2006, on your list. @Amped

8 am that Sunday morning. Showing 35 to 40 dBZ echoes over my local area. 
The greatest snowfall rate during a major storm that I can recall.


 

[WeatherGeek2025]

13 minutes ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

2/12/2006, on your list. @Amped

8 am that Sunday morning. Showing 35 to 40 dBZ echoes over my local area. 
The greatest snowfall rate during a major storm that I can recall.


 

 

[MJO812]

3 hours ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

2/12/2006, on your list. @Amped

8 am that Sunday morning. Showing 35 to 40 dBZ echoes over my local area. 
The greatest snowfall rate during a major storm that I can recall.


 

2-4 inches bands per hour. Insane bands 

[Freezing Drizzle]

 

@steve392 @Amped @North and West
Here's the March 7-8, 2018 event maps, with the radar for the duration of the storm. Look at the deep, orange-toned echoes over parts of NJ at noon.

Corrected link:

www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/mar-7-8-2018
 

[steve392]

6 minutes ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

@Amped @North and West

Here's the March 7-8, 2018 event with the radar for the duration of the storm.  Look like deep orange-toned echoes over my location at noon. 

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZosgD1P0jFll54Ayk5dph5yQHGPzIGkQ/view?usp=sharing
 

That link is to wedding invitations lol

[Freezing Drizzle]

2 hours ago, steve392 said:

That link is to wedding invitations lol

Lol Odd. See corrected post above.

[NorthShoreWx]

4 hours ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

 

@steve392 @Amped @North and West
Here's the March 7-8, 2018 event maps, with the radar for the duration of the storm. Look at the deep, orange-toned echoes over parts of NJ at noon.

Corrected link:

 

Can we all bring a +1?

[North and West]

 
[mention=20411]steve392[/mention] [mention=673]Amped[/mention] [mention=15837]North and West[/mention]
Here's the March 7-8, 2018 event maps, with the radar for the duration of the storm. Look at the deep, orange-toned echoes over parts of NJ at noon.

Corrected link:

www.jdjweatherconsulting.com/mar-7-8-2018
 

Thanks! Was just looking through my photos from that time, and it was nuts.


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[PhiEaglesfan712]

17 years ago, the Nor'easter that kicked off the great 7-9 year stretch of storms: 

[Freezing Drizzle]

Great Dakotas blizzard of 1966

Click on the highlighted link, in this link, for cropped black and white scans to see some images.

www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/1966-blizzard-provided-north-dakotas-most-famous-photo/1868770

[coastalplainsnowman]

8 hours ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

Great Dakotas blizzard of 1966

Click on the highlighted link, in this link, for cropped black and white scans to see some images.

www.accuweather.com/en/winter-weather/1966-blizzard-provided-north-dakotas-most-famous-photo/1868770

That photo is wild.  I would love to know how tall those telegraph / telephone poles actually were.  Searching the web it's surprising to me how few publicly circulated photographs there are of this storm.  And the photos that do exist, at least those without any obvious indicators of timeframe like one you linked to, look like they're from the 30s or 40s rather than just three years before we put a man on the moon.

[Freezing Drizzle]

37 minutes ago, coastalplainsnowman said:

That photo is wild.  I would love to know how tall those telegraph / telephone poles actually were.  Searching the web it's surprising to me how few publicly circulated photographs there are of this storm.  And the photos that do exist, at least those without any obvious indicators of timeframe like one you linked to, look like they're from the 30s or 40s rather than just three years before we put a man on the moon.

The article says it was not as tall as today's power lines, but it was still a deep drift deep.
Did you see the photo of the guys house?

 

[coastalplainsnowman]

2 hours ago, Freezing Drizzle said:

The article says it was not as tall as today's power lines, but it was still a deep drift deep.
Did you see the photo of the guys house?

 

Yeah, that was crazy too.  That pic was the one other pic I thought could be consistent / supportive of the telegraph one.  To your point, the article did state that poles were not as tall as todays, I just wish they had an idea of how tall they actually were.  But even if they were 12 feet off the ground that would still be impressive. Who knows, I wonder too was it snow that was atop a previous snowpile or something?   But again that pic of the house looked legit, and I'm sure 70 mph winds with prolonged heavy snow over wide open plains I'm sure could yield some tremendous drifts.