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88/72 now, heat index up to 96

Pretty big temperature bust here on the south shore, it’s currently 86 with a dewpoint of 70

68 for my station back home on long island, meanwhile up to 77 here in Albany

My station only read 64 for high today back home, it was 76 here in albany. Strong flow off the ocean I guess?

I’d give this winter a B at home mostly because I got 22” of snow in the blizzard and an D- here in albany because the sleet storm was interesting. I’m honestly sick of the cold though after walking to class every day for a month on this frigid windy ass campus

Yeah that’s the one, I wasn’t even paying attention that day since the severe threat was only marginal. I had my headphones on listening to music and suddenly the lights started flickering and the dog ran in my room freaking out. Then I look at side and rain is going sideways with hurricane force wind gusts

Do you remember that snow squall we had in February 2019 I think? Was a pure white out for maybe 15 minutes, probably the only true snow squall we’ve had in the past decade

My parents recently removed th3 elm tree in our yard last fall, kinda unfortunate since I liked that tree. It managed to survive Sandy and Isaias despite losing some large branches, but it was honestly getting way to big for the yard, the roots started burrowing into the foundation of the home, and with all the high wind events that we get now, it probably would have fallen at some point. Interestingly enough when I was visiting during winter break I noticed that a sapling sprouted from the stump so it’s not exactly dead surprisingly

My grandmother lost two trees she’s had in the yard since before my grandparents adopted my mom, one in Sandy in the backyard and another in August 2019 in a severe tstorm. They were huge oak trees as well, miraculously both trees missed the house by inches (the second one took out the gutter though)

Oh that’s unfortunate, my parents house in Lindenhurst is all good from what I heard. I’m 15 years older than my sister and from I’ve heard she didnt any school delays due to any power issues in the neighborhood

It seems widespread gusts to 60 doesnt really have much of an impact anymore for the island, now it’s more like widespread 70+ to really get widespread power outages like in isaias or sandy

Winds gust to 38 mph with visibility of 0.25 back home, not often you see something like that and it isn’t snow

I wonder if there is a compilation somewhere on the internet of all the events with 60+ gusts in the region over the past few decades, if there is there definitely has to be an upward tick in frequency in the past 10 years

They’ve become the norm dating back to March 2010, I think we got one at least once a year now

I wonder if someone out east makes a run on 6 or even 7?

We’ve had 7 here in SW suffolk since the 90s, based on trained spotter reports in the public information statements from upton: 1996, PDII, Dec 2009, Feb 2013, Jan 2015, Jan 2016, and now Jan 2022. I guess we’ve been really lucky or something.

Yeah looking back we had an inch of rain on new years day as well

That inland runner that crushed buffalo gave us like 2” of rain so probably, idk how much LE we got from the blizzard and early january snowstorm though

Idk how NJ loses power so frequently, I haven’t lost power back home on long island since Sandy. It’s not like theres no trees in my neighborhood either

An inch of ice would probably bring Sandy level power outages to the region

Yeah the snow maps are nearly identical with this one and Jan 2015, this one was a little farther west I think with the heavy stuff and overall it was probably more enjoyable for most of us because expectations were not for at least 2 ft lol

There has to be some where in the hamptons that approached 30” if not 3 ft, too bad no one sent in any reports

Now that I’m back in Albany I might get back to back snowstorms

I accidentally took this yesterday when I meant to take a picture but it actually came out pretty good https://streamable.com/0fgwjr