A-L-E-X Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 the annual record is 80" set in 1983...67" in 1972 is second... Thanks, Unc.... is the 80" record considered official? For some reason, I've always seen it with an asterisk next to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted August 30, 2011 Share Posted August 30, 2011 Thanks, Unc.... is the 80" record considered official? For some reason, I've always seen it with an asterisk next to it. I'm not sure if its official...I was wiped from the records but was reinstated... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 30, 2011 Author Share Posted August 30, 2011 Anyone know about old Newark monthly records going back to the 1840's? I caught this on the EWR August almanac page from the NWS: WETTEST...22.48 1843 http://www.erh.noaa....s.html#Almanacs August is probably the most rain any major city in the Northeast, U.S. has received since 22.43" fell in Newark, NJ in August 1843, according to wunderground's weather historian, Christopher C. Burt. http://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/article.html?entrynum=1907 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
uncle W Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 Anyone know about old Newark monthly records going back to the 1840's? I caught this on the EWR August almanac page from the NWS: WETTEST...22.48 1843 http://www.erh.noaa....s.html#Almanacs August is probably the most rain any major city in the Northeast, U.S. has received since 22.43" fell in Newark, NJ in August 1843, according to wunderground's weather historian, Christopher C. Burt. http://www.wundergro...l?entrynum=1907 I remember reading about this and was looking for it yesterday...I think I have precipitation records for NYC for 1843...I have to look for it later... I found the precipitation records from Jamiaca Queens from 1826-1864...August 1843 had 8.96" in Jamiaca Queens... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
doncat Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I'm not sure if its official...I was wiped from the records but was reinstated... To me that 1983 CPK total was inaccurate. If memory serves there were rain gage problems, something about water seepage from the ground or something. My total this month 21.53 inches. What is the state record for NY? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A-L-E-X Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 I remember reading about this and was looking for it yesterday...I think I have precipitation records for NYC for 1843...I have to look for it later... I found the precipitation records from Jamiaca Queens from 1826-1864...August 1843 had 8.96" in Jamiaca Queens... You'd better have some snowfall records from back then too, Unc From what I recall reading, NYC snowiest season was actually just before they started keeping actual records-- close to 100" from back in the early 1860s. I think we might have had a tropical system in 1843 to account for that total-- there was a big hurricane up here in either 1841 or 1843. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pamela Posted August 31, 2011 Share Posted August 31, 2011 To me that 1983 CPK total was inaccurate. If memory serves there were rain gage problems, something about water seepage from the ground or something. My total this month 21.53 inches. What is the state record for NY? Throught the early 1980's, the state record for monthly precipation for the state of New York was 25.27" at West Shokan (Ulster County)...set in October 1955. The record for one year was 82.06" at Wappingers Falls set in 1903. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluewave Posted August 31, 2011 Author Share Posted August 31, 2011 I remember reading about this and was looking for it yesterday...I think I have precipitation records for NYC for 1843...I have to look for it later... I found the precipitation records from Jamiaca Queens from 1826-1864...August 1843 had 8.96" in Jamiaca Queens... Here's an old account of the flood: http://www.phillyh2o...Floodof1843.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 1956-57 had four significant snowfalls...6.3" on 2/1 was the biggest snowstorm...It was zero in Mid January with a five inch snowfall...3" of wet snow fell on 3/1 and 4/5...I remember the 1/15 and 2/1 storms and the 4/5 vaguely... I was born on 4/5/1957 at 1:25 a.m. Was it snowing? I don't remember it too clearly since I was "inside" during my ride down the Henry Hudson Parkway from Riverdale to Mount Sinai Hospital near Central Park. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JBG Posted September 2, 2011 Share Posted September 2, 2011 1955 is not a bad analog for this summer...December 1955 was a very cold month...March 56 had a great ending to a not so snowy winter to that point in time...We are in wetter times so I'd expect more snow than 55-56 if we got the same cold temperatures... I wonder how long it can be into cold phase that we shift back to a drier cycle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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