September 2025 OBS-Discussion centered NYC subforum

[gravitylover]

4 hours ago, bluewave said:

I mostly remember how cold it was waiting for the school bus every morning during those late 70s winters.

I never lived far enough from a school to take the bus. There were some crazy cold walks and the wind off the water was always in your face. The good old days...

[Sundog]

7 minutes ago, gravitylover said:

I never lived far enough from a school to take the bus. There were some crazy cold walks and the wind off the water was always in your face. The good old days...

I remember being on the bus waiting for a kid to get on in 1994 when we went below zero and as we were waiting, some store clerk came outside with a bucket of water and he poured it toward the sewer down the side of the street and the water never made it since it froze in seconds.  

[Roger Smith]

The snow depth mystery is basically explained by fact that snow depth is measured early in the day before most of the snow falls, so it increases the day after the snowfall report in most cases. 

[RU848789]

On 9/6/2025 at 12:15 PM, wdrag said:

Thank you.  12z SPC HREF is saying it will happen up and down the I95 corridor.  Bring your swimmies if you're outside and dry clothes for inside.  80% prob of watch issuance in latest convective outlook up and down I95.  Will probably issue NOW-OBS thread 130PM if not sooner.  This will be significant for some folks.

Forgot to report back.  For what it's worth, while much of the 95 corridor and SE of there from Wilmington to NYC got hammered, our son's wedding location about 5 miles south of Philly escaped with zero rain from 3-5 pm, so we could've had the outdoor ceremony, in hindsight.  However, I still think we made the right call moving the ceremony indoors as there was 1/2" of rain and severe t-storms with lightning and very gusty winds and a few downed trees just 3-4 miles east and south of our location between 3-4 pm (we could see the dark skies and hear the thunder) and there could not have been any way to predict that those storms would just miss us - if they had hit our location it would have been a mess and pretty dangerous. We only got some light/moderate showers in the early evening.  

Plus, it was way more comfortable indoors and the wedding was a smashing success on all fronts, with a beautiful ceremony, some great food and drink, and 2+ hours of awesome dance music.  Luckily for us, our son and his now wife are big fans of punk/alt/ska/indie music from the 70s to today (and some great Motown/classic rock/great pop too), so we all got to dance to songs like Temptation by New Order, Last Night by the Strokes, Sound System by Operation Ivy, Let's Stay Together by Al Green, and I'm a Believer by the Monkees to name a few.  

[Stormlover74]

Most models with a good 1 to 2" soaking for Thursday into Friday. Possibly less for LI