OBS for moderate coastal impact Nor'easter Sun-Mon 10/12-13/25 with needed rain everywhere. To minimize any disruptions review NWS warnings-statements.

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, psv88 said:

The winds from December 92:

58 at central park

77 at LGA

86 at Montauk

90 in wildwood NJ

about sandy levels…

very strong at JFK too, Seagate Brooklyn was completely flooded out

[LibertyBell]

2 hours ago, bluewave said:

Major, moderate, and minor all describe specific benchmarks for coastal flooding. Minor and moderate coastal flooding events usually result in only street flooding and beach erosion.

This event was at the moderate benchmark for coastal flooding at places like Sandy Hook and Freeport. The water level reached near the 8 ft moderate level at Sandy Hook.

Low end major coastal flooding by a few inches usually means that the water can come up into peoples yards or lawns but not into the first floor of their house in the lowest lying coastal zones. This was the case along the GSB with this event.

Once major coastal flooding gets around .75 to 1.5 feet above the major threshold, then flooding can come into the first floors of houses. This is what occurred with the 1992 Nor’easter and Hurricane Irene.

Sandy was around  4.5” higher than December 1992 and Irene leading to the historic flooding in places which haven’t flooded in modern times. It was 5.7” above the major coastal flooding threshold at Sandy Hook reaching the 14.4” level. 

Sandy Hook has the most extensive list of coastal flooding records in area

https://www.weather.gov/media/phi/middle.pdf

 

 

I hate that name post tropical cyclone.... I'm glad it would be called a hurricane with the updated definitions and we would have maintained hurricane warnings.

a hurricane should be a storm with 75 mph winds regardless of its structure.

 

[LibertyBell]

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

I moved out of Long Beach earlier in the year before Sandy arrived. That storm was in a class by itself. The tide level was around 4 feet higher with larger waves than in the 92 Nor’easter and Irene. The Lincoln Blvd section of the boardwalk in this video collapsed shortly after the power went out and the guy had to stop recording. 
 

 

I will say that December 1992 was much more exciting than either Irene or Sandy

1) multiple days of heavy rain and high wind

2) many many tide cycles of unprecedented flooding

3) snow on the final day

 

[NorthShoreWx]

2.04" here.  If it had been all snow it would have melted down to 2.04"

[PhiEaglesfan712]

Wait, I thought the Nor'easter was in mid-March 1993, not December 1992. I was 4-and-a-half, but I remember my sister being born (12/29/92) and then baptized (in January 93) first, before the huge snowstorm, which I think happened on 3/13/93 (when she was 2.5 months old).

I do remember my mom telling me about a storm the night before my sister was born (12/28/92), but it missed us well to the south. I think NC got an ice storm, and the Delmarva area might have gotten snow.

[Stormlover74]

33 minutes ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

Wait, I thought the Nor'easter was in mid-March 1993, not December 1992. I was 4-and-a-half, but I remember my sister being born (12/29/92) and then baptized (in January 93) first, before the huge snowstorm, which I think happened on 3/13/93 (when she was 2.5 months old).

I do remember my mom telling me about a storm the night before my sister was born (12/28/92), but it missed us well to the south. I think NC got an ice storm, and the Delmarva area might have gotten snow.

We had 2 that winter. December was a coastal rainstorm that lasted 3 days

[wdrag]

1 hour ago, PhiEaglesfan712 said:

Wait, I thought the Nor'easter was in mid-March 1993, not December 1992. I was 4-and-a-half, but I remember my sister being born (12/29/92) and then baptized (in January 93) first, before the huge snowstorm, which I think happened on 3/13/93 (when she was 2.5 months old).

I do remember my mom telling me about a storm the night before my sister was born (12/28/92), but it missed us well to the south. I think NC got an ice storm, and the Delmarva area might have gotten snow.

Hi... I'm not going into details since time and my age 75 have lost a little of the edge. From Northeast Snowstorms V2 Kocin and Uccellini.

Dec 10-12 1992 was huge... heavy snow most of the interior higher northeast and New England. I was up in Marblehead MA.  Powerful there. 

Mar 11-13 was the Eastern USA Superstorm Coast problems with most of the snow interior I95 westward.  Also in Marblehead.

 

The Newark Climate Data for Dec 1992 below describes what happened at Newark Airport... Inland colder and snowier.  Coast winds, seas and tides were enormous Dec 10-12 while a snowstorm raged interior. 

Hope this helps

 

[wdrag]

I've seen references in news clipping from the NJ coast, 4th or 5th worst tidal level since 2000... that's pretty serious in the past 25 years.