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1 hour ago, guinness77 said:

I bet the Aug ‘19 storm was the same that took out the tree that hit my house. Micro/down burst about 9 or 10pm right? I think we hit 92mph that night iirc. 

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

12 minutes ago, lee59 said:

With all the wind events we have had, Long Island has not had a direct hit from a hurricane in almost 40 years. Another thing that seems to not happen as much are good winter cold fronts that come thru with heavy snow squalls. Maybe tomorrow will be an exception.

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

1 hour ago, bluewave said:

Trees have really taken a beating since 2010. Probably the worst tree damage for our area over a 10-12 year period. So many weakened trees have already fallen. Plus many homeowners have done removals of trees that were to close to their house. The professional tree cutting business has been booming.

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

1 hour ago, guinness77 said:

I’ve mentioned it before…I had 6 trees when I bought my house in 2008, I’m down to 1. 4 were brought down by the wind. Off the top of my head, one came down and destroyed everything in my back yard (July of 2010) and another one hit my house, put a hole in my roof, bounced off and destroyed my porch and even smashed the windshield of my car. (August of 2019) 
I’m just so done with this shit.  

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)

1 hour ago, guinness77 said:

My kids’ school has a delayed 2-hour opening because of no power with the possibility of it being closed all day depending on whether it comes back on or not. 

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

11 minutes ago, wthrmn654 said:

Yeah it was nuts what some of the models were suggesting. Like the gfs,  it has a known history to go a bit overboard with how high winds might get.  None the less, 68 mph out here was very impressive there's over 8,000 Island wide without power,  a large chunk on my end of the island.

 

Good job by Upton with wind amounts on this one. 

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

2 hours ago, guinness77 said:

I’m pretty sure we’re getting one a month now. It doesn’t even matter what time of the year it is. 

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

2 hours ago, guinness77 said:

Another 60+mph wind event…ho-hum, nothing to see here 

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

1 hour ago, psv88 said:

Is anyone watching this absurd radar? Jesus 

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

On 1/31/2022 at 6:25 PM, LibertyBell said:

Proves my point that 20+ should be considered HECS.  You've had 2 of them in that period, I've had 3 (I didn't have Feb 2013 in that list and you didn't have PD2 and Jan 2016, my number 1 storm, in your 20 inch list.)

 

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. 

1 minute ago, eduggs said:

That wasn't the only rain event. Probably almost 2" of liquid from the blizzard and 0.5 to 0.6" in early Jan.

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

49 minutes ago, eduggs said:

 

I think even Islip had more rain than snow (liquid) last month. Most everywhere else got much more rain than snow.

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

2 hours ago, mweisenfeld said:

Happens here on a regular basis every few years.  Guess PSE&G is just not as good as Con Ed.

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

13 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

Jan 2015 didn't Orient get 30"?

I think Islip or somewhere else nearby got 25" then too.

 

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

On 1/30/2022 at 8:06 PM, EasternLI said:

I can buy 25" for Orient. I was wondering what they got over there.

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

Peak of the storm

In front of my house, by the time the wind died down, this drift was around 40” high

24 minutes ago, LibertyBell said:

I felt like we had higher snowfall rates and stronger winds in 1/4/18 that day was an all day white out and full on Blizzard conditions?  This one didn't verify as a Blizzard like that one did at JFK did it?

JFK had 6 hours of true blizzard conditions so it was actually a double blizzard lol.

Know what I call that storm?  The HALF GOAT lol.  Because it had true blizzard conditions for 6 hours vs Jan 2016 (the GOAT), which had it for 12 hours (so a quadruple blizzard lol), and there was 15 inches of snow vs the GOAT's 30+ inches of snow.  The duration was half that of Jan 2016 too.

 

 

Imagine the January 2018 blizzard with its 949 mb pressure made a loop south of montauk instead of speeding away just east of the benchmark? That would of been the blizzard to end all blizzards. I have to agree in regards to wind that January 2018 was stronger, I remember getting frequent gusts into the 50s with that one, this one was still obviously a blizzard out here in western suffolk but gusts were mostly in the 35-45 mph range besides a few isolated around 50. Snowfall rates 2018 wins too 3”/hr here then, today was 2”/hr at worst, but the duration of this event allowed it to still pull ahead in the final snowfall totals department

19 minutes ago, WestBabylonWeather said:

I can’t give a proper measurement. Too much wind, blowing, drifting. If I was a betting man, we hit 20” in Babylon. 

Yeah I’m leaning towards about 18-20” in lindenhurst, that final band really pushed us to bust high after it sat over us for a couple of hours

Almost impossible to measure due to all the drifting, (some spots are literally bare while some drifts are nearly 4 ft high) but Im thinking I got somewhere around 14-16” (maybe as high as 18”) of snow here. Definitely worth the (literal) price of admission.