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Most winters have abbreviated snowy periods, even the snowier winters of the last two decades. Rarely do we see a wall to wall winter, '14-'15 was the closest that I can recall. With that said, last winter wasn't all that memorable for me either outside of the 12"+ early February storm. I almost forgot that most of us topped 40". Maybe all the pandemic craziness played a part in that.
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Apples and Oranges. Sandy was a long duration devastating high wind and surge event while this was a shorter duration devastating freshwater flooding event. It's essentially a pick your poison situation but hard to compare the two because the events were very different in terms of the type of impact. I think this was scarier because it happened so suddenly making it hard to prepare especially for people on the road (and why they were driving in this is beyond me).
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Holy. That's literally walking distance from my place. That portion of the Cross Island floods a lot (the Bell Blvd. exit in particular) but never anything like that. Those cars going under is absolutely frightening, I hope those people made it out ok.
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All of a sudden, constant lightning flashes here in Whitestone with not much thunder. Rarely see that.
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I've never seen a downpour like this last for 2+ hours until tonight. I just spent about 30 minutes looking for relatively dry spots trying to get my dog to pee just once to no avail. Thanks Ida.
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Torrential wind driven rain that's been persistent for about 30 minutes now. Wild stuff out there.
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Wind picking up big time here
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From nothing to a wind driven downpour just like that
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Wind picking up and first few raindrops here in Midtown. That convection to the southwest means business. Those who were crying out bust earlier today are going to eat those words shortly.
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Same here and it's really bad in my area of Whitestone because I live right near the water so, even more bugs. I feel like I'm smacking my arm and/or legs at least a few times every time I take my dog for his late evening walk. It's the night time walks that are the worst. This year is particularly bad because of all the rain and humidity that we've had.
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There's no doubt in my mind that this is rapidly intensifying now. The improvements over the last few hours are remarkable.
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Yeah, this thing is developing that classic major hurricane look. It's looking really ominous.
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I'm no expert by any means but having tracked hurricanes for many years and being fairly adept at analyzing satellite and infrared, this has the look of a storm ready to take off. It looks far better organized than it looked even a few hours ago. Maybe I'm wrong but I'd be shocked if this doesn't take a run at Cat 4 at some point before landfall.
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Honestly, it's kind of irrelevant now. What we're getting now is really bad anyway.
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Absolutely pouring here and just witnessed a few CTG lightning strikes with house shaking thunder. I gotta admit, I underestimated this aspect of the storm. It's wild out there.
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The writing was on the wall last night with the east trends and weaker storm for relatively minimal impact for most in Nassau on westward. People I know who aren't as tuned into the weather as I am are expecting an extreme storm here in Queens and western Nassau because of the Storm Surge Warning that popped up yesterday and the stores were unusually packed early this morning Better safe than sorry but they jumped the gun on this one and sent off a false alarm that this would be a serious storm in these parts. It kind of reminds me of Winter Storm Nemo when all the Blizzard Warnings went up for most of the area when it was becoming clear that it was a Central L.I. on eastward special for the extreme impacts.
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I think a Storm Surge Warning and even Tropical Storm Warning is overdoing it for Western L.I. westward based on model trends, even Central L.I. might very well escape the brunt. This seems like an Eastern L.I. and southeast New England special to me. Even the rain doesn't seem all that prolific.
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So funny. I was just thinking the same thing when I saw that post.
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While true initially, a lot of models have it hooking northwest at this latitude.
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Lots of CTG lightning here and a huge clap of thunder that scared the living daylights out of my dog who looks traumatized.
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The consistency of this downpour in Manhattan is unreal, about 30 minutes straight of a complete deluge and this isn't even the main Elsa show. I'm soaked from head to toe, umbrella does little for you in rain like this.
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To each their own but I wouldn't call consistent highs in the 60s to be "trapped indoors" weather and a shitty spring. It's not like it's been raining much like previous springs. Not gonna lie though, those few days when we topped 80 felt really nice.
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It's like Florida today here in Midtown. Sunny then a deluge for 5 minutes then sunny again. I sort of expected something like this with the squall line flying through but this was extremes in a matter of minutes, don't see that too often.
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60 in Midtown and it feels amazing. It's sad in a way because it's only the first week of March still and you know there will be some cold days ahead but once you get this first taste of spring, you want it all the time. Well, at least those of us who are normal. (Edit: A.K.A. everybody but Anthony)
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Me too, to bury winter.
