MJO812 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Snowicane http://en.wikipedia....lizzard_of_2010 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazman Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Crazy, memorable storm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted February 25, 2011 Author Share Posted February 25, 2011 Crazy, memorable storm The rain/snow line was unbelieveable. The line that morning was just to my east. In total, I saw 18 inches of snow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ag3 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Insane rain/snow line. At my house in Astoria, Queens it started as snow and stayed snow the entire time. Snow started around 7am. I drove to work in Bayside, which is only 6-7 miles east and it was a pure rain. The rain lasted until around noon. It took 5 hours for the rain/snow line to travel 6-7 miles. Areas in Nassau stayed rain until 8pm. I had 8" of snow while areas 10 miles east had zero before we all switched to snow. Craziest rain/snow line I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chazman Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Yea...this was around 1pm in Fresh Meadows...I was being a weenie cause it seemed like all the good stuff that was happening to the west would never come east to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 December 26, 2010 beat February 26 2010.... No doubt about it. BUT.... Feb 26 had an incredible dynamic rain and snow line. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jm1220 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I had an inch of rain at my house before it went to snow around 3pm. If only that inch of ran had been snow... But I still had a foot of snow here and crazy winds before all said/done. The fact that places 15 miles west had all snow was unbelievable. At my workplace in Manhattan, there was on/off mixing at the start and then just snow. You could see 1-2 blocks at most during most of the storm. I can definitely believe the 21" total at Central Park-it really was a snowicane. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbc Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 December 26, 2010 beat February 26 2010.... No doubt about it. Agreed. Hard to figure out where to place 2/26/10 in history perhaps in a tier just below PD2 and Dec 2000 perhaps with Feb 2006? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Agreed. Hard to figure out where to place 2/26/10 in history perhaps in a tier just below PD2 and Dec 2000 perhaps with Feb 2006? My rankings. Top Tier 1. December 2010. (Two kings as they dumped 30+ in several locations in New Jersey). 2. January 1996. Next Tier 3. Presidents Day '03. 4. February 11-12th 2006. 5. December 2000/January 26-27th 2011/February 26 2010/February 10, 2010. I still maintain that February 10, 2010 would be #1 if we had colder air in place! Upton was forecasting 27" for us.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbc Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 My rankings. Top Tier 1. December 2010. (Two kings as they dumped 30+ in several locations in New Jersey). 2. January 1996. Next Tier 3. Presidents Day '03. 4. February 11-12th 2006. 5. December 2000/January 26-27th 2011/February 26 2010/February 10, 2010. I still maintain that February 10, 2010 would be #1 if we had colder air in place! Upton was forecasting 27" for us.... My tiers for wintry precip events NYC Metro since 1993: Tier 1: January 1996 Blizzard December 2010 Blizzard Tier 2: PD2 March 1993 Blizzard 2/26/10 Snowicane Tier 3: Feb 2006 Central Park Mega-Band Blizzard December 2000 Millenium Storm 1/26-1/27/11 12/6/03 1/22-23 2005 Tier 4 2/10/10 2/11/94 2/16-17 1996 Tier 5 12/19/09 12/18-20 1995 1/11/11 1/27-28 2004 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris L Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Very good list, dbc! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersWx92 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 That storm was kind of a disappointment IMBY. I was stuck in an awful, awful dryslot for literally almost the entire first part of the storm. Overnight when the storm retrograded I got back into some good snows but it wasn't enough to make up for the losses of the day before. Ended up with a toal of 8 inches (2 from the first round and 6 from the second). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbc Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Very good list, dbc! Thanks I added two stragglers to Tier 3, lol. Scratch that adding a Tier 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RutgersWx92 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 My top ten storms since 1996 back home in Bridgewater (as I'm painfully aware, December 2010 was a world of a difference between here in New Brunswick and back home ): 1.) January 7-8, 1996 2.) President's Day 2003 3.) December 30, 2000 4.) January 26-27, 2011 5.) February 11-12, 2006 6.) February 10, 2010 7.) January 22-23, 2005 8.) December 5-6, 2003 9.) December 26-27, 2010 10.) December 19, 2009 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 My tiers for wintry precip events NYC Metro since 1993: Tier 1: January 1996 December 2010 Tier 2: PD2 March 1993 December 2000 Tier 3: Feb 2006 2/26/10 1/26-1/27/11 2/10/10 These 5 were also good storms: 12/6/2003, 1/22/2005, 3/1/2009, 12/19/2009, 1/11/2011 Some of the lesser lights include: The Feb 1994 double storm Feb 1995 storm Dec 19, 1995 Jan 28, 2004 Some others mostly impacted the suburbs, like 4/10/1996, 3/14/1999, 3/5/2001. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbc Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 These 5 were also good storms: 12/6/2003, 1/22/2005, 3/1/2009, 12/19/2009, 1/11/2011 Wow I forgot about 12/6/03. Tier 2 for that one. Added 1/22/05 and 12/19/09 already. Not enough in NYC for 3/2009. Adding 1/11/11 to Tier 4. