September 2025 OBS-Discussion centered NYC subforum

[Brian5671]

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

I actually got used to being right under the flight path for planes landing at JFK when I was back in Long Beach. But it was hard to ignore the Concorde which flew over my house every morning shortly after 9am coming into JFK. But kids think that kind of stuff if pretty cool anyway.

I live near a much smaller airport now and the flight path doesn’t go directly over my house. But it’s really cool walking around the airport and seeing all the takeoffs and landings. There is a dirt lot where the locals park to watch all the flights landing and taking off.

I still enjoy the low flyovers when walking on the sidewalk which crosses directly under the planes just off the end of the runway. I have noticed that the Boeing 737 is a much louder jet than the Airbus A 220. The airbus has more of a higher pitched whine and the Boeing is more of a deep roar. 

Had friends in the aviation business that would get to ride the jump seats on flights. 

They need to get that expansion started which will extend the runway at Tweed.    Then they would not need full power to take off with a slightly longer runway-the neighbors must hate all the racket there!

[LibertyBell]

17 minutes ago, donsutherland1 said:

2.30”.

Most of that in one storm (2.21 I think)? Which also matches the exact total of the entire month of August lol.

 

[LibertyBell]

25 minutes ago, Sundog said:

I hear both all the time. By the time the roar of the first plane is about to totally dissipate I hear the whine of the next plane approaching. 

Ever since 2012 LGA permanently switched over to the "Tennis Climb," which they used to use only to avoid the US Open. 

That puts the planes right over eastern Queens. Not only that, but the frequency of flights has gone through the roof with updated technology and they also fly 1000 feet lower, which all just compound the noise problem. 

https://qns.com/2025/09/meng-quiet-communities-act-aircraft-noise-queens/

And I know the towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead are suing the FAA. 

LGA is a huge problem.  It's just too busy.  JFK has some cases like what you've mentioned too but it typically happens only early in the morning.  But I hate those loud noises too.  

Nothing worse than having your day interrupted with multiple loud house shaking planes come by one after the other.

 

[LibertyBell]

27 minutes ago, Sundog said:

I hear both all the time. By the time the roar of the first plane is about to totally dissipate I hear the whine of the next plane approaching. 

Ever since 2012 LGA permanently switched over to the "Tennis Climb," which they used to use only to avoid the US Open. 

That puts the planes right over eastern Queens. Not only that, but the frequency of flights has gone through the roof with updated technology and they also fly 1000 feet lower, which all just compound the noise problem. 

https://qns.com/2025/09/meng-quiet-communities-act-aircraft-noise-queens/

And I know the towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead are suing the FAA. 

it's stuff like this that makes me want the aviation industry to be bankrupted =\

it's bad enough that the seats are too small and too tightly packed but they also annoy the people on the ground.

 

[wdrag]

I didnt start a thread...  bit marginal for iso 5" by 12z Friday but certainly a general 1-3" event coming with uncertainty on best axis 5.  Someone will probably get into an iso FF situation- water rescues etc but its not widespread enough for me to thread.  

Of continuing interest for me is additional rainfall Friday-Sunday morning per closed low connection to our south.  If that happens... we could be blessed with another 0.1-1.5" N to S. across our subforum.  It seems to me the front will hang up closer to us than now modeled.  

[winterwarlock]

Another 80 today

 

Peak dew 74

[steve392]

A few random drops of rain has been it all day.  Wind has picked up but not a thing anywhere near us. 

 

Well that was interesting, just had a Blackhawk fly just above my tree tops. 

[SACRUS]

 

18z - 00z - 12z - 18z euro with twin systems (developing a low near the Bahamas as Humberto heads west in the Atlantic off the southeast coast by Tue - Fri next week.  12z brings one back into the Mid Atlantic and the region by D 11.  

 

[ForestHillWx]

Decent shower rolled through, now a line is forming north of 78. 

[uofmiami]

2 hours ago, Sundog said:

I hear both all the time. By the time the roar of the first plane is about to totally dissipate I hear the whine of the next plane approaching. 

Ever since 2012 LGA permanently switched over to the "Tennis Climb," which they used to use only to avoid the US Open. 

That puts the planes right over eastern Queens. Not only that, but the frequency of flights has gone through the roof with updated technology and they also fly 1000 feet lower, which all just compound the noise problem. 

https://qns.com/2025/09/meng-quiet-communities-act-aircraft-noise-queens/

And I know the towns of Hempstead and North Hempstead are suing the FAA. 

I get non-stop planes overheard on approach into JFK runway 22 now at 1800 to 2000 over my house & my parent's in Muttontown.  Can always tell a 747 by the sound alone.  While planes flew over Great Neck from LGA when I was kid & lived for 30 or so years, they were always at a higher altitude so not as noisy in my experience.

[Sundog]

Maybe KDIX can get its act together and clean up the radar. 

[Sundog]

2 minutes ago, uofmiami said:

I get non-stop planes overheard on approach into JFK runway 22 now at 1800 to 2000 over my house & my parent's in Muttontown.  Can always tell a 747 by the sound alone.  While planes flew over Great Neck from LGA when I was kid & lived for 30 or so years, they were always at a higher altitude so not as noisy in my experience.

They have lowered altitude significantly unfortunately. 

For me it's takeoffs from LGA. I can clearly read the writing on the planes with a quick phone pic. 

Sometimes I say to my wife I think they're going to land on the boulevard nearby they're so damned loud and low. 

[SACRUS]

 

Highs

 

TEB: 82 *
EWR: 81  
New Brnswck: 81
ACY: 80
PHL: 80
ISP: 80
NYC: 80
BLM: 79
TTN: 79
JFK: 78
LGA: 78

[Stormlover74]

Getting a downpour now 

[psv88]

81 today. 
 

No airplane noise out here. Occasionally a plane from farmingdale I guess, but we aren’t in a flight path. I am a mile from the LIE so I do hear the traffic from time to time which stinks 

[Stormlover74]

We get noise from takeoffs from ewr but I'm so used to it I don't notice. Occasionally Lufthansa's 747 (the only remaining 747 into ewr) will fly overhead on its descent 

[MJO812]

Hopefully we get rain from this

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, Sundog said:

They have lowered altitude significantly unfortunately. 

For me it's takeoffs from LGA. I can clearly read the writing on the planes with a quick phone pic. 

Sometimes I say to my wife I think they're going to land on the boulevard nearby they're so damned loud and low. 

People who don't live in this area are jealous and always tell me wow you must get great airplane pictures of them taking off and landing.  I told them I don't take pictures of air planes for the same reason I don't take pictures of sea gulls, they all look the same to me and once you've seen one you've seen them all.

 

[NorthShoreWx]

On 9/22/2025 at 8:52 PM, Roger Smith said:

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. 

I meant how fast it decreases at airports after it is initially reported.