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Wow I forgot about 12/6/03. Tier 2 for that one. Added 1/22/05 and 12/19/09 already Not enough in NYC for 3/2009. Adding 1/11/11 to Tier 4. Yeah I agree, the distribution of snowfall with many of these snowstorms was quite uneven...some were excellent for both the City and Long Island, some just for the City, and some just for L.I. I see you are in Jersey...generally big snowstorms in NYC are almost always big in NE Jersey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbc Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Yeah I agree, the distribution of snowfall with many of these snowstorms was quite uneven...some were excellent for both the City and Long Island, some just for the City, and some just for L.I. I see you are in Jersey...generally big snowstorms in NYC are almost always big in NE Jersey. Agreed and for that reasoning and after further review 12/6/03 goes to the middle of the pack in Tier 3 and the Snowicane and the Millenium storm are swapped. Feb 2006 is caught in between. It could be argued to be in Tier 2 but as far as the overrall spectacle of a snow storm I think the snowicane beats it but Feb 2006 and the Snowicane could be interchangeable imo. 5 Tiers now lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamarack Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Invading from 400 miles NE, where it's supposed to snow a lot... Was fun reading the threads last year. Feb. 25-28, 2010 brought 10.7" of 4:1 snow IMBY, lowest ratio stuff I've ever measured without considerable sleet in the mix. The "flakes" looked like bits of mashed potato falling out of the sky, and once on the ground had the consistency of wet sugar. There was also 1.1" of slushy raindrops included during the latter half of the storm. The above map with the bright yellow dot in central Maine shows it well; we had 3.8" total precip. Exactly 41 years earlier, to the day, my current area (I lived in NNJ in 1969) had almost the same precip - 10% more actually - but with temps mid-upper 20s rather than last year's low-mid 30s. Result was 43" snowstorm, biggest in 119 years of record here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blizzardof09 Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Top three on long island where I live in southwest suffolk; 1. blizzard of 96' 2. Presidents day 03' 3. Boxing Day Blizzard of 2010 ( snow amounts weren't as high as the first two but the winds and temputures made it feel like an arctic blizzard ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Insane rain/snow line. At my house in Astoria, Queens it started as snow and stayed snow the entire time. Snow started around 7am. I drove to work in Bayside, which is only 6-7 miles east and it was a pure rain. The rain lasted until around noon. It took 5 hours for the rain/snow line to travel 6-7 miles. Areas in Nassau stayed rain until 8pm. I had 8" of snow while areas 10 miles east had zero before we all switched to snow. Craziest rain/snow line I've ever seen. Not really, here in SW Nassau we changed to snow at 1 PM or so. I got over a foot. The first storm in recorded history for this area that has delivered over one inch of rain followed by over one foot of snow Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 I had an inch of rain at my house before it went to snow around 3pm. If only that inch of ran had been snow... But I still had a foot of snow here and crazy winds before all said/done. The fact that places 15 miles west had all snow was unbelievable. At my workplace in Manhattan, there was on/off mixing at the start and then just snow. You could see 1-2 blocks at most during most of the storm. I can definitely believe the 21" total at Central Park-it really was a snowicane. lol wth-- it went to snow two hours later by you than it did here. We got about 14 inches here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 The rain/snow line was unbelieveable. The line that morning was just to my east. In total, I saw 18 inches of snow. That snowstorm inspired the great Metfan Abominable Snowman! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NortheastPAWx Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 NEPA attack... One of the best storms of my lifetime. February 25th brought me about 4" of wet snow with temps 32-34. But then things started to change after sunset, as we dipped into the mid 20s. The snow got heavier and of higher ratios, really piling up quickly. It became a blizzard during the overnight hours into the early AM of the 26th. It snowed most of the 26th, and then we added another two inches on the 27th. 16.8" when the storm was all said and done. Craziest storm I have tracked, with the blizzard in NYC and rain into NNE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 This was the best storm of my life, hands down, from the epic trip home from VT at 4am to the final measurement of 26". The 26" from the Snowicane is the biggest snowfall I've measured here in Dobbs Ferry. Memories, memories. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted February 25, 2011 Share Posted February 25, 2011 Nate, I didnt think your hair was that long Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MJO812 Posted February 26, 2011 Author Share Posted February 26, 2011 Not really, here in SW Nassau we changed to snow at 1 PM or so. I got over a foot. The first storm in recorded history for this area that has delivered over one inch of rain followed by over one foot of snow The precip started out as snow in the morning. It then changed to drizzle in the afternoon with some snow accumulation. As evening rolled around, the snow started back up and came down intense. Thundersnow also occured. That snowstorm inspired the great Metfan Abominable Snowman! The famous snowman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 This would be my ranking of events that I remember for Southern Westchester, with estimated amounts received: Historic: 1)2/25 Snowicane, 26" 2)January 1996, ~21" 3)February 2006, 20" Memorable: 4)Boxing Day 2010, 13" 5)January 12, 2011: 14.5" 6)February 10, 2010, 12.5" 7)PDII, 16" 8)January 2005, 14" 9)January 27, 2011, 14" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 December 26, 2010 beat February 26 2010.... No doubt about it. BUT.... Feb 26 had an incredible dynamic rain and snow line. At my office in Harrison, New York the entire day on February 25 the precipitation kept going back and forth between rain and snow. 8 miles to my east, at home in Rye Brook, it was all rain. Everyone switched to snow around sundown and we wound up with between 15" and 18". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nzucker Posted February 26, 2011 Share Posted February 26, 2011 At my office in Harrison, New York the entire day on February 25 the precipitation kept going back and forth between rain and snow. 8 miles to my east, at home in Rye Brook, it was all rain. Everyone switched to snow around sundown and we wound up with between 15" and 18". Was 100% snow in Dobbs: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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